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1) Guts
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English
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Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going...
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March volume 2
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English
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This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
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Twisted journeys volume 5
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English
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Another book in the graphic novel series which lets the reader create the action by choosing which plot path to follow
4) Smile
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Smile volume 1
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English
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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to...
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Twisted journeys volume 4
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English
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Another chapter in the graphic novel series which lets the reader control the action by choosing which plot path to follow
6) Hey, kiddo
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English
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"In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through...
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Big ideas that changed the world volume 3
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English
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"A Shot in the Arm!, book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series, is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox-perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date-and concluding with an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly diseases such as measles, polio, anthrax, rabies, cholera, and influenza. The book is narrated...
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Do you like comic books and comic book characters? If you love comics, maybe you will visit a comic convention one day. Join Zach as he learns about the history of comic book conventions and attends his very first convention-Comic-Con! Students will develop their division skills as they are engaged in reading about the fans, costumes, vendors, swag, and exhibits of Comic-Con. This high-interest math reader integrates math and literacy skills, combining...
11) Mom's cancer
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Overview: Each year, approximately 1.5 million people in the United States and Canada are diagnosed with cancer. This is one family's story. Winner of the 2005 Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic for the original Web version, Mom's Cancer is now available as a graphic novel. An honest, unflinching, and sometimes humorous look at the practical and emotional effect that serious illness can have on patients and their families, Mom's Cancer...
12) Snowden
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English
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As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance technologies, and the recent history of government intrusion. Rall...
14) Dragon Ball Z
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Series
Publisher
Viz LLC
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
v. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
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English
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Goku, Earth's ultimate warrior, and his son, Gohan, must face new deadly enemies who wish to obtain the Dragon Balls to destroy the Earth.
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English
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I like a good beer buzz early in the morning Sheryl Crow once said in a song, and who wouldnt when you work a nine-to-five! Bonnie Fletcher is a working class, paycheck-to-paycheck married woman who comes to a midlife crisis, realizing that her life has become nothing more than a day-to-day routine, working for a high end retail store, dealing with the irate and bitching public, coming home to frozen Banquette TV dinners, sitting in front of a television...
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It's Cristina Hawkins's thirtieth birthday, and the aging stripper has just spent her special night giving another local scumbag a lap dance in the champagne room at the place she works. And when, she gets roughed up by her customer yet again, something seems to change in Cristina, and along with an ever-changing port city of Clearwater, a rough and wild place where anything seems to go and the rich call all the shots-nobody's ready for the scourge...
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Français
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Il n'est pas possible pour l'histoire qui va être contée d'en préciser l'époque; elle se perd dans la profondeur des siècles, et la terreur qu'elle a inspirée autrefois a rendu les témoins peu bavards...En ces temps, seuls quelques anciens, le soir, dans la sécurité de leurs foyers, osaient murmurer à des oreilles proches ce qu'ils avaient entendu de la bouche même de ceux qui les avaient précédés. Les confidents transmettaient ces récits...
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The evil and powerful siith are, wanting to rule the galaxy and they need to destroy their enemies the jhadis. And, they have got a new battle station in space the cube base with their siith fighters and droid army they go and attack. The jhadi people are suffering and the time of the jhadi is soon fading the struggle to hold onto hope but they are getting weak. Powerful siith fighters are, sent on missions to planets for the Master Siith who wants...
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Español
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Killoffer trabaja en su mesa de dibujo. Se deja llevar y toca la guitarra. En la noche, sueña que es una estrella de rock, un guitarrista en un grupo cuya vestimenta coincide con la del dibujante Jean-Christophe Menu. Un cómic gracioso y sintético sobre el camino alucinado que pueden tomar los sueños.
20) Roger
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The deadpan cartoon adventures of an expressionless, wordless, trouserless man, whose presence seems to go unnoticed. Enter the extraordinarily ordinary world of a half-dressed man. In the world of ROGER, silence speaks volumes, whether in the workplace, at leisure, or on his travels. In this debut collection of captionless cartoons, we share in the mundane, deadpan adventures of an expressionless, wordless, harmless man, whose full-on, half-dressed...
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