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Comix
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
Publisher Comments
In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor... (read more)

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Kids and Young Adults
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Holes
Holes
by Louis Sachar
Publisher Comments
Check out the Holes tour with Louis Sachar! Monday, October 20th, 7:00 p.m. Andersons Bookshop, Naperville, IL Tuesday, October 21st, 7:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Skokie, IL Wednesday, October 22nd, 7:00 p.m., Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Brookfield, WI... (read more)

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Nonfiction
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
Staff Pick
Gladwell's appeal can be traced directly to his studied obsession with familiar objects and events, and his remarkable talent for synthesizing complicated ideas into compelling stories. In The Tipping Point, the author set out to describe how ideas... (read more)

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Favorites
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Anansi Boys
Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman
Publisher Comments
Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep — about to make Fat Charlie's... (read more)

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Recent and Recommended
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Name of the World (00 Edition)
Name of the World (00 Edition)
by Denis Johnson
Publisher Comments
The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident... (read more)

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Comix
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Blankets: An Illustrated Novel
Blankets: An Illustrated Novel
by Craig Thompson
Publisher Comments
From the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling graphic novel, Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, comes Craig Thompson's all-new masterpiece. Blankets — the most anticipated graphic novel of the year — is already being regarded as THE defining... (read more)

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Comix
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began
Maus, A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began
by Art Spiegelman
Publisher Comments
Volumes I & II in paperback of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival.... (read more)

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Comix
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Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
by Joe Sacco
Publisher Comments
Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in... (read more)

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Sale Books
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A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
Publisher Comments
It would be inconceivable for an American author to write a coming-of-age novel in a comedic vein without reckoning with J.D. Salinger's A Catcher in the Rye; and it would be equally impossible to explore the genre in a tragic vein without taking account... (read more)

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Used Books
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Carnet de Voyage
Carnet de Voyage
by Craig Thompson
Publisher Comments
Craig Thompson — the award-winning creator of Blankets and Good-bye, Chunky Rice — spent three months travelling through Barcelona, the Alps, and France, as well as Morocco, where he was researching his next graphic novel, Habibi. Spontaneous... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Tuesday,
May 29, 2012
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
  1. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
    by Alison Bechdel
  2. Holes
    by Louis Sachar
  3. Blankets: An Illustrated Novel
    by Craig Thompson
  4. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
    by Malcolm Gladwell
  5. West Wing : Script Book (02 Edition)
    by Sorkin
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