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Boy series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Cartoonist Jane Harris is delighted by the prospect of her first-ever trip to Europe. But it's hate at first sight for Jane and Cal Langdon, and neither is too happy at the prospect of sharing a villa with one another for a week—not even in the beautiful and picturesque Marches countryside. But when Holly and Mark's wedding plans hit a major snag that only Jane and Cal can repair, the two find themselves having to put aside their mutual dislike
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With a popular comic strip, card line, and children's cartoon to her name, Lucy Brighton should be in a happy place. But the ache of a cold, lonely childhood lingers on. Even though she still lives in the New Jersey house where she grew up, Lucy has had little contact with her parents since they moved to Florida five years ago. Then Lucy receives a call that her parents have been killed in a car crash. While settling their affairs in Florida, Lucy...
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Series
Wild seasons volume 3
Language
English
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When three college besties meet three hot guys in Vegas, anything could--and does--happen.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series
“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington...
“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington...
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English
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Lady Maggie Hawkins, a political cartoonist who draws under a male pseudonym, makes the man who betrayed her, Simon Barrett, Earl of Winchester who is a rising star in Parliament, the laughingstock of the town until she discovers the truth of what happened years ago.
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English
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"Take the format of a spy thriller, shape it around real-life incidents involving international terrorism, leaven it with dark, dry humor, toss in a love rectangle, give everybody a gun, and let everything play out in the outer reaches of upstate New York [where a Danish cartoonist is relocated after having been involved in the controversy surrounding a depiction of Muhammad]"--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Two people, who are married to other people, meet at a conference for artists and writers in a charming seaside village much like Provincetown. Rich, a formerly sort-of-famous cartoonist, and Amy, a student of narrative painting, shared a moment of passion the summer before, and have returned to see what happens next. In the wicked events that follow, both of their lives completely unravel"--
12) Portugal
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English
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"Comics artist Simon Muchat is stuck. Suffering writer's block, uninspired, vegetating as a school art teacher, he is losing direction and his taste for life, until one day he is invited to appear at a comics convention in Portugal, the country his family came from and which he hadn't seen since his childhood. Even though he is a foreigner there, so many elements of the country are familiar to him. Meeting its lively citizens and recounting early...
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English
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"American Angie Donovan has never wanted much. When you grow up getting bounced from foster home to foster home, you learn not to become attached to anything, anyone, or any place. But it only took her two days to fall in love with Australia. With her visa clock ticking, surely she can fall in love with an Australian--and get hitched--in two months. Especially if he's as hot and funny as her next-door neighbor ... Jace Walters has never wanted much--except...
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"From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books. It's 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn't care. She's an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn't have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn't matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book. That...
Author
Series
Ellie McDoodle volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ellie writes and doodles in a journal of her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.
Author
Series
Sandra Cameron mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
18) Winter town
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Evan and Lucy, childhood best friends who grew apart after years of seeing one another only during Christmas break, begin a romance at age seventeen but his choice to mindlessly follow his father's plans for an Ivy League education rather than becoming the cartoonist he longs to be, and her more destructive choices in the wake of family problems, pull them apart.
19) Winter in Sokcho
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Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North's watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. The two form an uneasy relationship....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
New to an affluent high school, artistic Erica really wants to fit in, and is thrilled to find herself kissing the lacrosse goalie Thomas after one of his matches. She knows he's different from the rest of the team -- only on the team because his dad is controlling-- so she goes with him to an afterparty, only to wake up the next morning with the names of every team member written on her skin in intimate places. Struggling with humiliation, the strong...