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Quest Adult Graphic Novels
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Silver: Of Treasures and Thieves by Stephan FranckWhen Finnigan loses his grifter gang's entire fortune in a job gone wrong, he's desperate to make amends. He stumbles on his chance to do so in the crypt of the Harker Foundation, where he finds a bar of pure silver and a notebook that tells of the Silver Dragon, an ancient, immeasurable treasure beyond imagination. It's a tall tale, but also Finnigan's only lead. To make up for what he's lost, he formulates the heist of the millennium in search of the Silver Dragon. There's just one catch: the famed treasure is said to be hidden in a castle full of vampires.
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American Gods: Shadows by Neil GaimanA first entry in a three-part, graphic-novel adaptation of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel traces the story of a war between ancient and modern gods and includes art contributions by Walter Simonson, Colleen Doran and Glenn Fabry.
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Once & Future: The King is Undead Volume Oneby Kieron GillenWhen a group of Nationalists use an ancient artifact to bring King Arthur back from the dead, retired monster hunter Bridgette McGuire pulls her unsuspecting grandson Duncan, a museum curator, into a world of magic and mysticism to defeat a legendary threat. Now the two must navigate the complicated history of the McGuire family, all while combating the deadly secrets of England's past that threaten its very future.
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Under-Earth by Chris GoochUnder-Earth takes place in a subterranean landfill, hollowed out to serve as a massive improvised prison. Sunken into the trash and debris of the past -- gameboys, iphones, coffee cups, old cars -- we follow two parallel stories. In the first, a new arrival struggles to adapt to the everyday violence, physical labour, and poverty of the prison city. Overwhelmed and alone, he finds a connection with a fellow inmate through an old, beat-up novel. While these two silent and uncommunicative men grow closer thanks to their book, the stress of their environment will test their new bond. Meanwhile, a pair of thieves pull off a risky job in exchange for the prison's schematics and the promise of escape -- only to be betrayed by their employer. On the run withtheir hope for escape now gone, the two women set their minds to revenge. Yet as they lay their plans, their focus shifts from an obsession with the outside world to the life they have with each other.
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The One Hundred Nights of Hero
by Isabel Greenberg
A sumptuously illustrated tapestry of folktales and myths about the secret legacy of female storytellers in an imagined medieval world follows the story of two women who turn the tables on two wicked men who would manipulate them for a wager.
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The Last Count of Monte Cristo
by Ayize Jama-Everett
The Last Count of Monte Cristo is a bold retelling of Alexandre Dumas's classic tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. This speculative update pushes the narrative into a future hundreds of years after the polar ice caps have melted and submerged our planet into a new era of technology and culture.
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The Middle Ages: A Graphic Guide by Eleanor JanegaThis history takes us through the rise and fall of empires, papacies, caliphates and kingdoms; through the violence and death of the Crusades, Viking raids, the Hundred Years War and the Plague; to the curious practices of monks, martyrs and iconoclasts. We'll see how the foundations of the modern West were established, influencing our art, cultures, religious practices and ways of thinking. And we'll explore the lives of those seen as 'Other'--women, Jews, homosexuals, lepers, sex workers and heretics.
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Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere by LiniersA collection of the Argentinian cartoonist's works features poetic, inventive, absurd, and funny characters and situations.
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Quests Aside
by Brian Schirmer
A skeleton, an apprentice mage, and an exiled princess walk into a bar... for another shift at Quests Aside, the local watering hole run by once legendary, now retired, adventurer Barrow. When the King privately explains that he plans to shut the place down, Barrow must find a way to hold onto his business, the friendships, and the family he's built around it.
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Lore Olympus
by Rachel Smythe
Offers a contemporary retelling in graphic novel format of the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades.
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Alice in Borderland
by Haro Aso
Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future feels like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise, it's a vicious game. And the only way to survive is to play. Thefirst game starts with a bang, but Ryohei manages to beat the clock and save his friends. It's a short-lived victory, however, as they discover that winning only earns them a few days' grace period. If they want to get home, they're going to have to start playing a lot harder.
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The Witcher : Ronin
by Rafal Jaki
The Witcher, Geralt, seeks the mysterious Snow Woman while facing off against creatures inspired by Japanese myth.
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