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The Sculptor

Scott McCloud · First Second Books
Format: Hardcover

David Smith is giving his life for his art -- literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering...
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Intro to Alien Invasion

Owen King · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

In this wildly entertaining collaboration, novelists Owen King and Mark Jude Poirier team up with illustrator Nancy Ahn to present a wickedly funny graphic novel about an alien invasion on a college campus.Stacey, a brilliant, overachieving astrobiology major at Fenton College, had planned...
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California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas

Pnlope Bagieu · First Second
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover

It's Mama Cass as you've never known her, in this poignant graphic novel about the remarkable vocalist who rocketed The Mamas & the Papas to stardom. Before she was the legendary Mama Cass of the folk group The Mamas and the Papas, Ellen Cohen was a teen girl from Baltimore with an incredible...
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Doctor Strange Prose Novel

Marvel Comics. · Marvel Comics
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

The world is falling apart. Violent crime is surging while the global economy craters. Doctor Stephen Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme, has defeated demonic hordes, battled evil wizards and tirelessly defended our realm against invading interdimensional armies. But when a dangerous dream begins...
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The Love Bunglers

Jaime Hernandez · Fantagraphics Books
Pages: 104
Format: Hardcover

Contains the critically acclaimed and award-winning short comic "Browntown," as well as other stories chronicling the life and loves of Maggie.Featuring Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie, the suppression of family history is the initial thread that ties...
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A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories

Will Eisner · W W Norton
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The revolutionary work of graphic storytelling that inspired a new art form.Will Eisner was present at the dawn of comics. In the 1940s, he pushed the boundaries of the medium with his acclaimed weekly comic strip The Spirit, and with the publication of A Contract with God in 1978, he created...
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Volume 1: The Baby Berrykin Baking Challenge Part 1

Georgia Ball · Graphic Novels
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Strawberry Shortcake enters a regional baking competition, but when someone starts sabotaging the other contestants, it's up to Strawberry to figure out the culprit is before they target her. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division...
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Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal

Michael Mignola · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

An uneasiness festers upon the city streets, threatening the peace and safety of law abiding citizens. A war is escalating, and it seems as though the good and righteous are being crushed beneath the unholy weight of evil s onslaught. Organized crime is spreading in an unchecked reign of terror....
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Everything Is Teeth

Evie Wyld · Pantheon Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

When she was a little girl, passing her summers in the heat of coastal Australia, Evie Wyld was captivated by sharks - by their innate ruthlessness, stealth, and immeasurable power - and they have never released their hold on her imagination. From the award-winning author of All the Birds,...
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Climate Changed: A Personal Journey through the Science

Philippe Squarzoni · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 473
Format: Paperback

What are the causes and consequences of climate change? When the scale is so big, can an individual make any difference? Documentary, diary, and masterwork graphic novel, this up-to-date look at our planet and how we live on it explains what global warming is all about. With the most complicated...
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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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Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel

Bob Batchelor · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

The Amazing Spider-Man. The Incredible Hulk. The Invincible Iron Man. These are just a few of the iconic superheroes to emerge from the mind of Stan Lee. From the mean streets of Depression-era New York City to recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Lee's life has been almost as remarkable...
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Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds

Gareth Hinds · Candlewick
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover

In a thrilling adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known works, acclaimed artist-adapter Gareth Hinds translates Poe's dark genius into graphic-novel format.It is true that I am nervous. But why will you say that I am mad?In "The Cask of Amontillado," a man exacts revenge on a disloyal...
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Hostage

Guy Delisle · Drawn and Quarterly
Pages: 436
Format: Hardcover

How does one survive when all hope is lost?In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary...
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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 3

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

The full truth of the People's revolution - and the power players supporting it - has been revealed! Now, T'Challa must fight like never before for the fate of his nation - and one of his most trusted allies is back to stand by his side. As the final battle begins, the entirety of Wakanda's...
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