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  • Cover image for The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for

    The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for

    $18.99

    Settle in to this wittily illustrated soap opera (Bechdel calls it “half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel”) of the lives, loves, and politics of Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and the rest of the cast of cult-fav characters. Most of them are lesbians, living in a midsize American city that…

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    Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness

    $30.00

    A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple. Winner of the 2025 H.R.F Keating Award for the best 2024 biography or critical book related to crime fiction. In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness, ‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead’s…

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    Nothing

    $18.99

    “If there’s a more thoroughly brilliant and exciting new writer than Blake Butler . . . well, there just isn’t.” –Dennis Cooper From Blake Butler, one of the most challenging young writers of our time and the acclaimed author of the novel There Is No Year, comes a thrillingly wide-ranging and provocative book about insomnia–from…

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  • Cover image for A Sidecar Named Desire: Great Writers and the Booze That Stirred Them

    A Sidecar Named Desire: Great Writers and the Booze That Stirred Them

    $19.99

    A rollicking illustrated history of alcohol and its literary imbibers, from Jane Austen’s beer brewing to James Joyce’s passion for Guinness to E.B. White’s cure for writers’ block–a dry martini–by celebrated illustrator Greg Clarke and award-winning editor/art director Monte Beauchamp. “The tools that I need for my trade are simply pen, paper, food, tobacco, and…

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  • Cover image for The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

    $22.99

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER – USA TODAY BESTSELLER “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is not only a thought-provoking, discussion-worthy story, the book itself is an object of art.”- Elizabeth Egan, The New York Times From British illustrator, artist, and author Charlie Mackesy comes a modern…

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  • Cover image for And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

    And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

    $18.99

    Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best of 2021 List in Comics. 2021 Top of the List Graphic Novel Pick In the spirit of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Margaret Kimball’s AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS begins in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 1988,…

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  • Cover image for The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Deluxe (Yellow) Edition

    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Deluxe (Yellow) Edition

    $24.99

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER – USA TODAY BESTSELLER “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is not only a thought-provoking, discussion-worthy story, the book itself is an object of art.”- Elizabeth Egan, The New York Times A deluxe edition with special endpapers and a yellow spine. From…

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  • Cover image for The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Fifth Anniversary Limited Edition: The Global Bestseller

    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Fifth Anniversary Limited Edition: The Global Bestseller

    $29.99

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER – USA TODAY BESTSELLER An illustrated book for all ages, a book for all times, treasured by millions – on its fifth anniversary. Thank you to everyone to whom this book has meant so much. It’s meant the world to me. Love Charlie x This…

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    Amphigorey Again

    $27.99

    This collection displays in glorious abundance the offbeat characters and droll humor of Edward Gorey. Figbash is acrobatic, topiaries are tragic, hippopotami are admonitory, and galoshes are remorseful in this celebration of a unique talent that never fails to delight, amuse, and confound. Amphigorey Again contains previously uncollected work and two unpublished stories–“The Izzard Book,”…

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  • 1984: The Graphic Novel

    1984: The Graphic Novel

    $29.99

    One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. War is Peace * Freedom is Slavery * Ignorance is Strength In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the…

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    Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

    $19.99

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. A New York Times, USA Today, and Time Best Book of the Year Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture…

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    Best American Essays 2015

    $14.95

    “Writing an essay is like catching a wave,” posits guest editor Ariel Levy. “To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water.” This year’s writers are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide range of pieces awash in a diversity of moods, voices, and stances. Leaving an abusive marriage,…

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  • Cover image for Comics as History, Comics as Literature: Roles of the Comic Book in Scholarship, Society, and Entertainment

    Comics as History, Comics as Literature: Roles of the Comic Book in Scholarship, Society, and Entertainment

    $130.00

    This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one.

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    Comics as History, Comics as Literature: Roles of the Comic Book in Scholarship, Society, and Entertainment

    $67.95

    This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one.

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  • Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty

    Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty

    $21.95

    In her debut graphic novel, Sarah Firth ponders some of life’s deepest philosophical questions: Why are we here? How are we supposed to get along with one another? What on earth is that slug doing in my bathroom sink? From daydreams and pop culture memes to the teachings of science, philosophy, and history, Firth weaves…

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  • Miles Morales. Cruzando el mito arácnido

    Miles Morales. Cruzando el mito arácnido

    $15.00

    Miles Morales: Cruzando el mito arácnido es un ensayo centrado en Miles Morales, la historia del Spiderverso y la película Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. A lo largo de sus páginas se repasa la vida editorial de Miles, su trayectoria dentro y fuera de las viñetas, el valor que ha aportado al legado de Spider-Man, el…

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