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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel

David Rakoff · Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the twentieth centuryThrough his books and his radio essays for NPRs This American Life, David Rakoff has built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time....
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The Onion Magazine: The Iconic Covers that Transformed an Undeserving World

The Onion · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Covers That Matter For People Who Don'tFrom America's Finest News Source comes a compilation of the most important, most influential, and glossiest magazine covers ever produced by the hand of humankind. Seen by tens of billions worldwide, these are the unforgettable Onion Magazine...
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Fantasy Sports 2: The Bandit of Barbel Bay

Sam Bosma · Nobrow Pr
Pages: 56
Format: Print book

Wiz and Mug are back in action, and the action this time goes by the name of BEACH VOLLEYBALL!Wiz and Mug's adventures continue when a misunderstood teleportation spell accidentally drops them off in a ruined beach town. When the town's amphibious inhabitants confront Wiz and Mug with...
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Uncanny X-Men Volume 5: The Omega Mutant

Brian Michael Bendis · Marvel
Format: Hardcover

Original Sin tie-in! The greatest secret of the late Professor Charles Xavier has been revealed! Against such overwhelming power, will the X-Men succeed in holding the line, or will Xavier's final "gift" to his children be their undoing? Cyclops must guide his X-Men through...
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Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine

Tim Hanley · Chicago Review Press

2015 Amelia Bloomer Project List This close look at Wonder Womans history portrays a complicated heroine who is more than just a female Superman with a golden lasso and bullet-deflecting bracelets. The original Wonder Woman was ahead of her time, advocating female superiority and the benefits...
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Big Nate: Game On!

Lincoln Peirce · Andrews McMeel Publishing; Reprint edition

Big Nate is big news!  And the best news is that Big Nate Game On! is in full color! Big Nate books have sold more than 4.5 million copies and been on the New York Times best-seller list for more than a year. To sixth-grader Nate Wright, life is one big game. So when he suits up for any sport,...
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Ender's Game Graphic Novel

Chris Yost · Marvel

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is 6 years old, bullied, resented and alone. And he might be humanity's only hope. Ender is recruited to the International Fleet's child warriors in training, to fight in defense of the planet. His promise is high, and his teachers are sure he will...
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Iron Man: Industrial Revolution

Fred Van Lente · Marvel Enterprises
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Iron Man loses everything! Tony Stark's life is in a downward spiral. Obadiah Stane has taken his company and his fortune, leaving Stark to live on the streets of Los Angeles. He is even too destitute to fuel his armor, and his fellow heroes have decided not to help him, to see whether...
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings....
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The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem

Stephen King · Cemetery Dance Pubns; World's First Edition Hardcover edition
Format: Hardcover

Stephen King first wrote about the Dark Man in college after he envisioned a faceless man in cowboy boots and jeans and a denim jacket forever walking the roads. Later this dark man would come to be known around the world as one of King's greatest villains, Randall Flagg, but at the time...
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