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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui · Abrams ComicArts
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover

National bestseller ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated...
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Through the Woods

Emily Carroll · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation "His Face All Red," in print for the first time.Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that...
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Locke & Key: Heaven and Earth

JOE HILL · IDEA & DESIGN WORKS
Format: Hardcover

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Paper Girls Volume 4

Brian K. Vaughan · Image Comics
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

The mind-bending, time-warping adventure from BRIAN K. VAUGHAN and CLIFF CHIANG continues, as intrepid newspaper deliverer Tiffany is launched from the prehistoric past into the year 2000! In this harrowing version of our past, Y2K was even more of a cataclysm than experts feared, and the only...
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The Cartoon Guide to Calculus

Larry Gonick · William Morrow; Original edition
Format: Print book

"In Gonick's work, clever design and illustration make complicated ideas or insights strikingly clear." - New York Times Book ReviewLarry Gonick, master cartoonist, former Harvard instructor, and creator of the New York Times bestselling, Harvey Award-winning Cartoon Guide...
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Big Questions

Anders Nilsen · Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Paperback

A New York Times Notable Book of 2011, included on Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly, and  NPR’S Best Comics listsA haunting postmodern fable, Big Questions is the magnum opus of Anders Nilsen, one of the brightest and most talented young cartoonists working today. This beautiful...
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Head Games: The Graphic Novel

CRAIG MCDONALD · First Second
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

In this graphic novel adaptation of the Edgar-nominated novel Head Games, Craig McDonald blends history and legend to tell the tale of the classic hard-drinking, hard-living, and hard-boiled protagonist. Artist Kevin Singles brings this noir thriller to life with a style reminiscent of the golden...
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Star Wars Made Easy: A Beginner's Guide to a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Christian Blauvelt · DK
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

Don't know your Wookiees from your Wampas? If the Star Warsâ„¢ saga has you stumped, we've got your back. Star Wars Made Easy gives you everything you need to get you around the galaxy. Star Wars is a global phenomenon and the Force has truly reawakened. So where to start if you have...
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Clem Hetherington and the Ironwood Race

Jen Breach · Graphix
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A dangerous rally race... and archaeology?! Clementine Hetherington and her robot brother, Digory, have run away from the orphanage they've been living in since their parents died. Clem and Dig want to follow in their famous archaeologist mother's footsteps, but no one will take them seriously....
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

Lucy Knisley · First Second
Pages: 173
Format: Paperback

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time...
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Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

Bryan Lee O'Malley · Oni Press
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback

- It's finally here! Six years and almost one-thousand pages have all led to this epic finale! With six of Ramona's seven evil exes dispatched, it should be time for Scott Pilgrim to face Gideon Graves, the biggest and baddest of her former beaus. But didn't Ramona take off at the end of Book...
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Carry This Book

Abbi Jacobson · Viking
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

From the mind of Broad City's Abbi Jacobson a wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful illustrated look at the world around us - all through the framework of what we carry. With bright, quirky, and colorful line drawings, Jacobson brings to life actual and imagined items found in the pockets...
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The Customer is Always Wrong

Mimi Pond · Drawn and Quarterly
Pages: 445
Format: Hardcover

A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholismThe Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naïve artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap...
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Black Science Vol. 3: Vanishing Pattern

Rick Remender · Image Comics
Pages: 128
Format: Book

Reunited with their leader Grant McKay, the Anarchist League of Scientists dive deeper into the Onion than ever before. Now veterans of inter-dimensional travel, the team begins to realize how damaging their actions are on the fabric of reality. No longer content with merely fixing the Pillar...
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