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18221) Giant Days: Issue #44
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Giant Days volume 44
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Esther becomes fixated on Valentine's Day as a marker of her romantic failure, and decides to fully activate her drama field for the first time in a long time, in an attempt to "Win Big At Love". It's going to be great. No, really.
18222) Finding Neverland
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At a career crossroads after his latest play fails, well-known writer James. M. Barrie meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work – Peter Pan.
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Transmetropolitan volume 7
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Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem attacks the injustices of his surreal 21st century through black humor as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word in this critically-acclaimed graphic novel series written by comics superstar Warren Ellis, the co-creator of PLANETARY and THE AUTHORITY.In this volume, Jerusalem targets three of society's most worshipped and warped pillars: politics, religion, and television. When Spider tries to shed...
18224) A Veil of Truth and Trickery
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Delphine has been fae-marked from birth, treated as a curse despite the fact the once treacherous fae haven't been sighted in decades-in fact, no one in Delph's village has so much as laid eyes on one of the folk in nearly a century.
Right up until a fae turns up on her doorstep, demanding Delph as down payment.
No sooner has she set foot in the fae realm, however, then she learns she's no mere collateral in a deal made with the lord that owns her...
18225) States of Mind
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The true story of a spirited young woman whose brilliant mind is caught in the grip of mental illness, known as bipolar disorder. In constant flux between transient euphoria and utter despair, Camille attempts to decode her mind and treat her illness.
However, she discovers that the will of the patient is not always enough to cure the ills of the mind, and the only way she can find a semblance of peace is when surrounded and supported...if not understood....
18226) Giant Days: Issue #16
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Giant Days volume 16
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Daisy has to draw on new reserves of inner strength after she loses control of a party of prospective students on an open day, while the "lonely, unlovable spinster" Susan tries dating again with disastrous results.
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Giant Days volume 41
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The third (and final!) year of university is finally here, and BFFs Daisy, Esther, and Susan are in for some surprising upsets in their first semester. Between Halloween run-ins with Daisy's dreaded (dreadful) ex, part-time gigs at a shady pop-up Christmas market, Esther dating a tech-bro, and Susan attempting to be…romantic, there's still plenty to learn and more than enough misadventure to squeeze in before it's time to don caps and gowns!
18228) Merry Liddle Christmas Baby
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This holiday, the Liddles have much to be merry about! Jacquie (Kelly Rowland) and her husband Tyler (Thomas Cadrot) are preparing for the arrival of their first baby.
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Scalped volume 30
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Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of poverty and hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in search of something better. Now he's come back home armed with nothing but a set of nunchuks, a hell-bent-for-leather attitude and one dark secret, to find nothing much has changed on "the Rez" - short of a glimmering new casino run by a corrupt leader named Red Crow, and a once-proud people overcome by drugs and...
18230) Monogamy
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Increasingly anxious about his impending marriage to Nat (Rashida Jones) and bored with his day job as a wedding photographer, Theo (Chris Messina) begins a side business, clandestinely snapping voyeuristic photos of his clients. A sexy exhibitionist client leads Theo into an all-consuming obsession, and as he follows her, he is forced to confront uncomfortable truths about his sex life at home.
18231) Blue In Green
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The dark and haunting portrayal of a young musician's pursuit of creative genius-the monstrous nature of which threatens to consume him as it did his predecessor half a century ago. From creators Ram V (Grafity's Wall, These Savage Shores) and Anand RK (Grafity's Wall), Blue In Green is an exploration of ambitions, expectations, and the horrific depths of their spiraling pursuit.
18232) The Baby-Catcher Gate
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The muggy silence that hung outside my bedroom window that August night in 1982 was pierced by the ringing of the telephone. A baby call. My mother was a baby-catcher (a midwife) and whenever the call came, she went. Too young to stay at home by myself, I went with her. I planned to draw or sleep as Mother worked, but on that night, as storm clouds burst overhead knocking power out for miles around, nothing went as planned.
As the night wore on,...
18233) I Kill Giants: Issues #1-7
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I Kill Giants volume 1
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Celebrating the fifth anniversary of a modern classic, this trade paperback edition of the Eisner-nominated, International Manga Award-winning miniseries includes interviews with the creators, design art, covers, and more.
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Billionaire businessman and playboy Ferro Olivetti (Alfieri) enjoys the privileges and perks of his social stature, but on his father's deathbed he promises to obey his father's last wish and spend one month away from his identity and money. A Secret Promise stars Victor Alfieri, Ione Skye ("Say Anything", award-winning actress Talia Shire ("Rocky") and Ron Silver in what would be his final role before his death.
18235) Rhubarb Lemonade
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An award-winning novel about family old and new, friendship growing into romance, the beauty of the sea and a hot summer on a Swedish island
Vinga dreams of the sea. She's going to be a sailor when she grows up, sailing to distant lands. At home, back in the city, Mum is sad and Dad has left for good. But here with Granddad on the island, all her problems feel far away. Summer goes on as usual, with porridge for breakfast, drinking rhubarb lemonade...
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Dance Academy volume 15
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Petra Hoffman arrives at the Academy on exchange from the Berlin Ballet School. Homesick, she adopts a lost dog and attempts to conceal him in the Boarding House. Kat has been ditching class to spend time with her new boyfriend and her punishment is to teach ballet to a class of underprivileged kids. Tara ends up kissing Christian behind Ethan's back, leaving her feeling guilty and confused.
18237) Fine Print Vol. 1
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How do you deal with a broken heart? Junk food? Excessive drinking? Dubious contracts with ancient gods? For Lauren Thomas, the queen of bad decisions, the answer is always the worst possible choice. So when she finds herself with the rare opportunity to have her broken heart patched by the highest-rated god of desire, what could possibly go wrong?
A tale of gods, mortals, love, lust, death, and bad decisions-that all starts with a simple bite...
18238) Oliver's Story
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The love story continues. Ryan O'Neal returns as Oliver Barrett IV in Oliver's Story, based on Erich Segal's follow-up novel to Love Story. Candice Bergen (TV's Murphy Brown) brings elegant charm to the role of Marcie Bonwitt, a recently divorced career woman. The two are a perfect match-equally rich and beautiful, equally independent and yet vulnerable from their respective losses, and equally shy about commitment to another person. Through his relationship...
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Transmetropolitan volume 37
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The truth hurts. That's old news to outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, but what's changed is how high the stakes have become. Long a thorn in the side of the powerful and the hypocritical, Jerusalem has made an enemy of the new President of the United States-a man who happens to be crazier than a rabid rattlesnake and twice as mean. Now, driven underground with his loyal (and filthy) assistants, deprived of all of his comforts and hunted like a rabbit...
18240) Hud
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Having been burned by compromises to censors on his earlier films Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth, Paul Newman decided to star in as uncompromising a property as he could find. That property was Hud, inspired by a portion of Larry McMurtry's novel, Horseman Pass By. Hud Bannon (Newman) is a young Texas rancher who lives with his cattleman father Homer (Melvyn Douglas) and his hero-worshipping nephew Lon (Brandon DeWilde). Hud is an amoral,...
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