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Behind the Scenes!!, Vol. 1

Bisco Hatori - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Paperback

Ranmaru Kurisu comes from a family of hardy, rough-and-tumble fisher folk, and he sticks out at home like a delicate, artistic sore thumb. It's given him a raging inferiority complex and a permanently pessimistic outlook. Now that he's in college, he's hoping to find a sense of belonging....
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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

Sonny Liew - Pantheon
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...
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Sisters

Raina Telgemeier - Graphix
Format: Hardcover

Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers...
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Octavia E Butler - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Hardcover

Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues...
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Big Mushy Happy Lump: A Sarah's Scribbles Collection

Sarah Andersen - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Paperback

Sarah's Scribbles, Goodreads Choice Award for 2016: Best Graphic Novels & ComicsSarah Andersen's hugely popular, world-famous Sarah's Scribbles comics are for those of us who boast bookstore-ready bodies and Netflix-ready hair, who are always down for all-night reading-in-bed...
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Alpha & Omega

Joe Hill - IDW Publishing
Format: Hardcover

2015 Bram Stoker Award Nominee! The shadows have never been darker and the end has never been closer. Turn the key and open the last door; it's time to say goodbye. Omega and Alpha, the final two storylines of the New York Times bestselling series, are collected together to offer a thunderous...
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Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol. 3

Brian Michael Bendis - Marvel; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Miles Morales, the newly minted Spider-Man, teams up with the Prowler! But wait, isn't the Prowler a bad guy?! Caught in a moral crisis, Miles must choose between battling his uncle-turned-crimelord, or joining him to keep his family safe! What path will the young hero take? And what...
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Loki: Agent of Asgard Volume 2: I Cannot Tell a Lie

Al Ewing - Marvel
Format: Print book

AXIS tie-in! Loki faces Doctor Doom! But with Valeria Richards in the mix, who's the hero of this story...and who's the villain? Doom has sentenced Loki to death for the crimes of his future self, King Loki! But with the Red Skull drowning Latveria and the entire world in a wave...
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#1 Believe Your Eyes

Cori Doerrfeld - Graphic Universe
Format: Print book

"A lot is changing for Cici. Her parents are separating, her wacky abuela is moving in, and on her tenth birthday, she wakes up with fairy wings! Cici's new magical powers let her see people as they truly are. But what she learns about her friends and family isn't always easy to accept....
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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 Vietnam War

Gary Jeffrey - Crabtree Publishing Company
Format: eBook

As the Soviet Union attempted to expand the influence of communism around the world, the United States responded with a policy called "containment" to prevent it. The war in Vietnam was a Cold War conflict that saw North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, invade South...
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The Undertaking of Lily Chen

Danica Novgorodoff - First Second
Format: Paperback

In The Undertaking of Lily Chen, Deshi, a hapless young man living in northern China, is suddenly expelled from ordinary life when his brother dies in an accident. Holding Deshi responsible for his brother's death, his parents send him on a mission to acquire a corpse bride to accompany...
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Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games

Joe Hill - ‎IDW Publishing; 1st Edition
Format: Hardcover

Now a Netflix Original Series! New York Times-bestselling writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel...
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Jedi Academy

Jeffery Brown - Scholastic
Format: Paperback

Missle school in the jedi academy - humourous
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History

Art Spiegelman - Paw Prints 2008-04-25
Format: Print book

A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.
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A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States

Ilan Stavans - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best SellerEnough with the dead white men! Forget what you learned in school! Ever since Columbus—who was probably a converted Jew—“discovered” the New World, the powerful and privileged have usurped American history. The true story of the United States...
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The Time Museum

Matthew Loux - First Second
Format: Paperback

From dinosaurs to the burning of the Library of Alexandra -- this thrilling, visually dazzling new series from Matthew Loux is posed to conquer the 21st century.The internship program at the Time Museum is a little unusual. For one thing, kids as young as twelve get to apply for these...
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Locke & Key: Clockworks, Vol. 5

Joe Hill - IDW Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the whispering iron thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time, and surprises beyond imagination will be revealed.
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Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present

Dan Mazur - Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The first global history of comics around the world from the late 1960s to the present day Comics, manga, bandes dessinées, fumetti, tebeo, historietas… no matter the name, they have been a powerful medium across four continents for decades. This is the history of comics around...
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The Stonekeeper

Kazu Kibuishi - GRAPHIX; Gph edition
Format: Hardcover

Graphic novel star Kazu Kibuishi creates a world of terrible, man-eating demons, a mechanical rabbit, a giant robot---and two ordinary children on a life-or-death mission. After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather,...
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Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom

Joe Hill - IDW Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke & Key unwinds into itsfourth volume in Keys to the Kingdom! With more keys making themselvesknown, and the depths of the Locke's family's mystery ever-expanding, Dodge'sdesperation to end his shadowy quest drives the habitants of Keyhouse...
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Sisters

Raina Telgemeier - Graphix
Format: Book

Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers...
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March: Book One

Andrew Aydin - Turtleback; Reprint edition

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Congressman John Lewis Georgia is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecroppers farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom...
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Coffee with Jesus

David Wilkie - IVP Books; UNABRIDGED VERSION edition
Format: Paperback

One of Library Journals Best Books 2013 spiritualityreligion ForeWord 2013 Book of the Year Award Finalist Graphic Novels and Comics 2014 Midwest Publishing Association Honorable Mention Special Trade Thousands of people start each day with a shot of Coffee with Jesus, the enormously...
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Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy

Chynna Clugston-Flores - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

The Lumberjanes and Gotham Academy kids team up!DREAM TEAM UP! When a teacher at Gotham Academy goes missing, it's up to Olive, Maps, Colton, Pom, and Kyle to figure out what is happening and how to get her back. With only an outdated birthday invitation as the clue, they find themselves...
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The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics

Grady Klein - Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover

The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics is the most imaginative and accessible introductory statistics course you'll ever take. Employing an irresistible cast of dragon-riding Vikings, lizard-throwing giants, and feuding aliens, the renowned illustrator Grady Klein and the award-winning...
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Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

Joe Hill - IDW
Format: Hardcover

Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...! Acclaimed suspense...
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California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas

Pnlope Bagieu - First Second
Format: Hardcover

It's Mama Cass as you've never known her, in this poignant graphic novel about the remarkable vocalist who rocketed The Mamas & the Papas to stardom. Before she was the legendary Mama Cass of the folk group The Mamas and the Papas, Ellen Cohen was a teen girl from Baltimore with an incredible...
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Batman Vol. 3: Death of the Family

Scott Snyder - Dc Comics
Format: Hardcover

The first printing of this new hardcover will feature a special acetate dust jacket showcasing the face of The Joker.A #1 New York Times Bestseller!After having his face sliced off one year ago, the Joker makes his horrifying return to Gotham City! But even for man who's committed a lifetime...
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A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States

Ilan Stavans - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

"Enough with the dead white men! Forget what you learned in school! Ever since Columbus --who was probably a converted Jew -- "discovered" the New World, the powerful and privileged have usurped American history. The true story of the United States lies not with the founding...
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March: Book One

John Lewis - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback

Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from...
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Dork Diaries 9: Tales from a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen

Rachel Renée Russell - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

Nikki Maxwell's worst nightmare comes true in book nine of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!A certain member of the CCP girls Dork fans know all about has gotten her hands on Nikki's diary and has decided to share some thoughts of her own ... Find out what...
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Archer & Armstrong.

Fred Van Lente - Valiant Entertainment
Format: Book

It's history in the breaking After years of meditation and training, 18-year-old Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to New York City to carry out the sacred mission of his family's sect -- locate and kill the fun-loving, hard-drinking immortal known as Armstrong But as this naive...
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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood

Nathan Hale - Amulet Books
Format: Print book

World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative,...
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Castles

Gary Jeffrey - Crabtree Publishing Company
Format: eBook

The exciting events of three historic attacks on medieval castles are told in graphic novel format: In 1203-1204, French King Philip II, lays siege to Chateau Gaillard, a castle in France built by English King Richard I; When Prince Louis of France lays siege to Dover Castle in England...
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Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows

Joe Hill - IDW Publishing
Format: Paperback

The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair, in the third storyline of the Eisner-nominated series, Locke & Key! Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black door, and raises an army of shadows to wipe...
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Genius

Steven T. Seagle - First Second; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Ted Marx works hard at his career as a quantum physicist. But lately the demands of his job have begun to overwhelm him. Then Ted makes a startling discovery: his wife's father once knew Einstein and claims that Einstein entrusted to him a final, devastating secret--a secret even more...
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Jill Lepore - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story - and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminismWonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time....
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Batman Vol. 5: Zero Year - Dark City

Scott Snyder - Dc Comics
Format: Hardcover

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBefore the Batcave and Robin, the Joker and the Batmobile ... there was ZERO YEAR.The Riddler has plunged Gotham City into darkness. How will a young Dark Knight bring his beloved hometown from the brink of chaos and madness and back into the light? From the critically...
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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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Alex Ada: The Complete Collection

Sarah Vaughn - Image Comics
Format: Print book

From JONATHAN LUNA (THE SWORD, GIRLS, Spider-Woman: Origin) and SARAH VAUGHN (Sparkshooter, Ruined) comes ALEX ADA, a sci-fi/drama set in the near future. The last thing in the world Alex wanted was an X5, the latest in realistic androids. But after Ada is dropped into his life, he discovers...
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Knights

Gary Jeffrey - Crabtree Publishing Company, 2014. ©2013
Format: eBook

Three decisive battles fought by knights in medieval history are told in graphic novel format: In 1415, English long bowmen devastate the French army in the Battle of Agincourt; Successful in holding the French town of Orlans under siege for six months in 1428, the English forces are about...
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Afterlife with Archie: Escape from Riverdale

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa - Archie Comics; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

When Jughead's beloved pet Hot Dog is killed in a hit and run, Jughead turns to the only person he knows who can help bring back his furry best friend - Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Using dark, forbidden magic, Sabrina is successful and Hot Dog returns to the land of the living. But he's...
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Skywalker Strikes: Volume 1

Jason Aaron - Spotlight - (Graphic Novels)
Format: Library Binding

When a rebel attack goes wrong, Han and Leia must think fast to make their escape - while Luke comes face to face with Darth Vader!
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The Soviet war in Afghanistan

Gary Jeffrey - Crabtree Publishing Company
Format: eBook

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the United States was in the middle of a war of words with Afghanistan's neighbor Iran. The U. S. government along with many other countries supported the rebels in an attempt to remove the influence of the U. S. S. R. from this region....
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Batman Vol. 4: Zero Year-Secret City

Scott Snyder - DC Comics; 52nd edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this first volume of the critically acclaimed ZERO YEAR storyline, the #1 New York Times bestselling creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo present an astonishing new vision of the Dark Knight's origin - and his first encounters with the Riddler, the Red Hood, and others!Before...
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Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe

Tim Leong - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback

The comic book universe is adventurous, mystifying, and filled with heroes, villains, and cosplaying Comic-Con attendees. This book by one of Wired magazine's art directors traverses the graphic world through a collection of pie charts, bar graphs, timelines, scatter plots, and more....
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March: Book Two

John Lewis - Turtleback Books
Format: Library Binding

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The award-winning, best-selling series returns, as John Lewis' story continues through Freedom Rides and the legendary 1963 March on Washington!
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Crusades

Gary Jeffrey - Crabtree Publishing Company
Format: eBook

Three historic battles to claim the Holy Land during the time of the Crusades are told in graphic novel format: Christian soldiers try to take Jerusalem back from Muslim and Jewish defenders during the First Crusade in 1099; On July 4, 1187, Christian armies of the Kingdom of Jerusalem...
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In Real Life

Cory Doctorow - First Second
Format: Book

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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Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls

SCOTT SNYDER - DC Comics
Format: Hardcover

In the wake of the death of his son Damian, Batman is in danger of losing his humanity. However, the foes of this grief-ridden Dark Knight mean to strike him when he's at his weakest. Has Batman's worst foe become... Bruce Wayne?Plus, three pivotal chapters from the epic ZERO YEAR...
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The Abominable Mr. Seabrook

Joe Ollmann - Drawn & Quarterly
Format: Print book

The daring and destructive life of the man who popularized the word "zombie"In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic cultures of the world past their immediate surroundings. Journalist William...
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Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games

Joe Hill - IDW Publishing
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, the creators behind the acclaimed Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, return with the next chapter in the ongoing tale, Head Games. Following a shocking death that dredges up memories of their father's murder,...
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Hardcover

National bestseller ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated...
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Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel

Jules Feiffer - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A Vanity Fair Best Book of 2014 A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2014 When three daunting dolls intersect with one hapless heroine and a hard-boiled private eye, deception, betrayal, and murder stalk every mean street inKill My Mother.Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer...
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Triple Shot, Double Pump, No Whip Zits: A Zits Treasury

Jerry Scott - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Paperback

Zits is the perfect comic portrayal of life, with an eye-rolling teenager and perplexed but connected parents.Sixteen-year-old Jeremy Duncan is a high school sophomore and an aspiring musician. He daydreams about the day when his band records its first monster hit single and he and his bandmates...
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Big Nate: Great Minds Think Alike

Lincoln Peirce - Andrews McMeel Publishing; Pap/Pstr edition

Two heads are better than one, except when theyre crashing into each other! But that wont prevent Big Nate and his pals from hatching great ideas for fun. Nate Wright is a wisecracking 11-year-old who knows hes destined for greatness. The star of Big Nate, the daily and Sunday comic strip...
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Make Comics Like the Pros: The Inside Scoop on How to Write, Draw, and Sell Your Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Greg Pak - Watson-Guptill
Format: Print book

A step-by-step guide to all aspects of comic book creation--from conceptualization to early drafts to marketing and promotion--written by two of the industry's most seasoned and successful pros. Discover the Secrets of Your Favorite Comic Book CreatorsDo you want to break into the comics...
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Batman Vol. 2: The City of Owls

Scott Snyder - DC Comics
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times #1 Bestseller!For over a century, the Court of Owls has ruled Gotham City in secret - their reach inescapable, their power unstoppable.Until they battled the Batman.Gotham's vigilante protector managed to escape the talons of the Court with his mind and body barely...
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The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics

Grady Klein - Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover

The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics is the most imaginative and accessible introductory statistics course you'll ever take. Employing an irresistible cast of dragon-riding Vikings, lizard-throwing giants, and feuding aliens, the renowned illustrator Grady Klein and the award-winning...
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The Korean War

Gary Jeffrey - Crabtree Publishing Company
Format: eBook

After World War II ended, control of Korea was divided between the United States, who occupied the southern part, and the Soviet Union, who occupied the north. Tensions between the two new countries escalated until North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950. This book describes battles between...
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