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Featherweight
by Mick Kitson
After being sold by her Romani family as a servant to a famous bare-knuckle boxer, Bill Perry, the Tipton Slasher, in Industrial Revolution-era England, Annie Perry becomes determined to train and learn to fight for herself.
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The Holiday Switch
by Tif Marcelo
Planning to enjoy her last snowy winter break of high school by working at a cozy local inn and moonlighting as an anonymous book blogger, Lily Santos’ plans are upended when the boss’s frustratingly cute nephew, Teddy Rivera, becomes her nemesis co-worker then the two accidentally switch phones, a snafu that may just reveal their secrets and bring the rivals together.
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Lessons in Fusion
by Primrose Madayag Knazan
Sixteen-year-old Sarah (it's pronounced SAH-rah, thank you) has a successful blog creating fusion recipes. When Sarah is invited to compete on Cyber Chef, a virtual cooking competition, her twists on her Baba's recipes are not enough to pique the palate of the show's producers. She is pushed to present dishes that represent her Filipinx culture, but these flavours are foreign to her since her parents raised her emphatically Jewish. To survive Cyber Chef and find her cultural identity, Sarah must discover why her mother turned her back on all things Filipinx, and learn the true meaning of fusion.
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Ski Weekend
by Rektok Ross
The Breakfast Club meets Alive in this gritty, gripping survival thriller about six teens stranded in the mountains who are forced to make impossible choices about who will live and who will die.
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Tink and Wendy
by Kelly Ann Jacobson
In this sparkling re-imagining of Peter Pan, Peter and Wendy's granddaughter Hope Darling finds the reclusive Tinker Bell squatting at the Darling mansion in order to care for the graves of her two lost friends after a love triangle gone awry. As Hope wins the fairy's trust, Tink tells her the truth about Wendy and Peter--and her own role in their ultimate fate. Told in three alternating perspectives--past, present, and excerpts from a book called Neverland: A History written by Tink's own fairy godmother--this queer adaptation is for anyone who has ever wondered if there might have been more to the story of Tinker Bell and the rest of the Peter Pan legend.
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Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
by Benjamin Alire Saenz
In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Ari and Dante are determined to forge a path for themselves in a world that doesn’t understand them.
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Briarheart
by Mercedes Lackey
A fresh and feminist reinterpretation of Sleeping Beauty from a beloved fantasy author finds princess Aurora’s older sister, Miriam, discovering that she possesses incredible powers that must be used to protect her little sister and combat the shadowy threats that are moving closer and closer to their kingdom.
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The Color of Dragons
by R. A. Salvatore
Magic needs a spark. And Maggie's powers are especially fickle. With no one to help her learn to control her magic, the life debt that she owes stretches eternally over her head, with no way to repay it. Until she meets Griffin, the king's champion, infamous for hunting down the draignochs that plague their kingdom. Neither has any idea of the destiny that they both carry, or that their meeting will set off a chain of events that will alter every aspect of the life they know--and all of history thereafter.
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Lies My Memory Told Me
by Sacha Wunsch
In a world where memories can be shared but not trusted, Nova, whose parents developed the Enhanced Memory technology, finds herself questioning their motives after she meets a boy who runs a secret vlog cataloging real experiences.
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Inferior five
by Keith Giffen
"The citizens of Dangerfield, Arizona, are beset by strange goings-on after the "Invasion" that rocked the DC Universe, but only five misfit kids seem to notice them. Can they uncover what's happening before some sinister force collects them all? Plus, the Peacemaker is on a top-secret mission from Checkmate and Amanda Waller to find a mysterious weapon before the Russians can. What will happen when their worlds collide? It's meant to be the days of Earth's rebirth after the dreaded Invasion, but it doesn't look like the Dominators have left Dangerfield, Arizona, nor are they done making the "Inferior Five" their unwitting cat toys!"
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Lifetime Passes
by Terry Blas
Sixteen-year-old Jackie Chavez loves her local amusement park, Kingdom Adventure, maybe more than anything else in the world. The park is all she and her friends Nikki, Daniel, and Berke—although they aren’t always the greatest friends—talk about. Kingdom Adventure is where all Jackie’s best memories are, and it’s where she feels safe and happy. This carries even more weight now that Jackie’s parents have been deported and forced to go back to Mexico, leaving Jackie in the United States with her Tía Gina, who she works with at the Valley Care Living seniors’ home. When Gina tells Jackie that they can’t afford a season pass for next summer, Jackie is crushed. But on her next trip to Kingdom Adventure, she discovers a strictly protectedsecret: If a member of their party dies at the park, the rest of their group gets free lifetime passes.
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The Middle Ages : A Graphic History
by Elanor Janega
he Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the ‘Dark Ages’, shedding light on the medieval period’s present-day relevance in a unique illustrated style. This history takes us through the rise and fall of empires, papacies, caliphates and kingdoms; through the violence and death of the Crusades, Viking raids, the Hundred Years War and the Plague; to the curious practices of monks, martyrs and iconoclasts. We’ll see how the foundations of the modern West were established, influencing our art, cultures, religious practices and ways of thinking.
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Oksi
by Mari Ahokoivu
Where was the bear born? Where delivered? By the moon, next to the sun Among the stars of the plough Sent to Earth in a golden cradle With silvery chains.Poorling is a little bear. She's a bit different from her brothers.Mother keeps their family safe. For the Forest is full of dangers. It is there that Mana lives, with her Shadow children.And above them all, Emuu, the great Grandma in the Sky.From the heart of Finnish folklore comes a breathtaking tale of mothers, daughters, stars and legends, and the old gods and the new.
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The Orphan King
by Tyler Chin-tanner
After training in secret with his mother’s sister, the magical Lady Taleissa, Prince Kaidan returns home to find his kingdom destroyed and his parents, King Gorlan and Queen Olwen, gone. With the monarchy overthrown, Kaidan is set adrift in a lawless land where his birthright is no longer recognized. To make matters worse, there’s a price on his head set by the warlord who wants to ensure that the royal line has no chance to return.
Kaidan seeks refuge with a merry band of outlaws hiding in the forest, who were neither loyal to the monarchy nor to the current leadership. Kaidan joins them until they betray him, selling him out to a local merchant and giving the money to the poor.
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Pretty Boy Detective Club 1
by Suzuka Oda
A mysterious group known as the Pretty Boy Detective Club is rumored to solve (and perhaps cause) most of the trouble at Yubiwa Academy--in a strictly unofficial, undercover, uncommercial capacity, of course. In order to find a star she glimpsed ten years ago, second-year Mayumi Dojima enlists the Pretty Boy's aid, and gets much more than she bargained for! When they run up against a shadowy organization called the Twenties, stargazing is suddenly the least of their worries. Mayumi's entire future is in jeopardy, and the Pretty Boy Detective Club must race to solve the Mystery of the Dark Star before time runs out!
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The Secrets of Chocolate : A Gourmand’s Trip Through a Top Chef’s Atelier
by Franckie Alarcon
Following Jacques Genin for a year, Franckie Alarcon hobnobbed with one of the biggest chefs of Chocolate. Former chef and pastry chef for prestigious restaurants, this super-talented autodidact shares all his passion and knowledge of chocolate and his process for creating recipes. In this docu-comic, we travel with the starry-eyed author, satisfying many a craving from the chef’s amazing atelier above his store, trying his hand as an apprentice, all the way to the Peruvian cocoa plantations where another chef shows how one carefully chooses the beans.
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Specter Inspectors
by Bowen Mccurdy
True believer Noa, her cynical little sibling Gus, credulous cameraman Ko, and skeptical Astrid head to one of the most haunted towns in America to prove that ghosts exist, for all the social media likes! The investigations of hauntings uncover something more devilish than just a couple of ghosts, something that will put Noa and Astrid's relationship to the test... ...and reveal the centuries-old sinister secrets of the town itself.
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Why Is Everybody Yelling? : Growing Up in My Immigrant Family
by Marisabina Russo
It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised Catholic and attending a Catholic school that she loves--but when she finds out that she's Jewish by blood, and that her family members are Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, her childhood is thrown into turmoil. To make matters more complicated, her father is out of the picture, her mother is ambitious and demanding, and her older half-brothers have troubles, too. Following the author's young life into the tumultuous, liberating 1960s, this heartfelt, unexpectedly humorous, and meticulously illustrated graphic-novel memoir explores the childhood burdens of memory and guilt, and Marisabina's struggle and success in forming an identity entirely her own.
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Feminist Af : A Guide to Crushing Girlhood
by Brittney Cooper
Hip-hop and feminism combine in this empowering guide with attitude, from best-selling author Brittney Cooper and founding members of the Crunk Feminist Collective.
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Gods of World Mythology
by Don Nardo
Certain universal themes run throughout mythologies of the many and diverse peoples of the past. Each pantheon of deities has at least one creator god, for instance. Gods of justice, war, and love are also common. Gods of World Mythology explores some of the leading gods of the Greeks, Romans, Norse, Hindus, Chinese, Aztecs, and Igbo.
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The master guide to drawing anime : figure drawing essentials for the aspiring artist / 6, Expressions and poses :
by Christopher Hart
"The sixth book in the bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime series focuses on using principles of figure drawing to create anime characters and scenes. In this new title, Christopher Hart combines two subjects he is well known for-figure drawing andanime. The classic concepts of figure drawing are a perfect place to start for the aspiring anime artist. This book shows readers how to apply basic figure-drawing principles to the anime style that fans love. Chris covers figure-drawing fundamentals-such as proportions, posture, and poses-along with the finishing touches that infuse characters with personality. For example, a simple hand gesture can define an entire scene! This book teaches readers how to draw hands and gestures, and also faces, contours, poses, clothing, scenes, and more. Each lesson offers tips and tricks that will demystify the drawing process, giving artists a solid figure-drawing foundation that they can apply to the anime style and beyond"
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The Periodic Table of Marvel
by Melanie Scott
From the volatile gamma-irradiated Hulk to the stable Super-Soldier Captain America, and the technologically enhanced Iron Man to the cosmically charged Silver Surfer, the Marvel Comics Universe boasts a diverse array of heroes and villains. Whether mutants or Asgardians, Celestials or Inhumans, The Periodic Table of Marvel expertly classifies key and lesser known Marvel characters to reveal the properties that bind them, the catalysts that created them, the chain reactions that energize them, and the underlying structures and formulas that underpin the Marvel Universe.
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Teen Guide to Financial Literacy
by Joe Ferry
Money management is an essential skill for young people. From learning how to build a budget and use a credit card to applying for a car loan and renting an apartment, teens will get a valuable introduction to the information they need to be successful later in life.
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Vegan Cookbook for Teens : 100 Easy and Nutritious Plant-Based Recipes
by Barb Musick
Whether teens want to be kinder to animals, the environment, or their own bodies, there are so many good reasons to explore veganism! This teen cookbook makes plant-based cooking fun, flavorful, and easy. It’s filled with 100 crave-worthy recipes for both classic comfort foods and creative new flavor combinations. Basic everyday ingredients and step-by-step recipe instructions help simplify vegan cooking so teens can gain confidence and build kitchen skills that will last a lifetime.
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1221-A Brass Mill Rd Belcamp, Maryland 21017 410-273-5600 hcplonline.org
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