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Matthew Diffee · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Finally, a book that's not for everyone! From award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee - editor of The Rejection Collection and the "de facto leader of a young generation of cartoonists"(The Wall Street Journal) - a hilarious mix of cartoons, visual riffs, and illustrated...
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Off to Save the Day...: #6

Landry Q Walker · Stone Arch Books
Format: Book

How will Supergirl ever wrap up all of the cosmic craziness that has developed since her arrival on Earth? Arch-frenemies, scheming faculty, an intergalactic orange kitty and a flying horse are just a few things that come her way in this final, action-packed issue!
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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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Mara TP

Brian Wood · Image Comics; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Acclaimed creator Brian Wood The Massive, DMZ, X-Men and brilliant newcomer Ming Doyle Guardians of the Galaxy, Fantastic Four, Girl Comics bring you Mara, the story of an especially gifted woman in a sports- and war-obsessed future. When she starts manifesting strange superpowers, the world...
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Mary Anne Saves the Day: Full-Color Edition

Ann M Martin · GRAPHIX
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

This graphic novel adapted by Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, is now available in full color! Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey are best friends and founding members of The Baby-sitters Club. Whatever comes up -- cranky...
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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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The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule

Igort. · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, Igort's The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks is a collection of two harrowing works of graphic nonfiction about life under Russian foreign rule.After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia,...
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Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant

Tony Cliff · First Second
Pages: 167
Format: Paperback

Lovable ne'er-do-well Delilah Dirk is an Indiana Jones for the 19th century. She has traveled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World. Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah's adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople....
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Sugar Skull

Charles Burns · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

The long strange trip that began in Xed Out and continued in The Hive reaches its mind-bending heartbreaking end but not before Doug is forced to deal with the lie hes been telling himself since the beginning In this concluding volume nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful...
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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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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 8

RYAN NORTH · Marvel
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

Journey to the Forbidden Pla-nut! When Nancy and Tippy find themselves on an alien world where all is not what it seems, Squirrel Girl must find a way to get to the other side of the universe to save them. And fast! Intergalactic transport through the cosmic realm? This sounds like a job for the Sorcerer...
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Black Bolt Vol. 2: Home Free

Saladin Ahmed · Marvel
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

Black Bolt and his unlikely allies are finally free from their strange captivity, but their escape came at a high cost. Now, the Midnight King returns to Earth with a heavy heart and a new companion: the telepathic alien Blinky, a child with nowhere left to go! But the journey home is long...
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Black Bolt Vol. 1: Hard Time

Saladin Ahmed · Marvel
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

The silent king of the Inhumans stars in his fi rst-ever solo series! But it begins with Black Bolt...imprisoned?! Where exactly is he? Why has he been jailed? And who could be powerful enough to hold the uncanny Black Bolt? The answers to both will shock you -and Black Bolt as well! For if he is to learn...
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Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir

Amy Kurzweil · Catapult/Black Balloon
Pages: 291
Format: Print book

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Flying Couch, Amy Kurzweil's debut, tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her mother, a psychologist, and Bubbe, her grandmother, a World War II survivor...
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The Woods Vol. 4

James Tynion IV · Boom! Studios
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

On October 16, 2013, 437 students, 52 teachers, and 24 additional staff from Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, WI vanished without a trace, finding themselves countless light years away in the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. In the wake of the election,...
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