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The Attack Graphic Novel

Loïc Dauvillier · Firefly Books
Pages: 152
Format: Print book

The Attack opens with Amin Jaafari, an Israeli surgeon of Palestinian origin, trying to save the casualties of a suicide bombing. A day after the deadly attack, an Israeli police officer informs Jaafari that the suicide bomber was his wife, Sihem. Believing her to be on an overnight trip,...
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Imagine Wanting Only This

Kristen Radtke · Pantheon
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places...
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Trillium: The Deluxe Edition

JEFF LEMIRE · Vertigo
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A space-age scientist and early twentieth-century English explorer. Two disparate souls separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles. Impossibly, they meet. Their love could bring about the end of the universe, but even with reality unraveling around them, nothing can pull...
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Rocket and Groot: Keep on Truckin'!

TOM ANGLEBERGER · Marvel Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

It's Rocket and Groot Book: Keep on Truckin'! and they are taking it to the next level as they continue their journey through the cosmos defeating baddies. Expect more zaniness, more chaos, more Rocket doodles, more "I am Groots", and tons of Veronica - the totally awesome butt-kicking...
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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris · Fantagraphics
Pages: 386
Format: Paperback

In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie...
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March: Book Three

Nate Powell · Top Shelf Productions
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

2016 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature
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Jerusalem

Alan Moore · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 1266
Format: Print book

Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, Jerusalem is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter.In the epic novel Jerusalem, Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets...
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Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63

Marcelino Truong · Arsenal Pulp Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese diplomat and his French wife. The book opens in America, where the boy's father works for the South Vietnam...
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Star Wars Jedi Academy - Return of the Padawan

Jeffrey Brown · Scholastic, Inc.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.....
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Black History in Its Own Words

Ron Wimberly · Image Comics
Pages: 88
Format: Print book

A look at Black History framed by those who made it. BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN ITS OWN WORDS presents quotes of dozens of black luminaries with portraits & illustrations by Ronald Wimberly. Featuring the memorable words and depictions of Angela Davis, Jean-Michael Basquiat, Kanye West,...
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Using Life

AHMED NAJI · Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback

Upon its initial release in Arabic in the fall of 2014, Using Life received acclaim in Egypt and the wider Arab world. But in 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison after a reader complained that an excerpt published in a literary journal harmed public morality. His imprisonment...
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Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol. 3

Brian Michael Bendis · Marvel; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Miles Morales, the newly minted Spider-Man, teams up with the Prowler! But wait, isn't the Prowler a bad guy?! Caught in a moral crisis, Miles must choose between battling his uncle-turned-crimelord, or joining him to keep his family safe! What path will the young hero take? And what...
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Cyborg Vol. 1: The Imitation Of Life

John Semper · DC Comics
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

Cyborg is a member of the Justice League. He is one of Earth's greatest heroes. But is Cyborg really who he thinks he is? Find out in CYBORG VOL. 1: THE IMITATION OF LIFE, a part of DC Rebirth! When a shocking discovery about his own origin makes Victor Stone question everything he thought...
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In the Clutches of the Penguin!

Bill Matheny · DC Comics
Format: Print book

In this story starring a young Batman who is new to crimefighting, The Penguin pulls a heist that could reveal Bruce Waynes secret identity and destroy vast portions of the city of Gotham!,
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Aliceheimer's: Alzheimer's Through the Looking Glass

Dana Walrath · The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

"Alice was always beautiful - Armenian immigrant beautiful, with thick, curly black hair, olive skin, and big dark eyes," writes Dana Walrath. Alice also has Alzheimer's, and while she can remember all the songs from The Music Man, she can no longer attend to the basics of caring...
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