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Sweaterweather: & Other Short Stories

Sara Varon · First Second
Pages: 125
Format: Print book

Back before Odd Duck, before Robot Dreams, Sara Varon created Sweaterweather. This endearing, quirky volume is a captivating look into Varon's creative process. It combines short comics stories, essays, and journal entries, and invites the reader into the world of Sara Varon: where adorable,...
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Shattered Warrior

Sharon Shinn · First Second
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

It is eight years after Colleen Cavanaugh's home world was invaded by the Derichets, a tyrannical alien race bent on exploiting the planet's mineral resources. Most of her family died in the war, and she now lives alone in the city. Aside from her acquaintances at the factory where she toils...
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The Complete Peanuts 1999-2000

Charles M Schulz · Fantagraphics Books, 2016.
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

The NYT best-selling newspaper strip collection concludes its groundbreaking run; as a little-seen "extra," it includes Schulz's proto-Peanuts comic. The 25th volume of The Complete Peanuts collects the very final year-plus of the defining comic strip of the 20th century,...
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Skywalker Strikes: Volume 5

Jason Aaron · Spotlight - (Graphic Novels)
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Luke returns to Tatooine, unaware of Boba Fett's search for him, while Leia and Han undertake a vital - and dangerous - secret mission.
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales Vol. 1

Brian Michael Bendis · Marvel
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

Miles Morales is hitting the big time! Not only is he joining the Marvel Universe, but he's also a card-carrying Avenger, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Iron Man, Thor and Captain America! But how have Miles' first eight months been, coming to grips with an All-new, All-Different new York?...
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Original Fake

Kirstin Cronn-Mills · Putnam Pub Group
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In this Banksy-inspired illustrated novel, an escalating sibling rivalry train wrecks and vengeance is a street-art act of warIntrovert Frankie Neumann hates his life, and understandably so. He's got a weird, tutu-wearing sister, Lou, and even weirder parents, Bridget and Brett - Frank...
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Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide Volume 48

Robert M. Overstreet · Gemstone Publishing
Pages: 1200
Format: Paperback

Leading off the 48th edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, former DC Comics President and Publisher Paul Levitz highlights the legacy of Action Comics #1 on its 80th anniversary. The spotlight also is turned on 50th anniversary of Marvel's fateful 1968 expansion and the 50th...
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The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals

Russ Kick · Seven Stories Press
Format: Book

The original three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon presented the world's classic literature--from ancient times to the late twentieth century--as eye-popping comics, illustrations, and other visual forms. In this follow-up volume, young people's literature through the ages is given...
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Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth

Travis Langley · Sterling
Pages: 334
Format: Paperback

Lasso the truth....A fascinating analysis of the psychology behind Wonder Woman. For 75 years, Wonder Woman has served as an inspiration to people everywhere. Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth examines this powerful superhero--who was created by famous psychologist William Moulton...
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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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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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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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Apollo: The Brilliant One

George O'Connor · First Second
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

Mighty Apollo is known by all as the god of the sun, but there's more to this Olympian than a bright smile and a shining chariot. In the latest volume of Olympians, New York Times bestselling author George O'Connor continues to turn his extensive knowledge of the original Greek myths into...
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Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

Roz Chast · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new graphic memoir--a hilarious illustrated ode/guide/thank-you note to Manhattan as only she could write it.For native Brooklynite Roz Chast, adjusting to life in the suburbs (where people own trees!?)...
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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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