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In partnership with Dutton Books, Amazon Literary Partnership, and Feminist Press, Girls Write Now On the Other Side of Everything: 2023 Anthology is a multi-genre showcase of the best writing from today's next-gen voices and leaders.
Do you know what it's like to communicate with your family across a salty ocean's divide? Do you want the sun and moon to enter your home with stories written in embers? Do you seek voices that will shatter expectations?...
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"In Holler, Child's eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something--hope, reconciliation, freedom. In "Cutting Horse," the appearance of a horse in a man's suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In "Holler, Child," a mother is forced into an impossible position when...
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"We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind,...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Look at ways in which the medieval church wielded enormous influence over the lives of ordinary people, and how it did everything in its power to maintain its influence. You'll witness life as a clergyman, go into the world of a monastery, and see what became of those the church deemed heretics.
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Archie Comics
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"Civil Chores Part Two": Last issue, the world of Riverdale was rocked when Archie decided to go on strike claiming there was no equity between his chores and his allowance. Before too long, the other teens in town chose sides... but when the other side is headed by Veronica and Reggie, watch out! They only want to maintain their status as Riverdale's richest teens, but when Jughead joins their side for his own ulterior motives, it turns everything...
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women, teenage Selah lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. When her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence.
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When Wren realises her fiancé is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover. On the other side of the world, Anders lost his wife four years ago and is still struggling to move on. Wren hopes that spending the summer with her dad and step-family on their farm in Indiana will help her to heal. There, amid the cornfields and fireflies, she and Anders cross paths and their worlds are turned upside-down again. But Wren doesn't...
8) Salsa magic
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"Thirteen-year-old Maya Beatriz Montenegro Calderon has vivid recurring dreams where she hears the ocean calling her. Mami's side of the family is known as "Los Locos," so maybe she actually is going crazy. But no time for that; the family business is where it's at. Whenever Maya, her sister Salma, and her three cousins, Ini, Mini, and Mo, aren't at school, you can usually find three generations of Calderones at Café Taza, serving up sandwiches de...
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Lion Forge Comics
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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A long time ago, Mages and Humans lived side by side in balance. But Humans' technological advances created the Surrogate, a hive-minded robot army that consumed everything in its path. The Mages fought for their survival in The Great Magic Machine War, dividing the world in two and driving all magic users to remote, technologically barren strongholds. Now, 20 years after the war stalled in a tense cease-fire, a trio of young apprentice mages--Charris,...
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Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022
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No matter how much time we spend together, Ill never become special to you. Childhood best friends. Two halves of a whole. The cool, smart one whos good at almost everything, and his average, dorky friend who struggles to do anything right-Yamato and Kakeru. Always by the others side, but not together in the way they truly want to be. No matter how hard they try, their hearts cannot reach each other
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2023.
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"Almost everything about puberty has changed since today's adults went through it. It starts, on average, two years earlier and stretches through high school... and for some, beyond. Gens Z and Alpha are also contending with a whole host of thorny issuesthat parents didn't experience in their own youth but nonetheless need to understand: everything from social media and easy-access pornography to gender identities and new or newly-potent drugs. Talking...
12) XOXO, Cody: an opinionated homosexual's guide to self-love, relationships, and tactful pettiness
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"The beloved Peloton Instructor and Dancing with the Stars finalist chronicles his journey from small town North Carolina to New York City stardom in an empowering essay collection that reveals his secret to success: not taking yourself-or life-too seriously. Cody Rigsby has a lot of opinions: Kevin is the hottest Backstreet Boy; grape jelly is a crime against nature; if you wear flip-flops in New York City, you do not love yourself. But if there...
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Basic Books/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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"What defines who we are? For decades, the biological answer has been our genes. In The Master Builder, leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with decades of scientific and popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells. Drawing on new research from his lab and others, Martinez Arias reveals that we are composed of a thrillingly complex, constantly rearranging symphony of cells that know how to count, feel, and ultimately...
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Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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The group of seven has been fractured. Leo, the spiritualist, has given up his old friends in favor of his new girlfriend Ophelia, who wont leave his side. After everything he learned from his fathers library, Leo is convinced that bringing together the seven mages would be disastrous for the world and must be avoided at all costs. But for now, Leos friends are the ones who are under threat: Milo, the telepath, has been shut away in a grain silo by...
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Kodansha
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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The dreams of every high school boy: To have beautiful women fighting over him. The nightmare of every high school boy: Beautiful women trying to kill him? Yuya Kamigasaki is a normal female-form-loving high school boy, until the day that two beautiful princesses come to his world to tell him he's the hero of theirs. The trouble? Those princess are on opposite sides, and one is doing everything in her power to keep the other from "reincarnating" him...
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Lion Forge Comics
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Daniel DosSantos is a young man living at the speed of life, with his job, girlfriend, and video games. After gaining powers from exposure to an extraterrestrial object, DosSantos becomes the rapid-action superhero called Accell, the first of a new public kind of crime fighter and bad guy smasher. Unfortunately, there are consequences to moving faster than sound. Every time Accell uses his super speed powers, the results of super speed activity on...
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America's Test Kitchen
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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This is the only air fryer book you need with its must-have trusted equipment information, expert techniques, and amazing recipes. Everything that has made Air Fryer Perfection a best-seller is here along with reviews of the newest air fryers to help you decide which one to buy. You'll also find 185 effortless recipes that include all of your go-to favorites plus recipes for breakfast, vibrant complete meals, and small-batch baking. Discover the best...
18) The Do More Club
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Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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A Jewish boy's bravery and kindness are tested after an antisemitic attack on his middle school in this rousing novel-in-verse. Ever since twelve-year-old Josh Kline found an antisemitic note in his family's mailbox in third grade, he has felt uncomfortable about his Jewish identity. At a new school where he's pretty sure he's the only Jew, he's hoping to just keep religion out of everything...until the morning someone sprays swastikas all over the...
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Taste of Home Books/RDA Enthusiast Brands, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Whether you follow a plant-based diet or just enjoy an occasional Meatless Monday, you're sure to love these tantalizing dishes. Featuring more than 290 family-friendly recipes, this follow-up to the popular Vegetarian Made Easy cookbook serves up even more meatless dishes that'll keep everyone asking for seconds. Look inside, and you'll find everything you need to set a fresh, flavorful meal on the table--from mouthwatering Instant Pot and slow-cooked...
20) Perfectly queer: facing big fears, living hard truths, and loving myself fully out of the closet
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Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Jill had a happy, healthy 20-year relationship with her college sweetheart, two wonderful kids, and rescue cat from the Humane Society. They lived in a nice suburban home with a white picket fence and owned a small bar that was rated one of the 'Best Mom & Pop' businesses in Tampa Bay. From the outside, everything looked perfect. Perfectly Queer takes the reader on Jillian Abby's poignant and painfully funny rollercoaster of self-discovery as she...