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A Fire Story
by Brian Fies
Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of those homes belonged to author and illustrator Brian Fies and his family. In the days that followed, Fies hastily pulled together a firsthand account of his experience in a twenty-page online comic, entitled A Fire Story, that went viral... Less than a year after the fire, Brian Fies expanded his webcomic into a full-length graphic novel, including environmental insight and the stories of others affected by the disaster.
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Big Trouble in Little China 3 : Old Man Jack
by John Carpenter
Jack Burton has angered a lot of folks in his day, but this time he might have really done it. With both Heaven and Hell out for Jack’s head, there’s nowhere left for him to hide. It’s a battle of apocalyptic proportions, but ol’ Jack Burton won’t go down without a fight. Gas up the Pork-Chop Express and get ready for the final ride!
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Captain Marvel prelude
by Will Corona Pilgrim
Prepare for Captain Marvel's cinematic debut with titanic tales setting the stage for the Marvel Universe's mightiest hero! With the Avengers splintered, Nick Fury and Maria Hill try to keep the world spinning, even as cosmic forces threaten all life on Earth. What deadly event could cause them to call in Captain Marvel? Then, in classic comics stories, meet Carol Danvers, A.K.A. Ms. Marvel! Determined to prove herself the best of the best in a world full of fearsome foes. Carol later takes on the mantle of Captain Marvel--and the responsibility of protecting the entire planet! But what happens when she comes face-to-face with her predecessor Mar-Vell...who died years before? Plus: Look back at Carol's early days, and learn what shaped the woman behind the mask!
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Hobo Mom
by Charles Forsman
A single father and pre-teen daughter are reunited with the woman who once left them, forcing all three to confront their own notions of happiness and whether someone who covets independence so strongly can ever settle down, no matter the cost.
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Kid Gloves : Nine Months of Careful Chaos
by Lucy Knisley
The author describes her difficulty conceiving, multiple miscarriages, and the complications of her eventual pregnancy, which resulted in a near-death experience while giving birth, and discusses the history of obstetrics.
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Mister Miracle
by Tom King
Mister Miracle is magical, dark, intimate and unlike anything you've read before. Scott Free is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. So great, he escaped Granny Goodness' gruesome orphanage and the dangers of Apokolips to travel across galaxies and set up a new life on Earth with his wife, Big Barda. Using the stage alter ego of Mister Miracle, he has made quite a career for himself showing off his acrobatic escape techniques. He even caught the attention of the Justice League, who has counted himamong its ranks. You might say Scott Free has everything--so why isn't it enough? Mister Miracle has mastered every illusion, achieved every stunt, pulled off every trick--except one. He has never escaped death. Is it even possible? Our hero is going to have to kill himself if he wants to find out. From Hugo Award nominated writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads, the team behind The Sheriff of Babylon, comes an ambitious new take on one of Jack Kirby's most beloved New Gods in Mister Miracle!
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New Super-Man and the Justice League of China
by Gene Luen Yang
Through a series of government experiments, Kong Kenan has become China's New Super-Man! And now by his side is the mighty Justice League of China! Bat-Man! Wonder-Woman! The Flash! The New Super-Man and Justice League of China changed the metahuman landscape of China forever, and Laney Lan has reported on their heroics since day one. But there's more to Shanghai's ace reporter than meets the eye, and when faced with turmoil in her own family, Laney's commitment to reporting the truth will be tested like never before.
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Nobody's Fool : The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead
by Bill Griffith
The story of Schlitzie's long career--from Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small town carnivals and big city sideshows--is one of legend. Today, Schlitzie is most well-known for his appearance in the cult classic Freaks (produced by MGM ofall studios in 1932 and directed by Tod Browning, his first feature after the horror classic Dracula), in which all of the sideshow performers were real, not actors. The making of Freaks and Schlitzie's role in the film is a centerpiece of the book. Freaks was also the inspiration for Zippy the Pinhead, now in its 31st year of newspaper syndication via King Features, and led to Griffith's 50-year cartooning career. In researching Schlitzie's life (1901-1971), Griffith has tracked down primary sources andarchives throughout the country, including conducting interviews with those who worked with him and had intimate knowledge of his personality, his likes and dislikes, how he responded to being a sideshow "freak," and much more. This graphic novel biography is not exploitative, but instead humanizes Schlitzie by providing never-before revealed details of his life, offering a unique look into his world and restoring some dignity to his life and recognizing his contributions to popular culture.
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Off Season
by James Sturm
How could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm's riveting graphic novel Off Season, which charts one couple's divisive separation through the fall of 2016-during Bernie's loss to Hillary, Hillary's loss to Trump, and the disorienting months that followed. We see a father navigating life as a single parent and coping with the disintegration of a life-defining relationship. Amid the upheaval are tender moments with his kids-a sleeping child being carried in from the car, Christmas morning anticipation, a late-night cookie after a temper tantrum-and fallible humans drenched in palpable feelings of grief, rage, loss, and overwhelming love. Using anthropomorphized characters as a tactic for tempering an otherwise emotionally fraught situation, Off Season is unaffected and raw, steeped in the specificity of its time while speaking to a larger cultural moment. A truly human experience, Off Season displays Sturm's masterful pacing and storytelling combined with conscious and confident growth as the celebrated cartoonist and educator moves away from historical fiction to deliver this long-form narrative set in contemporary times. Originally serialized on Slate, this expanded edition turns timely vignettes into a timeless, deeply affecting account of one family and their off season.
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PTSD
by Guillaume Singelin
In a near-future world, a veteran comes home from an unpopular war and struggles to cope with her mental and physical wounds, while seeking relief in illicit drugs she buys or steals
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The Sons of El Topo 1 : Cain
by Alejandro Jodorowsky
El Topo was a bandit without limits, a man with no moral compass, but when his journey through the arid west brought him face to face with a series of rogue outcasts, he found enlightenment in the unlikeliest place and was forever transformed, becoming a holy vessel imbued with the power to perform miracles. This was a journey that took him far from his first born son, Cain, and brought about the birth of Abel. Fueled by resentment, and unable to kill his saintly father, Cain begins the slow pursuit of his half brother in a tale of magic and mayhem worthy of legendary filmmaker Alejancro Jodorowsky and virtuosic illustrator José Ladrönn. Together, they deliver an allegorical and surrealist western where the genre services deeper philosohpical and spiritural considerations.
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Super Sikh 1
by Eileen Kaur Alden
Super Sikh is a secret agent who loves Elvis and hates bad guys. In this issue Super Sikh discovers his great internal power of intuition, training, physical and mental strength. Deep Singh departs his homeland of India and heads to the USA for a week's vacation to explore Graceland estates, but instead finds himself trying to defend his life from the Taliban.
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Tank Girl All Stars
by Alan Martin
A full-barrelled blast of Tank Girl, celebrating thirty astounding years! In this 30th Anniversary anthology, thrill to a tankload of unmissable, unforgettable, all-new tales, written by series co-creator Alan Martin, with artwork by a host of Tank Girl stalwarts and super-stars, including Brett Parson, Chris Wahl, Jim Mahfood, Greg Staples, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Jonathan Edwards and more friends from throughout Tank Girl's chequered 30 year lifetime!
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Millennium : The Girl Who Danced With Death
by Sylvain Runberg
Hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomqvist team up again, this time against an extreme political candidate and a violent group of hackers ready to take deadly measures to secure their vision of the future.
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The Life of Captain Marvel
by Margaret Stohl
When former U.S. Air Force pilot Carol Danvers was caught in the explosion of an alien device, she was transformed into one of the world's most powerful super-beings. Now, she's an Avenger and Earth's mightiest hero. But before all that, Carol Danvers was just a girl from New England. This is her story
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The Problem of Susan and Other Stories
by Neil Gaiman
Two stories and two poems. All wondrous and imaginative about the tales we tell and experience. Where the incarnations of the months of the year sit around a campfire sharing stories, where an older college professor recounts a Narnian childhood, where the apocalypse unfolds, and where the importance of generational storytelling is seen through the Goldilocks fairytale.
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Tokyo Ghoul : re. 9
by Sui Ishida
The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the only organization fighting the Ghoul menace, and they will use every tool at their disposal to protect humanity from its ultimate predator. Their newest weapon in this hidden war is an experimental procedure that implants human investigators with a Ghoul's Kagune, giving them Ghoul powers and abilities. But both the procedure and the newly formed Qs Squad are untested. Will they become heroes...or monsters?! The Rushima Operation is reaching its sixth day, and both the CCG and the Ghouls are fighting at the edge of their limits. Under the extreme mental and physical stress, old allegiances loom large and both sides are finding they face tough choices on the battlefield. Whichever side wins, they've all lost too much...
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Young Adult Graphic Novels
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Gravity's Pull
by MariNaomi
Claudia Jones has returned to Blithedale High School, but rumors about her possible alien abduction persist as everyone begins to feel the strange effects of her presence
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Kiss Number 8
by Colleen AF Venable
Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball games with her dad. She goofs off with her best friend Cat, and has thus far managed to avoid getting kissed by Adam, the boy next door. It's everything she hoped high school would be... until all of a sudden, it's not. Her dad is hiding something big--so big it could tear her family apart. And that's just the beginning of her problems: Mads is starting to figure out that she doesn't want to kiss Adam... because the only person she wants to kiss is Cat. Just like that, Mad's tidy little life has gotten epically messy--and epically heartbreaking. And when your heart is broken, it takes more than an awkward, uncomfortable, tooth-clashing, friendship-ending kiss to put things right again. It takes a whole bunch of them.
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One Piece : Vol. 89, Bad End Musical
by Eiichirō Oda
When Big Mom's hunger pangs become an unstoppable force of destruction, the only thing that has any chance of stopping her is a giant wedding cake Sani is helping construct, while Luffy's battle against Katakuri heads to a climactic finish.
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RWBY : Vol. 4, Burn
by Ohtsuki
The world of Remnant is filled with horrific monsters bent on the destruction of humanity. Fortunately, the kingdoms of the world have risen to combat these forces by training powerful Huntsmen and Huntresses at academies around the planet. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long are four such Huntresses in training. These stories, ranging from silly to serious, all star Yang, Ruby's fiercly loyal big sister with a stern but sensitive personality and tough-as-nails battle skills (with attitude to match)! From a team of exciting new manga artists comes the fourth volume in a series of short story collections showcasing Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang!
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The Iliad
by Gareth Hinds
A companion to the award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey rerenders Homer's classic wartime epic in engaging graphic-novel art that faithfully depicts the story of the Trojan War and those of classic characters. Simultaneous
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