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Mae Volume 1

Gene Ha · Dark Horse Comics
Pages: 136
Format: Print book

When she was just a girl, Abbie discovered a portal to fantasy world and for the last couple of years has been having great adventures there: defeating horrible monsters, power-mad scientists, and evil nobles. But by the time she turned twenty-one it all came apart and she decided to return...
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Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life: Neil Gaiman, Jodi Picoult, Brad Meltzer, and an All-Star Roster on the Caped Crusaders That Changed Their Lives

Liesa Mignogna · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

As broad as our exponentially growing cultural fascination with caped crusaders is, it runs just as deep as this long awaited anthology underscores. Liesa Mignogna the VP, Editorial Director at Simon Pulse and editor of this anthology can expound on the virtues of Batman (her wedding was even...
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The Motherless Oven

Rob Davis · SelfMadeHero
Format: Book

In Scarper Lees world, parents dont make children—children make parents. Scarpers father is his pride and joy, a wind-powered brass construction with a billowing sail. His mother is a Bakelite hairdryer. In this world it rains knives, and household appliances have souls. There are also...
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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1

Ta-Nehisi Coates · Marvel
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) takes the helm, confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When...
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World Trigger, Vol. 7

Daisuke Ashihara · VIZ Media LLC
Format: Print book

Destroy thy Neighbor! A gate to another dimension has burst open, and invincible monsters called Neighbors invade Earth. Osamu Mikumo may not be the best among the elite warriors who co-opt other-dimensional technology to fight back, but along with his Neighbor friend Yuma, hell do whatever...
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Morton: A Cross-Country Rail Journey

David Collier · Conundrum Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

"It's unlike anything I've read before. I loved it." - Chris Ware on ChimoA graphic memoir lamenting the loss of train travel, the grip of family, mortality, art, and the human condition, with many other digressions thrown in for good measure. David Collier's dream...
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SLAM! Vol. 1

PAMELA RIBON · BOOM! Box
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

In the fast-paced, hard-hitting, super cheeky, all-female world of banked track roller derby, two young women will have to decide if their budding friendship is stronger than the pull of a team when a win is on the line.When life starts coming at you like a freight train, you have two options:...
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Star Wars Icons

TITAN BOOKS. · Titan Comics
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Star Wars: Icons celebrates some of the most memorable elements of the saga, whether it be timeless characters such as Princess Leia, Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, notable scenes, or even much-loved collectibles.This collection explores iconic highlights of the saga, including interviews...
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The Undertaking of Lily Chen

Danica Novgorodoff · First Second
Format: Paperback

In The Undertaking of Lily Chen, Deshi, a hapless young man living in northern China, is suddenly expelled from ordinary life when his brother dies in an accident. Holding Deshi responsible for his brother's death, his parents send him on a mission to acquire a corpse bride to accompany...
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Volume 5: Food Truck Frenzy

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

Sweet and Sour Grapes have never won a trophy at the Food Truck Festival in Port Orchard, so Strawberry goes undercover to discover the secret to the twins' rocky ride. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.
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Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book

JOMNY SUN · Harper Perennial
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too is the illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, only to meet all sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien - based on the enormously...
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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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Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes

Robin Ha · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Picture It: You Can Master Korean Cooking Fun to look at and easy to use, this unique combination of cookbook and graphic novel is the ideal introduction to cooking Korean cuisine at home. Robin Ha's colorful and humorous one- to three-page comics fully illustrate the steps and ingredients...
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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood

Nathan Hale · Amulet Books
Pages: 124
Format: Print book

World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative,...
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American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny

Christopher Miller · Harper
Format: Hardcover

American Cornball is Christopher Miller's irresistibly funny illustrated survey of popular humor - the topics that used to make us laugh, from hiccups and henpecked-husbands to outhouses and old maids - and what it tells us about our country yesterday and today.Miller revisits nearly...
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