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Tadano, Nobuaki 7 Billion Needles Hikaru Takabe may not be the most social of teens. Always sporting her headphones, she gives off an aloof aura that rubs her classmates the wrong way. But her not being part of the crowd takes on a different dimension when she becomes involved in an intergalactic game of cat and mouse. 2010 Teen Graphic Novel |
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Neufeld, Josh A.D.: New Orleans after the Deluge Portrait of a city under siege. Depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina. 2009 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Huppen, Hermann Afrika A misanthropic European expatriate, Dario Ferrer, acts as guardian of a Tanzanian wildlife preserve. Accompanied by Charlotte, a naive European journalist, Ferrer discovers a village under fire from mysterious agents of the foreign-backed government. Ferrer and Charlotte must fight not only to protect the preserve, but to expose government corruption--and survive to see another day. 2012 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Samura, Hiroaki Blade of the Immortal. [1] Blood of a Thousand To rid himself of the curse of immortality, Manji, a ronin warrior, must kill one thousand enemies, yet things take a drastic turn when he meets up with a young girl who is in search of revenge on her parents' killers. 1997 Teen Graphic Novel |
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Osborne, Andrew Blue Estate It all starts with a low-rent private eye trying (and failing) to escape the long shadow of his respected cop father. But a chance encounter with a B-list action star on the mean streets of Hollywood drags the wannabe gumshoe into a world of strippers, mobsters...and the wildest (and only!) case of his career! See who lives, who dies, and who gets the Tiger Blood knocked outta them in the first four issues of the fast, funny smash-hit new crime series from Image Comics! 2011 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Smith, Jeff Bone After being run out of Boneville, the 3 Bone cousins 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 terrifying creatures. Eventually, the cousins are reunited at a farmstead run by tough Gran'ma Ben and her spirited granddaughter, Thorn. But little do the Bones know, there are dark forces conspiring against them and their adventures are just beginning! 2005 Teen Graphic Novel |
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Berry, Hannah Britten and Brulightly Private detective Fernandez Britten and his unconventional partner, Brulighly, take on the mysterious death of Berni Kudos. The official verdict is suicide, but Berni's fiance´e is convinced that the reality is more sinister. Blackmail, revenge, murder: each new revelation stirs up the muddy waters of painful family secrets. 2009 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Wilson, G. Willow Cairo Set in bustling modern-day Cairo, this magical-realism thriller interweaves the lives of a drug runner, a down-on-his-luck journalist, an American expatriate, a young activist, an Israeli soldier, and a genie as they navigate the city's streets and spiritual underworld to find a stolen hooka sought by a wrathful gangster-magician. 2007 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Wood, Brian Channel Zero : the Complete Collection. DMZ and The Massive creator Brian Wood launched an all-out assault on the comics medium in 1997 with Channel Zero, an influential, forward-thinking series that combined art, politics, and graphic design in a unique way. Hitting on themes of freedom of expression, hacking, cutting-edge media manipulation, and police surveillance, it remains as relevant today as it did back then. The Channel Zero collection contains the original series, the prequel graphic novel Jennie One (illustrated by Becky Cloonan), the best of the two Public Domain design books, and almost fifteen years of extras, rarities, short stories, and unused art. 2012 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Pratt, Hugo Corto Maltese. The Ballad of the Salt Sea "Treasure hunter, sailor, and adventurer, Corto Maltese remains one of the most popular characters from graphic literature in Europe and maintains a devoted cult following among American readers and creators. Originally published in 1967, Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea introduces our hero for the first time. The story begins with Corto Maltese adrift at sea in the Pacific during World War I. He is picked up by a Russian pirate/privateer named Rasputin. The graphic novel follows Corto and the adventure that ensues."--Publisher's website. 2012 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Brubaker, Ed Criminal Tracy Lawless is back from Iraq, and looking for the people who killed his brother. Now he must use all his army skills as well as his knowledge of the underworld to infiltrate the gang responsible - but when he gets too close to one of the gang, will he be able to carry out his mission of vengeance? 2009 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Talbot, David Devil Dog : The Amazing True Story of the Man Who Saved America The most decorated Marine in history fights for America across the globe—and returns home to set his country straight. Smedley Butler took a Chinese bullet to the chest at age eighteen, but that did not stop him from running down rebels in Nicaragua and Haiti, or from saving the lives of his men in France. But when he learned that America was trading the blood of Marines to make Wall Street fat cats even fatter, Butler went on a crusade. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Wood, Brian DMZ WIth overseas wars bogging down the Army and National Guard, the U.S. government mistakenly neglects the very real threat of anti-establishment militias scattered across the United States. Like a sleeping giant, Middle America rises up and violently pushes its way to the shining seas, sparking a second American civil war, coming to a standstill at the line in the sand--Manhattan. Or, as the world now knows it, the DMZ. 2006 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Carey, Mike Ender's Shadow An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. He is Bean, so called because of his diminutive stature, the result of an illegal genetic experiment. 2009 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Vaughan, Brian K. Ex Machina When a strange accident gives civil engineer Mitchell Hundred amazing powers, he becomes America's first living, breathing super-hero. Eventually tiring of risking his life merely to help maintain the status quo, Mitch retires from masked crime-fighting and runs for Mayor of New York City, winning by a landslide. And that's when his real adventure begins. 2005 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Willingham, Bill Fables Who killed Rose Red? In Fabletown, where fairytale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers, the question is all anyone can talk about. But only Big Bad Wolf can actually solve the case - and, along with Rose's sister Snow White, keep the Fabletown community from coming apart at the seams--Back cover. 2002 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Miller, Frank Frank Miller's Sin City It is not a superhero comic, and is crime comic. Sin City is the place-tough as leather and dry as tinder. Love is the fuel. Enter Marv and Goldie. And a psychotic killer. And a crime-drenched town. And a corrupted diocese. Sin City is a town like no other... 2005 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Tanaka, Masashi Gon. Volume 1 Long before the dawn of man, savage dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Now, only one remains -- the smallest, wildest of them all! Gon marches across the wilderness defending the friendly and furry from the mean and hungry. Told entirely without words, these stories highlight the amazingly detailed art and visual storytelling genius of creator Masashi Tanaka. 2007 Teen Graphic Novel |
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McDuffie, Dwayne Hardware Inventor/engineer Curt Metcalf breaks free of his employer, businessman Edwin Alva, who refused to share the profits from Metcalf's many creations. Discovering that Alva is tied to organized crime, and learning that no law enforcement agency would touch him, Metcalf created the high tech Hardware armor that enabled him to work against Alva. 2010 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Butler, Blaire Heart Witness the rise of a young cage fighter named Oren "Rooster" Redmond as he battles his way through the fiercely competitive world of professional MMA. Artist Devin Mellon (Lovestruck, Gearhead) and writer Blair Butler bring you this unexpected tale of self-discovery, packed with flying knees, crazy submissions-- and a finish that will hit you like a gut-punch. 2012 Adult Graphic Novel |
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GRAPHIC NOVELS: ADVENTURE...
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GRAPHIC NOVELS: ADVENTURE...
AUTHORS
| • | Baron, Mike, 1949-
The Punisher, Nexus |
| • | Chadwick, Paul
Concrete |
| • | Eisner, Will
The Spirit |
| • | Ellis, Warren |
| • | Evanier, Mark |
| • | Gerber, Steve |
| • | Goodwin, Archie |
| • | Goscinny, Rene
Asterix |
| • | Hughes, Richard E.
Herbie |
| • | Koike, Kazuo
Path of the Assassin, Lone Wolf & Cub |
| • | Moore, Alan
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen |
| • | Petersen, David, 1977-
Mouse Guard |
| • | Renier, Aaron |
| • | Rucka, Greg
Queen & Country |
| • | Schultz, Mark, 1955- |
| • | Sim, Dave, 1956-
Cerebus |
| • | Tsuchiya, Garon
Old Boy |
| • | Vaughan, Brian K.
Y: the Last Man |
| • | Way, Gerard
Umbrella Academy |
| • | Willingham, Bill
Fables |