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Stitches
A Memoir
The Caldecott-winning author of Imogene's Antlers presents a graphic account of his troubled childhood under a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated X rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the age of 16 in the hopes of becoming an artist. Reprint. A National Book Award finalist and #1 New York Times graphic best-seller.
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The Wild Kingdom
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Wilson
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Ghost World presents the graphic tale of an opinionated middle-aged loner whose inability to connect with anyone but his dog compels him to seek human companionship, an effort complicated by the discovery of a teenage daughter he never knew.
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Trickster
Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection
Collects twenty-one short stories in graphic novel format of tricksters from a variety of Native American traditions.
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The Troll King
A dwarf falls into a river and is taken to a place beyond space and time; a carrot takes a bath and finds itself transforming; and two reclusive mountain men rejoice when their wish for children is granted, in a collection of tales that takes a fantastic journey into the wilderness. Original.
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Market Day
A rug maker ponders his future after the store owner who used to buy his handmade rugs retires, the new owner replaces the store's items with cheaper merchandise, and he must sell his rugs at a lower price in an emporium.
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Alec
The Years Have Pants: A Life-size Omnibus
Follows the life of the author's alter-ego, Alec MacGarry, as he spends time at the pub with his friends, gets married, immigrates to Australia with his wife, has a child, and works to establish himself as a graphic novelist.
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Logicomix
An Epic Search for Truth
Recounts, in graphic novel format, the life of Bertrand Russell, mathematician and philospher, and his life-long struggle to achieve perfect logic and ultimate truth.
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Asterios Polyp
Asterios Polyp, its arrogant, prickly protagonist, is an award-winning architect who's never built an actual building, and a pedant in the midst of a spiritual crisis. After the structure of his own life falls apart, he runs away to try to rebuild it into something new.
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Fun Home
A Family Tragicomic
An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual. Reprint.
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The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics
A collection of comics for adults and children alike were personally selected by the editors and are drawn from Golden Age comic books from the 1940s through the early 1960s, in a treasury that features selections from such comics as Captain Marvel, Pogo, Donald Duck, Dennis the Menace, and more.
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Luna Park
Alik Strelnikov, a veteran of the Russian Chechen War, works as an enforcer for the Russian mob and is involved with Marina, a part-time prostitute, with whom he devises a desperate plan of escape that will put them between warring mobs and span a century.
