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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
by Alison Bechdel
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From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazines No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a... (read more)

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
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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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Osprey Graphic History #12: Deadly Inferno: Battle of the Wilderness
Osprey Graphic History #12: Deadly Inferno: Battle of the Wilderness
by Dan Abnett
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'The Wilderness' encompassed a 70-square-mile expanse of virtually impenetrable woodland in central Virginia, so dense it made conventional warfare impossible. The first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign against the... (read more)

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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
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In the tradition ofPersepolisandAmerican Born Chinese, a wise and funny high school heroine comes of age.Tina M., sophomore, is a wry and endearing observer of the cliques and mores of Yarborough Academy. (andldquo;The name makes it sound fancier than... (read more)

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Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
by Jonathan Gruber
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You wont have to worry about going broke if you get sick. We will start to bring the costs of health care under control. And we will do all this while reducing the federal deficit. That is the promise of the Affordable Care Act. But from... (read more)

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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman
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Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more)

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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapis memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran... (read more)

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Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness
Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness
by Reinhard Kleist
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Reinhard Kleist gives us a dark and nuanced portrait of the Man in Black, with stunning black-and-white artwork that perfectly complements the retelling of Johnny Cash's life. Interspersed among the narrative are short selections of illustrated song... (read more)

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My Friend Dahmer
My Friend Dahmer
by Derf Backderf
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You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer—the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper—seared himself into the American consciousness. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable... (read more)

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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History
Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
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Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more)

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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
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Volumes I & II in paperback of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival.... (read more)

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Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus [With CDROM]
Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus [With CDROM]
by Art Spiegelman
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***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER*** Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals.   In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize–winning Maus, the modern... (read more)

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Cartoon History of the Universe #1-7: Cartoon History of the Universe 1
Cartoon History of the Universe #1-7: Cartoon History of the Universe 1
by Larry Gonick
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An entertaining and informative illustrated guide  that makes world history accessible, appealing,  and funny.... (read more)

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Do It Yourself Screenprinting
Do It Yourself Screenprinting
by John Isaacson
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An instrumental DIY resource, this guide is a fascinating comic-zine turned graphic novel that details the art and science of screen printing T-shirts. The book, which collects Isaacsons previously self-published zines, is illustrated throughout with... (read more)

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21: The Story of Roberto Clemente
21: The Story of Roberto Clemente
by Wilfred Santiago
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A graphic novel biography of Puerto Rico's greatest baseball star. 21is an all-ages graphic biography of baseball star Roberto Clemente: No other baseball player dominated the 1960s like him and no other Latin American player achieved his numbers... (read more)

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The Beats: A Graphic History
The Beats: A Graphic History
by Harvey Pekar
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In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and a range of artists and... (read more)

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Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
by Mary M Talbot
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Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father''s Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social... (read more)

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The Lives of Sacco & Vanzetti (Treasury of Xxth Century Murder)
The Lives of Sacco & Vanzetti (Treasury of Xxth Century Murder)
by Rick Geary
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Rick Geary tackles the most controversial case of the 20th century. Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti were accused of robbery and murder but so many supposedly damning pieces of evidence were questionable their  guilty verdict elicited massive... (read more)

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Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
by Guy Delisle
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"Neither Jewish nor Arab, Delisle explores Jerusalem and is able to observe this strange world with candidness and humor...But most of all, those stories convey what life in East Jerusalem is about for an expatriate."—Haaretz "Engaging... (read more)

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Maus II :a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began
Maus II :a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began
by Art Spiegelman
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Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"x and a "brutally moving work of art,"xx the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his... (read more)

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