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Books on Display: Adult Graphic Novels |
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BodyWorld
by Dash Shaw
In a mid-21st-century nation devastated by civil war, botanist professor Paulie Panther researches strange plants at the high school of an experimental forest town and discovers its telepathic properties, a finding that singles him out as a brash individualist in a community of conformists. By the creator of Bottomless Belly Button.
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The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse
by Charlie Mackesy
A modern, illustrated fable for readers of all ages that explores life's universal lessons from beloved British illustrator Charlie Mackesy.
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Fables : the deluxe edition, book one
by Bill Willingham
Forced into exile after a savage creature known as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, the infamous inhabitants of folklore created their own peaceful and secret society in New York within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown.
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Silent partner : the graphic novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
A graphic novel adaptation of the classic New York Times bestseller follows Alex Delaware, as he, driven by grief, tries to find the truth surrounding the death of an ex-lover, with the help of his trusted friend, homicide cop Milo Sturgis.
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A study in emerald
by Rafael Albuquerque
A graphic novel adaptation of the Hugo Award-winning short story is set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and finds the brilliant detective tracking a murderer from the Whitechapel slums to the Queen's Palace.
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The three escapes of Hannah Arendt : a tyranny of truth
by Ken Krimstein
A New Yorker cartoonist and creator of Kvetch as Kvetch Can presents a graphic biography of the 20th-century philosopher that discusses her endurance of Nazi persecution, relationship with fellow luminaries and writing of The Origins of Totalitarianism.
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The walking dead compendium one
by Robert Kirkman
"An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled-- no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living"--P. [4] of cover
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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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