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Amu and her Guardian Characters have found a home at an elite school. But now two new Guardians have been chosen, and each has a secret. One is more complex than Amu thought, and the other may be out to betray the Guardians to the evil Easter Corporation! This volume of Shugo Chara! includes special extras after the story!
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"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns iut into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried but failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a nysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--Provided...
43) Earls trip
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"Even an earl needs his ride-or-dies, and Archibald Fielding-Burton, the Earl of Harcourt, counts himself lucky to have two. The annual trip that Archie takes with his BFFs Simon and Effie holds a sacred spot in their calendars. This year Archie is especially eager to get away until an urgent letter arrives from an old family friend, begging him to help prevent a ruinous scandal. Suddenly the trip has become earls-plus-girls, as Archie's childhood...
44) Clean it!
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Child's Play (International) Ltd
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[2013]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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As a boy helps his parents do laundry, tidy up, wash dishes, and get the recycling ready, his little sister tries to do her part, too.
Cuando era un niño ayuda a sus padres hacer la colada, limpiar, lavar los platos, y obtener el, su hermana pequeña lista reciclaje trata de hacer su parte también.
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Souradeep is an eighteen-year-old boy who struggles to achieve his dream career despite his regular fight against financial constraints, OCD and addiction. Things were going normal until random people started being attacked in random places. Suddenly his favourite Uncle starts behaving strangely with him. As if things weren't weird enough, a dog appears in front of his doorstep one fine morning. In order to secure his life, Souradeep needs to get...
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How entertaining is it to open a box of random comics? We are not sure, but we are willing to let David find out. He has purchased a Halloween themed mystery box of 11 comics. Will he get the grand prize? Will he find comics he wants? Why does anyone want to share unboxing comics? All questions that could be hidden in the box with the comics. Come along as David discovers what books he received and what thoughts and associations they bring to mind....
47) Blessed water
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"Sister Holiday is back with a newly minted PI apprentice certificate, a twisty mystery to solve, and something to prove. Tattooed from her neck to her toes, and sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. Never one to make things easy for herself, she's committed to taking her permanent vows with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and joining former fire inspector Magnolia Riveaux's latest...
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"One dark evening on New York City's Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I'll kill for you. In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her...
49) Fence: Issue #4
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Fence volume 4
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Nicholas begins to overthink everything as he struggles to prove he deserves his place at Kings Row.
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Shelley Frankenstein! volume 1
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Launching a new graphic novel series for young middle-grade readers! Shelley Frankenstein loves to create scary monsters, but for some reason they always turn out cute...until this time. Shelley Frankenstein is a little girl with a rather infamous family heritage! She loves to be scared and assumes all other kids feel the same. To prove her theory, Shelley and her assistant brother, Iggy, set about creating new toys to horrify their playground peers....
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One man's trash is another man's living.
Since earth became inhospitable, humanity escaped ages ago to live in a space station floating above the atmosphere. Now Travis and his crew of garbage men are tasked with cleaning up mountains of toxic waste, working for a company called Atomic Bros INC., to create a 'Clear World'. But when one of Travis' crew members goes missing near an old nuclear facility Travis' job becomes a bit more complicated.
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After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles,...
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This celebration of self‑love and healing, from illustrator and comics creator Hyesu Lee, is a knowing smile and a shared sigh in book form. Welcome to the club!
Finding the uniqueness that makes you you. Empowering yourself while staying vulnerable and open. Learning to rest, nurture your needs, and embrace self-love. Hyesu Lee has been on a healing journey toward all these states, and she invites you to come along with her.
In this generously...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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516 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he...
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Friendship letters volume 3
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When she becomes physically and emotionally abusive to her own children, Irma Miller, struggling with her own childhood trauma, reaches out to her friend Doretta for prayer and wisdom, learning that to save her family, she must admit she needs professional help.
56) Off the air
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"Equal parts thought-provoking and entertaining, Emmy Award winning reporter Christina Estes introduces Jolene Garcia in her Tony Hillerman Prize winning debut, Off the Air. Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignments-anything from a monsoon storm to a newborn giraffe at the zoo-and special projects. Stories that take more time to research and produce. Stories that Jolene wants...
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2024.
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294 pages ; 21 cm.
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Español
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"Alma Cruz ha decidido ponerle punto final a su carrera de escritora, pero teme acabar como su amiga, una exitosa novelista arrastrada a la locura por un libro que jamás terminó de escribir. Por eso, cuando hereda un modesto terreno en República Dominicana, se le ocurre sepultar allí sus decenas de manuscritos inconclusos. Quiere que descansen en paz en la misma tierra donde yacen sus raíces. Pero a diferencia de Alma, los protagonistas de sus...
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Warner
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1994
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298 pages ; 18 cm
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Español
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Cuando un curandera viene permanecer con un muchacho joven, él prueba los enlaces que lo atan a su cultura y se encuentra en los secretos del pasado.
When a healer comes to stay with a young boy, he tests the bonds that tie him to his culture and finds himself in the secrets of the past.
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"Librarian Chloe Sampson has been struggling: to take care of her three younger siblings, to find herself, to make ends meet. She's just about at the end of her rope when she stumbles across a rare edition of a book from the 1960s at the local flea market. Deciding it's a sign of her luck turning, she takes it home with her-only to be shocked when her cranky hermit of a neighbor swoops in and offers to buy it for an exorbitant price. Intrigued, Chloe...
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If you have a couple hundred dollars and two hours at a comics expo, what will you get? That's the question for this little report from the 2023 Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo. David went and bought a ton of comics. And now he has rested and spread it on the floor before him and will tell you about what he got and why. Like any comic geek, he will go on tangents that will take days to get back from. But that's what a comic can be, a tangent...
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