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"With the help of her housemates, high schooler Meeko begins to adjust to life in her uncle's boarding house. Even the initially frightening Matsunaga-san helps her out -- and soon enough, between one kind act and another, Meeko find herself falling for him. Knowing that Matsunaga-san doesn't see her that way, Meeko tries to keep her one-sided, budding feelings in check. But balancing first loves and final exams is a lot to handle, and when her grades...
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"Armand is a diplomat rising through the ranks of the Norwegian foreign office, but he's caught between his public duty to support foreign wars in the Middle East and his private disdain for Western intervention. He hides behind knowing, ironic statements, which no one grasps and which change nothing. Armand's son joins the Norwegian SAS to fight in the Middle East, despite being specifically warned against such a move by his father, and this leads...
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"Hace veinte años, el padre de Emily Mills fue asesinado y ella encontró su cuerpo colgando en el patio trasero. Su hermana menor, Madison, afirma que estaba dormida en su habitación. Su hermana mayor, Tara, afirma que salió con amigos. La tragedia llevó a su madre al suicidio ya Tara a dejar la ciudad para siempre. El asesino fue capturado. El caso cerrado. Desde entonces, Emily y Madison han tratado de olvidar lo que sucedió esa noche, hasta...
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"When Detective Regan Reilly sets off for her tenth reunion at Quiltier College--an all-women's college in Northern Massachusetts--she is looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and reminiscing. She doesn't expect to be working. But things don't always turn out as planned. On her way to the reunion, Regan stops at her favorite diner, Dot and Don's, and discovers the owners of the restaurant bound up in the cellar, the cash register empty....
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Resistance (Straczynski) volume 1
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"Fight the power with power. Acclaimed writer J. Michael Straczynski returns to the prescient, ambitious world of The Resistance! In the wake of the assassination of their leader, the Resistance is in disarray, disconnected from each other and hunted by authorities around the world--including an army of 'reborns' recruited by the American government. To avert decimation at the hands of a fascistic government crackdown, the Resistance must discover...
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"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel...
10) Banana fish: 7
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Ash has only one hand of cards--a loyal posse of street thugs, an investigative reporter, and a sympathetic cop, as he plays his one draw with tricks, trumps, and the hand jive from a .357 Magnum...