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The Death-Ray

Teen outcast Andy, upon smoking his first cigarette, gets an impressive set of superpowers and discovers a ray gun that delivers a fatal blast, in a full-color graphic novel by the acclaimed creator of Ghost World.

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• Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In
• Teen Tormentors Get Their Due In 'Death-Ray'
• Excerpt: 'The Death-Ray'

Hark! A Vagrant

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• Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In
• 'Hark!': From DNA To JFK, A Comic Take On History
• Excerpt: 'Hark! A Vagrant'

Mark Twain's Autobiography 1910-2010

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• Satirist, Spy, Soldier, Sex Machine: 'Mark Twain's Autobiography: 1910-2010'

The Armed Garden and Other Stories

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• Legends Spring To Life In The 'Armed Garden'
• Excerpt: 'The Armed Garden'

Habibi

A graphic tale by the author of Blankets follows the relationship between two refugee child slaves who are thrown together by circumstance and who struggle to make a place for themselves in a world fueled by fear and vice, in a visual parable that touches on themes of cultural divisions and the shared heritage of Christianity and Islam. Read an excerpt from Habibi.NPR Bestseller

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• Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In
• Mysterious 'Habibi' Cuts To The Core Of Humanity
• Excerpt: 'Habibi'

Watchmen

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. A graphic novel.

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• Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

Five years after the fall of the Empire, a dying part of the Empire all the more dangerous near death has just discovered something that could bring it back, the last of the Emperor's warlords, Admiral Thrawn.

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• Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

Stephen King's The Dark Tower

The Gunslinger Born

Young Roland Deschain takes the first steps towards his eventual fate as the implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, as he uncovers a plot to destroy the network that maintains the world's uneasy peace. The first book in the Dark Tower Series.

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• Stephen King's 'Dark Tower' Saga, Illustrated

Maus a Survivors Tale

My Father Bleeds History

The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel

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• Good Dad, Bad Dad And Something In Between
• Art Spiegelman, The Artist As A 'Young %@&*!'