Zombicide, or Zombicide Season 1 as it is affectionately called, is the first offering by Guillotine Games. It's a zombie survival board game that recreates the feeling of being swarmed… Read the rest of the article: Zombicide will have you running for your life

The Japanese game of shogi is an ancient game of strategy and planning, similar to chess. And like chess, with a little effort, anyone can learn to play but becoming… Read the rest of the article: Let's Catch the Lion: young version of the ancient Japanese game shogi

Featuring an array of grungy black and white photographs as well as insightful interviews, No Wave by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley (with an introduction by Lydia Lunch) presents an… Read the rest of the article: No Wave – a raw never-seen-before look at the underground music scene of 1976-1980 by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

Love them or loathe them, the Beat Generation helped define the literature and poetics of an era. Their countercultural explorations pushed the boundaries of polite society from the mid-1940s through… Read the rest of the article: Snapshot Poetics: Allen Ginsberg's Photographic Memoir of the Beat Era

In an era when tattooed supermodels grace Chanel ads, it's easy to lose sight of a time in the not-so-distant past when a lady getting inked was truly a subversive… Read the rest of the article: Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo

I'm quite happy eggs are back in style because they really are the perfect food. They are inexpensive, full of protein, sustainable and are the key ingredient in many wonderful… Read the rest of the article: How to eat eggs for every meal

City Walks: Los Angeles: 50 Adventures ($13) by Eric Hiss (author) and Bart Wright (illustrator) 50 cards, 4 x 5.8 x 1.2 If you enjoy travel and you enjoy books,… Read the rest of the article: Pick a card, any card, and embark on an urban walking adventure in Los Angeles

There are very few parts of Batman's print legacy that aren't readily available to the public. The various runs of newspaper comic strips are finally collected in hardcover form for… Read the rest of the article: Batman comic strips from 1968-1969 newspapers that have never been reprinted until now

Following the acclaimed Persepolis, Embroideries is a graphic novel that tells stories from an ultraconservative Iran in the early 1990s with irony and wit. Three generations of women from Marjane… Read the rest of the article: Embroideries – Iranian women's stories on faking virginity, forced marriage, and other taboo topics

Through the Woods is a collection of five short stories that read like haunted fairy tales. Written and illustrated by Canadian artist Emily Carroll, the stories are told as though… Read the rest of the article: Through the Woods – haunted fairy tales that will make your heart pound a little harder

As a photography fanatic and lover of the humble Polaroid, I knew The Polaroid Book by Barbara Hitchcock and Steve Crist would be a hit. Featuring over 300 pages of… Read the rest of the article: The Polaroid Book: over 400 intriguing "instant photos"

The Mickey Mouse Treasures is literally a treasure trove of Mickey artifacts. Contained within the hard-cover book's 63 pages are pockets, pouches, and fold-outs containing removable replicas of select Disney… Read the rest of the article: Mickey Mouse Treasures book – pockets, pouches and fold-outs filled with removable replicas of Disney memorabilia

Nocturne: Creatures of the Night is not a book about sleep-deprived college students, club-hopping hipsters or even long haul truck drivers. Nocturne: Creatures of the Night is an intimately photographed… Read the rest of the article: Nocturne: a journey through nighttime in the animal kingdom

If you had the power to erase your mistakes, what would you do? Would you change big things, little things? How about every single seemingly insignificant thing you did today?… Read the rest of the article: Seconds – a humorous graphic novel about a mushroom that allows a young chef to "revise" her mistakes with unexpected consequences

Top 100 (or insert random number here) books have been around for ages. They tend to make great coffee table books, but it takes something really special to start a… Read the rest of the article: The 100 Greatest Console Video Games: 1977-1987

There is a certain novelty in trying to leaf through a book that is bigger and heavier than the coffee table it rests on. Thankfully, the hernia is worth it,… Read the rest of the article: 75 Years of Marvel Comics: From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen

Emma Campion, the cover designer of The Slanted Door: Modern Vietnamese Food is to be congratulated for her outstanding work. The contrast in texture between the gray flannel top and… Read the rest of the article: The Slanted Door cookbook – modern Vietnamese food

It might not be the album against which Kanye West recently felt the need to protest, but Beck's Song Reader is so beautifully conceived and presented that in a perfect… Read the rest of the article: Song Reader provides original songs by Beck in sheet music form only

There was just no way I could walk by this without picking it up, and there was no way I could pick it up without buying it. Oh my goodness.

I bought The Strange Library on a whim.