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#1 ARE YOU MY MOTHER?
Alison Bechdel
In this memoir within a memoir, the author explores her relationship with her mother and tries to bridge the gulf between them.
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#2 THE WALKING DEAD, BOOK 1
Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard
This collected edition features the first 12 issues of the gripping series about the last human survivors in a world overrun by zombies. In this volume, the refuges find a sanctuary on a farm.
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#3 JERUSALEM: CHRONICLES FROM THE HOLY CITY
Guy Delisle
The cartoonist presents his experiences in living in Jerusalem.
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#4 BATMAN INCORPORATED DELUXE, VOL. 1
Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette
Bruce Wayne comes out to the world as the financial supporter of Batman — and his intention to go global.
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#5 CLEVELAND
Harvey Pekar and Joseph Remnant
The infamous autobiographer writes one last love letter to his native home of Cleveland, Ohio.
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#6 DEADPOOL, VOL. 10
Daniel Way and Salvador Espin
The mutant "merc with the mouth" must deal with an evil double made of his previously severed but not fused body parts. Really.
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#7 A GAME OF THRONES
George R R Martin
The epic fantasy by George R.R. Martin gets the graphic novel treatment.
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#8 THE NEW TEEN TITANS OMNIBUS, VOL. 2
Marv Wolfman and George Perez
In their heyday, The New Teen Titans rivaled the X-Men in popularity and for story complexity. This collected edition includes the introduction of Terra, Nightwing and Jericho.
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#9 WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN, VOL. 1
Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo
Wolverine begins his tenure as the headmaster for the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, but before the first bell rings, the school must survive an attack from the Hellfire Club.
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#10 THE WALKING DEAD, BOOK 3
Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
This collected edition introduces the Governor, who runs a secure compound with safe citizens and zombies used as gladiator-style entertainment.
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