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Our Booklists
The book suggestion lists were created by teen staff members at
Martin Library. If there is a genre you think we should create a list for,
send an e-mail to
teens@yorklibraries.org.
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30 Days of Night -- Steven Niles
In a sleepy, secluded Alaska town called Barrow, the sun sets and
doesn't rise for over thirty consecutive days and nights. From the
darkness, across the frozen wasteland, an evil will come that will
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Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth -- Grant Morrison
The inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gotham's mental illness
detention center on April Fool's Day and demand Batman in exchange
for their prisoners. Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is
forced to live and endure the personal hells of the Joker,
Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, and Two Face in order to save the innocents
and retake the prison. During his run through this absurd gauntlet,
the Dark Knight Detective's own sanity is in jeopardy.
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Bone (Vol. 1, Out From Boneville) – Jeff Smith
Smith's epic concerns three blobby creatures who have stumbled into
a valley full of monsters, magic, farmers, an exiled princess and a
huge, cynical dragon. The story is something like a Chuck Jones
version of The Lord of the Rings: hilarious and
action-packed, but rarely losing track of its darker subtext about
power and evil.
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Civil War -- Mark Millar
The landscape of the Marvel Universe is changing, and it's time to
choose: Whose side are you on? A conflict has been brewing from more
than a year, threatening to pit friend against friend, brother
against brother—and all it will take is a single misstep to cost
thousands their lives and ignite the fuse! As the war claims its
first victims, no one is safe as teams, friendships and families
begin to fall apart. |
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Maus – Art Speigelman
It is the story of Vladek
Speigelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a
cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus
approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the
cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of
any lingering sense of familiarity. Maus is a haunting
tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is
woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship
with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by
survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and
unhappy visits.
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Runaways -- Brian K. Vaughan
Meet Alex, Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly and
Nico - six young friends whose lives are about to take an
unexpected dramatic turn. Discovering their parents are all
secretly super-villains, together the teens run away from home
and vow to turn the tables on their evil legacy!
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The Sandman (series) -- Neil Gaiman
A wizard attempting to
capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger
brother Dream instead. Fearful for his safety, the wizard kept
him imprisoned in a glass bottle for decades. After his escape,
Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost
objects of power. On the way, Morpheus encounters Lucifer and
demons from Hell, the Justice League, and John Constantine, the
Hellblazer.
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Strangers in Paradise -- Terry Moore
Strangers in Paradise is the story of three friends, Francine,
Katchoo and David, and the people they fall in and out of love with.
It's a tale of dark pasts and hopeful futures, double-crosses and true
friendship, love and hate. In other words, it's a story of real life,
kicked up a notch. |
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The Ultimates -- Mark Millar
Strange beings who've appeared overnight are here to stay and Nmick
Fury, head of the elite espionage agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., has a
unique solution: Put some of these bizarre characters on the
government's payroll. |
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The Walking Dead – Robert Kirkman
This collection of the first six issues of the
ongoing series opens with police officer Rick Grimes
awakening from a gunshot-induced coma. From here,
he's immediately dragged into a world where
dangerous revenants are shambling amok without any
sort of an explanation. From the moment Grimes comes
to, it's a harrowing battle to avoid hordes of
decomposing zombies and a hope-against-all-odds
search for his missing family.
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Watchmen – Alan
Moore
It all begins with the paranoid delusions of a
half-insane hero called Rorschach. But is Rorschach really insane or has
he in fact uncovered a plot to murder super-heroes and, even worse,
millions of innocent civilians? On the run from the law, Rorschach
reunites with his former teammates in a desperate attempt to save the
world and their lives, but what they uncover will shock them to their
very core and change the face of the planet! |
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Y the Last Man:
vol 1. Unmanned – Brian Vaughan
A
mysterious plague has killed every man on earth except Yorick Brown,
who was somehow spared. The sole Y-chromosomed
survivor is an amiable, headstrong young man, the son of a U.S.
congresswoman and, as it happens, an amateur escape artist. He
spends most of the story on the run from a tribe of self-styled
Amazons bent on eliminating the last vestige of patriarchy. He is
also trying, with a bioengineer who may be responsible for the
worldwide "gendercide," to figure out why he survived; hoping
to reach his girlfriend in Australia; and, of course, contemplating
the repopulation of the planet.
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