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Rapunzel is raised in a grand villa surrounded by towering walls. Rapunzel dreams of a different mother than Gothel, the woman she calls Mother. She climbs over the wall and finds out the truth. Her real mother, Kate, is a slave in Gothel's gold mine. In this Old West retelling, Rapunzel uses her hair as a lasso and to take on outlaws--including Gothel.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Alison Bechdel?s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven.
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First Second
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2013
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"Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-- many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions"--from...
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What if everything you thought was funny about Deadpool was actually just disturbing? What if he decided to kill everyone and everything that makes up the Marvel Universe? What if he actually pulled it off? Would that be FUN for you? The Merc with a Mouth takes a turn for the twisted in a horror comic like no other!
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When a new kid named Eric Stone comes to Seaside High, he recruits Ryker and Jay to help create an invention for the National Science Competition. The three teens make a great team, but soon, strange accidents befall Hazmat and Emmi, and they grow suspicious of the new kid. Ryker and Jay insist that Eric is legit and accompany him to his secret lab to finish their project. Suddenly, their high-tech invention turns on them, and Eric is behind the controls!...
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Collects Dr. Strange: Season One, Doctor Strange (2015) #1. How did Stephen Strange become Earth's Sorcerer Supreme? Find out in a high-flying, globe-trotting, window-crashing, ghost-battling adventure from the earliest days of Strange's magical training! Part Indiana Jones, part Lord of the Rings, this uncanny origin story reveals how a selfish, arrogant surgeon collided with a hot-headed martial artist to become the greatest team the mystic arts...
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"21, The Story of Roberto Clemente is an all-ages graphic biography of Puerto Rico's greatest baseball star Roberto Clemente. No other baseball player dominated the 1960s like Clemente and no other Latin American player achieved his numbers. 21 chronicles his early days growing up in rural Puerto Rico, the highlights of his career (including the 1960s World Series), the prejudice he faced, his private life, and his humanitarian mission."--www.Amazon.com....
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Nate Wright is one of a kind. Who else would start a rock 'n' roll band and name it Enslave the Mollusk? He celebrates Prank Day by arranging a date between Mrs. Godfrey and a lovesick rodeo clown! Nate does everything with gusto. And every time he swings into action...THE CROWD GOES WILD!
19) Ghostopolis
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"Garth Hale is as good as dead...The only problem is he's still alive. When Garth Hale is accidentally zapped into the ghost world by Frank Gallows, a washed-up ghost wrangler, he discovers that he has special powers. Soon he finds himself on the run from the evil ruler of Ghostopolis, who wants to use Garth's newfound abilities to tighten his grip on the spirit world. After Garth meets Cecil, his grandfather's ghost, the two search for a way to get...
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"What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down? At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia and missed even more school. Before Jimmy knew it, his grades were sinking and nothing seemed to be going right. How did Jimmy turn things around, get back...
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