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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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Learn to Draw Action Heroes: An Easy Step by Step Guide to Drawing Comic Book Characters

ROBERT A MARZULLO · IMPACT
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a superhero drawing book! Professional comic book artist and YouTube guru Robert Marzullo teaches you the building blocks of creating your own action heroes and explosive comic book scenes. Easy to follow step-by-step demonstrations break down...
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The Undertaking of Lily Chen

Danica Novgorodoff · First Second
Format: Paperback

In The Undertaking of Lily Chen, Deshi, a hapless young man living in northern China, is suddenly expelled from ordinary life when his brother dies in an accident. Holding Deshi responsible for his brother's death, his parents send him on a mission to acquire a corpse bride to accompany...
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New Super-Man Vol. 1: Made In China

GENE LUEN YANG · DC Comics
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award nominee Gene Luen Yang continues his work at DC with NEW SUPER-MAN VOL. 1, a part of DC Universe Rebirth!An impulsive act of heroism thrusts an arrogant young man into the limelight of Shanghai as China begins to form its own Justice...
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The Great American Documents: Volume 1: 1620-1830

Ruth Ashby · Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover

In the Great American Documents series, the teacher and graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and the renowned illustrator Ernie Colón tell the story of the United States through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it.The Great American Documents:...
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The Shadow Hero

Gene Luen Yang · First Second

In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity... The Green Turtle was the first Asian...
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Amazing Spider-Man Volume 1: The Parker Luck

Dan Slott · Marvel
Format: Book

The greatest super hero of all time returns! The world may have changed since Spidey's been gone, but so has Peter Parker. This is a man with a second chance at life, and he's not wasting a moment of it. But his old foes are back as well - re-energized, out of control and madder...
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Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey

OÌ?zge Samanci · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Ozge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Her dad expected Ozge, like her sister, to become an engineer. She tried to hear her own voice over his and the religious and militaristic tensions...
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The City on the Other Side

MAIRGHREAD SCOTT · First Second
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In The City on the Other Side, a young girl stumbles into a pitched war between two fairy kingdoms, and the fate of San Francisco itself hangs in the balance!Sheltered within her high-society world, Isabel plays the part of a perfectly proper little girl -- she's quiet, well-behaved, and she keeps...
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Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Vol.1

Al Ewing · Titan Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

ALL-NEW ADVENTURES WITH THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR! With a force of personality capable of bending time itself and all the energy of a star's exploding heart, the Doctor blasts into the hollow, tragic life of a woman with so much to offer - and gives her the chance to scream "Geronimo!"...
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Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo Book 1: The Road to Epoli

James Parks · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Nimona meets Adventure Time as a singing skeleton searches for his origins in this full-color graphic novel series kickoff! Meet Rickety Stitch . . . a walking, talking, singing skeleton minstrel. He's the one skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul, and he has no idea...
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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood

Nathan Hale · Amulet Books
Pages: 124
Format: Print book

World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative,...
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The Time Museum

Matthew Loux · First Second Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The internship program at the Time Museum is a little unusual. For one thing, kids as young as twelve get to apply for these prestigious summer jobs. And as for the applicant pool . . . well, these kids come from all over history. When Delia finds herself working at the Time Museum, the last...
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Neil Gaiman's How to Talk to Girls at Parties

Neil Gaiman · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

Enn is a sixteen-year-old boy who just doesn't understand girls, while his friend Vic seems to have them all figured out. Both teenagers are in for the shock of their young lives, however, when they crash a local party only to discover that the girls there are far, far more than they appear!...
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Hip Hop Family Tree Book 1: 1970s-1981

Ed Piskor · Fantagraphics; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

This encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip hop captures the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-school pioneers and early stars like DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, plus the charismatic players behind the scenes like Russell Simmons;...
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