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Red Handed
The Fine Art of Strange Crimes
In the city of Red Wheelbarrow, Detective Gould finds himself unusually baffled as he tries to solve a series of unusual crimes.
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Raven Girl
A postman and a raven fall in love in this illustrated book for adults.
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Sketches of Iran
A Glimpse from the Front Lines of Human Rights
Editor Omid Memarian pairs political cartoons with essays for an unvarnished view of life inside Iran.
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Julio's Day
Love and Rockets creator Gilbert Hernandez's latest graphic novel is a haunting portrait of the 20th century, filtered through the life of the titular Julio. Born in 1900 and dying in 2000, Julio sees a lifetime of war, grief and death — but also grace and hope.
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Persepolis
The Story of a Childhood
The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contraditions between public and private life.
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Hand-Drying In America
And Other Stories
The cartoonist author of The Cardboard Valise presents a visual exploration of the many ways property reflects influences and cultural values. The subjects of these strips include window-ledge pillows for people-watchers, artificial tree forests for allergy sufferers and high-visibility construction vests for lonely individuals.
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Heart of Thomas
In a manga graphic novel being released in English for the first time, boys' boarding school attendee Thomas Werner falls to his death after sending a cryptic letter to a schoolmate. Translated by Matt Thorn.
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The Freddie Stories
Cartoons follow a year in the life of Freddie, an adolescent misfit who is misunderstood by his peers and disliked by his mother, and who relies on his close relationship with his sister, Marlys, to help him cope.
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Wandering Son 1
Shuichi, a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino, a girl who wants to be a boy, become friends in junior high school, where they tackle problems such as gender identity, love, social acceptance, and puberty. Translated by Matt Thorn.
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No Straight Lines
Four Decades of Queer Comics
Collects the best comics featuring homosexuality from the past forty years, including works by such authors as Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse, and Ralf Koenig.
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Calling Dr. Laura
A Graphic Memoir
Nicole Georges had always been told that her father was dead — until a psychic told her that he was very much alive. In this graphic memoir, Georges recounts how she learned the truth about her family... and then turned to the Dr. Laura show for advice.
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The Carter Family
Don't Forget This Song
In graphic novel format, tells the story of the Carter Family--the first superstar group of country music--revealing the family's rise to success, their struggles along the way, and their impact on contemporary music.
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The Graphic Canon, Volume 1
From The Epic Of Gilgamesh To Shakespeare To Dangerous Liaisons
Collects classics from around the world in graphic novel format, including "The Iliad," "The Divine Comedy," and "Don Quixote."
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Building Stories
The award-winning creator of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth presents an intricately illustrated, sprawling tale about the residents in a three-story Chicago apartment building, including a lonely single woman, a couple who are growing to despise each other and an elderly landlady.
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The Best American Comics 2012
The New Yorker's Francoise Mouly showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics and the Web.
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Marbles
Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me
An artist describes her bipolar disorder diagnosis and her struggles with mental stability while discussing other artists and creative people throughout history who were also labeled as "crazy" — including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe and Sylvia Plath.
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The Crackle of the Frost
One year after leaving his girlfriend Alice as a result of her request that they have a child together, Samuel returns to Alice when he learns she is pregnant to either reopen or close forever the chapter of his life involving her. Translated by Kim Thompson.
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Wonder Woman 1
Blood
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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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
Pterror over Paris and The Eiffel Tower Demon
Adèle becomes involved in an interlocking series of mysteries that involve a revived pterodactyl, a frightful on-stage murder, a looming execution by guillotine and a demon from the depths of hell.
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Drawn Together
The legendary cartooning duo of R. Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb describe the ups and downs of their marriage, the obstacles faced by struggling artists and the way their lives changed after the birth of their daughter, Sophie.
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The Underwater Welder
This new graphic novel from Jeff Lemire, the writer-artist behind popular comic series Sweet Tooth, follows Jack Joseph, an underwater welder on an oil rig and a father-to-be, who has a life-changing experience deep in the ocean.
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Unterzakhn
Growing up on the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side in the early 20th century, Jewish immigrant twins Esther and Fanya experience radically different lives as a burlesque dancer in a brothel and a nurse for an obstetrician who performs illegal abortions.
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The Art of Daniel Clowes
Modern Cartoonist
Examines the work and accomplishments of the author of Eightball, Ghost World, and other alternative comics and graphic novels.
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Are You My Mother?
A Comic Drama
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, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.NPR Bestseller
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Jim Henson's Tale of Sand
An original graphic novel adaptation of an unproduced, feature-length screenplay follows scruffy everyman Mac, who wakes up in an unfamiliar town and is chased across the desert of the American Southwest by all manner of man and beast.
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Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman
Batman's biggest secret isn't Bruce Wayne — it's his forgotten co-creator, Bill Finger. Batman is usually credited to Bob Kane, who'd been commissioned by DC Comics to come up with a hit superhero. But Kane approached Finger for help — and it was Bill Finger who invented everything from Gotham City to Batman's tragic backstory. But he never got the credit — until recently. Illustrations by Ty Templeton.
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God and Science
Return of the Ti-Girls
This "director's cut" volume traces Penny Century's decades-long quest to become a genuine heroine, and other superheroic stories in Jaime Hernandez's fictional world, as originally featured in Love and Rockets: New Stories.
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