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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
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2023.
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English
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"St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family. Then, late one9781646221509 stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols...
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TokyoPop
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[2024]
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English
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"After coming out as gay to his girlfriend, Uta is now single. A year and a half has passed since these new circumstances had him move in with Ryo, a straight man who is his junior at work. At first, they fought quite a bit; they also slept together. But these days, they're as tranquil as a middle-aged married couple. Only problem is...they haven't had sex or kissed in almost a year. With their lease renewal hanging over his head, Uta is wondering...
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Heartstopper volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Nick and Charlie are in love. But what happens next?
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship soon follows, and that soon develops int something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high...
5) Boys weekend
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Pantheon Books
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[2023]
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English
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"Newly-out trans artist's assistant Sammie is invited to an old friend's bachelor weekend in El Campo, a hedonistic wonderland of a city floating in the Atlantic Ocean's international waters -- think Las Vegas with even fewer rules. Though they have not identified as a man for over a year, Sammie's old friends haven't quite gotten the message -- as evidenced by their former best friend Adam asking them to be his "best man." Arriving at the swanky...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
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Saint Young Men volume 10
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Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
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[2023]
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English
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"In today's world, there is an enticing lure that even heavenly figures cannot resist...the path of the YouTuber! An incident happens that threatens to break the spirit of Gabriel, the guardian angel of passing on information! Meanwhile, Jesus receives a sudden work request from the Heavens. While he struggles with the unfamiliar realities of remote work, Buddha cracks wise!"--Back cover.
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Essex dogs trilogy volume 2
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Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting-and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France 'til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield. Obsessed with tracking down...
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Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off wishes one by one. Along the way, Murray remembers what it's like to be young, and Jason fights for the oppotunity to grow old. But when...
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