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The Fifth Elephant

Terry Pratchett · 460 pages

Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn't want to. He's been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, rub

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Powers: Definitive Collection, Vol. 1

Brian Michael Bendis · 456 pages

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Batman: Year One

Frank Miller · 144 pages

"A man doesn't live forever-- a legend does. From the moment he declared war on crime, the Batman knew his story would eventually come to an end. But for each soul he has touched, either as an ally or an enemy, a lover or a friend, an inspiration or an obsession, the life of the Dark Knight-- and its tragic conclusion-- is viewed differently. Now those closest to the Caped Crusader gather for his

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Bad Monkey

Carl Hiaasen · 400 pages

Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Ya

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Dungeon Crawler Carl, Vol. 1

Matt Dinniman · 320 pages

The LitRPG fantasy smash hit phenomenon and New York Times bestseller, DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, is now a graphic novel for the very first time! The Apocalypse WILL be televised! You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Getting stuck on a sadistic alien game show with her cat. Join Carl and Princess Donut as they try to survive the end of the world — or just get to the next level o

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Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom

Tsugumi Ohba · 200 pages

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami, a death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legen

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Deadpool, Volume 8: All Good Things…

Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan

Deadpool has been through a lot recently, and he needs to relax. Sounds like it's time for a good, old fashioned, simple merc job. Yes sir, Deadpool in the Middle East ... should be nice and uncomplicated, right? Right? No, wrong! And when Deadpool clashes with Russian super-agent Omega Red, this time it's personal! Well, for one of them. Sort of. We'll explain. But how does Deadpool's latest misa

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Dungeon Crawler Carl, Vol. 2 (Graphic Novel)

Matt Dinniman, Rhett C. Bruno, Jaime Castle

The wildly popular and addictive New York Times bestselling LitRPG series, DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, continues as a graphic novel in DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, Vol. 2. The Apocalypse will be televised! The world may be over, but Carl and Princess Donut have a motorcycle and a mission: Make it to the second floor. What could possibly stand in their way? For starters, a horde of goblins, homicidal fellow cra

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Deadpool Classic, Vol. 5

Joe Kelly · 272 pages

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One-Punch Man, Vol. 1

ONE · 200 pages

The seemingly ordinary and unimpressive Saitama has a rather unique hobby: being a hero. In order to pursue his childhood dream, he trained relentlessly for three years—and lost all of his hair in the process. Now, Saitama is incredibly powerful, so much so that no enemy is able to defeat him in battle. In fact, all it takes to defeat evildoers with just one punch has led to an unexpected problem—

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Batman: The Killing Joke

Alan Moore · 64 pages

A NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller! Presented for the first time with stark, stunning new coloring by Brian Bolland, BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE is Alan Moore's unforgettable meditation on the razor-thin line between sanity and insanity, heroism and villainy, comedy and tragedy. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as the Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psych

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Dungeon Crawler Carl, Vol. 3 (Graphic Novel)

Matt Dinniman, Aethon

The New York Times bestselling graphic novel adaption of the wildly popular and addictive #1 New York Times bestselling LitRPG series Dungeon Crawler Carl continues with its third volume. The Apocalypse will be televised! The New York Times bestselling graphic novel series continues. Carl won’t be broken. But that doesn’t mean he won’t have to work for it, as the sadistic A.I. running the Dungeon

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Gotham Central Book Three: On the Freak Beat

Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker · 221 pages

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Pulp

Charles Bukowski · 192 pages

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on M

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This Night's Foul Work

Fred Vargas · 412 pages

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Arctic-Nation

Juan Diaz Canales, Juanjo Guarnido · 72 pages

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Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Janet Evanovich · 332 pages

Stephanie Plum is working overtime tracking felons for the bonds office at night and snooping for security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, during the day. Can she hunt down two killers, a traitor, and five skips, keep her grandmother out of the sauce, and solve Ranger's problems and not jump his bones?

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Gin Tama, Vol. 1

Hideaki Sorachi · 192 pages

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Buck Fever

Ben Rehder · 262 pages

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Rex Libris, Volume I: I, Librarian

James Turner

"The astonishing story of the incomparable Rex Libris, Head Librarian at Middleton Public Library. From ancient Egypt, where his beloved Hypatia was murdered, to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in search of overdue books, Rex upholds his vow to fight the forces of ignorance and darkness. Wearing his super thick bottle glasses and armed with an arsenal of high technology weapons, he strikes fear

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Deadpool, Volume 4: Monkey Business

Daniel Way, Paco Medina

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