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How to Survive in the North

Luke Healy · Nobrow Pr
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

With stunning narrative skill, this compelling graphic novel intricately weaves together true-life narratives from 1912, 1926 and a fictional story set in the present day. How To Survive in the North is an unforgettable journey of love and loss, showing the strength it takes to survive...
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Fantasy Sports

Sam Bosma · Nobrow Press
Pages: 56
Format: Hardcover

In Sam Bosma's debut graphic novel, a young explorer and her musclebound friend go treasure hunting in a mummy's tomb - but if they want to get rich, they're going to have to best the mummy in a game of hoops! Can they trust their bandaged adversary to play by the rules? Or will...
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The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded

Jim Ottaviani · Harry N Abrams, 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Award winning authors Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis present a historically accurate graphic novel biography of English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing (1912-1954) is credited with many of the foundational...
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Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 2: Scare Tactics

Tony S. Daniel · DC Comics; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerAs a part of the acclaimed DC Comics—The New 52 event of September 2011, Detective Comics is relaunched for the first time ever with an all-new number 1! Bruce Wayne returns as Batman, and sets his sights on new villain the Gotham Ripper, who in turn has his sights...
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Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 4: The Wrath

John Layman · DC Comics; 52nd edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Caped Crusader is challenged by the mystery of the 900 in a special tale celebrating the 900th issue published of Detective Comics! Plus, Batman faces against two new foes Emperor Penguin and the deadly vigilante known as the Wrath, a dark counterpart to the Dark Knight.Collects issues...
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Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe

Tim Leong · Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback

The comic book universe is adventurous, mystifying, and filled with heroes, villains, and cosplaying Comic-Con attendees. This book by one of Wired magazine's art directors traverses the graphic world through a collection of pie charts, bar graphs, timelines, scatter plots, and more....
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Beautiful Darkness

Fabien Vehlmann · Drawn & Quarterly
Pages: 94
Format: Hardcover

BEST OF THE YEAR NODS FROM AMAZON.COM AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY!"Kerascoët ... render Aurora and her friends in the huge-eyed style of classic children's book illustrations, but cuteness is just another Darwinian survival strategy here. Even on her clover-high scale, as Aurora discovers,...
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Poppies of Iraq

Guy Delisle · Drawn and Quarterly
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover

A personal account of an Iraqi childhoodPoppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly's nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle...
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Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

Joe Hill · IDW
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover

Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...! Acclaimed suspense...
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Hawkeye My Life as a weapon

Fraction · Hawkeye My Life as a weapon Library Binding – 2013

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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

Sonny Liew · Pantheon
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016 A New York Times bestseller An Economist Book of the Year 2016 An NPR Graphic Novel Pick for 2016 A Washington Post Best Graphic Novel of 2016 A New York Post Best Books of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 A South China Morning Post...
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Marvel's Ant-Man: I Am Ant-Man

Tomas Palacios · LB Kids
Format: Print book

The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe brings a founding member of The Avengers to the big screen for the first time with Marvel Studios' "Ant-Man." Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace...
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A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume Three

Daniel Abraham · Bantam; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhen dealing with a masterpiece, only the best will do. That's why writer Daniel Abraham and illustrator Tommy Patterson were chosen to adapt George R. R. Martin's beloved fantasy classic A Game of Thrones as a graphic novel. And as anyone who has read...
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Trashed

Derf Backderf · Abrams Comicarts
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Every week we pile our garbage on the curb and it disappears - like magic! The reality is anything but, of course. Trashed, Derf Backderf's follow-up to the critically acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller My Friend Dahmer, is an ode to the crap job of all crap jobs - garbage...
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Sacred Heart

The children of Alexandria are just trying to live like normal teens, and Ben Schiller is no exception. But her relationship with her best friend is changing, her sister is hiding a dark secret, and tragedy looms. Also: where are all the parents?
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