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Pub. Date
2020-
Language
English
Description
When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer's Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysterious woman arrives to reveal that terrifying creatures are behind the chaos - and that she alone will destroy them, no matter the cost. When the children of Archer's Peak-a sleepy town in the heart of America-begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories-impossible details of terrifying...
10) Discipline
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"During the Civil War, many Quakers were caught between their fervent support of abolition, a desire to preserve the Union, and their long-standing commitment to pacifism. When Charles Cox, a young Indiana Quaker, slips out early one morning to enlist in the Union Army, he scandalizes his family and his community. Leaving behind the strict ways of Quaker life, Cox is soon confronted with the savagery of battle, the cruelty of the enemy (as well as...
11) Virtually yours
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Shouldn't finding a life partner be more challenging than ordering a pizza? Welcome to Virtually Yours, a virtual dating app that provides all the proof of being in a relationship without actually being in one. With her career front of mind, Eva Estrella joins Virtually Yours, after a nudge from her sister, to alleviate some family pressure as she continues to look for her dream job in journalism. While Max Kittridge, a former child star in the middle...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Alguien quiere morir. Ya no es joven, y se pregunta para qué otro día más, por muy privilegiada, divertida y amable que aún sea su vida. Alguien quiere amar. No sabe con certeza si le corresponden, si sus sentimientos serán entendidos, si tiene siquiera derecho a expresarlos. Alguien viaja. Visita ciudades, playas, bares, fiestas exóticas, cabañas al borde del agua donde pasar la noche bebiendo y riendo. Alguien ilustra unos libros preciosos...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Dominic and Daphne have been happily married for three years. They've settled into a comfortable life, but Dominic worries they might be too comfortable. They're stuck in unsatisfying jobs, have difficult relationships with their families, and their sex life isn't exactly exciting. So on New Year's Day, he has an idea to lift them out of their funk and reignite their spark: What if they opened up their marriage? Daphne is shocked at first, but to...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
«Todo mito que nace renace. Todo mito que encarna reencarna». Obsesionado con la reina de Saba, Bos Mutas, un joven escritor contemporáneo, sale a buscarla por el mundo, igual que hicieron a lo largo de los siglos personajes históricos como Salomón, Tomás de Aquino y Gérard de Nerval. Y aunque la reina de Saba resulta inasible, Bos Mutas encuentra en su lugar a la muy terrenal Zahra Bayda, una partera somalí. De esa manera, el tiempo real...
15) The wonder state
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Girl One comes a spellbinding tale full of mythmaking and magic, about friendship and the destructive power of secrets"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In the heady days before a New Year's Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil's Copacabana Beach, a family reckons with a matriarch's long-awaited return, causing old secrets to come to light in this infectiously vibrant debut that explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes, two peoples, and two worlds"--
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel’s development describe the form’s “coming of age,” its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino questions these established narratives, arguing that the medium’s history of censorship and marginalization endures in the minds of its present-day readers and, crucially, its authors. Comics and their writers remain burdened by the stigma
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Born in Mallorca, Pere Joan Riera (known professionally as Pere Joan) thrived in the underground comics world, beginning in the mid-1970s with the self-published collections Baladas Urbanas and MuŽrdago, both of which were released almost immediately after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco and Spain's transition to democracy. The first monograph in English on a comics artist from Spain, The Art of Pere Joan takes a topographical approach...
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