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21) I'll be the one
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Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have set for girls like her. She'll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star, and she'll do it better...
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"Portrait of the mid-size city of Chelyabinsk and how it is faring in the new Russia"--
"A revealing look into the lives of ordinary Russians. More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne GMore than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to...
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English
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"Starting in the early 1960s, there was fear in America about the proliferation of computer database and networking technologies. People worried that these systems were going to be used by both corporations and governments for surveillance and control. Indeed, the dominant cultural view at the time was that computers were tools of repression, not liberation -- and that included the ARPANET, the military research network that would grow into the Internet...
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Erik Winter mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
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392 pages : map, illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Meet charismatic detective Erik Winter, the youngest chief inspector in Sweden. Beneath his sharp suits and stylish exterior, Winter is moody and intuitive, completely consumed by the crimes he's trying to solve. In this atmospheric, heart-stopping tale, Winter's troubles abound - and a bloody double murder on his doorstep is just the beginning. Following the trail of clues left by the killer leads Winter into the cult world of the gothic - a riddle...
26) Skim
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English
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"Skim" (Kimberly Keiko Cameron) is a not-slim would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When her classmate Katie is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. The popular clique stars a club to boost school spirit, but Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression
27) Una educación
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Lumen
Pub. Date
2018.
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464 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la escuela o acuden al médico cuando enferman. Todos...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012
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400 p. ; 22 cm
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English
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Ronson investigates the strange things we are willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with the personalities of our loved ones to indigo children to hyper successful spiritual healers. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspectives, for instance a pop singer whose greatest passion is the coming alien invasion, and the scientist designated to greet those aliens when they arrive. Ronson throws himself into the stories....
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Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2023.
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191 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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The creator of the Sixel Design crochet brand and online platform provides an all-in-one resource for overlay mosaic crochet and 15 designs to try including the Heartbreaker Zipper Pouch, Poison Skull Cap and a Victorian Pillow.
32) Code 61: a novel
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2002
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451 p. ; 18 cm
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English
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[Trans-High Corp.]
Pub. Date
2001
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volumes, 193 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When People magazine called Paul Krassner "the father of the underground press", he immediately demanded a blood test. In this sequel to the Firecracker Award -- winning Pot Stories for the Soul, he proves People right. Psychedelic Trips for the Soul includes funny, wild, and illuminating tales by and about such mind-altered luminaries as Timothy Leary, John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman, Groucho Marx, Jerry Garcia, Eldridge Cleaver, Squeaky Fromme, Wavy...
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Emily the Strange graphic novellas volume 1
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
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266 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
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English
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Emily the Strange has lost her memory and finds herself in the town of Blackrock with nothing more than her diary, her slingshot, and the clothes on her back
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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For centuries she's waited for the right being to summon her to reign again over all her evil dominion. She is Akasha, the wickedly regal mother of all vampires. Lestat has now found acceptance in the tattooed, pierced, black-clad world as a Goth-riffed rock star. Together, Akasha and Lestat can rule forever. But Lestat's fascination with a flesh-and-blood mortal may upend that reign
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Zero Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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120 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the alt right ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, a culture of struggle sessions and virtue signalling lurks behind a therapeutic...
40) Beastly
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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Kyle Kingson has it all, including a wicked cruel streak. He zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra inviting her to the school's extravagant bash. After she accepts, he blows her off in a very cruel fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he hates. Enraged by his horrible appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only way to break the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is, which...
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