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Garfield eats his heart out

Jim Davis · Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

Presents a collection of color cartoons featuring Garfield, the cat with the big appetite, his long-suffering owner Jon, and their friends.
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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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Miracleman Book 1: A Dream of Flying

Alan Moore · Marvel
Format: Hardcover

KIMOTA! With one magic word, a long-forgotten legend lives again! Freelance reporter Michael Moran always knew he was meant for something more-now, an unexpected series of events leads him to reclaim his destiny as Miracleman! The groundbreaking graphic novel that heralded a literary revolution...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters

ERIK BURNHAM · Spotlight
Pages: 26
Format: Library Binding

When a new invention goes haywire, the Turtles end up in an alternate New York City, where they team up with the Ghostbusters to fight a ghostly foe. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.
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Orpheus in the Underworld

Yvan Pommaux · TOON Books
Pages: 53
Format: Print book

When his bride Eurydice is killed by a snake on their wedding night, Orpheus decides to go seek her in the desolate Underworld, where no mortal has ever gone before. This gorgeous graphic novel retells the age-old myth in a new way that's eminently relatable to young readers. Through...
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The Ugly Dino Hatchling: A Graphic Novel

Stephanie True Peters · Stone Arch Books
Pages: 33
Format: Library Binding

There once was an ugly duckling . . . who was actually a baby dinosaur! A dino egg tumbled through a time vortex into a duck nest, but it's clear the hatchling Rex doesn't fit in with his duckling family. So the lost dino leaves the nest on a quest to find his place among the barnyard...
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Barnaby

Crockett Johnson · Fantagraphics; 1 edition
Format: Print book

A legendary comic strip finally given the Fantagraphics treatment. Before authoring one of the most beloved children’s book series of all time — Harold and the Purple Crayon —cartoonist Crockett Johnson created the comic strip Barnaby for over ten years (1942 to 1952)....
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Curses! Foiled Again

Jane Yolen · First Second
Format: Paperback

Aliera Carstairs is back. This time she's got her cousin--and best friend--Caroline in tow, and the stakes are higher than ever. The realm of Seelie, the fairy kingdom of which Aliera is the hereditary defender, is under attack, and only Aliera and Caroline can set things right. Caroline,...
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Rocket and Groot: Keep on Truckin'!

TOM ANGLEBERGER · Marvel Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

It's Rocket and Groot Book: Keep on Truckin'! and they are taking it to the next level as they continue their journey through the cosmos defeating baddies. Expect more zaniness, more chaos, more Rocket doodles, more "I am Groots", and tons of Veronica - the totally awesome butt-kicking...
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Spidey: All-New Marvel Treasury Edition

Robbie Thompson · Marvel Worldwide
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Think you know everything about Peter Parker? Think again! Expect action, adventure and hilarity in equal measure as we head back to high school to explore Pete's early days! Modern talent combines with the classic Marvel flavor to present the web-slinging wonder's younger years...
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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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Spill Zone

Scott Westerfeld · First Second
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone.The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken...
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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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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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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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