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  Bone Graphic Novels: Book 6

  Old Man's Cave

  by Jeff Smith, Jeff Smith

  The thrilling BONE saga continues in book six. As war spreads through the valley, the Bone cousins join Gran'ma Ben and Lucius at Old Man's Cave to make a stand against the rat creatures. But not everything goes as planned. By the end of the book, Phoney Bone is strapped to a stone altar and about to be sacrificed; Thorn is lying lifeless nearby; and the rumblings of an earthquake suggest that the Lord of the... (more)
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  Bone Graphic Novels: Book 4

  Dragonslayer (Bone)

  by Jeff Smith, Jeff Smith

  Fone Bone confronts a host of dangers in Book 4 of the BONE saga, The Dragonslayer. He and Gran'ma Ben and Thorn have a terrifying encounter with Kingdok, ruler of the rat creatures. The Hooded One is inciting his army to full-scale war. Someone is continuing to haunt Thorn in her dreams. And then wise Gran'ma Ben disappears. To make matters worse, Phoney Bone has hoodwinked the townspeople into believing that... (more)
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  LOEG Black Dossier (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

  by Alan Moore

  England in the mid 1950s is not the same as it was. The powers that be have instituted...some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under the control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return and are in search of some answers. Answers that can only be found in a book buried... (more)
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  Castle Waiting

  by Linda Medley

  The multiple Harvey and Eisner award-winning fantasy is now collected in one volume! The 450-page Castle Waiting graphic novel tells the story of an isolated, abandoned castle, and the eccentric inhabitants who bring it back to life. A fable for modern times, Castle Waiting is a fairy tale that's not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil—but about... (more)
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  Bone Graphic Novels: Book 1

  Out From Boneville

  by Jeff Smith, Jeff Smith

  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 terrifying land filled with secrets and danger - and special new friendships - they are soon caught up in adventures beyond their wildest dreams. In OUT FROM BONEVILLE,... (more)
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  Derrida for Beginners (Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book.)

  by Jim Powell

  Since 1968, in coffeehouses around the world, intellectuals have been talking about Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction. Jim Powell has written the most lucid introduction available on this important philosopher, whose abstruse mode of philosophizing remains incomprehensible to even the best-educated minds. Speaking tours.
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  When the Wind Blows

  by Raymond Briggs

  Raymond Briggs' now famous bestselling comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple in his usual humorous yet macabre way.
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  Barefoot Gen Volume Four: Out of the Ashes

  by Keiji Nakazawa

  Volume four, resumes nine days after the bomb, as Gen and his mother continue to struggle for food, shelter and water amid chaos and vast human suffering. Though confronted with the most despicable aspects of humankind, Gen acts with love and compassion.
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  Post-Dykes to Watch Out For

  by Alison Bechdel

  The further adventures of Mo, her tenure-bound girlfriend, Sydney, and their much-loved friends unfold against a shifting gender landscape: lesbians sleeping with men, lesbians becoming men, Ginger sleeping with lesbians who've become men. As with her eight previous collections, Alison Bechdel covers a host of pressing issues, from the Monica Lewinsky scandal to the decline of the independent bookstore, and pauses... (more)
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  The Great Cow Race (Bone, Book 2)

  by Jeff Smith

  A grand ridiculous opera of adventure greed mystery and unrequited love. If you like big jokes and fast action hurry in for a good seat at Join the Bone cousins: Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone in their most outrageous adventure ever! is the original tale which won the Eisner award for Best Serialized Story.
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  Bone Graphic Novels: Book 5

  Bone 5: Rock Jaw

  by Jeff Smith

  In this fifth volume of the BONE saga, Fone and Smiley Bone strike out into the wilderness to return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains. It doesn't take long before they run smack into Rock Jaw, "Master of the Eastern Border," an enormous mountain lion with a none-too-friendly disposition. Life gets even more complicated when they befriend a group of baby animals who are being orphaned by rat creature... (more)