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It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean?...
5) Shark party!
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Shark princess volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
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When Princesses Kitana and Mack learn a mysterious deep ocean shark has not been invited to the shark party, the two set off on an adventure to invite her.
8) Nightwork
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"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still, he...
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Vertical Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
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When Koume and Keisuke's relationship begins to take shape, it is apparent that they are both searching for something. Maybe Keisuke wants something more than a kiss from the fair Koume. Maybe Koume is looking for someone better than Misaki, the local playboy. But what they find in each other over the course of a summer might be far greater than anything they were expecting.
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Traveling to Mars volume 10
Publisher
Ablaze
Pub. Date
[2024]
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From Eisner Award winning writer Mark Russell and artist Roberto Meli comes a compelling new sci-fi series... Traveling to Mars tells the story of former pet store manager Roy Livingston, the first human to ever set foot on Mars. Roy was chosen for this unlikely mission for one simple reason: he is terminally ill and therefore has no expectation of returning. Roy is joined on his mission to Mars by Leopold and Albert, two Mars rovers equipped with...
12) Hate that cat
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Jack is studying poetry again in school, and he continues to write poems reflecting his understanding of famous poems and how they relate to his life.
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The cardboard kingdom volume 1
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Follows the adventures of a group of neighborhood children who make costumes from cardboard and use their imagination to create adventures with knights, robots, and monsters.
14) Sea Sirens
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Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"Trot, a Vietnamese American surfer girl, and Cap'n Bill, her cranky one-eyed cat, catch too big a wave and wipe out, sucked down into a magical underwater kingdom where an ancient deep-sea battle rages"-- Provided by publisher.
15) Arrowsmith
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After years of work as a small town doctor and a research scientist, Arrowsmith heads for the West Indies with a serum to halt an epidemic. A tragic turn of events forces him to come to terms with his career and his personal life.
16) The dragon queen
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The courageous princess volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Princess Mabelrose must use her generous spirit, as well as her brains, to melt the heart of the Dragon Queen and gain her freedom. But she still has to bring her father and her friends back from the queen's unreachable Unremembered Lands"-- Provided by publisher.
17) Garvey's choice
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Garvey novels (Nikki Grimes) volume 1
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"Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus,...
18) Trillium
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Series
Trillium volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Award-winning and fan favorite comics creator Jeff Lemire spins the tale of two star-crossed loved through space in time in TRILLIUM! It's the year 3797, and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a strange species on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space. It's the year 1921, and renowned English explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru in search of the fabled "Lost Temple of the Incas,"...
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Getting an unexpected second chance to attend one of the Seven Schools of Magic, twelve-year-old Jupiter begins to doubt her skills until an age-old enemy returns to exact revenge on the schools, leaving her to finally find the courage and magic that's been within her all along.