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Quincredible Vol. 1: Quest to Be the Best!

Rodney Barnes - Lion Forge
Format: Paperback

Invulnerability is a pretty useless superpower if you've only got a one-hundred pound frame to back it up. That's what Quinton West's life became when he went from small guy who got beat up to small guy who can't get hurt after the meteor shower dubbed "The Event"...
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Manga Classics Anne of Green Gables

L.M Montgomery - Manga Classics
Format: Paperback

Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anne turns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear....
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Twelfth Grade Night (Arden High, Book 1)

Molly Booth

"Magical and full of queer joy -- this book is such a dream!" -- Alice Oseman, New York Times best-selling author of HeartstopperThe course of true love never did run smooth . . . and neither does high school in this new graphic novel series for fans of Heartstopper and
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Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

Roz Chast - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new graphic memoir--a hilarious illustrated ode/guide/thank-you note to Manhattan as only she could write it.For native Brooklynite Roz Chast, adjusting to life in the suburbs (where...
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Kirby Manga Mania, Vol. 1

Hirokazu Hikawa - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Paperback

Kirby and friends get up to yummy hijinks in this delightful manga collection.Join Kirby and his Dream Land friends as they go on zany adventures in manga form!Jump into Dream Land with Kirby and gobble up some fun! Everyone's favorite pink puff teams up with his friends to keep arch-frenemy...
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Supper Club

JACKIE MORROW - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Nora, Lili, and Iris are seniors at Seaside High. Their differing schedules and mounting extracurriculars inspire the girls to form a secret club where they can hang without sacrificing their future aspirations. Enter Supper Club, the delicious solution to their problems. When life starts...
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Always Human: A Graphic Novel (Always Human, #1)

Ari North - Yellow Jacket
Format: Hardcover

"This beautifully illustrated slice-of-life tale that shows two young women of color getting to know each other and creating a relationship is so warm and charming that readers will hardly notice how much they are learning about how to better interact with folx who are different from...
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Last Pick

Jason Walz - First Second
Format: Paperback

In this first volume of Jason Walz's dystopian graphic novel trilogy, the kids last picked are humanity's last hope. Three years ago, aliens invaded Earth and abducted everyone they deemed useful. The only ones spared were those too young, too old, or too "disabled" to be of value....
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Mooncakes

Suzanne Walker - Lion Forge
Format: Paperback

"Mooncakes is spellbinding. It had everything I love in a story -- magic that felt inventive, characters that became my friends, and a romance that felt truly authentic. It was one of those books that I was sad to see end. Luckily, I can always reread." -- Tillie Walden, creator...
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Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936

Edward Sorel - Liveright Publishing Company
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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