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  • Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network

    This historic collaboration with legendary creator Shirow Masamune based on the classic manga features four all-new stories in a beautiful full-color 160-page hardcover, by some of the world's most innovative comics writers and artists, plus a cover by the acclaimed Dustin Nguyen (Descender) and pinup illustration by Becky Cloonan.

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  • Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

    "Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology."

    "But what does she have to do with a writer's journey to Bulgaria in 2007 on behalf of her mother?"

    "Or with a trio of women who decide in their old age to spend a week together at a hotel spa?"

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  • Astrosex: Sexual Secrets Revealed Through the Stars

    We’re all getting comfortable with the idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but how many of us aware how much all of our sex lives are influenced by all of the planets all of the time? Perhaps the pick-up line “So, what’s your sign?” is more important than most people in search of truly cosmic coupling may have realized.

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  • Blowing the Bloody Doors Off

    Sir Michael Caine is 85 years old and he wears it well. Born Maurice Mickelwhite, the son of a fish-market porter from an Irish background in North London, Caine remains connected to his roots.

    “My dad was Catholic, my mum was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I am married to a Muslim. So I never say anything about any religion,” he says.

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  • Paper Girls, Vol. 5

    Can anyone escape fate? That’s what Mac and her fellow newspaper delivery girls must discover as they escape the year 2000 and travel to the distant future. Plus, the truth behind the mysterious “old-timers” is finally revealed. goodreads.com

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  • RX

    A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidable choice between sanity and happiness.

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  • Flawed

    National Film Board of Canada Collection

    From the Emmy-nominated, PBS-aired animated short.

    Flawed is a true story of self-acceptance, adapted from the Emmy-nominated film of the same name.

    In Flawed, author Andrea Dorfman tells the true story of how she falls head over heels for Dave, "the nicest guy in the world." But she is conflicted about her feelings for her new love. He's a plastic surgeon; she hates plastic surgery and its power to make people feel flawed.

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  • Sh*t My Dad Says

    After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him:
    "That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them."

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  • Bird Box

    Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.

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  • Sex Criminals, Vol. 5, Five Fingered Discount

    Suzie and Jon have that special something—when they have sex, they freeze time and do crimes. Well—they HAD that special something. In the aftermath of what would appear to be a breakup, where do our two love-crazy time-freezing sex-having bank robbers go? REBOUND AHOY! Also everything gets more dangerous and complicated? But it's okay. Collects SEX CRIMINALS #21-25

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  • Elevation

    The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together—a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences.

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  • Folk

    I read a ton of poetry and Folk has risen to the top of my favorite lists. Kimberly captures the mood and I felt like I was on the journey with the people in the poems. Fantastic job.

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  • After Wife

    L.A. is no place for widows. This is what forty-four-year-old Hannah Bernal quickly discovers after the tragic death of her handsome and loving husband, John. Misery and red-rimmed eyes are little tolerated in the land of the beautiful. But life stumbles on: Hannah’s sweet three-year-old daughter, Ellie, needs to be dropped off at her overpriced preschool, while Hannah herself must get back to work in order to pay the bills on “Casa Sugar,” the charming Spanish-styled bungalow they call home.

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  • Good Neighbor

    Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their fears, concerns, and questions about the world seriously.

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