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10422) The lord of Opium
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
At fourteen? Until recently, Matt, the hero of Nancy Farmer's award-winning The House of the Scorpion, was a clone grown from a strip of old El Patron's skin. Now he is lord of an army of eejits, zombielike workers who are harnessed to old El Patron's sinister system of drug growing. His country? The Land of Opium, on the one-time US-Mexico border. Opium is the largest territory of the Dope Confederacy, which ranges on the map like an intestine, from...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Grumpy Unicorn is bored. Really bored. And what's a Unicorn to do when the town he lives in has nothing fun to do? Hit the road in search of adventure, of course! In this laugh-out-loud original story, everyone's favorite magical grouch sets off to find something or someone that doesn't totally annoy him. And sort of succeeds. With new characters like Sassy the Sasquatch, Jack the Jackelope, and some out-of-this-world friends, this hilarious journey...
10424) Arata, the legend: 6
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Hinohara discovers that Kadowaki has followed him into Arata's world, causing him to fly into a rage that transforms him into a demonic entity.
10425) Arata, the legend: 7
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After Arata Hinhara and his friends arrive in the commercial town of Suzukura, Hiruko, who governs the town, entrusts Arata with the task of making Yorunami submit.
10427) Rugrats: Season 3
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Take a crawl on the wild side with Tommy, Chuckie, and the rest of the Rugrats in this complete season three collection!
10428) Mayfair witches: Season 1
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Rowan Fielding, an intuitive young neurosurgeon, discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Yayyy! This volume of the My Hero Academia parody series covers the Sports Festival, internships and other fun stuff. The Sports Festival turns into a crazy baseball game, and then Izuku Midoriya, a formerly Quirkless boy and now the inheritor of the world s greatest superpower, starts having some weird fantasies. Plus we all get turned into&babies? How could you not want to read about that?"-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Requiem of the rose king volume 15
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Richard, the ambitious third son of the House of York, believes he is cursed, damned from birth to eternal darkness. But is it truly fate that sets him on the path to personal destruction? Or his own tormented longings? Based on an early draft of Shakespeare's Richard III, Aya Kanno's dark fantasy finds the man who could be king standing between worlds, between classes, between good and evil. Stunned by how their future prospects have changed, Buckingham...
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Magic, monsters and more! Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl are an unbeatable team! But theyre in for a serious challenge, because New York City has been invaded by a swarm of knights in shining&cars armed with javelins?! Uh-oh. Kamala Khan and Doreen Green are gonna need allies and they know just who to call. Miles Spider-Man Morales, the Inhuman known as Inferno, former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Daisy Johnson and more join the fray against sorceress Morgan...
10432) Before They Are Hanged
Author
Series
First law volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
The second novel in the wildly popular First Law Trilogy from New York Times bestseller Joe Abercrombie.
Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It's enough to make a torturer want to run — if he could even walk without a stick.
Northmen have spilled over the border of...
Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It's enough to make a torturer want to run — if he could even walk without a stick.
Northmen have spilled over the border of...
10433) Gild
Author
Series
Plated prisoner volume 1
Publisher
[Independently published]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Gold. Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes. In Highbell, in the castle built into the frozen mountains, everything is made of gold. Even me. King Midas rescued me. Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. I'm called his precious. His favored. I'm the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him. To show how powerful he is. He gave me protection, and I gave him my heart. And even though I don't leave the...
10434) Màgòdiz: a novel
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Love after the End, a novel of Indigenous futurism in which Two-Spirit, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, neurodivergent, and disabled characters--survivors of a devastating war-- fight to save what's left of their world Màgòdiz (Anishinabemowin, Algonquin dialect): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Flint Lockwood is a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Sam Sparks is a weathergirl covering the town's weather phenomenon, but chooses to hide her intelligence behind a perky exterior. Tim Lockwood is Flint's technophobic father. Brent is the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Mayor Shelbourne exploits Flint's newest invention so he can put the town, and more importantly himself, on the...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In Season Two, LAPD Detective Chloe Decker and Lucifer Morningstar are back solving murders on L.A.'s white-hot streets, with their relationship growing deeper, closer, and more awkward for them both. To add fuel to the fire, Lucifer's mum, Charlotte, escapes Hell, bringing along a ton of emotional baggage: She wants back what was stolen from her. Now Lucifer and his angel brother, Amenadiel, with whom Lucifer has serious sibling issues, must work...
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Despite Rust Byrne’s warnings that their opponent is one of the powerful Adjutants of legend, Princess Octavia; her bodyguard, Klifford; and the young lord Derek follow the secretive noble through the passageways below the Sky Chamber, hot on the trails of the intruders who kidnapped Sil. Even during their rush, however, Octavia notices how clean the tunnels are, which begs the question—who could be using them and to what end? Meanwhile, Prince...
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Princess Octavia finally meets Rust Byrne--candidate number one for the role of (fake) boyfriend--but is taken aback by his close resemblance to the entity who sent her into the world of The Noble King! Confronted with the memories of her reincarnation she'd been suppressing for so long, Octavia flees the room in terror. Though she pulls herself together with Klifford's support, Octavia is forced to put her search for a pseudolover aside when she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Can the past ever be forgotten? When RiverClan fell under the rule of the vicious tyrant Tigerstar, Feathertail and her brother, Stormfur, barely escaped with their lives. Now Tigerstar is gone, and RiverClan must move forward in unity and strength. But Feathertail isnt sure she can forgive the betrayals of the pastor if RiverClan will ever truly feel like home again.
10440) Wristcutters: a love story
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists. Zia discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that Desiree has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip with his Russian rocker friend to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn't mean you have to stop...
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