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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"During Will Betke-Brunswick's sophomore year of college, their beloved mother, Elizabeth, is diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. They only have ten more months together, which Will documents in evocative two-color illustrations. But as we follow Will and their mom through chemo and hospital visits, their time together is buoyed by laughter, jigsaw puzzles, modern art, and vegan BLTs. In a delightful twist, Will portrays their family as penguins,...
8763) Boys run the riot: 1
Author
Series
Boys Run the Riot volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
English edition; Kodansha Comics edition.
Language
English
Description
"High schooler Ryo knows he's transgender, but he doesn't have anyone to confide in about the confusion he feels. He can't tell his best friend, who he's secretly got a crush on, and he can't tell his mom, who's constantly asking why Ryo 'dresses like a boy.' He certainly can't tell Jin, the new transfer student who looks like just another bully... The only time Ryo feels at ease is when he's wearing his favorite clothes. Then, and only then, the...
8764) Nowhere girl
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of a girl growing up in the 1990s--a middle-schooler who finds herself lost in the gulf between childhood and adolescence, developing paralyzing fears of failure, school, other people, and her own changing body. Along the way, she becomes obsessed with the Beatles... which might be just what she needs to find her way back to being okay. Yeah yeah yeah!"--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the excitement leading to the school dance everyone's flavors seem subdued, but once Amy discovers a startling secret about Oliver, a burst of flavor is brought back into her life! Amy's suspicions over Oliver are put on hold when she goes to the homecoming dance with Cassie, but there she takes an unexpected detour alone, and discovers the secret she has been looking for may have been in plain view all along. However, this new secret...
8766) Stealing home
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sandy Saito looks back to his childhood in 1940s Vancouver, when he was eight years old. He's a happy kid: he goes to school, reads comic books and is obsessed with baseball -- especially the Asahi baseball team, the pride of the Japanese-Canadian community. Then the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor -- and everything changes. The kids Sandy used to play with every day now call him names and chase him from the playground. He and his family are no longer...
8767) Bluebeard
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning duo Metaphrog transform the classic folktale into a feminist fairy tale, about the blossoming of a young child to womanhood striving for independence. Eve spends an idyllic childhood of long summer days with her sweetheart Tom, and together they dream of exploring the world. But that dream is soon shattered as she comes of age. The mysterious Bluebeard is looking for a new bride and has his sights set on Eve, and rumor has it that his...
8768) Akane-banashi: 2
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Shonen Jump edition.
Language
English
Description
Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father! Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels everyone after the exam with no explanation, a fire is lit...
8769) Incredible doom: 2
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Evol House. It may look to the unwitting outsider like a broken-down ranch house in the suburbs--but to those in the know, Evol House is the sanctuary of truant teens, punk rockers, nerds, and outcasts. At least, that's what it's supposed to be. Lately, it feels like everything's falling apart. In this thrilling sequels to Incredible Doom: Volume 1, Samir finds that life as a runaway isn't all he thought it would be; Allison spirals trying...
Author
Series
Lumberjanes volume 14
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ripley found a treasure map! The Roanoke scouts are eager to hunt down what they hope might be some kind of mystical hoard of gems and jewels, rad dinosaur bones, or maybe even more treasure maps (that you have to piece together to find an EVEN BIGGER prize, obviously)! The adventure has only just begun!"--Amazon.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Told through real-life journals, collages, lists, and drawings, this coming-of-age story illustrates the transformation of an 18-year-old girl from a small-town teenager into an independent city-dwelling college student. Written in an autobiographical style with beautiful artwork, Little Fish shows the challenges of being a young person facing the world on her own for the very first time and the unease--as well as excitement--that comes along with...
Series
Criterion collection volume 761
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
Czech
Description
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of five children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a middle class suburb of Toronto. He loves watching Cher and Carol Burnett on TV, making clothes for his best friend's Barbie dolls, and helping his mum with her hair salon which she runs out of the basement of the house. In short: he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because his family is part of the Christian Reformed Church, a...
8776) 400 blows
Series
Criterion collection volume 5
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
Français
Description
Antoine Doinel is a young Parisian boy who is neglected by his derelict parents, skips out on school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals things, and tries, with disastrous results, to return them. Like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. But, unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the big stick. He lives in a Paris filled with dingy flats, seedy arcades, abandoned factories,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"To Amy, everyone has a flavor, and when the flavor begins to disappear, it spells trouble. After the crushing confrontation with Oliver, Amy is on the hunt for answers. This leads her to an old, moldy water containment facility, and leaves her with more questions than answers. At the same time, some of Amy's closest friends maybe drifting apart. A sci-fi drama of a high school aged girl who belongs in a different time, a boy possessed by emptiness...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Tchaiko has always been an enigma, but when he goes to visit his partner in the hospital, his story is finally revealed. Meanwhile, Saki's biggest secret is thrust out in the open— despite her desperate attempts to keep it under wraps. The emotional final volume of Yuhki Kamatani's tale of gender, sexuality, and self discovery!" --
8779) Blue flag: 5
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
VIZ Signature edition.
Language
English
Description
Returning from summer break Taichi and Futuba continue to transition their friendship into something more, but when Mami starts being friendly with Taichi, Futuba begins feeling anxious.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Shonen Jump manga ed.
Language
English
Description
"Let the shokugeki begin! Soma has challenged Totsuki graduate Chef Shinomiya in order to prevent Megumi's pending expulsion. However, thanks to a condition levied by Gin Dojima, the match turns in an unexpected direction! With such a foolhardy challenge, can Soma and Megumi win to survive another day?"--
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