Mad About the Fifties
By: MAD Magazine
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Travel back to the wacky Fifties in this comic compilation of the best of MAD's early years! From t…
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1. Nightmare Alley
By: William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches
3.83
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abje… read more
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"Also Dad said it was a shame to go to bed early and miss everything when you could sleep late the next day and catch up..."-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
"Beyond that elfin face, the steady eyes, there was something breathing, something that was fed blood from a tiny heart beating under pointed breasts. But is was cobweb under the fingers. Cobweb in th…"-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
"Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounc…"-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
"The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old…"-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
2. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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3. Marvel Masterworks: Captain America, Vol. 1
By: Stan Lee , Jack Kirby
4.10
Format: 668 pages, Hardcover
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- graphic novels
- comics
4. Raylan
By: Elmore Leonard
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky coalmines, marijuana has become the biggest cash cr… read more
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5. The Martian Chronicles
By: Ray Bradbury
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonis… read more
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6. Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
By: George Pérez , Alan Moore , Kurt Schaffenberger , Curt Swan
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
/Alan Moore /Curt Swan, George Perez, and /Kurt Schaffenberger, illustrators Written by the author … read more
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7. Fantastic Four: Full Circle
By: Alex Ross
3.79
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
An all-new Marvel Comics graphic novel starring the Fantastic Four, written and illustrated by reno… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
8. Saga, Volume 8
By: Brian K. Vaughan
4.46
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions… read more
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- comics
"Welcome to Abortion Town!"-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"Is this some kind of kinky thrupple thing? Because I'm not necessarily opposed."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"I´ve held you in my heart since the day you left me. But you´re too heavy to carry another step. And I need to keep moving."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"Doubt can paralyze you, can make you not want to do anything. But if you learn to channel it, to turn those feelings away from yourself and out at the world you can doubt what's impossible."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
9. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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- comics
10. The Mysteries
By: Bill Watterson
3.76
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more
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- comics
11. Where the Body Was
By: Ed Brubaker
4.14
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more
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12. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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13. Night Fever
By: Ed Brubaker
3.87
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind? In Europe o… read more
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14. Newburn, Volume 1
By: Chip Zdarsky
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Easton Newburn is a private detective without loyalties, investigating conflicts between rival crim… read more
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15. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
By: Michael Pollan
4.27
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more
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"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
16. Devil's Reign: A Marvel Event
By: Chip Zdarsky
3.93
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The story that's been building for years is finally here! Wilson Fisk has risen from Kingpin of Cri… read more
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17. Daredevil, Vol. 7: Lockdown
By: Chip Zdarsky
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Angel of Death has come to Hell’s Kitchen. As a series of grisly murders tests Elektra’s mettle… read more
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18. Untold Horror
By: Dave Alexander
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Insightful interviews of horror legends George Romero, John Landis, Joe Dante, Brian Yuzna, and mor… read more
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19. Mad About the Fifties
By: MAD Magazine
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Travel back to the wacky Fifties in this comic compilation of the best of MAD's early years! From t… read more
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- graphic novels
- humor
- anthologies
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