Based on a True Story
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10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir
Jeff Lemire
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The Woman With Fifty Faces: Maria Lani & The Greatest Art Heist That Never Was
Jonathan Lackman
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Sunflowers
Keezy Young
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March: Book One
Issue #1
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It Rhymes With Takei
George Takei
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My Life in 24 Frames per Second
Rintaro
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Super Late Bloomer: My Life in Transition
Julia Kaye
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The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir About Food, Love & Family
Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell
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My Perfectly Imperfect Body
Debbie Tung
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Major Impossible
Issue #9
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300
Issues # 1-5
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Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
Harold Schechter
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Full of Myself: Encouraging Tales of Resilience
Siobhán Gallagher
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My Friend Dahmer
Derf Backderf
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Amalgam: An Immigrant, His Labor Union, and His American Family in Brooklyn
Frances Jetter
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Ephemera: A Memoir
Briana Loewinsohn
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The Comics Journal
Gary Groth
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Displacement
Lucy Knisley
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The Bees: The Women Who Rocked Lithuania
Akvile Magicdusté
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They Called Us Enemy - Expanded Edition
George Takei
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Good Eggs
Phoebe Potts
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Tolkein: Lighting up the Darkness
Willy Duraffourg
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NBM Comics Biographies: John Muir: To the Heart of Solitude
Lomig
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Green River Killer (Second Edition)
Jeff Jensen
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Dark Night: A True Batman Story
Paul Dini
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Wish I Was a Baller
Amar Shah
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Mannie Murphy
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Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band
Christian Staebler
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Marie Curie: A Quest For Light
Frances Andreasen Østerfel
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The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero
Raeghan Buchanan
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Gender Studies: The Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw
Ajuan Mance
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A Fire Story
Brian Fies
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September 11, 2001: The Day the World Changed Forever
Baptiste Bouthier
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Degas & Cassatt: A Solitary Dance
Salva Rubio
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Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1
Ed Piskor
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The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
Vivek J. Tiwary
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Don Coppola
Améziane Hammouche
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Just Another Story
Ernesto Saade
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Thoreau
A. Dan
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True Stories of World War II
Terry Collins
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NBM Comics Biographies: Punk Rock in Comics!
Thierry Lamy
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Falafel With Hot Sauce
Michel Kichka
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Alice In Sunderland
Bryan Talbot
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The Diary of the (Nearly) Zero-Waste Family
Bénédicte Moret

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Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2 Treasury Edition
Ed Piskor

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Courage on the Battlefield: True Stories of Survival in the Military
Nel Yomtov

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Lost at Windy River: A True Story of Survival
Trina Rathgeber

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East-West
Pierre Christin