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Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope

Emmanuel Guibert · First Second; First Edition edition
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

“When I was eighteen, Uncle Sam told me he’d like me to put on a uniform and go off to fight a guy by the name of Adolf. So I did.” When Alan Cope joined the army and went off to fight in World War II, he had no idea what he was getting into.  This graphic memoir...
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Bottle of the Planets

Sholly Fisch · Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint, 2015.
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

When Kandor is threatened by a plague of thefts, Superman and Batman shrink down to super-small size to unravel the mystery.
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Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness

Darryl Cunningham · Bloomsbury USA

Psychiatric Tales draws on Darryl Cunningham's time working in a psychiatric ward to give a reasoned and sympathetic look into the world of mental illness. In each chapter, Cunningham explores a different mental health problem, using evocative imagery to describe the experience of mental...
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Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen

Annie Goetzinger · N B M Publishing
Pages: 68
Format: Print book

During the 1930s, Maud, an artist, discovers she has a psychic gift. The first signs manifest themselves in the royal gardens of the Trianon where gradually she understands that a woman from the beyond is attempting to communicate with her. The revelation is beyond belief: it is the ghost...
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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 Complete Peanuts 1995-1996

Charles M Schulz · Fantagraphics
Pages: 348
Format: Print book

This is the twenty-third (out of twenty-five) volume of the New York Times best-selling series that collects every single one of the 18,000-plus Peanuts comic strips; it will coincide with a new feature film. In The Complete Peanuts: 1995-1996 (Vol. 23) , Charlie Brown starts taking...
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Iron Man Kiber the Cruel

Fred Van Lente · Spotlight

When Tony Stark, also known as the superhero Iron Man, reunites with his father for the first time in thirty years, his father is captured by the mad scientist Frederick Kiber, and Iron Man must rescue him.Title: Iron Man Kiber the CruelAuthor: Van Lente, Fred/ Koblish, Scott (ILT)Publisher:...
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Batman & Robin Eternal Volume 2

Scott Snyder · Dc Comics
Format: Print book

The epic finale of BATMAN & ROBIN ETERNAL is here!The Dynamic Duo thought they defeated her for good, but now, five years later, Mother is back and she's ready to enact her grand plan--one that's even worse than Dick Grayson and the Robins could have ever imagined. And, when...
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Law of the Desert Born

Charles Santino · Bantam
Format: Hardcover

The first graphic novel adaptation of the work of master storyteller Louis L’Amour is a dynamic tale of the Old West that explores the borderlands of loyalty and betrayal with the emotional grittiness of a noir thriller.   New Mexico, 1887, a land in the midst of the worst drought...
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In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel

Stéphane Heuet · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Whether you are looking to brush up or sample for the first time, this graphic adaptation of In Search of Lost Time is the perfect introduction to Proust's masterpiece."Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth," wrote...
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