 | Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $7.50 An old, battered Bruce Wayne retakes the cowl to save Gotham City from his foes one final time. The benchmark that modern comic books are measured by and all the more apt with the decline of America and its search for a hero to save it.
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 | Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $11.03 The Joker pushes Commissioner Gordon and Batman to their breaking point. Will Gordon hold onto his sanity? Will Batman finally break his one rule and murder Joker? A morality tale far better than most would ascribe to a comic book.
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 | The Joker by Brian Azzarello
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $10.72 Understand chaos as embodied by a single man.
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 | Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days by Matthew Moses
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $24.61 Tired of religion, political corruption, the power of mass media, and feeling lost in the masses? So is the author of this book. He takes on God, Jesus, the President, pop culture, and brings the world to an end.
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 | Mike's Election Guide 2008 by Michael Moore
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $0.01 An attempt to simplify the horribly complicated election of 2008 on which American history hinges with a tad bit of humor to make the bitter more palatable.
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 | Fight Club: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $6.15 An anti-consumerist book to the umpteenth degree. Society has come to equate material riches with spiritual worth. Driven mad by the consumer economy, Palahniuk's mad protagonist seeks to tear the system down.
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 | The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality by Jerome R. Corsi
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $0.08 Corsi makes his case against the direction Obama and his administration would take this country should he prevail in November.
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 | Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It by Dick Morris
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $0.66 Dick Morris' opinion on the state of the union...not altogether positive.
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 | I Can't Believe I'm Still Single: Sane, Slightly Neurotic (but in a Sane Way) Filmmaker into Good Yoga, Bad Reality TV, Too Much Chocolate, and a Little ... Point Anyone Who'll Let Me Watch Football by Eric Schaeffer
Buy used from: $3.43 The perfect book for men out there, me included, who can't seem to understand why relationships are difficult. I've discovered women are largely negative towards it so be warned.
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 | Apocalypse Now - The Complete Dossier (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.52 To understand the sheer madness of modern times, look no further than this masterpiece. There is no sense in the world. We simply act to act. We're reactors, rarely instigators. Creation and thinking are only the first steps to madness.
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 | The Truman Show (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.93 What society has become: a nation of voyeurs. We're all too afraid to live and instead live vicariously through others avoiding the pain as well as the pleasure. The harbinger of reality television.
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 | Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.74 How ethereal dreams become tainted when they attempt to become reality.
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 | When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $1.97 One man's wearying life out of chronological order.
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 | Platoon (Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.70 Two soldiers, one representing darkness and the other light, battle for control of the soul of a new recruit in the hell that is Vietnam.
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 | X-Men Magneto Testament #1 (Of 5) by Greg Pak
Buy used from: $4.97 A tragic tale involving Magneto's Holocaust childhood.
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 | The Man Who Bought America (Captain America (Graphic Novels)) by Ed Brubaker
Buy new: $23.99 Fitting in this age of heroes who suffer and corruption that thrives.
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