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Cory Doctorow · First Second

Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely...
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Over Easy

Mimi Pond · Drawn and Quarterly; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970sOver Easy is a brilliant portrayal of a familiar coming-of-age story. After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straightlaced world of college and the earnestness...
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The Great American Documents: Volume 1: 1620-1830

Ruth Ashby , · Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover

In the Great American Documents series, the teacher and graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and the renowned illustrator Ernie Colón tell the story of the United States through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it.The Great American Documents:...
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The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains: A Tale of Travel and Darkness with Pictures of All Kinds

Neil Gaiman · William Morrow; Ill edition
Format: Hardcover

The text of The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains was first published in the collection anthology Stories All New Tales edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. This gorgeous full-color illustrated book version was born of a unique collaboration between writer Neil Gaiman and artist...
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LEGO DC Superheroes: Save the Day

Trey King · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

Experience Batman(TM) and Superman(TM) like you've never seen them before-LEGO(R) style!Join the World's Greatest Detective and the Man of Steel: Batman(TM) and Superman(TM) --like you've never seen them before. LEGO(R) Batman and Superman team up with Robin and Wonder...
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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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Black Widow Volume 1: The Finely Woven Thread

Nathan Edmondson · Marvel

You've seen Black Widow as an Avenger and even an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. But on her own time she searches for atonement for her past as a KGB assassin - in ways of which those teams just wouldn't approve. The Black Widow goes undercover in Russia, but from its cold streets, the Hand...
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Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino · Vertigo
Format: Hardcover

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, DJANGO UNCHAINED stars Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-top-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead...
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The Mammoth Book of Cult Comics

Ilya · Running Press

Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these cult comics are lost classics of underground and independent British and American comic-strip art.The comics collected in this anthology are the hidden gems of the comic worldindependent artists and writers who greatly influenced...
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Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie

Anne Martinetti · Selfmadehero
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

The life of Agatha Christie was as mysterious and eventful as her fiction. This beautifully illustrated graphic novel traces the life of the Queen of Whodunnit from her childhood in Torquay, England, through a career filled with success, mischief, and adventure, to her later years as Dame...
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