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"NASA has assured everyone the passage of rogue planet Malachite will be safe, but Crosby's been getting other messages--from a fortune teller and Malachite truther message boards. And now she believes that Malachite will kill everyone who doesn’t ascend to the fourth dimension--a higher plane that transcends physicality. She tries to prepare her friends and family to leave their bodies behind and raise their frequency by changing their diets, wearing...
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"After stealing the show at the Battler Party with his and his friends' fireworks, Iruma realizes to his dismay that he's accidentally made himself the center of attention. This first brush with fame quickly earns him the ire of a popular netherworld celebrity itching to ice him out of the picture. As if that weren't enough, Iruma's stunt in the spotlight brings him face to face with authorities who present him with an offer he never saw coming: the...
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Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia University. In New York, Vega straddles many different worlds, eventually moving in and out of a series of relationships that take her through the striving world of academia, the intellectual isolation of the immigrant suburbs, and, ultimately, the loneliness of single motherhood. But it is the birth of Vega's...
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"IT'S A BUG-EAT-BUG WORLD Suchan's determined to become the top student at NEST and get his normal life back--which means he needs to ace his first group assignment! The task? Return to human society and track down a single can of Jungle Juice. A job that turns out to be much harder than it sounds...until Suchan and Huijin stumble across a promising lead. But when the two of them follow it to an abandoned warehouse, they quickly realize their luck...
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Given the opportunity to be educated at the ship’s university alongside the elite, the boy, raised as one of the Chained, forms a bond with “the professor,” and together they set off on a transformative journey to break free of the chains that fetter them both.
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"From prizewinning writer Joe Fassler comes a brilliant modern reimagining of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a story of obsession, longing, and the radical pursuit of utopia. It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away--while the world around her veers badly off course, hurtling toward economic and ecological collapse. She wants to find something better. But she has no...
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"Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking...
11) Needle & thread
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"Choosing between living the life you want and living the life you're "supposed to have" is not always an easy choice. Noah, embracing his true-self, wants to pursue a career in costume design, something his loving, public service parents would never approve of. Azarie, the perfect, model daughter of a very stern, traditional family, dreams of embracing the hobbies she secretly loves, hobbies her social circle would never abide by" --
13) Dear Wendy
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Aromantic and asexual students Sophie and Jo, engaged in an online feud as the creators of popular relationship advice accounts "Dear Wendy" and "Sincerely Wanda," unwittingly become real-life friends and navigate their shared aroace identities as they face the challenges of college life.
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"Today, they're the world-famous superheroes, the self-assured saviors of Paris: Ladybug and Cat Noir. But not too long ago, Marinette was a clumsy high school student who let Chloe walk all over her, and Adrien was a shut-in who couldn't even go to school, thanks to his controlling father. How did these two end up getting their powers and becoming the beloved guardians of the City of Lights? It's time to look back and see the moments that changed...
15) The whole truth
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"She has everything at stake; he has everything to lose. But one of them is lying, all the same. When an Oxford student accuses one of the university's professors of sexual assault, DI Adam Fawley's team think they've heard it all before. But they couldn't be more wrong. Because this time, the predator is a woman and the shining star of the department, and the student a six-foot male rugby player. Soon DI Fawley and his team are up against the clock...
16) Wires crossed
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Is this what middle school is all about? Being stuck in the middle? Twelve-year-old Mia feels like everything and everyone is changing--and she is caught in the middle. Stuck between old friends and new friends...between feeling like a kid and growing up...
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It’s summer vacation, and Uka’s social circle is dazzling! Hanging out at the beach, texting, going to karaoke…Uka has never had so many opportunities to experience fun with friends. But the start of her second term at Hachimitsu may signal storm clouds on the horizon, as her overprotective father doesn’t take so kindly to her new lifestyle. Will the friendships Uka has always dreamed of be ripped away as quickly as they came together?