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741) The changing man
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
As a scholarship student at the prestigious Nithercott School, seventeen-year-old Ife feels like an outcast, but when a missing classmate reappears and acts strange, Ife teams up with two other students to investigate the school's decades-old legend of the Changing Man.
Author
Series
Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
102 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
On a rainy day at Lumberjanes camp, the Roanokes explore tabletop gaming (with bonus magic!), and the underground tunnels beneath the Mess Hall. The woods surrounding Miss Qinzella Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady-Types are home to more incredible magical critters and beings than anyone could possibly imagine...unfortunately, on this particular day, it's pouring rain, and each and every 'Jane has been tasked with just one job:...
744) Dark shimmer
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A retelling of Snow White from the evil step mother's point of view as fifteen-year-old Dolce grows up on islands in a Venetian lagoon where she learns how to make mirrors, but when her mother dies she is taken in by a widower and his daughter while she secretly continues making mirrors and slowly goes mad from mercury poisoning.
Author
Series
Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 10
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
102 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
It is Parents' Day at the Lumberjanes' camp and they must find a way to keep their parents away from the supernatural forces that have become old news for Roanoke Cabin.
Author
Series
Komi can't communicate volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
188 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve! Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. It's time for the national health exam at Itan High, and the excitement of eye exams and height measurements have fanned the flames...
747) Honey so sweet: v.1
Author
Series
Honey so sweet volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
Little did Nao Kogure realize back in middle school that when she left an umbrella and a box of bandages in the rain for injured delinquent Taiga Onise that she would meet him again in high school. Nao wants nothing to do with the gruff and frightening Taiga, but he suddenly presents her with a huge bouquet of flowers and asks her to date him - with marriage in mind! Is Taiga really so scary, or is he a sweetheart in disguise?
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Taking a sweatshop job in Seoul to support her family, a teenaged girl endures a life of extreme exploitation that contributes to Korea's economic rise in the 1970s. She works long, sunless days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer.
Author
Series
Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
Ripley found a treasure map! The Roanoke scouts are eager to hunt down what they hope might be some kind of mystical hoard of gems and jewels, rad dinosaur bones, or maybe even more treasure maps (that you have to piece together to find an EVEN BIGGER prize, obviously)! What they end up finding is scattered pieces of an ancient Greek statue of a woman, who, when assembled, comes back to life as a vindictive ex-goddess! And she's looking to satisfy...
Author
Series
Komi can't communicate volume 6
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
187 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
"Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends... Komi and her friends had an eventful cultural festival, so Najimi suggests that they all go to karaoke to finish off the day with...
751) Down the well
Author
Series
Adventures in Thimbleton volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Lore Deoradán wants to be happy when she grows up. But navigating her parents' mercurial moods, moving to a new town just two weeks before her high school graduation, and dealing with her beloved grandma's declining health all make that dream seemingly impossible. Will her new job be the first step toward happiness, or will it be yet another disappointment?? When she falls down a well into a magical world with talking animals that haven't seen...
752) A guide to the dark
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Stranded at the Wildwood Motel while on their spring break road trip, Mira and Layla discover eight people died in their room and set out to find the connection between the deaths and the unexplainable things that keep happening inside Room 9.
753) Nubia: real one
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
205 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"Nubia has always been a little bit...different. As a baby she showcased Amazonian-like strength by pushing over a tree to rescue her neighbor's cat. But despite her having similar abilities, the world has no problem telling her that she's no Wonder Woman. And even if she were, they wouldn't want her. Every time she comes to the rescue, she's reminded of how people see her: as a threat. Her moms do their best to keep her safe, but Nubia can't deny...
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
187 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
Mizuki, a girl who pretends to be a boy at an all-boys school, finds it hard to keep her secret with such distractions as a snoopy reporter, a cross-dressing contest, a persistent photographer, and visits by friends who know the truth.
Author
Series
Komi can't communicate volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve! Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends ... Komi's friendship quest just hit its first major obstacle--the green-eyed monster! Tadano and a girl named Onemine have been hanging...
756) The limits
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters--a fifteen year old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan--who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year"--
From Mo’orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia’s imperiled...
758) Carole & Tuesday: 2
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
170 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 19 cm
Description
"Carole and Tuesday aren't the only ones searching for stardom on Mars! Former child actor Angela will stop at nothing to achieve her singing debut--even if she has to become the puppet of a mysterious genius to do it. As Carole and Tuesday continue chasing their dreams, can this brash young star avoid butting heads with her songwriter long enough to make it onstage?"--Provided by publisher.
759) Precious
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
While Dessa and her two companions find refuge in a stable, the owner of the inn is making a deal with the smugglers and the Captain Drake and the royal guard ride in to the yard, causing chases, captures, mishaps, and narrow escapes.
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