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Classics Illustrated Deluxe #1: The Wind in the Willows (Classics Illustrated Deluxe Graphic Novels)

Michel Plessix · Papercutz
Format: Paperback

The first volume of the new CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED DELUXE series presents graphic novelist Michel Plessix’s lush adaptation of “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame.  The artwork is in aquarelle, with thin, precise, detailed lines. In Wind in the Willows,...
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Portugal

CYRIL PEDROSA · NBM Publishing
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed Equinoxes comes a return to roots that serves as spiritual renewal. Comics artist Simon Muchat is stuck. Suffering writer's block, uninspired, vegetating as a school art teacher, he is losing direction and his taste for life, until one day he is invited...
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My Friend Dahmer

Derf Backderf · Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2013 ALA/YALSA Alex Award 2014 Revelation Award at Angoulême 2015 ALA/YALSA Alex Award (Excellence in Narrative Nonfiction) You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer - the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper - seared himself into the American...
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Bart Simpson: Out to Lunch

Matt Groening · Harper Design; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Hop into the lunch line at Springfield Elementary School for a sweet and savory meal high in humor and saturated satire. Join Bart Simpson and his pals and gals as they square off for the title of "Class Clown," outwit a robotic custodian run amok, surf both the social network...
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The Man From The Great North

HUGO PRATT · IDW Publishing
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Hugo Pratt, hailed as the "inventor of the literary comic strip," offers an provocative story whose protagonist is a seemingly wanton murderer, driven by a religious obsession with the absolute. First English-language edition.This is the story Jesuit Joe, a lone traveler of French-Canadian...
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Through a Life

Tom Haugomat · Nobrow
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover

This powerfully silent graphic novel follows the saga of a boy who grows up to be an astronaut, just like he always wanted, until a fatal space shuttle crash upends his life, and he begins to find solace in beauty here on earth.Told through a series of poignant vignettes, Through A Life...
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Sheriff of Babylon Vol. 2: Pow. Pow. Pow.

Tom King · DC Comics

The War on Terror still rages in Baghdad as cop-turned-military consultant Chris Henry must solve a deadly murder. He is forced to align himself with Nassir, the last policeman in Baghdad to try to unravel the bloody mystery. While Henry and Nassir search for answers there are forces in the shadows...
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Garfield Swallows His Pride: His 14th Book (Garfield Classics)

Jim Davis · Ballantine Books; Reprint edition
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Here's Garfield at his most appealing. Debonair, wise beyond his years--and funny! When you crave sarcasm, rapier wit, pithy comments, and lots of belly laughs, Garfield's the one who has it all!
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The Walking Dead: A Larger World, Vol. 16

Robert Kirkman · Image Comics
Format: Comics

- The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled...
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Peppermint Patty Goes to Camp

Charles M Schulz · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Peppermint Patty is off to camp for the summer in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read!Peppermint Patty is so excited to be going to summer camp! She loves everything about it: swimming, playing baseball, singing songs around the campfire, and helping Marcie find her outdoorsy side. When Peppermint...
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Snowden

Ted Rall · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's...
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Teen Titans GO! Vol. 5

European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) · DC Comics
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Gear up for the highly anticipated animated movie, Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, with TEEN TITANS GO! VOL. 5!Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, Cyborg and Raven are back in the all-ages comic books based on the hit Cartoon Network animated series Teen Titans Go!Being a superhero is tough enough,...
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Gwenpool, the Unbelievable Vol. 1: Believe It

Christopher Hastings · Marvel Comics
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

2015's overnight internet sensation takes center stage in her own series! Gwen Poole used to be a comic book reader just like you...until she woke up in a world where the characters she read about seemed to be real! But that can't be, right? This must all be fake, or a dream or something,...
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