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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This limited edition is bound in midnight blue cloth, with a sky blue ribbon marker and gold gilded page edges. Inside Charlie includes a new message and two new artworks. Follow the tale of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together in sometimes difficult terrain, sharing their greatest fears and biggest discoveries about vulnerability, kindness, hope, friendship and love."--Amazon.com
Charlie Mackesy...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Colin Barrett's debut Young Skins was published, it swept up several major literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality and sharply drawn portraits of working-class Ireland, earned Barrett comparisons to Faulkner, Hardy, and Musil. Now, in a blistering follow-up collection, Barrett brings together eight character-driven stories, each showcasing his inimitably observant eye and darkly funny style. A quiet night in a local pub is shattered...
4) Lost dogs
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Long out of print, Jeff Lemire's Xeric-Award-winning Lost dogs now returns in a newly remastered edition, soaked with blood and ink. This mythic yarn follows a family man who's larger than life ... but even he may not be powerful enough to prevent the loss of everything he's ever known"--Page 4 of cover.
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Series
Batman urban legends volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Description
"How did an angry, damaged young man grow into the most accomplished detective and crime-fighter the world has ever known? How did the Dark Knight ... begin? Bruce Wayne's journey toward becoming the Dark Knight has begun, and he has many hard lessons to learn before his education is complete. His adventure begins in the City of Lights, Paris, where he'll train with a world-renowned cat burglar and come into contact with a horrifying serial killer...
8) Boxers
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In China in 1898 bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough: harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers--commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils."
9) Ex libris
Author
Publisher
Uncivilized Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ex Libris revolves around a character trapped in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they begin to suspect that the comics contain hidden messages and... a threat. Fiction and reality blur; sanity and madness become increasingly intertwined as the reader becomes convinced the key to their predicament is to be found between the panels of the strange books. With...
Author
Series
Umbrella Academy volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who had previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, 'To save the world.' These seven children form The Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against...
Author
Series
Something is killing the children volume 6
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With the last person in her corner gone and a ruthless agent from the Order of St. George closing in, Erica Slaughter finds herself alone and without a prayer. Can she take on this horrific new monster plaguing the small town of Tribulation, New Mexico by herself, or is this the end of her story?"--Back cover.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Father and son are at last reunited after the Warworld Saga ripped them apart! In the aftermath of Superman's epic Warworld Revolution, the Man of Steel is back on Earth and stronger than he's ever been! As he and Steel join forces to remake Metropolis as a true City of Tomorrow, two of Superman's most classic villains take notice... and they have plans of their own."--
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Language
English
Description
Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past?...
Language
English
Description
Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County Sheriff Rick Grimes finds himself utterly alone. The world as he knows it is gone, ravaged by an epidemic. In the weeks and months that follow the apocalypse, Grimes will lead a group of survivors in a world overrun with zombies.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Collecting the series that led into INFINITE CRISIS! Six of justice's deadliest enemies band together to start a revolution. Together, they want to take a stand to stop the super-heroic community from tampering with their minds and to prove how deadly they can be! But not everyone agrees to this agenda. Six rogues are recruited by the enigmatic Mockingbird, charged with opposing the Society and given assignments to thwart their rivals and even help...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times best-selling author Matthew Inman, aka "The Oatmeal", comes this collection of comics and stories about running, eating, napping, and one cartoonist's reasons for running across mountains until his toenails fall off. Contains over 70 pages of never-before-seen comics.
20) God got a dog
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A novel in poems that reveal God's discovery of the wonders and pains in the world He has created.