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The loneliness of the long-distance cartoonist
by Adrian Tomine
What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine's funniest and most revealing foray into autobiography, offers an array of unexpected answers. When a sudden medical incident lands Tomine in the emergency room, he begins to question if it was really all worthwhile
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Sentient
by Jeff Lemire
Welcome to the U.S.S. Montgomery. When a separatist attack kills every adult on board a colony ship in deep space, it is up to VALARIE, the on-board A.I. to help the ship’s children survive. As they are pursued by dangerous forces, can VALARIE become more than what she was programmed to be – a savoir to these children? From Eisner Award-winners Jeff Lemire (Black Hammer) and Gabriel Walta (The Vision).
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Oak Flat : a fight for sacred land in the American west
by Lauren Redniss
Three generations of an Apache family of activists race against time in a legal and cultural battle to protect sacred land from corrupt government officials and a multinational mining corporation. By the National Book Award finalist author of Radioactive. Illustrations.
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Desperate Pleasures
by M. S. Harkness
In M.S. Harkness’ ((Tinderella)) second graphic novel, she weaves in and out of non-relationships, drug dealing, and sex work―all with the subtlety of a blunt ax! She constantly searches for security and fulfillment, but it is always just beyond her reach. Desperate Pleasures is a young woman's fearless autobiographical account of difficult relationships set against a backdrop of trauma and abuse. Uncomfortably close-up, filled with dark humor, Desperate Pleasures is an unrelenting read and M.S. Harkness’ best work to date.
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The Dreaming, Volume 1: Pathways and Emanations
by Simon Spurrier
One of four books expanding Neil Gaiman's acclaimed Sandman Universe. There is a place where gods are born and stories are spun. Today its walls lie slashed and bleeding. Twenty-three years after he was anointed as its master, the lord of dreams has inexplicably abandoned his domain. Lord Daniel's absence triggers a series of crimes and calamities that consume the lives of those already tangled in his fate. Until he is found, his realm's residents must protect its broken borders alone. But the most senior storytellers are tormented by invasive secrets, the warden Lucien is doubting his own mind, and beyond the gates, something horrific awaits with tooth and talon. Only Dora, the monstrous, finds opportunity in madness, stealing dreams for the highest bidder. But she has no idea how deep the danger lies. Meanwhile, in Daniel's gallery, something new is growing. The Sandman Universe is a new series of books curated by Neil Gaiman for DC Vertigo.
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Rosalie Lightning
by Tom Hart
ROSALIE LIGHTNING is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's beautiful and touching graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along hisfamily's journey through loss. Hart uses the graphic form to articulate his and his wife's on-going search for meaning in the aftermath of Rosalie's death, exploring themes of grief, hopelessness, rebirth, and eventually finding hope again. Hart creatively portrays the solace he discovers in nature, philosophy, great works of literature, and art across all mediums in this expressively honest and loving tribute to his baby girl. Rosalie Lighting is a graphic masterpiece chronicling a father's undying love.
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Upgrade soul : a graphic novel
by Ezra Claytan Daniels
For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves..
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Infidel
by Pornsak Pichetshote
A graphic novel that tells the tale of an American Muslim woman and her multiracial neighbors who are haunted by monsters that feed on xenophobia
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The hard tomorrow
by Eleanor Davis
Hannah is a thirty-something wife, home-health worker, and antiwar activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stay-at-home pothead working--or 'working'--on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They're currently living and screwing in the back of a truck, hoping for a pregnancy, which seems like it will never come. Legs in the air, for a better chance at conception, Hannah scans fertility Reddits while Johnny dreams about propagating plants--kale, tomatoes--to ensure they have sufficient sustenance should the end times come, which, given their fragile democracy strained under the weight of a carceral state and the risk of horrible war, doesn't seem so far off. Helping Hannah in her fight for the future is her best friend Gabby, a queer naturalist she idolizes and who adores her. Helping Johnny build the house is Tyler, an off-the-grid conspiracy theorist driven sick by his own cloudy notions of reality.
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Monster : A Graphic Novel
by Guy A Sims
A graphic novel adaptation of Walter Dean Myers' National Book Award finalist depicts teen murder defendant Steve Harmon's trial and stint in juvenile detention in striking black-and-white artwork.
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
by Sydney Padua
Presents an alternate history in which Charles Babbage and Ada, Countess of Lovelace, build the "Difference Engine" and use it to explore the wilder realms of mathematics and fight crime for the sake of both London and science.
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Out on the Wire : The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio
by Jessica Abel
Go behind the scenes of seven of today's most popular narrative radio shows and podcasts, including This American Life and RadioLab, in graphic narrative. Every week, millions of devoted fans tune in to or download This American Life, The Moth, Radiolab, Planet Money, Snap Judgment, Serial, Invisibilia and other narrative radio shows. Using personal stories to breathe life into complex ideas and issues, these beloved programs help us to understand ourselves and our world a little bit better. Each has adistinct style, but every one delivers stories that are brilliantly told and produced. Out on the Wire offers an unexpected window into this new kind of storytelling--one that literally illustrates the making of a purely auditory medium. With the help of This American Life's Ira Glass, Jessica Abel, a cartoonist and devotee of narrative radio, uncovers just how radio producers construct narrative, spilling some juicy insider details. Jad Abumrad of RadioLab talks about chasing moments of awe with scientists, while Planet Money's Robert Smith lets us in on his slightly goofy strategy for putting interviewees at ease. And Abel reveals how mad--really mad--Ira Glass becomes when he receives edits from his colleagues. Informative and engaging, Out on the Wire demonstrates that narrative radio and podcasts are creating some of the most exciting and innovative storytelling available today
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The Mental Load : A Feminist Comic
by Emma
Offers the author's take on issues that weigh disproportionately on women, including invisible labor, unpaid organizing, maternity leave, and the medical establishment's treatment of childbirth
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Snow, Glass, Apples
by Neil Gaiman
A graphic-novel rendering of Gaiman’s dark reimagining of the Snow White story depicts a not-so-evil queen who resolves to save her realm from a monstrous stepdaughter. By the award-winning author of the Sandman comics series.
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They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei
The iconic actor and activist presents a graphic memoir detailing his experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the hard choices his family made in the face of legalized racism.
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Good Talk : A Memoir in Conversations
by Mira Jacob
The author of the critically acclaimed The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing presents an intimate graphic memoir about American identity as it has shaped his interracial family in the aftermath of the 2016 elections
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Abbott
by Saladin Ahmed
Investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, a journalist uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite. By the Hugo Award-nominated author of Black Bolt. Original
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Rolling Blackouts : Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
by Sarah Glidden
Cartoonist Sarah Glidden accompanies her two friends--reporters and founders of a journalism non-profit--as they research potential stories on the effects of the Iraq War on the Middle East and, specifically, the war's refugees. Joining the trio is a childhood friend and former Marine whose past service in Iraq adds an unexpected and sometimes unwelcome viewpoint, both to the people they come across and perhaps even themselves. As the crew works their way through Turkey, Iraq, and Syria, Glidden observes the reporters as they ask civilians, refugees, and officials, "Who are you?" Everyone has a story to tell: the Iranian blogger, the United Nations refugee administrator, a taxi driver, the Iraqi refugee deported from the US, the Iraqis seeking refuge in Syria, and even the American Marine.
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On a Sunbeam
by Tillie Walden
An award-winning cartoonist presents the graphic-novel story of a crew member who travels to the ends of the universe to find a long-lost love while helping her team rebuild beautiful, broken-down historical structures on faraway planets.
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Belonging : A German Reckons With History and Home
by Nora Krug
A graphic memoir by an award-winning artist tells the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation and history.
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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
by Mariko Tamaki
Upset about her on-again, off-again relationship with her girlfriend Laura Dean, Freddy Riley depends on her friends, a local mystic, and a relationship columnist for help in dealing with her situation
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The Hunting Accident : A True Story of Crime and Poetry
by David L. Carlson
Describes how Charlie Rizzo uncovers the truth about his father's blindness--a shotgun blast to the face during an armed robbery--and details Matt Rizzo's incarceration in Stateville Prison, where he created an alliance with Nathan Leopold Jr
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The Wendy Project
by Melissa Jane Osborne
Fifteen-year-old Wendy struggles to navigate fantasy and reality after a car crash that leaves her brother Michael missing
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Sabrina
by Nick Drnaso
When a woman disappears, those connected to her find the intimacy of their relationships stripped away in a world devoid of personal interactions and responsibility
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House of Women
by Sophie Goldstein
Four women trying to bring civilization to the natives of a remote planet on the fringes of the known universe find their own camaraderie strained by the danger outside their gates
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Passing for Human : A Graphic Memoir
by Liana Finck
In graphic novel form the author describes her life and how she came to accept the "otherness" or her feeling of being an outcast from society, that had defined her since her birth
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Akira. Book One
by Katsuhiro Ōtomo
In Neo-Tokyo, built on the former site of Tokyo after World War III, two teenagers are targeted by agencies after they develop paranormal abilities
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Understanding Comics
by Scott McCloud
Traces the 3,000 year history of storytelling through pictures, discussing the language and images used
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Octavia Butler's Kindred : A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by Damian Duffy
Inexplicably pulled back in time to the antebellum South, a contemporary Black woman, raised in the age of Civil Rights and Black Power, must confront the harsh realities of Black history in America
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Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
Nausicaä, a young princess of a future world, tries to bring peace between kingdoms who are battling to claim the last of the world's natural resources
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Be Prepared
by Vera Brosgol
Believing Russian summer camp will be the place she finally fits in, Vera jumps at the chance to sign up, but very quickly discovers that camp is nothing like she imagined
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Mooncop
by Tom Gauld
As the population of the lunar colony gradually dwindles, the mooncop continues to make his rounds on an increasingly desolate beat
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The Girl From the Other Side, Volume 1, Siúil, a rún
by Nagabe
In a land split into two realms, the Outside, where beasts roam that can curse with a touch, and the Inside, where humans live in safety, a girl and a beast, who should never have met, share a bond that transcends their disparate appearances
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Fire!! : the Zora Neale Hurston story
by Peter Bagge
In graphic novel format, retells the life of the author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God," highlighting her early life, role in the Harlem Renaissance, and personal tragedies
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Monstress, Volume One: Awakening
by Marjorie M Liu
A survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and the Arcanics, teenager Maika Halfwolf is both the hunter and hunted as she seeks answers about her mysterious past
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Paper Girls, Volume 1
by Brian K Vaughan
Supernatural mysteries and suburban drama collide in the early hours after the Halloween of 1988 for four twelve-year-old newspaper delivery girls
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Flying Couch : A Graphic Memoir
by Amy Kurzweil
This graphic memoir describes how the author came to terms with the story of her grandmother, who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II by disguising herself as a gentile.
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What It Is
by Lynda Barry
Presented as a series of lined-notebook cartoon collages, a visual testament to the creator's life-long quest for creative excellence explores such questions as the capacity of material objects for summoning memories and the tangible qualities of images.
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My Favorite Thing is Monsters. Book One
by Emil Ferris
Filled with B-horror movie and pulp monster iconography, the diary of ten-year-old Karen Reyes records her investigation into the murder of her upstairs neighbor Anka Silverberg, a Holocaust survivor
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Imagine Wanting Only This
by Kristen Radtke
After becoming interested in ruins and abandoned places, the author journeys around the world, depicting deserted Midwestern towns, empty villas in Italy, islands in the Philippines, and locales in New York City and her own personal experiences of love and loss
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The Best We Could Do : An Illustrated Memoir
by Thi Bui
The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.
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Honor Girl : A Graphic Memoir
by Maggie Thrash
A 15-year-old girl endures wrenching public and private challenges when she unexpectedly falls in love with a female counselor at her Appalachian summer camp.
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Turning Japanese
by MariNaomi
Turning Japanese is an illustrated memoir that chronicles MariNaomi's experiences working in illegal hostess bars in San Jose and Tokyo while attempting to connect with a culture that had eluded her since childhood
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Killing and Dying
by Adrian Tomine
Collects six graphic stories that create a portrait of contemporary life, exploring the pride and disappointment of family, the anxiety and hopefulness of being alive, and the weight of love and its absence
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Aya : Life in Yop City
by Marguerite Abouet
Ivory Coast, 1978. It's a golden time, and the nation--an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa--seems fueled by something wondrous. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted 19-year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a wry soap opera revolving around the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City.
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The Arab of the Future : A Graphic Memoir : A Childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984)
by Riad Sattouf
In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria--but always under the roofof his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation. Riad, delicate and wide-eyed, follows in the trail of his mismatched parents; his mother, a bookish French student, is as modest as hisfather is flamboyant. Venturing first to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab State and then joining the family tribe in Homs, Syria, they hold fast to the vision of the paradise that always lies just around the corner. And hold they do, though food is scarce, children kill dogs for sport, and with locks banned, the Sattoufs come home one day to discover another family occupying their apartment. The ultimate outsider, Riad, with his flowing blond hair, is called the ultimate insult... Jewish. And in no time at all, his father has come up with yet another grand plan, moving from building a new people to building his own great palace. Brimming with life and dark humor, The Arab of the Future reveals the truth and texture of one eccentric family in an absurd Middle East, and also introduces a master cartoonist in a work destined to stand alongside Maus and Persepolis.
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Seconds by Bryan Lee O'MalleyA highly anticipated standalone graphic novel by the creator of the best-selling Scott Pilgrim series follows the experience of a young restaurant owner who is given a magical second chance to correct past mistakes.
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Black River by Josh SimmonsA group of women, one man, and two dogs are making their way through a post-apocalyptic world in search of a city that supposedly still has electricity and some sort of civilization. Along the way, they go to a comedy club, take a drug called Gumdrop, and encounter gangs of men who are fools, lunatics, or murderous sadists. In other words, all manner of terrors.
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The White Donkey : Terminal Lance
by Maximilian Uriarte
Tells the story of Abe, a young Marine recruit who enlists in order to find something missing from his life but only winds up experiencing the terrible side of military service in Iraq
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Tomboy : A Graphic Memoir by Liz PrinceEschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir.
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The Fade Out
by Ed Brubaker
Modern day reporter Nicolas Lash learns of a secret involving an ageless woman who has been on the run since the 1930s, while reporter Hank Raines meets the same woman in 1950s San Francisco
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Patience
by Daniel Clowes
A psychedelic science-fiction love story from the author of "Ghost World" veers from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness.
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Black Science, Volume 1 : How to Fall Forever by Rick RemenderGrant McKay, former member of The Anarchistic Order of Scientists, has finally done the impossible: he has deciphered Black Science and punched through the barriers of reality with his creation, the Pillar. But something went wrong, and now Grant and his team are lost, barreling through the boundless expanses of the Eververse, living ghosts shipwrecked on an infinite ocean of alien worlds.
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The Sculptor by Scott McCloudDavid Smith is giving his life for his art--literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier! This is a story of desire taken to the edge of reason and beyond; of the frantic, clumsy dance steps of young love; and a gorgeous, street-level portrait of the world's greatest city. It's about the small, warm, human moments of everyday life...and the great surging forces that lie just under the surface. Scott McCloud wrote the book on how comics work; now he vaults into great fiction with a breathtaking, funny, and unforgettable new work.
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Palestine
by Joe Sacco
Uses a comic book format to shed light on the complex and emotionally-charged situation of Palestian Arabs, exploring the lives of Israeli soldiers, Palestian refugees, and children in the Occupied Territories
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Ms. Marvel : No Normal
by G. Willow Wilson
Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American girl from Jersey City who lives a conservative Muslim lifestyle with her family, suddenly acquires superhuman powers and, despite the pressures of school and home, tries to use her abilities to help her community
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Kill My Mother : A Graphic Novel
by Jules Feiffer
The lives of five women from two different families are forever linked and altered by a drunk private eye during the Depression in this first noir graphic novel from the award-winning author, playwright, cartoonist and illustrator.
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Family
by Greg Rucka
A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus. Shot dead defending the family home, Forever's day goes downhill from there...
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Bitch Planet, Volume 1 : Extraordinary Machine
by Kelly Sue DeConnick
In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker?
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Here by Richard McGuireAn innovative graphic novel presents the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.
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100 Bullets. Book One
by Brian Azzarello
How far would you go for revenge? If you were given a chance at deadly retribution with a guarantee that the law could not touch you, would you take it?
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Beauty by HubertWhen Coddie unintentionally delivers a fairy from a spell that held her prisoner, she does not realize how poisoned the wish is she gets in return. From repulsive and stinking of fish she becomes perceived as magnetically beautiful, which does not help her in her village. A young local lord saves her but soon it becomes apparent her destiny may be far greater.
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Powers, Volume 1
by Brian Michael Bendis
Features homicide detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, who operate in a world where people with superpowers have to register with the government and are viewed generally with suspicion--basically, as potential criminals
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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? : A Memoir by Roz ChastA graphic memoir by a long-time New Yorker cartoonist celebrates the final years of her aging parents' lives through four-color cartoons, family photos and documents that reflect the artist's struggles with caregiver challenges.
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Hawkeye : My Life as a Weapon
by Matt Fraction
In his spare time away from the Avengers, Clint Barton, also known as Hawkeye, takes on the seedy underbelly of New York City with his protégé, Kate Bishop, as they foil a burglary plot and infiltrate a high-stakes villain auction
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Hip Hop Family Tree, Volume 1
by Ed Piskor
Originally serialized on the hugely popular website Boing Boing, The Hip Hop Family Tree is an encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip hop capturing the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-school pioneers and early stars
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How To Be Happy
by Eleanor Davis
A collection of literary comics exploring joy, anguish, fear, and loneliness
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Beautiful Darkness
by Fabien Vehlmann
Tiny princess Aurora's journey to civilization's heart serves to highlight the bleakness of life and humanity's capacity for evil
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Saga of the Swamp Thing. Book One by Alan MooreSaga of the Swamp Thing goes back to the beginning with stories on how the swamp thing is the mutant result of a freak scientific experiment, and believes he was once the human Alec Holland.
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Maggie the Mechanic : a Love and Rockets Book by Jaime HernandezThe first of three volumes chronicles the globe-trotting adventures and exploits of Maggie, her best friend and occasional lover Hopey, and their companions, Peggy Century, her weirdo mentor Izzy, aging wrestler Rena Titanon, and Maggie's new love interest, Rand Race.
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The Encyclopedia of Early Earth : A Graphic Novel by Isabel GreenbergThe lives and adventures of the race of people who lived on Early Earth before human history began is illustrated in a series of interconnected tales and fables in this graphic novel from an award-winning writer and artist.
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Ex Machina, Volume 1 : The First Hundred Days
by Brian K. Vaughan
After growing tired of risking his life, America's first superhero Mitchell Hundred retires from masked crime fighting and runs for mayor of New York City, but he discovers that he has more to worry about than just budget problems
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March. Book One
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement
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Blankets : A Graphic Novel
by Craig Thompson
Loosely based on the author's life, chronicles Craig's journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the people, experiences, and beliefs that he encountered along the way
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Watchmen
by Alan Moore
As former members of a disbanded group of superheroes called the Crimebusters start turning up dead, the remaining members of the group try to discover the identity of the murderer before they, too, are killed
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Black Hole by Charles BurnsA chilling graphic novel set in suburban Seattle during the mid-1970s describes the lives of the area's teenagers, who are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring, and incurable plague that has descended on the young people of Seattle.
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Feynman by Jim OttavianiIn this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman. Written by nonfiction comics mainstay Jim Ottaviani and brilliantly illustrated by First Second author Leland Myrick, Feynman tells the story of the great man's life from his childhood in Long Island to his work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger disaster. Ottaviani tackles the bad with the good, leaving the reader delighted by Feynman's exuberant life and staggered at the loss humanity suffered with his death.
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Daytripper
by Fábio Moon
Presents key moments in the life of Brás de Oliva Domingos, a Brazilian writer and sometime journalist, and the son of a prominent author, as if each episode would turn out to be the day in which he was about to die
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Zot! : The Complete Black-and-white Stories: 1987-1991 by Scott McCloudZachary T. Paleozogt lives in "the far-flung future of 1965," a utopian Earth of world peace, robot butlers, and flying cars. Jenny Weaver lives in an imperfect world of disappointment and broken promises—the Earth we live in. Stepping across the portals to each other's worlds, Zot and Jenny's lives will never be the same again.
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Wonder Woman, Volume 1 : Blood
by Brian Azzarello
When Wonder Woman learns the secret her mother Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, has kept regarding her father, her life shatters
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Saga, Volume 1
by Brian K Vaughan
When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to raise their child in a dangerous world
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V for Vendetta
by Alan Moore
In a near-future Britain ruled by a totalitarian regime, Evey is rescued from certain death by a masked vigilante calling himself "V," a beguiling and charismatic figure who launches a one-man crusade against government tyranny and oppression
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Freakangels, Volume 1 by Warren EllisTwenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years later, the world ended. This is the story of what happened next. So welcome to Whitechapel, some years from now, just barely above ground in a flooded England, where a clan of eleven strange people with purple eyes -- the Freakangels -- have carved out some sort of a life for themselves. A life that starts to show big cracks when a girl called Alice from Manchester turns up with a shotgun and a grievance, having met the lost,prodigal last Freakangel, who had very different ideas about what they should do with themselves and this flooded future England. Because the Freakangels have a big secret: Something very bad is their fault.
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The Sandman, Volume 1 : Preludes & Nocturnesby Neil GaimanAn occultist attempting to summon and imprison Death instead traps her younger brother Morpheus, the Sandman, who, after eventually escaping imprisonment, must regain his lost objects of power while on an arduous journey.
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Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic by Alison BechdelAn unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
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The Book of Genesis
by R. Crumb
Four years in the making, a graphic translation of the first book of the Bible uses actual word-for-word text as a basis for its dramatic presentations and includes intricately detailed depictions of the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah's ark, and more.
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Y, The Last Man : Book One
by Brian K Vaughan
When all the men and male mammals on the planet suddenly die, twenty-two year old Yorick Brown, the last man left alive, sets out to discover what has caused this man-killing plague
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Are You My Mother? : A Comic Drama
by Alison Bechdel
A graphic novel follow-up to Fun Home depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter.
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller
After ten years away from the public eye, a wave of violence in Gotham City brings Batman back as a vigilante
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Locke & Key : Welcome to Lovecraft
by Joe Hill
Presents the story 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 creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all.
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