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2) Babbitt
Author
Formats
Description
George F. Babbitt is a hustling, prosperous real estate broker in a city of about 350,000. Back of his business and clubs and 100% activities is a wistful wonder as to what this business of living is all about.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., b&w and col.; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them.
A group of happy picnickers are accosted by a group of strangers led by a bullying sadist who has an unbreakable hold over his followers. After he interrogates one of them, a stranger then invites everyone to a nonsensical, but elegant and formal banquet...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ivy, a most unroyal princess, befriends Elridge, the dragon sent to keep her in a tower, and together they set out on a perilous quest to find Ivy's fairy godmother, who may be able to save both from their dire fates.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 19 cm
Description
Bjorn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works--a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Bjorn is in his room, what his co-workers see is him standing by the wall and staring off into space looking dazed, relaxed, and decidedly creepy. Bjorn's bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try and have him fired, but Bjorn will turn the tables on them...
Author
Description
"Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
40 pages cm
Description
When the lemmings encounter a bear, they are determined to help him be more "distinguished'--just like they are--but little do they realize this bear could be exactly what they need to save them from themselves.
8) The arts
Author
Series
Publisher
BookLife Publishing
Pub. Date
c2020.
Physical Desc
32 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
Sometimes being who you are can be a hard thing to do. Learn about people from across the LGBTQIA+ community who celebrate who they are and never stop fighting for what they believe in. No matter who you are, inside or out, this book is here to teach you that you can be proud of who you are.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Eighteen months after Vivien, his beloved transgender girlfriend, slipped into a coma after a suicide attempt, eighteen-year-old Miles begins healing while photographing her empty shoes against the stark landscapes of Iceland. Told through a series of instant messages.
11) Anomalies
Author
Publisher
SelectBooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In the future where no disease, war, or discontent exists, and all citizens are complacent members of the Global Governance, fifteen-year-old Keeva discovers that nonconformity will be punished, dissent is not an option, and insurgents will be destroyed.
12) Circumstance
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A coming-of-age story set in the world of Iranian youth culture, filled with sex, drugs and defiance. A wealthy family struggles to contain their teenage daughter's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
13) The replacement
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friend's sister disappears he goes against his family's and town's deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives.
14) Eventown
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Description
To Elodee, eleven, things seem a little too perfect in Eventown when she moves there with her parents and identical twin, Naomi, especially since forgetting the past is so highly valued.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
349 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Having been judged Different, Norbert, Drew, and Sophie are banished from the United State of Earth to Astronuts Camp on Zorquat 3 in the Orion Nebula, interfering with Norbert's quest to find his parents.
16) Oddly normal
Author
Publisher
Viper Comics
Pub. Date
2007-
Physical Desc
volumes : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Ten-year-old Oddly, the product of a mixed-marriage between a witch and a normal human being, has trouble fitting into both the human world and that of her mother.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 59
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1992.
Physical Desc
898 p. ; 21 cm.
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Una caja de herramientas basada en la investigacion para cualquiera que quiera crear un mundo con mas justicia, creatividad e innovacion.
A research-based toolbox for anyone who wants to create a world with more justice, creativity, and innovation.
19) Crazy house
Author
Series
Crazy House volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.
20) Daisies
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1157
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
If the entire world is bad, why shouldn't we be? Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women, both named Marie, embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony, giddy destruction, and antipatriarchal resistance, in which nothing is safe from their nihilistic pursuit of pleasure. But what happens when the fun is over?
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