Joe's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 12 Apr 2025 06:21:14 -0700 60 Joe's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[SEPARATE: Winnie-the-Pooh: The Complete Collection of Stories & Poems]]> 2252623 432 A.A. Milne 1856132420 Joe 5 4.44 SEPARATE: Winnie-the-Pooh: The Complete Collection of Stories & Poems
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Sinister Dexter: Murder 101 1506452 160 Dan Abnett 190426526X Joe 5 4.40 2005 Sinister Dexter: Murder 101
author: Dan Abnett
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average rating: 4.40
book published: 2005
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<![CDATA[The Cherry Collection, Volume I]]> 1184999 128 Larry Welz 0867193697 Joe 4 3.62 1995 The Cherry Collection, Volume I
author: Larry Welz
name: Joe
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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Abandon the Old in Tokyo 53179
Abandon the Old in Tokyo is the second in a three-volume series that collects the short stories of Japanese cartooning legend Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Designed and edited by Adrian Tomine, the first volume, The Push Man and Other Stories , debuted to much critical acclaim and rightfully placed Tatsumi as a legendary precursor to the North American graphic-novel movement. Abandon the Old in Tokyo continues to delve into the urban underbelly of 1960s Tokyo, exposing not only the seedy dealings of the Japanese everyman but Tatsumi's maturation as a story writer.]]>
224 Yoshihiro Tatsumi 1894937872 Joe 5 to-read 3.95 1970 Abandon the Old in Tokyo
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average rating: 3.95
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Good-Bye 1966703
“Prepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing.”�Los Angeles Times

Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual “top 10� lists, including those compiled by Amazon and Time.com. Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand the prolific artist’s vocabulary for characters contextualized by themes of depravity and disorientation in twentieth-century Japan.

Some of the tales focus on the devastation the country felt directly as a result of World War II: a prostitute loses all hope when American GIs go home to their wives; a man devotes twenty years of his life to preserving the memory of those killed at Hiroshima, only to discover a horrible misconception at the heart of his tribute. Yet, while American influence does play a role in the disturbing and bizarre stories contained within this volume, it is hardly the overriding theme. A philanthropic foot fetishist, a rash-ridden retiree, and a lonely public onanist are but a few of the characters etching out darkly nuanced lives in the midst of isolated despair and fleeting pleasure.
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208 Yoshihiro Tatsumi 1897299370 Joe 5 4.01 1972 Good-Bye
author: Yoshihiro Tatsumi
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 1972
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<![CDATA[Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales]]> 11644216
The design of the book cover is inspired by Beatrix Potter's love of textiles and embroidery. The tree motif is an original Beatrix Potter illustration and was chosen because it highlights her love of nature.

Within this complete and unabridged collection are all 23 of Beatrix Potter's Tales, in one deluxe volume with all their original illustrations. Discover Beatrix's most famous character, Peter Rabbit, and meet his family and friends. There are so many exciting adventures to enjoy, told with such humour and wit that they will resonate with each new generation.]]>
400 Beatrix Potter 0723266875 Joe 5 4.67 1986 Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales
author: Beatrix Potter
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average rating: 4.67
book published: 1986
rating: 5
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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde 5289 1270 Oscar Wilde 0007144350 Joe 5 4.47 1908 Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
author: Oscar Wilde
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average rating: 4.47
book published: 1908
rating: 5
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 38990 232 Alison Bechdel 0618477942 Joe 5 4.12 2006 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
author: Alison Bechdel
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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Pulp 141526 208 Charles Bukowski 0876859260 Joe 4 3.71 1994 Pulp
author: Charles Bukowski
name: Joe
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo]]> 91767
Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman -- with illustrations as rich and haunting as her legend.]]>
528 Hayden Herrera 0060085894 Joe 4 4.01 1983 Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
author: Hayden Herrera
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 1983
rating: 4
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Wall and Piece 114683 240 Banksy 1844137872 Joe 2 3.85 2005 Wall and Piece
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average rating: 3.85
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rating: 2
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American Psycho 28676 American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.]]> 399 Bret Easton Ellis 0679735771 Joe 3 3.82 1991 American Psycho
author: Bret Easton Ellis
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average rating: 3.82
book published: 1991
rating: 3
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<![CDATA[The Push Man and Other Stories]]> 53178 A collection of short stories from the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics.

Legendary cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the grandfather of alternative manga for the adult reader. Predating the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States by thirty years, Tatsumi created a library of literary comics that draws parallels with modern prose fiction and today's alternative comics.

Designed and edited by one of today's most popular cartoonists, Adrian Tomine, The Push Man and Other Stories is the debut volume in a groundbreaking new series that collects Tatsumi's short stories about Japanese urban life. Tatsumi's stories are simultaneously haunting, disturbing, and darkly humorous, commenting on the interplay between an overwhelming, bustling, crowded modern society and the troubled emotional and sexual life of the individual.
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224 Yoshihiro Tatsumi 1896597858 Joe 5 3.98 1969 The Push Man and Other Stories
author: Yoshihiro Tatsumi
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average rating: 3.98
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<![CDATA[Scenes from an Impending Marriage]]> 13450694 56 Adrian Tomine Joe 3 3.25 2011 Scenes from an Impending Marriage
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 191499 evolution, its role within the Elephant 6 creative community and
previously unpublished information on recordings, songwriting and
touring, and explains some of the reasons why band leader Jeff Mangum
felt compelled to retreat from public life just as his band was taking
off. It includes a dozen rare images, most never before seen.]]>
104 Kim Cooper 082641690X Joe 4 3.89 2005 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
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Sleepwalk and Other Stories 76575 Collecting the first four issues of Adrian Tomine's acclaimed comic series optic nerve, this book offers sixteen concise, haunting tales of modern life. The characters here appear to be well-adjusted on the surface, but Tomine takes us deeper into their lives, subtly examining their struggle to connect with friends and lovers.
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102 Adrian Tomine 1896597122 Joe 5 4.02 1997 Sleepwalk and Other Stories
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average rating: 4.02
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Optic Nerve #1 514454
After self-publishing seven mini comics as a teenager, Optic Nerve became a regular comic book series when Adrian Tomine was only 20. His work developed steadily over the years, from the rough, sketchy drawings of his early mini-comics to the stark, crisp graphic approach of his D&Q series. Although his work is no longer strictly autobiographical, his contemporary stories are still deeply personal. Tomine creates a new cast of characters for each story, and he has become a master of penetrating their fragile exteriors.

This first D+Q issue features five stories: "Sleepwalk" (11 pages), an account of a young man's attempts to cling to an old, fading relationship; "Echo Avenue" (5 pages), where voyeurism is the pastime of choice as a couple peers into their neighbor's bedroom window; "Long Distance" (2 pages), a brief, powerful story about a woman's cold, distant conversations with her boyfriend; "Drop" (1 page), an account of an unfortunate incident by the author's father; and "Lunch Break" (5 pages), where a solitary elderly woman thinks back to happier times in the 1950's.]]>
24 Adrian Tomine 1894937317 Joe 5 3.92 2000 Optic Nerve #1
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<![CDATA[Scrapbook: Uncollected Work, 1990-2004]]> 76573 203 Adrian Tomine 1896597777 Joe 0 to-read 3.83 2004 Scrapbook: Uncollected Work, 1990-2004
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Optic Nerve #9 95493 This remarkably illustrated collection of postcards features the best of Tomine's distinctive, critically acclaimed Optic Nerve comic book series, as well as selections from his work for magazines such as The New Yorker, album covers, and more. Share these 30 different postcards or keep them all to yourself.

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Adrian Tomine 1894937643 Joe 3 4.12 Optic Nerve #9
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Optic Nerve #8 382835 32 Adrian Tomine 1894937384 Joe 5 4.07 2001 Optic Nerve #8
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Optic Nerve #3 514480 24 Adrian Tomine 1894937333 Joe 5 4.04 2000 Optic Nerve #3
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Optic Nerve #4 514452 24 Adrian Tomine 1894937341 Joe 5 4.03 Optic Nerve #4
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Optic Nerve #6 514476 31 Adrian Tomine 1894937368 Joe 4 4.14 2000 Optic Nerve #6
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Optic Nerve #7 2660303 32 Adrian Tomine 1894937376 Joe 5 4.07 2000 Optic Nerve #7
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Optic Nerve #5 2660301 24 Adrian Tomine 189493735X Joe 4 3.85 Optic Nerve #5
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Optic Nerve #12 12769824 40 Adrian Tomine 1770460683 Joe 5 3.93 2011 Optic Nerve #12
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New York Sketches 2004 76577 15 Adrian Tomine 0976684829 Joe 5 3.51 2005 New York Sketches 2004
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Optic Nerve #11 6979310 32 Adrian Tomine 1897299222 Joe 3 4.04 Optic Nerve #11
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Optic Nerve #10 10471727 Adrian Tomine Joe 3 4.06 Optic Nerve #10
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New York Drawings 13538043
Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleeting glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as they wait on the subway stairs for a summer storm to pass.

Adrian Tomine's illustrations and comics have been appearing for more than a decade in the pages (and on the cover) of The New Yorker . Instantly recognizable for their deceptively simple and evocative style, these images have garnered the attention of The New Yorker 's readership and the approbation of such venerable institutions as the Art Directors Club and American Illustration .

New York Drawings is a loving homage to the city that Tomine, a West Coast transplant, has called home for the past seven years. This lavish, beautifully designed volume collects every cover, comic, and illustration that he has produced for The New Yorker to date, along with an assortment of other rare and uncollected illustrations and sketches inspired by the city. Complete with notes and annotations by the author, New York Drawings will also feature a new introductory comic focusing on Tomine's experiences as a New York illustrator.]]>
176 Adrian Tomine 177046087X Joe 0 to-read 4.08 2012 New York Drawings
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David Boring 423262 136 Daniel Clowes 0375714529 Joe 4 3.82 2002 David Boring
author: Daniel Clowes
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The Complete Maus 15195
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust� (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.]]>
296 Art Spiegelman 0141014083 Joe 4 4.57 1980 The Complete Maus
author: Art Spiegelman
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average rating: 4.57
book published: 1980
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<![CDATA[Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! (Pantheon Graphic Library)]]> 2864204
This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! , creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son.

The second part presents a facsimile of Breakdowns , the long-sought after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s, the book that triggers these memories.ĚýBreakdownsĚýestablished the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype ofĚýMaus, cubist experiments, an essay on humor, and the definitive genre-twisting pulp story "Ace Hole-Midget Detective."

Pulling all this together is an illustrated essay that looks back at the sixties as the artist pushes sixty, and explains the obsessions that brought these works into being. Poignant, funny, complex, and innovative, Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.]]>
72 Art Spiegelman 0375423958 Joe 4 3.82 1977 Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! (Pantheon Graphic Library)
author: Art Spiegelman
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average rating: 3.82
book published: 1977
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<![CDATA[The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot]]> 1273012
Voice balloons menace alliterative threats to the point of low humor. Sacrificial soldiers slide into scary Somehow bikini-clad girls, paunchy men, do not even see trouble.

But we do. Robot Boy strains. Big Guy uses his head and brawn. Let's cheer them on!]]>
80 Frank Miller 1569712018 Joe 3 3.64 1995 The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
author: Frank Miller
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average rating: 3.64
book published: 1995
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<![CDATA[Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth, Vol. 1]]> 7784785 400 Gerry Finley-Day 1906735344 Joe 4 3.91 2010 Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth, Vol. 1
author: Gerry Finley-Day
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average rating: 3.91
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<![CDATA[Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth, Vol. 2]]> 7795290 400 Gerry Finley-Day 1906735468 Joe 3 4.11 2013 Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth, Vol. 2
author: Gerry Finley-Day
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average rating: 4.11
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<![CDATA[No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980.]]> 2027150 No Wave is the first book to visually chronicle the collision of art and punk in the New York underground of 1976 to 1980. This in depth look at punk rock, new wave, experimental music, and the avant-garde art movement of the 70s and 80s focuses on the true architects of No Wave from James Chance to Lydia Lunch to Glenn Branca, as well as the luminaries that intersected the scene, such as David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, and Richard Hell.

This rarely documented scene was the creative stomping ground of young artists and filmmakers from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Jim Jarmusch as well as the musical genesis for the post-punk explosions of Sonic Youth and is here revealed for a new generation of fans and collectors.

Thurston Moore and Byron Coley have selected 150 unforgettable images, most of which have never been published previously, and compiled hundreds of hours of personal interviews to create an oral history of the movement, providing a never-seen-before exploration and celebration of No Wave.]]>
144 Thurston Moore 0810995433 Joe 4 3.92 2008 No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980.
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The Andy Warhol Diaries 376579
Spanning the mid-1970s until just a few days before his death in 1987, THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES is a compendium of the more than twenty thousand pages of the artist's diary that he dictated daily to Pat Hackett. In it, Warhol gives us the ultimate backstage pass to practically everything that went on in the world-both high and low. He hangs out with "everybody": Jackie O ("thinks she's so grand she doesn't even owe it to the public to have another great marriage to somebody big"), Yoko Ono ("We dialed F-U-C-K-Y-O-U and L-O-V-E-Y-O-U to see what happened, we had so much fun"), and "Princess Marina of, I guess, Greece," along with art-world rock stars Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, and Keith Haring.

Warhol had something to say about everyone who crossed his path, whether it was Lou Reed or Liberace, Patti Smith or Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra or Michael Jackson. A true cultural artifact, THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES amounts to a portrait of an artist-and an era-unlike any other.]]>
807 Andy Warhol 0446391387 Joe 5 3.92 1989 The Andy Warhol Diaries
author: Andy Warhol
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We3 22358 104 Grant Morrison 1401204953 Joe 4 3.91 2011 We3
author: Grant Morrison
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average rating: 3.91
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Lenore: Noogies 466150 108 Roman Dirge 0943151031 Joe 2 4.06 1999 Lenore: Noogies
author: Roman Dirge
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 1999
rating: 2
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Lenore: Wedgies 193266 112 Roman Dirge 0943151317 Joe 2 4.20 2000 Lenore: Wedgies
author: Roman Dirge
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average rating: 4.20
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The Great Indie Discography 806088 1024 Martin C. Strong 1841953350 Joe 4 4.35 2003 The Great Indie Discography
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<![CDATA[The Great Alternative & Indie Discography]]> 878059 726 Martin C. Strong 0862419131 Joe 3 3.94 1999 The Great Alternative & Indie Discography
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average rating: 3.94
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<![CDATA[Last Shop Standing: Whatever Happened to Record Shops?]]> 6362089 Last Shop Standing lifts the lid on an industry in tatters. Graham Jones has worked at the heart of record retailing since the golden era of the 1980s. He was there during the years of plenty and has witnessed the tragic decline of a business blighted by corruption and corporate greed. Undertaking a tour of the last remaining independent record shops in Britain, he has collected a wealth of entertaining stories that explain why the best are still standing, and how the worst of them blew it. In telling the tale of the industry's sad decline Graham Jones has unearthed wry anecdotes about dozens of rock stars and music industry figures, including The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, David Bowie, The Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Oasis, John Peel and many others. Last Shop Standing is a hilarious yet harrowing account by a man who has been there and sold that. It is a book that will bring a wry smile to the face of anyone who has ever bought a CD or attended a concert, and still has the T-shirt to prove it.]]> 336 Graham Jones 0956121209 Joe 4 3.56 2009 Last Shop Standing: Whatever Happened to Record Shops?
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<![CDATA[Portrait of a Thousand Punks: Hard Core Logo]]> 1122924
About the Author:
Nick Craine is a painter, animation artist, comix illustrator, and musician from Guelph, Ontario. Portrait of a Thousand Punks is his second film adaptation; his first, of Bruce McDonald's Dance Me Outside, was highly acclaimed by both critics and illustrators.

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128 Nick Craine 0887846068 Joe 3 3.36 1997 Portrait of a Thousand Punks: Hard Core Logo
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average rating: 3.36
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<![CDATA[How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story]]> 7260186
Based on the author's experiences, How I Made it to Eighteen is a frank portrait of what it's like to struggle with self-esteem, body image issues, drug addiction, and anxiety.

How I Made It to Eighteen is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.]]>
160 Tracy White 1596434546 Joe 2 3.30 2010 How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story
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The Summer of Love 425246 152 Debbie Drechsler 1896597653 Joe 4 3.50 2001 The Summer of Love
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Shortcomings 227350 Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine's first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of painfully real antihero characters. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Tomine has acquired a cultlike fan following and has earned status as one of the most widely acclaimed cartoonists of our time.

Shortcomings was serialized in Tomine's iconic comic book series Optic Nerve and was excerpted in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13.]]>
108 Adrian Tomine 1897299168 Joe 3 3.63 2007 Shortcomings
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Summer Blonde 76579 Optic Nerve is finally collected into one sharp-looking hardcover volume. Described as the Raymond Carver of comix, Tomine constructs tales of emotional disconnection with an ear for painfully real dialogue. Combined with his deft black and white depictions of urbane lifestyles, Tomine's fans have often accused him of eavesdropping in on their most intimate moments and, with forensic skill, laying their lives bare. The conflicts between emotional gratification, narcissistic neediness and moral discernment mark the title story in which a socially crippled man nurses an obsessive crush on a young woman. He watches close up, paralyzed by his guilt, as her beauty catches the eye of his neighbor: a hip, selfish young man with a short attention span. One of Optic Nerve's most popular stories, `Hawaiian Getaway,` features Hilary, telephone service rep who is having the worst week of her life. She lost her job, her apartment, and her grandmother. Close to the edge, she is losing her grip. Reaching out to random strangers on the phone, Hilary is looking for someone to help her. In "Alter Ego" a successful young author has writer`s block. He can`t, or won`t, decide between another ghostwriting gig and finishing his second "real" novel. He stalls on committing to his novel and his girlfriend when a chance postcard leads him to flirt with fantasies of changing the past. Finally, "Bomb Scare" documents the early unease of his generation by setting this coming-of-age story during the tense months of the Gulf War, the event that ushered in the 1990s.]]> 132 Adrian Tomine 1896597572 Joe 5 3.90 2003 Summer Blonde
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Exit Wounds 535578
Exit Wounds is the North American graphic-novel debut from one of Israel’s best-known cartoonists. Modan has received several awards in Israel and abroad, including the Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem four times and Young Artist of the Year by the Israel Ministry of Culture. She is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation.]]>
168 Rutu Modan 1897299060 Joe 3 3.60 2006 Exit Wounds
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name: Joe
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2006
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Palestine 769712 Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995—Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism—the acclaimed author was best known for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel that won an American Book Award in 1996.

Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present the first single-volume collection of this landmark of journalism and the art form of comics.

Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews), Palestine was the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism. Like Safe Area Gorazde, Palestine has been favorably compared to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically sensitive subject matter within the confines of the comic book medium.

Sacco has often been called the first comic book journalist, and he is certainly the best. This edition of Palestine also features an introduction from renowned author, critic, and historian Edward Said (Peace and Its Discontents and The Question of Palestine), one of the world's most respected authorities on the Middle Eastern conflict.

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288 Joe Sacco 156097432X Joe 4 4.23 1996 Palestine
author: Joe Sacco
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average rating: 4.23
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NaĂŻve. Super 604635 Naive. Super was a #1 best-seller in Erlend Loe's native Norway.]]> 208 Erlend Loe 1841956724 Joe 3 3.89 1996 NaĂŻve. Super
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name: Joe
average rating: 3.89
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rating: 3
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On the Road 70401 307 Jack Kerouac 0140042598 Joe 4 3.63 1957 On the Road
author: Jack Kerouac
name: Joe
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1957
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Walking Dead: Compendium One]]> 6465707
In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living. With The Walking Dead #1-48, this compendium features more than one thousand pages chronicling the start of Robert Kirkman's Eisner Award-winning story of zombie horror, from Rick Grimes waking up alone in a hospital, his band of survivors seeking refuge on an isolated farm and the controversial introduction of Woodbury despot, The Governor.]]>
1088 Robert Kirkman Joe 4 4.44 2009 The Walking Dead: Compendium One
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<![CDATA[The Walking Dead Omnibus, Volume 2]]> 5227511 Rare book 560 Robert Kirkman 1607060299 Joe 4 4.55 2009 The Walking Dead Omnibus, Volume 2
author: Robert Kirkman
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average rating: 4.55
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Sinister Dexter : Slay Per View]]> 2444345 240 Dan Abnett 1904265383 Joe 4 4.29 2005 Sinister Dexter : Slay Per View
author: Dan Abnett
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average rating: 4.29
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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Sinister Dexter: Money Shots 6867022
Collects:

- Feeding Frenzy (Prog #1200-#1202)
- Gun Play (Prog #1203-#1205)
- Shrink Rap (Prog #1206-#1211)
- Lucky 1 (Prog #1220)
- Way Out West (Prog #1221)
- Scene of the Crime (Prog #1222)
- The Man in the Ion Mask (Prog #1223-#1226)
- Money Shots (Prog #1227-#1228)
- Point Blanc (Prog #1231-#1233)
- Dirty Habits (Prog #1234)
- Quality Time (Prog #1235)
- Barf Bag (Progs #1243-#1245)
- Fully Laundromatic (Prog #1246-#1248)
- Exit Wounds (2000AD Prog 2000)]]>
192 Dan Abnett 1906735174 Joe 3 3.20 2009 Sinister Dexter: Money Shots
author: Dan Abnett
name: Joe
average rating: 3.20
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rating: 3
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<![CDATA[We Rock So You Don't Have to: The Option Reader#1]]> 600731 Option, the acclaimed independent music magazine published by Scott Becker, was there to capture the saga. Sometimes playful, occasionally painful, and always passionate, these profiles from the pages of Option - written by the country's top music journalists - trace the rise and fall of the best bands of the '90s.]]> 263 Scott Becker 1888277076 Joe 4 3.60 1998 We Rock So You Don't Have to: The Option Reader#1
author: Scott Becker
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average rating: 3.60
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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Requiem for a Dream 46945
Entranced by the gleaming visions of their futures, these four convince themselves that unexpected setbacks are only temporary. Even as their lives slowly deteriorate around them, they cling to their delusions and become utterly consumed in a spiral of drugs and addiction, refusing to see that they have instead created their own worst nightmares.

"Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists . . . To understand Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America." —The New York Times Book Review]]>
279 Hubert Selby Jr. 1560252480 Joe 4 4.11 1978 Requiem for a Dream
author: Hubert Selby Jr.
name: Joe
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1978
rating: 4
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King Dork (King Dork, #1) 10570 352 Frank Portman 0385732910 Joe 4 3.56 2006 King Dork (King Dork, #1)
author: Frank Portman
name: Joe
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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Juliet, Naked 6224826
But between Annie and her second chance lie a few obstacles. There's Malcolm, the world's most judgemental therapist, and Barnesy, the north's most extrovert dancer. There's what men and women will do and won't do for love. And, of course, there's Tucker...]]>
406 Nick Hornby 1594488878 Joe 4 3.50 2009 Juliet, Naked
author: Nick Hornby
name: Joe
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles]]> 332631 WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDS As Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, begins to make his way across the country to California, he and his companions are forced to make an unscheduled stop in Marrisville, Ohio—a small town with a big secret.

Collects Y: The Last Man issues #6-10]]>
128 Brian K. Vaughan 1401200761 Joe 5 4.22 2003 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles
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average rating: 4.22
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rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned]]> 156534
But why are he and his faithful companion, the often testy male monkey Ampersand, still alive? He sets out to find the answer (and his girlfriend), while running from angry female Republicans (now running the government), Amazon wannabes that include his own sister (seemingly brainwashed), and other threats.]]>
130 Brian K. Vaughan 1563899809 Joe 5 4.08 2003 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
author: Brian K. Vaughan
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average rating: 4.08
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<![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9: Motherland]]> 156532
This volume of the critically acclaimed series features Yorick and Agent 355 preparing for their ultimate quest to reunite the last man with his lost love, while the person, people or thing behind the disaster that wiped out half of humanity is revealed!]]>
144 Brian K. Vaughan 1401213510 Joe 3 4.25 2007 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9: Motherland
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average rating: 4.25
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rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores]]> 2202230 WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDS

Featured in THE NEW YORK TIMES and on NPR, Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey, Ampersand, and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his long-lost girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on earth.

Yorick Brown's long journey through an Earth populated only by women comes to a dramatic, unexpected conclusion in this final volume. Collects issues #55-60 of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's award-winning Vertigo series.

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168 Brian K. Vaughan 140121813X Joe 3 4.33 2008 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores
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average rating: 4.33
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Opened Ground 19186
Born and raised in Northern Ireland, where any hint of Gaelic tradition in one's speech was considered a political act, Heaney is all too aware of the dire consequences of speaking one's mind. Indeed, during times of crisis, he has been expected to appear on television and dispense political wisdom.

Most often, however, he stays out of the fray and opts for a supreme sense of empathy to guide his words. As excavator--of earth, of his beloved Gaelic, of his own life--Heaney is unmatched. In "Bone Dreams", the archaeologist's task is synonymous with reaching for a cultural past: I push back through dictions, Elizabethan canopies, Norman devices, the erotic mayflowers of Provence and the ivied Latins of churchmen to the scop's twang, the iron flash of consonants cleaving the line.

And in early poems like "Blackberry Picking", Heaney's images--deftly, delightfully--carry us back to childhood fields: At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam pots Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots. Round hayfields, cornfields and potato drills We trekked and picked until the cans were full... Opened Ground is a pleasure and a triumph. These three decades of work confirm Heaney as one of the most important poets of his time. --Martha Silano]]>
464 Seamus Heaney 0374526788 Joe 4 4.26 1996 Opened Ground
author: Seamus Heaney
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average rating: 4.26
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Sid Vicious 946048 Alan G. Parker 0752875469 Joe 3 3.81 2008 Sid Vicious
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name: Joe
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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The Time Traveler's Wife 8270119 522 Audrey Niffenegger Joe 4 3.96 2003 The Time Traveler's Wife
author: Audrey Niffenegger
name: Joe
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Sinister Dexter: Gunshark Vacation]]> 3033245 123 Dan Abnett 1401203914 Joe 4 3.55 2004 Sinister Dexter: Gunshark Vacation
author: Dan Abnett
name: Joe
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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The Kite Runner 437129 340 Khaled Hosseini 0747566534 Joe 3 4.27 2003 The Kite Runner
author: Khaled Hosseini
name: Joe
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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<![CDATA[World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War]]> 10077103 This is an alternate cover edition for 9780307346612

We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z, now a #1 New York Times bestseller, is the only record of the plague years.]]>
352 Max Brooks Joe 3 4.09 2006 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
author: Max Brooks
name: Joe
average rating: 4.09
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rating: 3
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One Day 6280118
So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that?

And every year that follows?
--back cover]]>
435 David Nicholls 0340896965 Joe 3 3.86 2009 One Day
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name: Joe
average rating: 3.86
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1000 Record Covers 576 Record Covers presents a selection of the best 60s to 90s rock album covers from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and ex-record publicity executive Michael Ochs's enormous private collection. Both a trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an under-appreciated art form.

This edition is in English, French and German.]]>
575 Michael Ochs 3822840858 Joe 4 3.80 1996 1000 Record Covers
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average rating: 3.80
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<![CDATA[Toothpaste for Dinner: Hipsters, Hamsters, and Other Pressing Issues]]> 4134
*Is based on the wildly popular toothpastefordinner.com Web site, which averages 19 million hits
*Speaks to the popularity of edgy humor titles like The Bunny Suicides and Get Your War On
*Provides a completely original world view paired up with simple line drawings that will appeal to 20- and 30-something creative types

What Dilbert did for office workers in the early 90s, this revolutionary and hilarious book will do for wage slaves of the twenty-first century.

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220 Drew Joe 4 3.85 2005 Toothpaste for Dinner: Hipsters, Hamsters, and Other Pressing Issues
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average rating: 3.85
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When We Were Thin 1925724 236 C.P. Lee 095562570X Joe 5 3.86 2007 When We Were Thin
author: C.P. Lee
name: Joe
average rating: 3.86
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Margrave of the Marshes 664566
Margrave of the Marshes is the astonishing book John Peel began to write before his untimely death in October 2004, completed by the woman who knew him best, his wife Sheila. It is a unique and intimate portrait of a life, a marriage and a family which is every bit as extraordinary as the man himself - a fitting tribute to a bona fide legend.]]>
508 John Peel 0552551198 Joe 4 3.99 2005 Margrave of the Marshes
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name: Joe
average rating: 3.99
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rating: 4
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John Peel : A Life in Music 230542 240 michael-heatley 1843171570 Joe 4 3.57 2004 John Peel : A Life in Music
author: michael-heatley
name: Joe
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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Akira, Vol. 6 93375 435 Katsuhiro Otomo 1569715289 Joe 5 4.52 1993 Akira, Vol. 6
author: Katsuhiro Otomo
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average rating: 4.52
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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Akira, Vol. 5 93376 413 Katsuhiro Otomo 1569715270 Joe 5 4.49 1990 Akira, Vol. 5
author: Katsuhiro Otomo
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average rating: 4.49
book published: 1990
rating: 5
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Akira, Vol. 4 93374 400 Katsuhiro Otomo 1569715262 Joe 5 4.47 1987 Akira, Vol. 4
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average rating: 4.47
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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Akira, Vol. 3 93372 284 Katsuhiro Otomo 1569715254 Joe 5 4.45 1987 Akira, Vol. 3
author: Katsuhiro Otomo
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average rating: 4.45
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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Akira, Vol. 2 93370 302 Katsuhiro Otomo 1569714991 Joe 5 4.47 1984 Akira, Vol. 2
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average rating: 4.47
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Akira, Vol. 1 93371
Katsuhiro Otomo’s stunning science fiction masterpiece is considered by many to be the finest work of graphic fiction ever produced, and Otomo’s brilliant animated film version is regarded worldwide as a classic.

This edition includes a new foreword from the author and a postscript from Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson!]]>
361 Katsuhiro Otomo 1569714983 Joe 5 4.41 1984 Akira, Vol. 1
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<![CDATA[Ex Machina, Vol. 7: Ex Cathedra (Ex Machina, #7)]]> 2660314 128 Brian K. Vaughan 1401218598 Joe 4 3.90 2008 Ex Machina, Vol. 7: Ex Cathedra (Ex Machina, #7)
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average rating: 3.90
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Ex Machina, Vol. 5: Smoke, Smoke (Ex Machina, #5)]]> 270538 113 Brian K. Vaughan 1401213227 Joe 4 3.91 2007 Ex Machina, Vol. 5: Smoke, Smoke (Ex Machina, #5)
author: Brian K. Vaughan
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average rating: 3.91
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<![CDATA[Ex Machina, Vol. 4: March to War (Ex Machina, #4)]]> 296900 144 Brian K. Vaughan 1401209971 Joe 4 4.00 2006 Ex Machina, Vol. 4: March to War (Ex Machina, #4)
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average rating: 4.00
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Ex Machina, Vol. 3: Fact v. Fiction]]> 296903 144 Brian K. Vaughan 1401209882 Joe 4 3.94 2006 Ex Machina, Vol. 3: Fact v. Fiction
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average rating: 3.94
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<![CDATA[Ex Machina, Vol. 2: Tag (Ex Machina, #2)]]> 296902 128 Brian K. Vaughan 1401206263 Joe 5 3.99 2005 Ex Machina, Vol. 2: Tag (Ex Machina, #2)
author: Brian K. Vaughan
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average rating: 3.99
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<![CDATA[Ex Machina, Vol. 1: The First Hundred Days (Ex Machina, #1)]]> 296901 136 Brian K. Vaughan 1401206123 Joe 5 3.91 2005 Ex Machina, Vol. 1: The First Hundred Days (Ex Machina, #1)
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average rating: 3.91
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<![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons]]> 79422 144 Brian K. Vaughan 1401210104 Joe 4 4.21 2006 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons
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average rating: 4.21
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7: Paper Dolls]]> 79426
Collects Y: The Last Man issues #37-#42]]>
144 Brian K. Vaughan 1401210090 Joe 4 4.22 2006 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7: Paper Dolls
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average rating: 4.22
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<![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl]]> 156529
Unfortunately, that source is within Ampersand's body, which was last seen disappearing under the arm of a mysterious Japanese mercenary. Now, accompanied by 355 and Dr. Mann, the last man on Earth has embarked on a new and even more hazardous journey - following Ampersand's trail across the Pacific, where danger threatens from below as well as above the waves.

Collects issues 32-36]]>
128 Brian K. Vaughan 1401205011 Joe 4 4.20 2005 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl
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<![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth]]> 156533 192 Brian K. Vaughan 1401204872 Joe 4 4.27 2005 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth
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average rating: 4.27
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<![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step]]> 156530
A Russian Soyuz capsule is coming down from the International Space Station carrying three passengers: one woman and two men. Could this be the end of Yorick's tenure as last living male?]]>
168 Brian K. Vaughan 1401202012 Joe 4 4.21 2004 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step
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average rating: 4.21
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<![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword]]> 184040
In the care of a fellow Culper Ring member, Yorick Brown is forced to confront his tremendous feelings of survivor guilt that lead him to constantly put his life in danger. Once on the road again, the group runs up against a literal roadblock in Arizona, where the female remains of the Sons of Arizona militia have cut the interstate to keep out any vestiges of the U.S. government.]]>
141 Brian K. Vaughan 1401202322 Joe 4 4.25 2004 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword
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average rating: 4.25
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<![CDATA[The Complete Calvin and Hobbes]]> 24812 Box Set | Book One | Book Two | Book Three ]

Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996. The entire body of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons published in a truly noteworthy tribute to this singular cartoon in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. Composed of three hardcover, four-color volumes in a sturdy slipcase, this New York Times best-selling edition includes all Calvin and Hobbes cartoons that ever appeared in syndication. This is the treasure that all Calvin and Hobbes fans seek.]]>
1456 Bill Watterson 0740748475 Joe 5 4.80 2005 The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
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<![CDATA[The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes]]> 24815
This treasury collection contains a never-before-published full-color section, as well as the cartoons appearing in The Revenge of the Baby-Sat and Scientific Progress Goes "Boink." All Sunday cartoons are presented full-page and full-color.]]>
255 Bill Watterson 0751500283 Joe 5 4.70 1992 The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
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name: Joe
average rating: 4.70
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury]]> 43070 Calvin and Hobbes continues to entertain with dazzling cartooning and tremendous humor.

Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes has been a worldwide favorite since its introduction in 1985. The strip follows the richly imaginative adventures of Calvin and his trusty tiger, Hobbes. Whether a poignant look at serious family issues or a round of time-travel (with the aid of a well-labeled cardboard box), Calvin and Hobbes will astound and delight you.

Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story.]]>
256 Bill Watterson 0836218051 Joe 5 4.64 1988 The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
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book published: 1988
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Songbook 4261 “All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don’t like them as much as I do.� —Nick Hornby, from Songbook
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Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skinâ€� Songbook is Nick Hornby’s labor of love. A shrewd, funny, and completely unique collection of musings on pop music, why it’s good, what makes us listen and love it so much, and the ways in which it attaches itself to our lives—all with the beat of a perfectly mastered mix tape.Ěý]]>
207 Nick Hornby 1573223565 Joe 3 3.61 2002 Songbook
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How to Be Good 4268 305 Nick Hornby 3426615355 Joe 4 3.24 2001 How to Be Good
author: Nick Hornby
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average rating: 3.24
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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