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1) Maria M
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"A brutal, original graphic novel crime noir from comics legend Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets). Femme fatale Maria M.'s life south of the border is sordid cacophony of sex, drugs, and power. She emigrated to America in search of a better life, only to find that it takes more than a change of scenery to break the cycle of violence..." --Cover page [4].
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"Murder, passion, and criminal enterprise are presented here at their darkest, directly from the most talented writers and artists in crime comics! In these thirteen pitch-black noir stories, you'll find deadly conmen and embittered detectives converging on femme fatales and accidental murderers, all presented in sharp black and white by masters of the craft."--back cover.
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Manila--the walled city recently freed from a dictator's iron-fisted rule--is a magical metropolis where monsters roam the neon-lit streets. In this noir-tinged graphic novel, the capital exists in an alternate reality where myth and fantasy collide. Tensions between the human and nonhuman realms are about to hit a breaking point in a city now governed by the mysterious Societies. Who will prevail?"--Cover page [4].
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Blade Runner 2029 volume 9
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"Los Angeles, 2029. They city is under siege from Yotun's enhanced replicant army Its seawall defenses lie shattered, the LAPD Tower stands ablaze, and the streets run wild with replicants rebelling against their human masters. Meanwhile, Blade Runner Ash, now reunited with her replicant lover Freysa, has become a target of suspicion for the Blade Runner Division. As time begins to run out for Ash, she finds herself in a desparate battle to stop Yutan...
6) The chill
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It's summertime in New York, but a 'chill' has settled over the city-- a serial killer is on the loose, and the ritualized murders are becoming increasingly sadistic. The NYPD and the FBI have a suspect: a gorgeous young woman named Arlana. The only problem is that every witness provides a different description of her. None of this makes any sense to anyone except Martin Cleary, a beaten-down Irish cop from Boston with a whopper of a secret in his...
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Pretty deadly volume 3
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"Diving beneath the sun-soaked strips of 1930s Hollywoodland, where the best and brightest are dimmed and broken, the granddaughter of Sara Fields is found dead. Desperate to solve her murder and versed in the ways of the Immortals, her heartbroken uncle calls on the Reaper of Vengeance to aid him. In his obsession, following this twisted path may lead to his undoing."--back cover.
9) Night fever
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Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind? In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can't sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city, with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer as his guide. Rainer shows Jonathan the hidden world of the night, a world without rules or limits. But when the fun turns dangerous, Jonathan may find himself trapped in the dark...
10) The big fat kill
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Frank Miller's Sin City volume 3
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"Dwight owes a debt to the girls of Old Town. These dangerous women who walk the night have saved him more times than he can count, and finding friends like that isn't easy. Tonight, these friends are being threatened in more ways than one . . . Dwight is going to do whatever it takes to bring them peace and keep the status quo--even if it means killing a whole lot of people."
11) Snow blind
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For high school teen Teddy, life in a sleepy suburb in Alaska turns upside-down when he innocently posts a photo of his dad online, only to learn he and his family are in the Witness Protection Program. A man seeking revenge invades their town, and soon FBI agents arrive, too. But what if his dad's reasons for going into the program aren't as innocent as he says?
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Murder Inc volume 1
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"Discover a world in which the families of organized crime never lost their stranglehold on the United States. Today is the day that Valentine Gallo becomes a made man, and it's also the day he learns the secrets behind the organization he has served since he was old enough to walk. But it is the mysterious hit woman Jagger Rose that will forever turn his life upside down. Be there when shocking secrets of this new world spill out onto the very first...
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Sin City volume 2
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"Old flames die hard in this volume of the acclaimed crime noir. Presented at original size with new wrap-around cover art, this is a sordid tale of love, betrayal, and deadly temptation. Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job, a tattered string of failed romances, and his demons, Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up. And what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is...
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Blade Runner 2029 volume 1
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"Los Angeles, 2029. Aahna 'Ash' Ashina is back with the LAPD Blade Runner Unit and has returned to the rain-soaked streets of a slowly crumbling Los Angeles, hunting for renegade Replicants. But this time she's out to save as many of them as she can. Changed by her experiences, Ash is no longer the same cold, cynical killing machine as she was in 2019. Now she has a new agenda that, if discovered, will make her the enemy of humanity. When Ash is confronted...
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Blade Runner 2019 volume 5
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"In 2019, the Blade Runner known as Aahna 'Ash' Ashina rescued Cleo Selwyn, daughter of business tycoon Alexander Selwyn, from a plot to give the girl to the Tyrell Corporation for genetic experimentation. Ash and Cleo escaped Los Angeles and disappeared. Now, seven years later, Ash and Cleo have resurfaced on one of the Off-world mining colonies, living under assumed identities. But Cleo's father has never stopped looking for his daughter, sending...
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The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields, picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker’s favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city...
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Good Asian volume 2
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"Following Edison Hark—a haunted, self-loathing Chinese-American detective—on the trail of a killer in 1936 Chinatown, THE GOOD ASIAN is Chinatown noir starring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban, the Chinese, as they’re besieged by rampant murders, abusive police, and a world that seemingly never changes."--publisher's website.
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 3
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"It's 1988 and Ethan has been hired for his strangest case yet: finding the secrets of a Los Angeles real estate mogul. How hard could that be, right? Only what starts as a deep dive into the life of a stranger will soon take a deadly turn, and find Ethan risking everything that still matters to him." --back cover
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 2
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"A former Sixties radical and undercover agent, Ethan is one part repo man, one part private eye, and one part wrecking ball. Now it's 1985, and things in Ethan's life are going pretty well...until a missing woman shows up in the background of an old B-movie, and Ethan is drawn into Hollywood's secret occult underbelly as he hunts for her among the wreckage of the wild days of the '70s."--back cover.
20) Cosmic detective
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"Enter our detective. The murder of a god threatens to tear apart the very fabric of our reality, and only he stands in the way of utter destruction. Will the mystery he uncovers be worse than the disaster he’s trying to avert? And will his mind crack under the revelations he’s about to uncover before he can do anything about it?" --publisher's website
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