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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) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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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) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hellboy #02: Wake the Devil 2nd Edition by Mike Mignola Publisher Comments A murder in a New York wax museum and a missing corpse lead Hellboy and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense into ancient Romanian castles on the trail of a sleeping legend: the nobleman vampire, Vladimir Guirescu. Nazi scientists, revived in... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. Man conquered Mars &mdash... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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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) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments Three hours after midnight, one week before Halloween, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show rolls into Green Town, Illinois. A carnival like no other, it feeds on the dreams and weaknesses of those drawn to its eerie attractions, destroying every... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Straight Man: A Novel by Richard Russo Publisher Comments In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bone: One-Volume Edition by Jeff Smith Publisher Comments After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins — Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone — are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep forested valley filled with wonderful and... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock-N-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind Staff Pick I don't know much about film, but I can keep up with the best Hollywood gossipers. In an attempt to elevate and justify my shameful interest in the lives of celebrities, I found a terrific book. Easy Riders Raging Bulls begins with Hollywood in bad... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Daredevil Legends: Volume 1: Yellow by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale Publisher Comments In this retelling of the early career of The Man Without Fear, the Eisner Award-winning team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale have taken an inspiring action adventure story and blended it with a romantic comedy. The result is the heartwarming and heartbreaking... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Cow Race (Bone #2) by Jeff Smith Publisher Comments Fone Bone and his cousins plan to return home after visiting the village of Barrelhaven with Thorn and Gran'ma Ben. But Phoney risks everything on one last get-rich-quick scheme at the town's annual Great Cow Race.... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu: And Other Stories by Susanna Clarke Publisher Comments From the author of the award-winning, internationally bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an enchanting collection of stories. Set in versions of England that bear an uncanny resemblance to the world of Strange and Norrell, these stories are... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ex Machina #01: The First Hundred Days by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris Publisher Comments From Wizard Magazine's Top Ten writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man) and Eisner Award-winning artist Tony Harris (Starman) comes a collection of one of the most critically acclaimed new series of the year, featuring a gorgeous new cover by Harris... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Closers (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly Publisher Comments He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Adaptation: The Shooting Script by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood — or, just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In either... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Peanuts: 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz Publisher Comments This first volume, covering the first two and a quarter years of the strip, will be of particular fascination to Peanuts aficionados worldwide: Although there have been literally hundreds of Peanuts books published, many of the strips from the series... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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