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Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics …

Crimes against logic by Jamie Whyte

Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

Leonard's life at his new junior high is just barely tolerable until he becomes friends with the unusual Alan and …

Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

A fable for adults on the subject of destiny and free will by a writer of children's books. It tells …

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts …

Shutterbug follies by Jason Little

Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle

La Planète des singes, known in English as Planet of the Apes in the US and Monkey Planet in the …

Leopold and Loeb by Hal Higdon

The melancholy death of Oyster Boy & other stories by Tim Burton

Who p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf

Making Ghostbusters by Dan Aykroyd, Don Shay

The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner

On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory …

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths …

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing …