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"Jamie O'Neill loves the color red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age thirteen, there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother, Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind these things are intimately linked. And at his new school, where all else is disorientating...
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Mob psycho 100 volume 13
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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From the creator of One-Punch Man!
The battle for the city is over, with Claw vanquished, and nothing to mark the struggle but the gigantic broccoli sprouting from the rubble. That’s not a misprint, but it’s also the beginning of still more trouble as this “divine tree” begins to attract spiritual devotees to Seasoning City in search of the psychic power at its root! Regardless of his incredible heroism and...
The battle for the city is over, with Claw vanquished, and nothing to mark the struggle but the gigantic broccoli sprouting from the rubble. That’s not a misprint, but it’s also the beginning of still more trouble as this “divine tree” begins to attract spiritual devotees to Seasoning City in search of the psychic power at its root! Regardless of his incredible heroism and...
3) Shy: a novel
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. He is escaping Last Chance, a home for 'very disturbed young men', and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past and the heavy question of his future."--
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2023.
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English
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"Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls - especially blondes - and wondering who his father is. When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form 'Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa. Sure enough, the reluctantly nicknamed...
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Fitzcarraldo Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Every night they roam the streets, partying, rioting, running away from their fears, their parents and the future, fighting to exist, killing time. They drink, steal cars, feel wrecked, play it cool, longing for real love and true freedom. Startlingly raw...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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"Noah's widowed mother has relocated them from Chicago to rural New England. As he and his mother renovate their old Victorian house, within the walls they find scraps of writing, old photographs--disturbing clues to the existence of a woman who disappeared decades before. While his mother grows more obsessed by the discovery of these reliquaries, Noah fights his own troubling obsession with the boy next door, the enigmatic J.D. It is J.D. who begins...
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Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Rowan Quinn knows fatherhood is a role he doesn’t want to take on—until he unexpectedly finds himself a single dad. He uproots his perfectly constructed life to move to a tight-knit coastal community in South Africa where, with the help of his grandmother, Rowan has a shot at giving his son the family he never had. Once footloose and fancy-free, former heiress Delilah Huntington is now a waitress in Sugarbush Bay determined to build a better...
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Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them. The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection...
11) True beauty
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Webtoon Unscrolled, a division of Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In this third book of the series, we focus on Seojun, Suho and Seyeon... three guys whose painful pasts are about to be revealed. The three S's! Best Friends Forever! But that last F... forever may be shorter than any of them ever dreamed"--
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Publisher
Andrew McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Ninth-grader Jonah is not a jock. On the contrary, he loves history class and nerdy movies, and his athletic ineptitude verges on tragic. So, what's he doing signing up for the baseball team? Could it have something to do with the cute shortstop, Elliot?"--
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