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"Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 7
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Greg Heffley is not willing to be the odd man out.
A dance at Greg's middle school has everyone scrambling to find a partner, and Greg is determined not to be left by the wayside. So he concocts a desperate plan to find someone-anyone!-to go with on the big night.
But Greg's schemes go hilariously awry, and his only option is to attend the dance with his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, and a female classmate as a 'group of friends.' But the night...
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"Things We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future. When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom-covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her-she knows she'll be charged...
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Do you like comic books and comic book characters? If you love comics, maybe you will visit a comic convention one day. Join Zach as he learns about the history of comic book conventions and attends his very first convention-Comic-Con! Students will develop their division skills as they are engaged in reading about the fans, costumes, vendors, swag, and exhibits of Comic-Con. This high-interest math reader integrates math and literacy skills, combining...
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Do you know?
• Piranhas are attracted to the scent of blood.
• Many piranhas are cannibals.
• Piranha shoals can consist of several thousand individuals.
• A piranha can jump out of the water to attack prey.
Find out all sorts of interesting things about piranhas and have a chuckle along the way (without getting bitten).
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"A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders. Bringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes (illustrations) and Christina Wong (text) follows the elderly Wong Cho Sum, who, living in Toronto's gentrifying Chinatown-Kensington Market, begins to collect bottles and cans after the sudden loss of her husband as a way to fill her days and keep...
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Comics entered their "golden age" in 1938, when a new idea revolutionized the industry: the creation of the first and archetypal superhero. Superman, pioneered by Detective Comics, better known as DC, was quickly followed by Batman, another brainchild of DC, in 1939. An explosion of acrobatic superheroes, such as Captain America, Wonder Woman, and The Green Lantern, quickly made the previous heroes of the crime, cowboy, and romance genres look dated....
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Explore the galaxy far, far away. Four decades after the original Star Wars was released, changing cinema forever, the saga continues with all-new movies, books, comics, video games, and TV spin-offs. This collection of interviews and behind-the-scenes features includes: Daisy Ridely on playing Rey in The Force Awakens, an exploration of rare prototype toys that never made it into stores, and Mark Hamill's thoughts on working with Sir Alec Guinness....
10) Texting Olivia
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Texting Olivia is a funny, fast-paced, modern take on the epistolary novel, using phone texts and calls instead of letters as the main form of communication.
Fay is a paralegal in her forties with thwarted career ambitions, which she blames on her mother. Indeed, she has done almost everything opposite to her own upbringing in raising Olivia. But Fay's assumptions about what it means to be a good mother-and also a good daughter-are put to the test...
11) Delirantes
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Bogotá, 16 de noviembre de 1827. Un terremoto destruye la ciudad. Su iglesia mas antigua, la famosa Capilla del Sagrario, sufre grandes destrozos. Dos aventureros se unen para reconstruirla y se valen de los cuadros de la iglesia para venderlos en Europa y así obtener el dinero necesario. Un cómic de aventuras que atraviesa tres siglos de la historia colombiana.
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It's Cristina Hawkins's thirtieth birthday, and the aging stripper has just spent her special night giving another local scumbag a lap dance in the champagne room at the place she works. And when, she gets roughed up by her customer yet again, something seems to change in Cristina, and along with an ever-changing port city of Clearwater, a rough and wild place where anything seems to go and the rich call all the shots-nobody's ready for the scourge...
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Invaluable material culled during the past fifty- to sixty-years-plus unexplored research data and what acknowledged literati in the world expressed on obscure areas have gone into this publication. Any citizen in a civilized society should be familiar with the historical information, current and ancient, in ones own country and that of others. Here the author has emphasized more on Sri Lanka, where there was an abominable civil war for twenty-six...
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Journeys of the Astropaths The Ones Who Hear is book #1 (in book stores now) Learning to See is book #2 (scheduled for December 2013) Bending Vision #3 (coming soon) Three Sons of Prophecy #4 (coming soon) The Book of Travelers #5 (coming soon) The planet Earth is getting smaller and smaller with air travel and the internet, but for the astropaths any part of the world is just a moment away; if they can picture it, they are there. With an inherent...
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El Chapin: No es un cualquiera; Es un GUATEMALTECO Quien te hace rer,te hace vivir. Has a alguien reir y lo haras vivir. Chistes de Velorios Chapines Vol.l Antes que nada quisiera agradecer a mi hija, Abiela; mi hijo, David Jr;. mi esposa, Arnalda; por la paciencia que tuvieron, de no decir nada al ver me con mi laptop todo el tiempo; No se inmaginaban que estaba escribiendo algo Para el entretenimiento de lectores alrededor del mundo y muy en especial...
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In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, children's comics were a massive part of a young person's life. Comic Book Hero tells the inside story of how Barrie Tomlinson built up a successful boys' publishing group at IPC Magazines - now the stuff of legend among nostalgic and modern-day fans of the UK comic scene and its surrounding culture. Barrie started on Tiger comic as a subeditor, went on to be editor and eventually became head of the Boys' Sport and Adventure...
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"At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi…" They are the warriors whose thirst for power is matched only by their ruthlessness, but who are the Sith Lords? From the beginning moments of A New Hope in which the imposing figure of Darth Vader strode onto the Tantive IV – and into movie history – to Kylo Ren's memorable debut in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the Sith have proved that bad guys have all the fun. This collection includes interviews...
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Il n'est pas possible pour l'histoire qui va être contée d'en préciser l'époque; elle se perd dans la profondeur des siècles, et la terreur qu'elle a inspirée autrefois a rendu les témoins peu bavards...En ces temps, seuls quelques anciens, le soir, dans la sécurité de leurs foyers, osaient murmurer à des oreilles proches ce qu'ils avaient entendu de la bouche même de ceux qui les avaient précédés. Les confidents transmettaient ces récits...
20) The Full Roger
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Great value omnibus edition, containing all the very best silent adventures of the half-dressed man, whose cartoon antics showcase how much fun you can have with your trousers off. He grew from a tiny idea on the back of a napkin to a tiny idea in thousands of books. And now, after three long years and hundreds of cartoons there's still only one ROGER - whether hanging out at work, at leisure or on his travels, he's exposed much and little of himself...
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