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Learn to Draw Mickey Mouse & Friends Through the Decades: A retrospective collection of vintage artwork featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie, Donald, Goofy ... classic characters

Disney Storybook Artists · Walter Foster Jr
Format: Hardcover

With an 85-year legacy, Disney's Mickey Mouse began as a character and has become a cartoon icon. Over the decades, that ubiquitous pair of ears has seen an artistic transformation spanning a premiere appearance in "Steamboat Willie" in the 1920s to the modern mouse known...
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Comics Squad #2: Lunch!

Matthew Holm · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 144
Format: Library Binding

Calling all kidz! Do you like comics? Do you like laughing till milk comes out of your nose?! Look no further - do we have the book for you! All your favorite comic characters are right here in one book, including the Peanuts gang, Babymouse, and Lunch Lady. This all-star tribute to classic...
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Captain Marvel Volume 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More

Kelly Sue Deconnick · Marvel
Format: Print book

Hero! Pilot! Avenger! Captain Marvel, Earth's Mightiest Hero with an attitude to match, is back and launching headfirst into an all-new ongoing adventure! As Captain Marvel, a.k.a. Carol Danvers, comes to a crossroads with a new life and new romance, she makes a dramatic decision that...
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir

Roz Chast · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover

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All-New X-Men, Vol. 3: Out of Their Depth

Brian Michael Bendis · Marvel
Format: Hardcover

The time-displaced young X-Men continue to adjust to a present day thats simultaneously more awe-inspiring and more disturbing than any future the young heroes had ever imagined for themselves. And as Jean Grey pushes her powers to the limit, shaking her and the rest of the X-Men to the core,...
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So Cute It Hurts!!, Vol. 2

Go Ikeyamada · VIZ Media LLC
Format: Print book

The comedy starts when the cross-dressing begins! The Kobayashi twins, Mego and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Mego has grown up with a taste for history. So when Mitsuru is in danger of losing his weekends to extra history classes, he convinces his sister to swap...
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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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Reptile Rumble!

Billy Wrecks · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

When cold-blooded Croc attacks with his army of snakes and alligators, it's up to Batman and the DC Super Friends to stop this reptile ruffian's sinister scheme. Boys and girls ages 4 to 6 will love this Step 2 leveled reader that features action-packed comic book-style panels!
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Spider-Man/Deadpool Vol. 1: Isn't it Bromantic

Joe Kelly · Marvel Comics
Pages: 136
Format: Print book

The Webbed Wonder and the Merc with a Mouth are teaming up for their first series EVER! It's action, adventure and just a smattering of (b) romance in this episodic epic featuring the WORLD'S GREATEST SUPER HERO and the star of the WORLD'S GREATEST COMICS MAGAZINE. Talk about...
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Heroes of Olympus, Book One The Lost Hero: The Graphic Novel

Robert Venditti · Disney-Hyperion; Gift edition
Format: Print book

Jason has a problem. He doesnt remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently shes his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and theyre all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for bad kids. What he did to end up here,...
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The Mermaid and the Shoe

K G Campbell · Kids Can Pr
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

In this delightful picture book, Minnow seems to be the only one of King Neptune's fifty mermaid daughters who has no particular skill or accomplishments. That is, except for her persistence in asking many, many questions. "Why don't crabs have fins"? "Where do bubbles go"?...
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Howtoons: Tools of Mass Construction

Dr. Griffith Saul · Image Comics
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback

"This is a great addition to STEM collections, maker spaces, and elementary- through middle-school graphic-novel collections." - BOOKLIST "Fine, fabulous stuff" - School Library Journal Lurking in the corners of your garage, on the dusty shelves of hardware stores,...
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Escape From Lucien

Kazu Kibuishi · Graphix, 2014.
Pages: 213
Format: Print book

Kazu Kibuishi's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series continues!Navin and his classmates journey to Lucien, a city ravaged by war and plagued by mysterious creatures, where they search for a beacon essential to their fight against the Elf King. Meanwhile, Emily heads back into the Void...
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Target Practice

Mike Maihack · GRAPHIX
Pages: 167
Format: Hardcover

A funny, action-packed graphic novel featuring a young Cleopatra -- yes, THAT Cleopatra -- who's transported to the future and learns it's up to her to save the galaxy! When a young Cleopatra (yes, THAT Cleopatra) finds a mysterious tablet that zaps her to the far, REALLY far future,...
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