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  • Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film

    • ASIN: 1910593036
    • ISBN: 1910593036
    • Brand: Self Made Hero
    • Manufacturer: SelfMadeHero

    2017 ALA/YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens Award Winner Cartoonist Edward Ross uses comics to illuminate the ideas behind our favorite movies. In Filmish, Ross’s cartoon alter ego guides readers through the annals of cinematic history, introducing some of the strange and fascinating concepts at work in the movies. Each chapter focuses on a part... [Read More]

  • A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel

    • ASIN: 0374386153
    • ISBN: 0374386153
    • Brand: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

    The world already knows Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, Calvin O'Keefe, and the three Mrs--Who, Whatsit, and Which--the memorable and wonderful characters who fight off a dark force and save our universe in the Newbery award-winning classic A Wrinkle in Time. But in 50 years of publication, the book has never been illustrated. Now, Hope Larson takes... [Read More]

  • The Mitchell Sisters: A Complete Romance Series (3-Book Box Set)

    • ASIN: B075V6VH79

    Grab your tissues for the series that has sold over 250,000 copies.Three sisters.Three sexy, swoon-worthy men.Three unforgettable stories.Book ONE - Purple Orchids:Friends. Lovers. Enemies.Sometimes the lines between them are blurred. He broke my heart back in college.And now, years later, a chance meeting has him claiming he nev... [Read More]

  • Daytripper

    • ASIN: 1401229697
    • ISBN: 1401229697
    • Brand: DC Vertigo
    • Manufacturer: Vertigo

    The acclaimed Daytripper follows Bras de Olivias Dominguez during different periods in his life, each with the same ending: his death.Daytripper follows the life of one man, Bras de Olivias Dominguez. Every chapter features an important period in Bras’ life in exotic Brazil, and each story ends the same way: with his death. And then, the followi... [Read More]

  • American Born Chinese

    • ASIN: 0312384483
    • ISBN: 0312384483
    • Brand: Square Fish
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.Jin Wang starts at a new school where he's the only Chinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class, Jin doesn't want to be associated with an FOB like him. Jin just wants to be an all-American boy, because he's in love with an all-American girl. Danny is an al... [Read More]

  • Kristy's Great Idea: Full-Color Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #1)

    • ASIN: B00OBOA7O0
    • Manufacturer: Graphix

    This graphic novel adapted by Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, is now available in full color!Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey are best friends and founding members of The Baby-sitters Club. Whatever comes up -- cranky toddlers, huge dogs, scary neighbors, prank calls -- you c... [Read More]

  • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

    • ASIN: B002LHRM2O
    • Manufacturer: North River Press

    *A Graphic Novel version of this title is now available: "The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel" 30th Anniversary Edition. Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitor... [Read More]

  • The Complete Maus

    • UPC: 000679406417
    • ASIN: 0679406417
    • ISBN: 0679406417
    • Brand: Raw Books and Graphics
    • Manufacturer: Pantheon

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and ... [Read More]

  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

    • UPC: 046442871716
    • ASIN: 0618871713
    • ISBN: 0544709047
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly s... [Read More]

  • American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel

    • ASIN: B004YW4L5K
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • Atomic Blonde: The Coldest City

    • ASIN: 1620103818
    • ISBN: 1620103818
    • Brand: Oni Press
    • Manufacturer: Oni Press

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! November 1989. MI6 spy Lorraine Broughton was sent to Berlin to investigate the death of another agent, and the disappearance of a list revealing every spy working there. She found a powder keg of mistrust, assassinations and bad defections that ended with the murder of MI6's top officer, as the Berlin Wall was torn down... [Read More]

  • Check, Please! Book 1: # Hockey

    • ASIN: B07GVC83DX
    • Manufacturer: First Second

    Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There’s checking (anything that hinders the player with possession of the... [Read More]

  • The Bobcat: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1950691489
    • ISBN: 1950691489
    • Brand: Arcade
    • Manufacturer: Arcade

    ** Longlisted for The Center for Fiction's best debut novel of 2019 ** With the hypnotic intensity of Emily Fridlund’s The History of Wolves and Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest, Katherine Forbes Riley has created a mesmerizing love story, in lush, gorgeous prose, that examines art, science, and the magic of human chemistry."Teeming with lush... [Read More]

  • Darkness Series Boxed Set (Books 1-4)

    • ASIN: B00S7KU0I2
    • Manufacturer: Hazy Dawn Press, Inc

    ***USA TODAY BESTSELLER!***"K.F. Breene has constructed an incredible world, populated with interesting and deep characters that I am desperate to get to know more intimately. Her writing is fluid, sparked with wonderful humor and rife with gorgeous imagery." - Wicked Women Book BlogSave $3 on Books 1-4 in the Darkness SeriesExperience the roller ... [Read More]

  • El Deafo

    • ASIN: 1419712179
    • ISBN: 1419712179
    • Brand: HACHETTE BOOK GROUP USA
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    New York Times Bestseller A 2015 Newbery Honor Book Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age... [Read More]

  • Be Careful Or You'll End Up In My Novel - Raglan Baseball Tee

    • ASIN: B07RQMDM5R
    • Brand: T - Careful Or You End Up In Novel
    • Size: Small
    • Manufacturer: T - Careful Or You End Up In Novel

  • Fahrenheit 451

    • UPC: 642688055004
    • ASIN: 1451673310
    • ISBN: 9781451673319
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commoditi... [Read More]

  • Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Graphic History (Graphic History Series)

    • ASIN: 0199334072
    • ISBN: 9780199334070
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Inhuman Traffick tells for the first time a story of enslavement and freedom that spans the entire Atlantic world. Beginning in 1829 off the west coast of Africa with the recapture of the slave ship Neirsée--previously seized by the British Navy in its efforts to suppress the "inhuman traffick"--and ending with the liberation of the African passen... [Read More]

  • The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom

    • ASIN: 0399581448
    • ISBN: 0399581448
    • Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

    A graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based on his autobiographical writings and speeches, spotlighting the key events and people that shaped the life of this great American.Recently returned to the cultural spotlight, Frederick Douglass's impact on America... [Read More]

  • A Whirlwind of Color (The Light to My Darkness Book 2)

    • ASIN: B07GXYYM6S

    One great love. That’s what every heart craves. I was lucky enough to find mine when I was 19. But I wouldn’t describe myself as lucky now. My husband looks at me like I’m the light of his life. We live in a penthouse apartment that overlooks Central Park. My closet it filled with designer clothes and more pairs of shoes than I can count. I h... [Read More]

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