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The Boys, Volume 3: Good For The Soul

Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson · 192 pages

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Watchmen

Alan Moore · 416 pages

"This book examines each of the series' twelve issues in unprecedented detail, moving page by page and panel by panel to reveal the hidden foundations of this milestone in modern storytelling. Edited with notes by Leslie S. Klinger, this new edition draws upon critical and scholastic commentary, in-depth interviews with Dave Gibbons, and previously unseen original source material. Klinger provides

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The Authority, Vol. 4: Transfer of Power

Mark Millar, Tom Peyer · 192 pages

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Kick-Ass

Mark Millar · 216 pages

Dave Lizewski, a teenage comic book enthusiast, decides to become a superhero despite having no powers or training. Outmatched by New York's hardened criminals, Dave knows that what he's doing is dangerous, maybe even stupid, but with his superhero secret identity gaining fans, he has the itch, and it isn't going away.

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Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk · 416 pages

Twenty-three stories chronicle the experiences of people who have answered an ad for an artist's retreat, believing that they will find a peaceful refuge, only to find themselves isolated and trapped in a cavernous old theater.

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The Boys, Volume 5: Herogasm

Garth Ennis, John McCrea, Darick Robertson · 200 pages

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Secret Six, Vol. 2: Depths

Gail Simone · 164 pages

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Tamara Drewe

Posy Simmonds · 112 pages

"Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and thrilling power to attract, which she uses recklessly. Often just for the fun of it." "People are drawn to Tamara Drewe, male and female. In the remote village where her late mother lived, Tamara arrives to clear up the house. Here she becomes an object of lust,

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New Suicide Squad, Volume 1: Pure Insanity

Sean Ryan

"Once a secret to even the highest government officials, the Suicide Squad has emerged from FOREVER EVIL as one of its most popular programs. Its mission: to send incarcerated super villains to carry out impossible missions on foreign soil in exchange for a commuted prison sentence. If they are caught or killed, no government could link these operatives back to the U.S. government. At least, that'

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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman · 400 pages

Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future, written in 1655, before she exploded - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea... People have been predicting the end of the world al

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The Big Book of Hell

Matt Groening · 176 pages

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Arkham Asylum: Living Hell

Dan Slott · 137 pages

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Symposium

Muriel Spark · 192 pages

"One October evening five posh London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying "the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)" and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, who has been unavoidably detained due to the fact that she is being murdered at this very moment ... Symposium was applauded by Time magazine for the "sinister elegance" of Muriel Spark's "medium of

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Dykes to Watch Out For

Alison Bechdel · 78 pages

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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley · 232 pages

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year

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The Diviners

Rick Moody · 576 pages

A proposed television miniseries becomes the focus of a brutal rivalry between a hot-tempered production head, a Sikh cab driver, a bipolar bicycle messenger, and other industry wannabes.

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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

Lionel Shriver · 431 pages

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A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury

Aaron McGruder · 255 pages

Here’s the first big book of The Boondocks, more than four years and 800 strips of one of the most influential, controversial, and scathingly funny comics ever to run in a daily newspaper. “With bodacious wit, in just a few panels, each day Aaron serves up—and sends up—life in America through the eyes of two African-American kids who are full of attitude, intelligence, and rebellion. Each time

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman · 464 pages

**The apocalypse will be televised!** A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all

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The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer · 506 pages

A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, Hous

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