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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Erin Williams's graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams's own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like: immunodeficiency cancer endometriosis alcoholism severe depression PTSD Western medicine, which intends to cure illness and minimize pain, often causes more loss, abuse, and suffering for...
2) Ghosts
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English
Description
Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Bahía de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. As the girls explore their new home, a neighbor lets them in on a secret: there are ghosts in Bahía de la Luna. Maya is determined to meet one, but Cat wants nothing to do...
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Series
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English
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The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.
"Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves"--Publisher...
Author
Series
Teen Titans (Garcia) volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Garfield Logan finally impresses the social elite at his high school, but popularity comes at a price when he undergoes sudden physical changes as the dares from his new friends escalate."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Shojo beat edition.
Language
English
Description
"At age 31, office worker Chikage Deguchi feels she missed her chance at love and success. When word gets out that she's a virgin, Chikage is humiliated and wishes she could return to the time when she was still young and popular. She takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to when she was 15. Now [she] is determined to pursue everything she missed out on all those years ago-- including becoming a star!"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Shojo Beat edition.
Language
English
Description
"To pursue missed chances at love and success, 31-year-old Chikage Deguchi takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to how she looked at age 15. Chikage tells Tokita she's decided to date the teenage Ru as her 15-year-old self, and Tokita wonders how things might have been different if he had confessed his feelings for her back in high school." -- cover.
Author
Series
Manhattan projects volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Once they have complete control of the Earth, cracks begin to appear in the Lords of Science's organization and, soon, sides will have to be chosen. Meanwhile, Enrico Fermi's past is revealed, and Oppenheimer continues his psychological battle with his dead brother.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Little Lucy Snow was meant to be enjoying her first day at the nice elementary school in town; however, a macabre twist of fate sees her enrolled instead at Miss Weaver's Academy for the Scientifically Gifted and Ethically Unfettered -- also known as Hollow Fields. The grim boarding school dedicates itself to raising the next generation of mad scientists and evil geniuses!
9) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Manga adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic horror tale of a young man's obsession with creating life--and the horrors unleashed when he succeeds.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When a powerful multinational corporation creates a machine that can communicate with God, does it spell humanity's salvation or the end of days? This sprawling saga, set in the not-so-distant future, explores the collision courses among science, religion, and corporate greed" -- back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
In 1932, Vincent Krall sets out to create his perfect woman by reanimating the corpse of the love of his life. He'll soon discover, however, that man was never meant to peer beyond the veil between life and death, and a woman is not as easily controlled as he believes. As his monster becomes more conscious of who she was and who she is becoming, Vincent ends up with a lot more than he bargained for.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In March of 1944, at age 10, little Eva was arrested with her entire family, including her twin sister, Miriam, for the "crime" of being Jewish. Nazis loaded Eva and her family into a cattle car with other men, women, and children headed to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Within moments of their arrival, the twins lost their entire family to the gas chambers without a chance to say goodbye. Because twins were considered valuable for research,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Language
English
Description
"Francine and her friends know they need to escape from Dr. Brenner's grueling experiments and Hawkins Laboratory before he can harness their collective powers, but they worry their opportunity to escape will arrive too late. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." -- Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Manhattan projects volume 5
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Reveals the dark days of the 'real' Cuban Missle Crisis, the assassination of an American President, and the end of the Manhattan Project-Star City alliance"--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Illuminati Ball merges the myth and mystery surrounding the secret organization of the rich and powerful who supposedly control the world with a story about human-animal hybrids who have escaped an experimental lab. Inspired by the legendary 1972 surrealist masquerade party that influenced Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut--hosted by the Baron and Baroness de Rothschild at their mansion in Paris--The Illuminati Ball combines elements of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"¡Volvámonos virales juntos! Elena se encuentra en la peligrosísima misión de reclutar a does de las plagas más mortales de la historia: Peste Bubónica y Fiebre Amarilla. Si lo logra, podrá combatir otras enfermedades como el cáncer y la malria. Pero convencerias no será tarea fácil, y para ello tendrá que recorrer todo el sistema inmune con ellas y con la ayuda de uno de sus linfocitos más fuertes."--Back cover.
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