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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
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A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.
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Image Comics
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English
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"How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted? The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise...
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2020.
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English
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Elias, Helene, and Tavi are Fivers - in training to become elite military recruits for the Martial Empire at Blackcliff Academy. When they're sent on a dangerous mission to steal a heavily-guarded poison on Isle South, the soon find themselves up against surprising enemies - including other recruits. As the true horror of their assignment is revealed, these three will begin to confront the harrowing realities of Martial rule, their place in the system...and...
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Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future feels like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can?t be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn?t an empty paradise, it?s a...
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Archaia
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Laia is afraid to venture outside her home due to the heavy Martial presence, Darin loves to explore all parts of their home city...even those that are forbidden. A chance encounter with famed swordsmith Spiro Teluman, leads him down a path that pulls him away from his family but towards hope for his people. Laia is forced to take her brother's place accompanying Pop to combat a dangerous illness spreading quickly through Serra. When Laia discovers...
8) Under-Earth
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"'Under-Earth' takes place in a subterranean landfill, hollowed out to serve as a massive improvised prison. Sunken into the trash and debris of the past -- gameboys, iphones, coffee cups, old cars -- we follow two parallel stories. In the first, a new arrival struggles to adapt to the everyday violence, physical labour, and poverty of the prison city. Overwhelmed and alone, he finds a connection with a fellow inmate through an old, beat-up novel....
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Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2019-
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First edition.
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volumes (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"LAPD's best Blade Runner and detective, Aahna "Ash" Ashina, has been assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Isobel and Cleo Selwyn, the wife and daughter of business tycoon, Alexander Selwyn--a close personal friend of Eldon Tyrell. Ash's search will take her on a journey deep into the crime-ridden underbelly of Los Angeles--a slowly decaying megacity--as she uncovers a terrible secret and a desperate conspiracy that forces her to...
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Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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First edition.
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103 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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Milliken and Mae have never left The Trench--it's all they've ever known. They were born in The Trench, and they'll die there, just like all their people do. The two girls, eight and eleven, are a part of The Trenchfolk, a sprawling settlement of people living inside the massive ice walls of a vast, seemingly endless frozen trench carved into the surface of an otherwise icy wasteland. The Trenchfolk survive in this hostile world by following The Three...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
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222 pages : color illustrations ; 26cm
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English
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One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed.
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Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
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127 pages : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 21 cm
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English
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"In a dystopian magical world, a community's sworn protector struggles to keep a fracture in the populace from breaking out into violence." --
13) Eve
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BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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A young girl, Eve, raised in a virtual reality, embarks on a deadly cross-country quest to save her father... and the dying planet. She's accompanied by Wexler, her robotic caretaker and protector, sheathed in her favorite teddy bear.
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Oni Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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102 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Rainbow has been looking for her younger sister, Jonna, for over a year--since the monsters appeared and the world began to dry up. Going from settlement to settlement, Rainbow asks every survivor she meets: Have you seen my sister? Then, one day, Jonna is spotted out in the wild: nearly feral, and stronger than ever before. Strong enough to knock back a towering monster with one punch. All this time, she's been surviving. On her own. Without Rainbow....
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G.P. Putnam' s Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Teens June, a military prodigy born into wealth, and Day, a criminal from the slums, are brought together and face plague, war, and a powerful, common enemy.
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IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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114 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"A bizarre sleeping sickness, called Aurora, has fallen over the world. Its victims can't wake up. And all of them are women. As nations fall into chaos, those women still awake take desperate measures to stay that way, and men everywhere begin to give in to their darkest impulses. Meanwhile, in the small town of Dooling, a mysterious woman has walked out of the woods; she calls herself Eve and leaves a trail of carnage in her wake. Strangest of all,...
17) Arca
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IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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English
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"The world burned. But the rich and powerful... they had a plan. When society fell apart, a select group of billionaires had an escape hatch: a rocket aimed at the nearest habitable planet, a ship equipped with many of the luxuries of life on Earth--why survive if you can't survive in style? Their every need is tended to by teenagers who are willing to act as slaves in return for the promise of a new life. This is a good story. But, like so many stories,...
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Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
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145 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"In Snow Angels Volume 2, the hit series reaches its shocking conclusion! Having just lost their father to the deadly Snowman, sisters Milli and Mae Mae are forced to carry on their quest alone. Traveling farther from the safety of their village, they're taken in by a secret society of Trench dwellers who help them battle The Snowman, and Milli makes a decision that may have fatal consequences for Mae Mae--but sacrifices must be made to unravel the...
19) Ever after
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English
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"Stranded between safe zones, two young women, Vivi and Eva, trek across the German countryside. Together they'll face their inner demons and dodge packs of the undead." --
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First Second
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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236 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"A galaxy away from her twin brother Wyatt, Sam must find a way to resist her captors and hold onto her humanity, while Wyatt leads a ragtag army to bring the fight straight to the alien overlords."--Provided by publisher
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