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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman Staff Pick 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson Staff Pick This coming-of-age memoir is told as much through the crisp illustrations as through the text. Thompson's voice and drawings are sweet without being sappy, and despite its unconventional format, Blankets is a very honest, relatable account of falling in... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 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: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Staff Pick Fun Home, in concert with Craig Thompson's Blankets, was one of the works that proved to my doubting eyes that graphic novels could reach heights every bit as poetic, moving, and magical as the finest prose. Darkly funny but wholly sincere, the story of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman Publisher Comments For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Board Book
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The Sandman #01: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Preludes and Nocturnes is the first volume in the story of The Sandman. Morpheus, the King of Dreams, has been held prisoner for 75 years by a wealthy madman. The world has suffered in his absence. Regaining his freedom, Morpheus must restore his... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Publisher Comments IN 1974, AFTER SUFFERING rejections from seven major publishers, The Chocolate War made its debut. An uncompromising portrait of conformity and corruption, it quickly became a bestselling—and provocative—classic for young adults... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hot Kid: A Novel by Elmore Leonard Staff Pick I've only read two Elmore Leonard books, so I can't say for certain if The Hot Kid is his best novel — but I almost can't imagine a better one. Leonard is at the top of his game here, packing his period cops-and-robbers tale with vivid characters... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Sandman Volume 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Fables & Reflections is the sixth volume in the saga of The Sandman. Follow Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, from the mists of the past to the nightmares of the present as he touches the lives of Haroun Al Raschid, king of ancient Baghdad; Lady Johanna... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 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 $12.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bridge of Sighs: A Novel by Richard Russo Staff Pick Russo is a modern master of absorbing characters, brilliantly sharp dialogue, and a warm-hearted yet strangely thrilling storytelling style. The only sighs this elegiac novel produces are of wistful satisfaction.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Fortune and Glory: A True Hollywood Comic Book Story by Brian Michael Bendis Publisher Comments Entertainment Weekly gave him an A, Hollywood insiders fell all over themselves to praise him, and fans everywhere gave him a full thumbs-up for hilarity. Now, on the heels of his praise and punishment, Brian Michael Bendis puts his sold-out miniseries... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-3 by Clive Barker Publisher Comments With the 1984 publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. He was hailed by Stephen King as "the future of horror," and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Now, with his numerous bestsellers, graphic... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Publisher Comments Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits... Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Out from Boneville (Bone #1) by Jeff Smith Publisher Comments The Bone adventures tell the story of a young bone boy, Fone Bone, and his two cousins, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, who are banned from their homeland of Boneville. When the cousins find themselves mysteriously trapped in a wonderful but often... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman Staff Pick Fantasy author Gaiman is at his best in this short story collection, which contains an embarrassing riches of storytelling that is at times dark, funny, terrifying, beautiful, and always brilliant.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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