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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Obamacare

Michael Ramirez · Threshold Editions, 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Michael Ramirez comes a collection of conservative political cartoons forming a satirical history of the Obama era, with a foreword by Dick Cheney and an afterword by Rush Limbaugh.Give Me Liberty or Give Me Obamacare is a trenchant and outright...
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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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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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Garfield Tons of Fun

Jim Davis · Ballantine Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

THERE'S MORE OF GARFIELD TO LOVE!In his nifty new collection, GARFIELD contemplates the advantages of growing older--and fatter! Whether he's settling in for a catatonic evening of TV viewing, testing the first law of physics on his back, or just hunting burgers in the kitchen,...
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Warren Commission Report: A Graphic Investigation into the Kennedy Assassination

Dan Mishkin · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Within days of the murder of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson appointed a seven-member commission to investigate the assassination. In its report, the Warren Commission determined that there was “no credible evidence” conflicting with its conclusion of a lone gunman....
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47 Ronin

Mike Richardson · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 151
Format: Hardcover

Japan's enduring national legend comes to comics! The tale of the 47 Ronin and their epic mission to avenge their wronged master epitomizes the samurai code of honor, and creators Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai have done justice to their story! Meticulously researched and beautifully...
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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

Sonny Liew · Pantheon
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016 A New York Times bestseller An Economist Book of the Year 2016 An NPR Graphic Novel Pick for 2016 A Washington Post Best Graphic Novel of 2016 A New York Post Best Books of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 A South China Morning Post...
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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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Bombing Nazi Germany: The Graphic History of the Allied Air Campaign That Defeated Hitler in World War II

Wayne Vansant · Zenith Press
Format: Book

In Bombing Nazi Germany, renowned graphic novel author and artist Wayne Vansant profiles the dramatic joint American-British Allied air war against Nazi Germany throughout Europe during World War II. Meticulously researched, illustrated, and written with the same unmatched quality of Vansant's...
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Black Widow Volume 1: The Finely Woven Thread

Nathan Edmondson · Marvel Enterprises
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

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 of God reaches...
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Big Nate: Game On!

Lincoln Peirce · Andrews McMeel Publishing; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

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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Goodnight Darth Vader

Jeffrey Brown · Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

It's bedtime in the Star Wars galaxy, and Darth Vader's parenting skills are tested anew in this delightful follow-up to the breakout New York Times bestsellers Darth Vaderâ„¢ and Son and Vader'sâ„¢ Little Princess. In this Episode, the Sith Lord must soothe his rambunctious...
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5,000 km Per Second

Manuele Fior · Fantagraphics Books
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

A love story told elliptically in stunning watercolors. Winner of the prestigious Grand Prize of the 2010 Angouleme Comics Festival, 5,000 Kilometers Per Second tells -- or almost tells -- the love story between Piero and Lucia, which begins with a casual glance exchanged by teenagers across...
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The Comic Book Story of Beer: The World's Favorite Beverage from 7000 BC to Today's Craft Brewing Revolution

Jonathan Hennessey · Ten Speed Pr
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback

A New York Times Best SellerA full-color, lushly illustrated graphic novel that recounts the many-layered past and present of beer through dynamic pairings of pictures and meticulously researched insight into the history of the world's favorite brew. The History of Beer Comes to Life!...
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Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936

Edward Sorel · Liveright Publishing Company
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

In a hilarious send-up of sex, scandal, and the Golden Age of Hollywood, legendary cartoonist Edward Sorel brings us a story (literally) ripped from the headlines of a bygone era.In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel was living in a $97-a-month railroad...
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