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Dora: A Headcase
by Lidia Yuknavitch
Staff Pick
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The Sisters Brothers
by Patrick deWitt
Staff Pick
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Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel
by Joe Sacco
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Zero History
by William Gibson
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Matter
by Iain M. Banks
Staff Pick
Matter continues Iain Banks's humorous, thrilling, and complex universe, the Culture, where interstellar ships are the smartest and funniest characters of them all.... (read more)

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