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"Over the course of a single week in a small English village, a widowed octogenarian who has spent her last years alone, ready to die, discovers an unexpected reason to live. After living abroad for sixty years, Helen Cartwright returns to the English town where she was born. She buys a nondescript suburban house on Westminster Crescent, a nondescript suburban street, and settles into a repetitive, reclusive existence: "Each day was an impersonation...
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It's a surreal smuggling operation across the boundaries of life and death in the latest moody mystery from award-winning graphic novelists Peter & Maria Hoey. The Afterlife is just as the ancient Greeks imagined: an endless twilight where time stands still in perpetuity and shades have nowhere to go. For Jim, that means long shifts at a gas station, with only crossword puzzles and cigarettes to break the tedium. One day, two criminal shades from...
3) A for effort
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During his freshman year of high school, Jay enrolls in Theater 101 and finds himself struggling like never before as he tries to balance Shakespeare with biology and geometry, wondering if he has it in him to deliver an A+ performance.
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For more than 75 years Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead have been one of America's favorite couples. Through war and peace, through boom and bust, through sexual revolution and social upheaval, Blondie has become the most widely read comic strip in syndication-in 35 languages and in 47 countries.Blondie?the comic strip?was born on September 8, 1930. Dagwood was the rich, but awkward, son of millionaire industrialist J. Bolling Bumstead, while Blondie...
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"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...
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Moonlight Harbor ; 08
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It started as a book club. It became a way to build a better life together.
Karissa Newcomb is ready for a new start in a new neighborhood, as far away as she can get from Seattle, where her husband cheated on her with the neighbor who was supposed to be her best friend. She and her nine-year-old daughter are moving on to the city of Gig Harbor on the bay in Puget Sound. She even has a new job as an assistant at a small publishing company right in...
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Heart Attack ; 1
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Gene therapy has saved Americans from disease-only to give birth to Variants: people with powers so unique, the government denies their human rights. But a rebellion has begun…
Charlie North is on the run from the police when he crosses paths with Jill Kearney. Instant attraction becomes mass destruction when they unlock powers neither knew they had. Now the question isn't about how to use them, but how far they're willing to go.
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La vie s'écoule paisiblement dans le village des Merdouzills. Accompagnés par leurs amis, Julienne et Jean-Marie partent en quête de la corniflure, substance qui développe une intelligence hors du commun à quiconque la consomme. Mais c'est tout un vaste monde magique qu'ils découvriront, ainsi que la menace qui pèse sur leur village: les Anti-Jles. Ces nouveaux héros devront alors retrouver la Crognote Rieuse, seul être à pouvoir sauver...
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Titan Comics
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2024
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"As Alpi and perenai continue on their journey, they encounter more spirits twisted by the evil done by humans. Alpi then meets Sersela, another young Soul Sender, and their rivalry quickly grows. Will they be able to set aside the differences in order to combat the growing threat?"-- back cover.
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¿Se atrevería a decidir su vida con un dado? Tomás sí; al terminar sus estudios de secundaria enfrenta una grave crisis existencial al definir su futuro. Se le ocurre hacer una lista con las seis opciones que más le apetecen, pero no encuentra una forma racional de escoger una de ellas. Entonces, apela al azar para que le ayude a elegir utilizando un dado y se jura respetar el resultado. Lo que jamás pensó fue que lanzar ese cubo al vacío...
11) La promesa
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Filippa Stagnaro, regidora de la villa de Adra y heredera del ingenio azucarero más importante de la región, deberá enfrentar los fantasmas de su pasado y luchar por el legado de su padre, Nicola Stagnaro, un noble emprendedor genovés, en medio de traiciones y la constante amenaza de una competencia perversa. Pasado y presente se fusionan para revivir dos historias de amor enmarcadas por la expulsión de los jesuitas, las influencias de un movimiento...
12) Never Goodnight
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Coco, Klara and Mathilda have known each other since primary school, where they met in folk dancing class. Now they're almost teenagers, and their anarchist ideals and dreams of forming a world-beating punk band set them apart from the other girls at school. They can't play any instruments, practice with pillows and pans, and keep getting told that punk is dead. But they're not going to let any of those things get in their way… Published in English...
13) The summer swap
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"Deciding to spend her 70th birthday alone in her Cape Cod seashore cottage, hiding from her interfering family, widow Cecilia Lapthorne instead finds an unexpected houseguest, struggling artist Lily, and, allowing her to stay, settles in for a summer ofself-discovery, self-belief and second chances"--
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"Dear customer, who would you like me to turn into?" Psuedo-love affairs full of devotion, and sometimes even orders involving sex...Ayaka's job as a new love consort. However, her love with president Toma is real! Though there are many rivals and things aren't going too well!! Am I really his lover…? Just at that time, a fake wedding order came in…
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This final tournament to decide the selected player for the QT, begins and continues with Chip taking the initiative. Even with accidents, Kasane progresses through the tournament and furiously works to catch up to Chip. During this see-saw of a game, the others hear that Chip's youngest sister is badly injured in Manila?! What's the fate of Kanase and Chip, as they play toward the finish without knowing about Chip's family?!
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In the late '60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium ― but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen's Comix. Within two years the Wimmen's Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading...
17) One moment
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The day she dies, Scarlett watches the ripple effect of her death on the lives of those she loved the most, especially her best friend, Evie, but when she sees Evie bravely embracing a future without her, Scarlett wonders if she would go back and alter the events that changed their lives forever.
18) The audacity
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"In 72 hours, a blockbuster exposé will reveal Victoria Stevens' multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband Guy Sarvananthan to face the fallout--and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Why not: He takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which...
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Anzai, suffering badly after a run-in with a sniper, is rescued at the last minute by a mysterious blond devil who gives him enough human blood to heal his wounds. Embarrassed by the way he lost control after tasting human blood, Anzai hides himself away from everyone, especially Tsukasa, until an incident unfolds live on broadcast TV which shines a glaring light on the devils who walk among the populace of Japan...
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Ecosse, IIe siècle après J.C. Au-delà du mur d'Antonin, la guerre entre l'envahisseur romain et les peuples gaëls et pictes piétine. Manipulé par une sorcière, le général romain Horatius libère un fléau ancestral sur la terre de ses ennemis: les Ombres de Thulé. Pour faire face à cette menace, le roi des Pictes devra unir des peuples autrefois ennemis et faire appel à des pouvoirs oubliés.
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