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“Wolverine: Old Man Logan”

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Author: Mark Millar
Artist: Steve McNiven
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Genre: Comic Book Trade Paperback
Pages: 199 Pages
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“Wolverine: Old Man Logan” is a collection of eight issues of the ongoing Wolverine comic book series. The story is set fifty years in the future after events that transpired where all of Earth’s supervillains banded together to wipe out all superheroes. From the start of the story the villains have won.
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Rock Your Ugly Christmas Sweater

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Author: Anne Marie Blackman, Brian Clark Howard
Publisher: Running Press
Genre: Holiday/Humor
Pages: 192
Link: http://rockyouruglychristmassweater.com
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Who doesn’t like laughing at a bunch of people in ugly Christmas sweaters? I even have an ugly sweaters contest at work now; that’s how serious the holiday sweaters business is these days. Rock Your Ugly Christmas Sweater is a book with 200 photos of people wearing ungodly ugly sweaters for Christmas and Hanukkah. Whatever holiday you celebrate, there’s an ugly sweater for everyone, even pets!
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Silhouettes From Popular Culture

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Author: Olly Moss
Publisher: Titan Books
Genre: Art / Pop Culture
Pages: 144
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Titan Books is known for releasing some cool art & movie themed books, and Silhouettes From Popular Culture is no different. Artist Olly Moss makes paper cut silhouettes of movie & TV characters and other characters from pop culture. If you’re looking for more of a deep meaning, you’re not going to find it.
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The Road Most Traveled

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Author: Chuck Ragan
Contributors: Frank Turner, Greg Attonito, Jon Snodgrass, Jim Ward, Brian Fallon, Al Burr, Joe Gittleman, Franz Nicolay, Rev. Payton, William Elliott Whitmore, Mike Park
Publisher: Milner Crest Publishing LLC
Genre: Music
Pages: 146
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Hot Water Music’s Chuck Ragan & many other contributors have compiled a bunch of tour advice, tips, suggestions, and tour stories for bands & musicians looking to hit the road. It’s got some great advice and any band looking to tour for the first time should check this out!
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Vegan for Life

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Authors: Jack Norris, RD, Virginia Messina, MPH, RD
Publisher: Lifelong Books
Genre: Diet/Nutrition
Pages: 284
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Vegan for Life is an impressive primer on veganism for the vegan-curious and even those practicing. It takes a measured, scientific approach to the vegan lifestyle, thoroughly but clearly answering many questions beginners may have.
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Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion

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Edited by: Mary Alice Money
Publisher: PopMatters & Titan Books
Pages: 490
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This hefty tome weaves together 60 essays, mostly academic, from over 40 authors on all things Whedon. Nicely organized chronologically by canon, the essays delve deeply into Whedon’s work. For the uninitiated, it may seem breathlessly geeky to have so many intellectual treatises written about a bunch of tv shows, but as any fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Firefly could tell you, those shows have real depth.
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The Hammer Vault: Treasures from the Archive of Hammer Films

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Author: Marcus Hearn
Publisher: Titan Books
Genre: Film
Pages: 178
Retail Price: $34.95
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For fans of 1950s and 1960s horror, sci-fi, camp, exotica, and shlock, this coffee table book is a must have.
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My Brain Hurts: Volume Two

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Author: Liz Baillie
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
Genre: Minicomic
Pages: 128
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This second volume collects issues 6-10 of Liz Baillie’s excellent mini comic that follows the lives of LGBT teenagers in New York City as they navigate school, parents, friends, and relationships. As with the first volume, this mini comic is smartly written and touching.
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My First Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories

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Edited By: Chris Duncan
Publisher: AK Press
Genre: Music
Pages: 200
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It’s a nice idea to get a large group of punky people (band members, skateboarders, zinesters, etc.) to jot down their earliest punk show memories. Too bad everyone seems to have the exact same memory.
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An Unlikely Prince: The Life and Times of Machiavelli

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Author: Niccolo Capponi
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Genre: Biography/History
Pages: 324
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It was fortuitous that I picked up this book at the same time I started playing Assassin’s Creed II. A scholarly biography and a video game wouldn’t normally have much in common, but the two leveraged each other well.
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Vegan Pie in the Sky

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Author: Isa Chandra Moscowitz and Terry Hope Romero
Publisher: Lifelong Books
Genre: Cooking
Pages: 224
Retail Price: $17
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The two pillars of vegan cooking have reunited for another dessert-centric cookbook. At $17, Vegan Pie in the Sky is small in stature – closer to a pocket book than Veganomicon’s formidable textbook – but its quality outweighs the quantity (just 75 recipes including crusts and bases).
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Everything Dies #7

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Author: Box Brown
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
Genre: Comic
Pages: 32
Retail Price: $5
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According to Microcosm’s site, Everything Dies is a comic series that illustrates comparative religious myths. This one is on the ancient Sumerian creation and flood myths; this flood myth (one of many) was likely a template for the story of Noah’s ark.
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