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176 pp. Hardcover
Graphic Novel
Dune
Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert

The first book in the definitive graphic novel adaptation of Dune, the groundbreaking science-fiction classic by Frank Herbert.

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256 pp. Hardcover
Graphic Novel
Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood
Lonnie Mann, Ryan Gatts

A coming-of-age graphic novel memoir about a young man who, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish community, realizes he's gay and struggles to reconcile his faith with who he is.

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308 pp. Hardcover
Graphic Novel
Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
Solomon J. Brager

A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream.

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127 pp. Hardcover
Graphic Novel
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder

A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)

#1 New York Times Bestseller

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224 pp. Hardcover
Graphic Novel
Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with OCD
Pan Cooke

Growing up with undiagnosed OCD sure isn’t easy, and here Pan Cooke shares his own experiences with that condition in a graphic-novel memoir that is as funny as it is powerfully candid and openhearted.

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249 pp. Hardcover
Graphic Novel
What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine
Erin Williams

What’s Wrong? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams’s graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams’s own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions.

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171 pp. Hardcover
Graphic Novel
Zodiac
Ai Weiwei, Elettra Stamboulis Gianluca Costantini

In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei explores the connection between artistic expression and intellectual freedom through the lens of the Chinese zodiac.

National Bestseller

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