tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23162562979777990272024-03-21T18:12:25.345-05:00SPHS LibraryLibbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-5517648304227795982022-01-06T08:53:00.002-06:002022-01-06T08:53:45.673-06:00The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXcF8bQOUKiAu0nGubgwRvxlcFXMhuAL_AR-tA_sq0t6wapItxjT2JuI65JawDrpT6WglkM0tHy-ECvaW34VJiwchDQ40VfbQLJyFkbIOaKVYt6YlDkIFfLc_fgH8kbBAgXooxNbJHW_rZDFKLEOd6SEp5eFWp43HJogub53_gPbYUbGntGm06LmZUWw=s1071" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="1071" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXcF8bQOUKiAu0nGubgwRvxlcFXMhuAL_AR-tA_sq0t6wapItxjT2JuI65JawDrpT6WglkM0tHy-ECvaW34VJiwchDQ40VfbQLJyFkbIOaKVYt6YlDkIFfLc_fgH8kbBAgXooxNbJHW_rZDFKLEOd6SEp5eFWp43HJogub53_gPbYUbGntGm06LmZUWw=s600"/></a></div>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-25547232854365001762021-09-15T10:03:00.002-05:002021-09-15T10:03:18.501-05:00Search our Library<p><br /></p><iframe src="//widgets.fss.follett.com/widgets/rest/v1/s/56fd4b08e4b0aca1e54d8ca2/?searchURL=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.follettsoftware.com%2Fmetasearch%2Frest%2Fv2%2Fgo%2F68840%2Fsearch%3Fcol%3Dall%26q%3D" width="350" height="163" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="Medium%20Search%20-%20Teal" frameborder="0"></iframe>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-46208665898793683842021-09-15T09:56:00.000-05:002021-09-15T09:56:35.888-05:00New Book- Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown<p><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></b></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown</b></span></span></h2><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW5X5AIeqWwgxfIymsPs1QK_B3u3-Dv9DOXvxvjgLP09Q8CAKu6r5_iWLyMDXJVVNa2vKKh70SKi7srzf5m6SIbL36gem95RO7hKL4k05iCl3lPprseIV2U-8_8x133EMK4axzNdfhHxsu/s499/Black+Girl+Unlimited+by+Echo+Brown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="324" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW5X5AIeqWwgxfIymsPs1QK_B3u3-Dv9DOXvxvjgLP09Q8CAKu6r5_iWLyMDXJVVNa2vKKh70SKi7srzf5m6SIbL36gem95RO7hKL4k05iCl3lPprseIV2U-8_8x133EMK4axzNdfhHxsu/s320/Black+Girl+Unlimited+by+Echo+Brown.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><p></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, <i>Black Girl Unlimited </i>fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism―all through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age story for fans of Renee Watson's <i>Piecing Me Together</i> and Ibi Zoboi's <i>American Street</i>.</b></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you. Echo soon realizes there is pain flowing through everyone around her, and a black veil of depression threatens to undo everything she’s worked for.</span>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-59996775376014788552021-04-29T10:44:00.001-05:002021-04-29T10:44:17.478-05:00E-Books Available on Sora<p> All of these books are available on Sora. You can find the Sora icon in your Learner Login and click on it to be logged into Sora and start looking for e-books. If there are titles you would like to see offered as e-books feel free to contact me. I am happy to offer books students will read!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="361" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3ONPKrcxGBE" width="478" youtube-src-id="3ONPKrcxGBE"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-52445588991024602552020-12-17T15:05:00.001-06:002020-12-17T15:05:02.344-06:00This is My America- Realistic Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;">This is My America</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">by Kim Johnson</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmwAqzhymUlqz-QG-cnAHhDkBiMMKufN5zLMnczWAOE3O-tASEhXEylmhlgaH5s8Yz_qdU35wNSPbovD4wuB-W4zHCpw01qBbzLZ6OS6Lc_iZTl_LixwgjhBm6JuBgVT0rCo8tZisRhPd/s499/my+america.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmwAqzhymUlqz-QG-cnAHhDkBiMMKufN5zLMnczWAOE3O-tASEhXEylmhlgaH5s8Yz_qdU35wNSPbovD4wuB-W4zHCpw01qBbzLZ6OS6Lc_iZTl_LixwgjhBm6JuBgVT0rCo8tZisRhPd/s320/my+america.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>The Hate U Give</i> meets <i>Just Mercy</i> in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /></b></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town's racist history that still haunt the present?</span></span></div>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-32620797565301776712020-12-17T14:45:00.001-06:002020-12-17T14:45:03.403-06:00Lies You Never Told Me- Mystery Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;">Lies You Never Told Me</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">by Jennifer Donaldson</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicWwpmRX4kxJRElgUKaSh5e46b57kXug3GqdsCQENyICvbUIS5jFaS1qsubYnouE7-QJlwxWSQIUYNiT7rnOubYv-lcmpz5WNmrC6NOSrnksMw3BNnycLi0axUpQzRabjQ8vs2OGZg5J51/s499/lies+you+never.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicWwpmRX4kxJRElgUKaSh5e46b57kXug3GqdsCQENyICvbUIS5jFaS1qsubYnouE7-QJlwxWSQIUYNiT7rnOubYv-lcmpz5WNmrC6NOSrnksMw3BNnycLi0axUpQzRabjQ8vs2OGZg5J51/s320/lies+you+never.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Gabe and Elyse have never met. But they both have something to hide.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Quiet, shy Elyse can't believe it when she's cast as the lead in her Portland high school's production of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Romeo and Juliet</i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. Her best friend, Brynn, is usually the star, and Elyse isn't sure she's up to the task. But when someone at rehearsals starts to catch her eye--someone she knows she absolutely shouldn't be with--she can't help but be pulled into the spotlight.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Austin native Gabe is contemplating the unthinkable--breaking up with Sasha, his headstrong, popular girlfriend. She's not going to let him slip through her fingers, though, and when rumors start to circulate around school, he knows she has the power to change his life forever.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Gabe and Elyse both make the mistake of falling for the wrong person, and falling hard. Told in parallel narratives, this twisty, shocking story shows how one bad choice can lead to a spiral of unforeseen consequences that not everyone will survive.</span></span><div><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">"A compulsive page-turner with a shocking twist--get ready to stay up all night!"</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-weight: 700;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—</span>Sara Shepard, #1 <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</i> bestselling author of<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Pretty Little Liars</i></span></span></span></div>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-77740025034179915102020-12-17T11:55:00.000-06:002020-12-17T11:55:08.839-06:00The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - Fantasy Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Midnight Library </span></h1><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Matt Haig</span></h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc5cDJh4vnQerp78FxfQ_XpMHGjRyypi6LiWT73gDMO4dh35t3B6gLvdTJtQ8BsitdcLUHOTx5yyOuW2xMG-QbjfAdIQ1gXeNgODHQwMu0hFFUXQ1m9MioBKId51pC3ze4hhoX0-NJzXCZ/s499/midnight+library.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc5cDJh4vnQerp78FxfQ_XpMHGjRyypi6LiWT73gDMO4dh35t3B6gLvdTJtQ8BsitdcLUHOTx5yyOuW2xMG-QbjfAdIQ1gXeNgODHQwMu0hFFUXQ1m9MioBKId51pC3ze4hhoX0-NJzXCZ/s320/midnight+library.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?" <br /><br />A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of <i>Reasons to Stay Alive</i> and <i>How To Stop Time.</i></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">In </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Midnight Library</i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.</span></span></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-9276548925862817062020-12-17T10:19:00.000-06:002020-12-17T10:19:50.092-06:00Invictus- Science Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;">Invictus</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">by Ryan Graudin</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8KHSpOUWLojGS103p-V445vrknfHgxqkdmyPxgmEoENlr5CYFH-OBQ1LJ7BgwZ90ttb4Wwyuj1DoSIO3MpTVlZaNyzgE-xC1CyU_B35o8w-FRI__OwiHkFaVQ18jMj9-J88E7KgbSxt4C/s499/invictus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="334" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8KHSpOUWLojGS103p-V445vrknfHgxqkdmyPxgmEoENlr5CYFH-OBQ1LJ7BgwZ90ttb4Wwyuj1DoSIO3MpTVlZaNyzgE-xC1CyU_B35o8w-FRI__OwiHkFaVQ18jMj9-J88E7KgbSxt4C/s320/invictus.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Time flies when you're plundering history.</i></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b><div>Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time traveler from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in ancient Rome, Far's very existence defies the laws of nature. All he's ever wanted was to explore history for himself, but after failing his entrance exam into the government program, Far will have to settle for a position on the black market--captaining a time-traveling crew to steal valuables from the past.</div><div><br /></div><div>During a routine heist on the sinking <i>Titanic</i>, Far meets a mysterious girl named Eliot who always seems to be one step ahead of him. Eliot has secrets--big ones--that will affect Far's life from beginning to end. Armed with the knowledge that history is not as steady as it seems, she will lead Far and his team on a race through time to set things right before the clock runs out.</div></div>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-80405604798916217592020-12-17T09:13:00.000-06:002020-12-17T09:13:37.238-06:00E books on SoraWe have a new service called Sora. You can find it in your Learner Login and check out e-books to read on your device. Here is a peek at some of the books that are available. Take a look and let us know if there are others you would like to read.<div><br />
<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="352" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oteWAOOEwkY" width="464" youtube-src-id="oteWAOOEwkY"></iframe></div><br /><br /><div><br /></div></div></div>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-6412544283317144622020-12-17T02:30:00.001-06:002020-12-17T14:09:20.797-06:00A Breath too Late - Realistic Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;"> A Breath too Late</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">by Rocky Callen</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjndgDjoNNzpHiuMxuz7t9unDM0TV21_Zua3KWvpzS5rs1FYXyKyNwxfV0V3HgyN1Bz1x3CHeWsPzy3Oxa8DkXQKhSoRjFHIfTr1sZhCikH8MlyDmBc8Me4Owh9PcFA2v6G-kzYVaWKN24F/s499/breath+too+late.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="324" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjndgDjoNNzpHiuMxuz7t9unDM0TV21_Zua3KWvpzS5rs1FYXyKyNwxfV0V3HgyN1Bz1x3CHeWsPzy3Oxa8DkXQKhSoRjFHIfTr1sZhCikH8MlyDmBc8Me4Owh9PcFA2v6G-kzYVaWKN24F/s320/breath+too+late.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Seventeen-year-old Ellie had no hope left. Yet the day after she dies by suicide, she finds herself in the midst of an out-of-body experience. She is a spectator, swaying between past and present, retracing the events that unfolded prior to her death.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">But there are gaps in her memory, fractured pieces Ellie is desperate to re-assemble. There's her mother, a songbird who wanted to break free from her oppressive cage. The boy made of brushstrokes and goofy smiles who brought color into a gray world. Her brooding father, with his sad puppy eyes and clenched fists. And Ellie's determined to find out why a piece of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">her </i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">was left behind.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Told in epistolary-like style, Rocky Callen's deeply moving </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A Breath Too Late</i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"> sensitively examines the beautiful and terrible moments that make up a life and the possibilities that live in even the darkest of places. Perfect for fans of the critically-acclaimed </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Speak</i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I’ll Give You the Sun,</i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If I Stay</i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">"An </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">exquisitely </b><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">played </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">love song to life</b><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">, in all of its hurts, wonders, memories, and loves." –Jeff Zentner, Morris Award winning author of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Serpent King </i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Goodbye Days</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">"A haunting story, punctuated with </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">brilliant </b><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">points of hope and light. This is </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">an important story</b><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">. A necessary story . . . Callen’s writing radiates with passion, honesty and love." ―National Book Award finalist and Printz Award–winning author An Na</span></div>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-42919079850799976542020-12-14T09:07:00.004-06:002020-12-14T09:07:40.481-06:00Manga Series<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Descriptions of some of the Manga series we have available in our library.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Devils & Realist</span></span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-67461001-7fff-2d58-6d9b-770e518f7cf3"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> After the failure of his uncle's business, the brilliant realist </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> William Twining finds himself penniless. To make matters </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> worse, demons appear before him, insisting he has the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> power to appoint the next King of Hell! The demons offer </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to pay his school tuition in exchange for his help. While </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> His principles as a staunch realist prevent him from </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> believing in them, how can William resist such a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Generous offer?</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8652e0b7-7fff-801e-9980-cd549ecac211"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Seraph of the End </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">After the fall of humanity, vampires arise from the shadows </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">to rule the earth. Yuichiro wants just one thing, to get revenge </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">by killing each and every vampire.Yuichiro’s dream is near-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">impossible, given that vampires are seven times stronger than </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">humans,& the only way to kill them is by mastering advanced </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">demon-possessed weaponry. Not to mention that humanity’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">most elite Vampire Extermination Unit wants nothing to do </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">with him unless he can prove he’s willing to work in a team—</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">which is the last thing he wants!</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a39d4ff2-7fff-cfa4-2ee6-57d9162b11e1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Ouran High School Host Club</span><span style="color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">In this screwball romantic comedy, Haruhi, a poor girl </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">at a rich kids’ school, is forced to repay an $80,000 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">debt by working for the school’s swankiest, all-male </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">club—as a boy! There she discovers just how wealthy </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">the six members are and how different the rich are </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">from everybody else…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attack on Titan </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this post-apocalytpic sci-fi story, humanity has been </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Titans Little is known about where they came from or why they</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are bent on consuming mankind.Seemingly unintelligent, they</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">have roamed the world for years, killing everyone they see. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the past century, what's left of man has hidden in a giant, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">three-walled city. People believe their 100-meter-high walls will </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">protect them from the Titans, but the sudden appearance of</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4dc85fe0-7fff-54ed-4293-998f0fe4171e" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an immense Titan is about to change everything.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tokyo Ghoul </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the world of Tokyo Ghoul, sometimes the only way to fight </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">monsters is to become one…The Commission of Counter </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ghoul is the only organization fighting the Ghoul menace, & </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they will use every tool at their disposal to protect humanity </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from its ultimate predator. Their newest weapon in this hidden </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">war is an experimental procedure that implants human </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">investigators with a Ghoul’s Kagune,giving them Ghoul powers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and abilities. But both the procedure and the newly formed Qs </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ba651ce0-7fff-9adb-15e6-d296cf217756" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Squad are untested. Will they become heroes…or monsters?!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gin Tama </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's samurai vs. aliens!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-88c5ac79-7fff-d456-a017-8566719b2b0b" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The samurai didn't stand a chance. First, the aliens </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">invaded Japan. Next, they took all the jobs. And then </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they confiscated everyone's swords.So what does a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hotheaded former samurai like Gintoki "Gin" Sakata do </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to make ends meet? Take any odd job that comes his </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">way, even if it means losing his dignity.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naruto</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naruto is a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mischief. He’s got a wild sense of humor, but Naruto is </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">completely serious about his mission to be the world’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">greatest ninja!</span><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No one takes him seriously at Ninja </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Academy. Especially not the other students, who all are </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">competing to be the best ninja ever. Naruto and his </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">classmates are about to embark on an adventure that takes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">them far beyond Ninja Academy, beyond Konoha, beyond </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">anything they </span><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">ever imagined. What is Naruto’s true destiny? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-weight: 700;">Bleach </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Part-time student, full-time Soul Reaper, Ichigo is one of the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> chosen few guardians of the afterlife. Ichigo Kurosaki never </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> asked for the ability to see ghosts—he was born with the gift.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When his family is attacked by a Hollow—a malevolent lost </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> soul—Ichigo becomes a Soul Reaper, dedicating his life to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> protecting the innocent and helping the tortured spirits </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5b8b536-7fff-85a8-18c9-a137a5461718" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> themselves find peace.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-36dc7ed1-7fff-fd0c-7c11-0580ebea4c41"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">My Hero Academia </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">What would the world be like if 80 percent of the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">population manifested superpowers called “Quirks”? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">were born Quirkless?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Soul Eater </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b9eabdc4-7fff-58bb-d4a5-83707203d9af" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maka is a weapon meister, determined to turn her partner, a living scythe named Soul Eater, into a powerful death scythe - the ultimate weapon of Death himself! Charged with the task of collecting and devouring the tainted souls of ninety-nine humans and one witch, Maka and her fellow meisters strive to master their weapons as they face off against the bizarre and dangerous minions of the underworld. But the meisters' own personal quirks may prove a bigger obstacle than any sultry enchantress!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One Punch Man </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">guy has a not-so-average problem—he just can’t seem to</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">find an opponent strong enough to take on!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every time a promising villain appears, Saitama beats the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">snot out of ’em with one punch! Can he finally find an </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">opponent who can go toe-to-toe with him and give his life </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">some meaning? Or is he doomed to a life of superpowered </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-158b47f4-7fff-a368-4ac4-0d6887f9bd2f" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">boredom?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parasyte </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3ce5ddb3-7fff-eacd-1be7-6d5e51df775d" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They arrive in silence and darkness & descend from the skies, with a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade–and take control of–a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret–except an ordinary high school student. Shin is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Promised Neverland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Life at Grace Field House Orphanage is good for Emma </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and her fellow orphans.. But perhaps not everything is as</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> it seems Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest kids at</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the orphanage. And under the care of the woman they </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> refer to as “Mom,” all the kids have enjoyed a comfortable</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> life. Good food, clean clothes and the perfect environment</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to learn. One day, though, Emma and Norman uncover </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the dark truth of the outside world they are forbidden from</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-75a09fbf-7fff-28ad-c821-3b16a55a907d" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> seeing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Seven Deadly Sins </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-867a0f84-7fff-5b43-23d2-0c4381401ed5" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When they were accused of trying to overthrow the monarchy, the feared warriors the Seven Deadly Sins were sent into exile. Princess Elizabeth discovers the truth - the Sins were framed by the king's guard, the Holy Knights - too late to prevent them from assassinating her father and seizing the throne! Now the princess is on the run, seeking the Sins to help her reclaim the kingdom. But the first Sin she meets, Meliodas, is a little innkeeper with a talking pig. He doesn't even have a real sword! Have the legends of the Sins' strength been exaggerated...?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inu Yasha </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kagome is an ordinary modern schoolgirl living an ordinary</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">life. Who would have thought the dried-up old well on the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">site of her family's shrine would be a gateway to Japan's </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ancient past? Drawn through the gate against her will, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kagome finds herself battling demons for control of what</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">she thought was a worthless trinket but is actually a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">powerful magical gem, the Shikon Jewel! Together with an </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">unlikely ally, the half demon Inuyasha, Kagome begins a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">quest to recover the shards of the Shikon Jewel and learn </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17ff5ec5-7fff-8368-8de4-0cd9d1620e18" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">more about her link to the past.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c787eefd-7fff-d161-aecf-d0a81f2cd19d"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Butler </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Just a stone's throw from London lies the manor house of the illustrious Phantomhive earldom and its master, one Ciel Phantomhive. Earl Phantomhive is a giant in the world of commerce, Queen Victoria's faithful servant...and a slip of a twelve-year-old boy. Fortunately, his loyal butler, Sebastian, is ever at his side, ready to carry out the young master's wishes. And whether Sebastian is called to save a dinner party gone awry or probe the dark secrets of London's underbelly, there apparently is nothing Sebastian cannot do. In fact, one might even say Sebastian is too good to be true...or at least, too good to be human...</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Ancient Magus Bride </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enter the Magician's Apprentice. Her name is Chise Hatori, a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">penniless orphan troubled by visions. Sold as a slave to an </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">inhuman mage, she is about to begin a strange new life, filled </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-562a0ef5-7fff-0c3b-d54d-7374f0f0b067" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with magic, fairies, and other beings of a fantastical nature.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vinland Saga</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FOR HONOR AND VENGEANCE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c2167a48-7fff-716f-223b-8e2fe129e241" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a child, Thorfinn sat at the feet of the great Leif Ericson </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Raised by the Vikings who murdered his family, Thorfinn </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">became a terrifying warrior, forever seeking to kill the band's </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">leader, Askeladd, and avenge his father. Sustaining Thorfinn</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">through his ordeal are his pride in his family and his dreams </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of a fertile westward land, a land without war or slavery...the</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">and Leif called </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Vinland</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Death Note 1-13</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -307.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and he's</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Death Note</span><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and now Light has vowed to use the power of the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Death Note</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 4.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d2048abc-7fff-a072-96d4-d5fed1e774df" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt -307.5pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">his noble goal...or his life?</span></p></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-2777784545746488672020-12-10T13:51:00.000-06:002020-12-10T13:51:34.991-06:00E-Books Available in our Online Catalog<p>Here are some YouTube videos on a few of the titles we have available online. You can check out any of these e-books through the Sora App in your Learner Login. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSNYZWibHVHa-D3ULmYEpX44tDLbfUicx_kb381uduXox1nQUN-3UHL4dnUjKwHPpnbYv0xESMG1Ey_qdIWKURQ-cs6pt_fwtmq4qRm6qkkLNzsxa8dLffh4Izgna3AHeWEqpDu3nNFne8/s300/sora-app-icon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSNYZWibHVHa-D3ULmYEpX44tDLbfUicx_kb381uduXox1nQUN-3UHL4dnUjKwHPpnbYv0xESMG1Ey_qdIWKURQ-cs6pt_fwtmq4qRm6qkkLNzsxa8dLffh4Izgna3AHeWEqpDu3nNFne8/w129-h129/sora-app-icon.jpg" width="129" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad</b><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/Nt7PC8c1wCw&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNEskT_GnsyjImS2pW8WpUOj_g7vYQ" href="https://youtu.be/Nt7PC8c1wCw" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">https://youtu.be/Nt7PC8c1wCw</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/0fAHIH6XIsY&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNGKp8HSQJGXJv0lq9cmPzzLO1R8YA" href="https://youtu.be/0fAHIH6XIsY" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/0fAHIH6XIsY</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Awake by Natasha Preston</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/lwfX83KNf9Q&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNFYvGfdISmjDXJmvICLJRo1Or0jyg" href="https://youtu.be/lwfX83KNf9Q" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/lwfX83KNf9Q</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/xCDBr-Z7js4&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNHLdgM8GGVZg19Vxyn0BIw_ny0gfA" href="https://youtu.be/xCDBr-Z7js4" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/xCDBr-Z7js4</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Between Two Skies by Joanne O'Sullivan</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/3WTA4e9iY4Y&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNF1HGTjhj2Tai48Z5wmvQimkz7-DQ" href="https://youtu.be/3WTA4e9iY4Y" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/3WTA4e9iY4Y</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Cracking the Bell by Geoff Herbach</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/wVG7JDdnl_g&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNG8patBBs4ehH5qko-GM2uuBlYrWg" href="https://youtu.be/wVG7JDdnl_g" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/wVG7JDdnl_g</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/ppT_bWBL7vU&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNFsBH-hNL5ba9X1YvgniwPrTJHCqg" href="https://youtu.be/ppT_bWBL7vU" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ppT_bWBL7vU</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Uglies by Scott Westerfeld</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/zt3L2GnPchY&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNFh5kqljShLg2zjVInNO0pYJWECHA" href="https://youtu.be/zt3L2GnPchY" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/zt3L2GnPchY</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/klOArm4qyQ0&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNFiDNEdyHh92xZE61tMfF2xpG-Vzg" href="https://youtu.be/klOArm4qyQ0" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/klOArm4qyQ0</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Jackaby by William Ritter</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/wZsgxW-1WbM&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNFzXbnT5cs5tWiPY1zQhg7E8ty9Zg" href="https://youtu.be/wZsgxW-1WbM" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/wZsgxW-1WbM</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;" /></span></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Clockwork Crow by Catherine Fischer</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/J_umCNy6WZY&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNHRoXR0hKhf2rHWy1aPFM-9UAHpfQ" href="https://youtu.be/J_umCNy6WZY" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/J_umCNy6WZY</a><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The False Prince by Jennifer A Nielsen</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/DsQIPxpxeCM&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNHvNMBoJiiP0U7cLEFAf-r5EuRSfw" href="https://youtu.be/DsQIPxpxeCM" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/DsQIPxpxeCM</a><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Ickabog by J K Rowling</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/X0hb3dHB9ek&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNGKkFp2-tgtYT0WKO_iTttVsLF6ag" href="https://youtu.be/X0hb3dHB9ek" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/X0hb3dHB9ek</a><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/PxYbD-dvsuk&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNFRzWQW7gewrMOIqm_wCJ0zIpD4uQ" href="https://youtu.be/PxYbD-dvsuk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/PxYbD-dvsuk</a><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Woods on Fire by Jennifer A Nielsen</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/umbD-2oB6n0&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNHCdhi9Xg0KbeoelDL308AKHjf8wg" href="https://youtu.be/umbD-2oB6n0" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/umbD-2oB6n0</a><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag</b><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/EQ8fB-5stR4&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNHNsLE8QJ0k_-B32f-HzKqZtbWukA" href="https://youtu.be/EQ8fB-5stR4" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/EQ8fB-5stR4</a><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Not if I Save You First by Ally Carter</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/gFEmGRQE9xY&source=gmail&ust=1607696478715000&usg=AFQjCNEop6s-IaxWZuc_xzmvqyBd3YbuSw" href="https://youtu.be/gFEmGRQE9xY" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">https://youtu.be/gFEmGRQE9xY</span></a></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-10003293961064847052020-12-07T09:44:00.003-06:002020-12-07T09:44:28.857-06:00One of Us is Lying- Mystery Fiction<p>This was the most recent book read by our High School Book Club. This is their review of this book. We have multiple copies available. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwth21jRElb3JfAiJOP_3VaUamciapCeisMgyjjXQmvVmjsMv3Y_84X4CYQK2LEN7ShgKRHlGmvkk-Qc7lYtwVXzE3kmjZbhzD3j1pICfOMYVDzXDNXjYVeYimVdWttBDIrBaJ1QXiHJcg/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="1041" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwth21jRElb3JfAiJOP_3VaUamciapCeisMgyjjXQmvVmjsMv3Y_84X4CYQK2LEN7ShgKRHlGmvkk-Qc7lYtwVXzE3kmjZbhzD3j1pICfOMYVDzXDNXjYVeYimVdWttBDIrBaJ1QXiHJcg/w586-h327/image.png" width="586" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-10293518884715988852020-11-19T14:47:00.000-06:002020-11-19T14:47:05.257-06:00I Know You Remember - Mystery Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;">I Know You Remember</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">By Jennifer Donaldson</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCaOo8DTd59Wem2fNYaDq6mUim5mwXVpv3oMGC-h0YyCT4jbA53bQOu9Ny1aedMk4fPKrj6XSG1NW8rufe7txJngdNli_qojm0kNRVc1wo-e3jbMTZvP9sCZsTtLUwS1kFW7tfjMAJFu5i/s499/remember.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCaOo8DTd59Wem2fNYaDq6mUim5mwXVpv3oMGC-h0YyCT4jbA53bQOu9Ny1aedMk4fPKrj6XSG1NW8rufe7txJngdNli_qojm0kNRVc1wo-e3jbMTZvP9sCZsTtLUwS1kFW7tfjMAJFu5i/s320/remember.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Zahra Gaines is missing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">After three long years away, Ruthie Hayden arrives in her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska to this devastating news. Zahra was Ruthie's best friend--the only person who ever really understood her--and she vows to do whatever it takes to find her.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Zahra vanished from a party just days before Ruthie's return, but the more people she talks to, the more she realizes that the Zahra she knew disappeared long before that fateful night. Gone is the whimsical, artistic girl who loved books and knew Ruthie's every secret. In her place is an athlete, a partier, a girl with secrets of her own. Darker still are the rumors that something happened to Zahra while Ruthie was gone, something that changed her forever...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As Ruthie desperately tries to piece together the truth, she falls deeper and deeper into her friend's new world, circling closer to a dangerous revelation about what happened to Zahra in the days before her disappearance--one that might be better off buried.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In her stunning follow-up to </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Lies You Never Told Me</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, Jennifer Donaldson once again delivers a propulsive thriller with a masterful twist, skillfully creating a world where nothing is quite as it seems.</span></div>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-78856458467890547252020-11-18T10:55:00.000-06:002020-11-18T10:55:46.853-06:00Stamped - Non Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;">Stamped</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">By Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-PYShCAwq98ni853jls_DC0YhU3qtd4gGq6BBDCaH2sqDRTqoEcE9slv9ZWsK4XCv3hsMlD7uSAOOeUFUVNDWbXeBLaCPyfYjBeRD1RrS1GguMQKbBS24bdWgMijaP9548WfbsCsOpMd/s499/stamped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-PYShCAwq98ni853jls_DC0YhU3qtd4gGq6BBDCaH2sqDRTqoEcE9slv9ZWsK4XCv3hsMlD7uSAOOeUFUVNDWbXeBLaCPyfYjBeRD1RrS1GguMQKbBS24bdWgMijaP9548WfbsCsOpMd/s320/stamped.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>The #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller and a<i> USAToday </i>bestseller!</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This is NOT a history book.</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This is a book about the here and now.</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A book about race.</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Stamped from the Beginning</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. It also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Through a gripping, fast-paced, and energizing narrative written by beloved award-winner Jason Reynolds, this book shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas--and on ways readers can identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their daily lives.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Located in our Non Fiction Section, Call # </span><span style="background-color: #e8e8e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">305.8 REY</span></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-86372564456182666552020-11-18T10:53:00.000-06:002020-11-18T10:53:28.449-06:00Punching the Air - Realistic Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;"><b>Punching the Air</b></h1><div><b>by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYzaeUbYATKmXN4PLvq8OPW-vFmKxIKX72Gh8DcvvLZ94jZJN_H-CrLf_S4-ldPAiPjEFGBMjtb4GO9jYtv8Ohiustm4vmNYsi_aW7VMLC1tczCyfu573DQhwsN00-IeLH_rTc5Gf1WcMU/" style="font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYzaeUbYATKmXN4PLvq8OPW-vFmKxIKX72Gh8DcvvLZ94jZJN_H-CrLf_S4-ldPAiPjEFGBMjtb4GO9jYtv8Ohiustm4vmNYsi_aW7VMLC1tczCyfu573DQhwsN00-IeLH_rTc5Gf1WcMU/w212-h320/image.png" width="212" /></a><b><br /><br /></b></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><em>The story that I thought</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><em>was my life</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><em>didn’t start on </em><em>the day</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><em>I was born </em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><em>The story that I think</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><em>will be my life </em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><em>starts today</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both.</p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-42289136130559306672020-11-09T13:17:00.002-06:002020-11-09T13:17:12.919-06:00Slay- Realistic Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Slay </span></h1><p>by Brittney Morris</p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2JMUe0clpDe8uMchS3kEW9LBZhNNQzphteMtJZPhlqKncXyEWiB-LJvFQYtaI0hdJhyvxu7i9BV9m6JmVRkiKlGOMeLdSwxy_OtGvR0Awdf8VLxikLoc1__RqfI9KBJmMSb3xbDokl8u/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2JMUe0clpDe8uMchS3kEW9LBZhNNQzphteMtJZPhlqKncXyEWiB-LJvFQYtaI0hdJhyvxu7i9BV9m6JmVRkiKlGOMeLdSwxy_OtGvR0Awdf8VLxikLoc1__RqfI9KBJmMSb3xbDokl8u/" width="160" /></a></i></b></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i><br />Ready Player One</i> meets <i>The Hate U Give</i> in this dynamite debut novel that follows a fierce teen game developer as she battles a real-life troll intent on ruining the <i>Black Panther</i>–inspired video game she created and the safe community it represents for Black gamers.</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is the game developer, not her friends, her family, not even her boyfriend, Malcolm, who believes video games are partially responsible for the “downfall of the Black man.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">But when a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, news of the game reaches mainstream media, and SLAY is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. Even worse, an anonymous troll infiltrates the game, threatening to sue Kiera for “anti-white discrimination.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Driven to save the only world in which she can be herself, Kiera must preserve her secret identity and harness what it means to be unapologetically Black in a world intimidated by Blackness. But can she protect her game without losing herself in the process?</span><p></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-3766264927587702412020-11-09T11:11:00.002-06:002020-11-09T11:11:17.312-06:00The Great Library Series- Fantasy Series<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Great Library Series</span></h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">By Rachel Caine</h3><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsR2OKmKRlE6IYf0NJXOCPWIJcvxSGYuKfCbo3YLIEPJFCjt3uOv8auGouzKcAJiNo1xMfS33yrWrGh7r6kx_JQdBKJmNu1yZiwKZ4Xn02kkPo9R1cCjlqp_Xej_UW-sFRpzWR0eXC4I4s/s500/great+library.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="332" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsR2OKmKRlE6IYf0NJXOCPWIJcvxSGYuKfCbo3YLIEPJFCjt3uOv8auGouzKcAJiNo1xMfS33yrWrGh7r6kx_JQdBKJmNu1yZiwKZ4Xn02kkPo9R1cCjlqp_Xej_UW-sFRpzWR0eXC4I4s/w213-h320/great+library.jpg" width="213" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly—but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Jess Brightwell believes in the value of the Library, but the majority of his knowledge comes from illegal books obtained by his family. Jess has been sent to be his family’s spy, but his loyalties are tested in the final months of his training to enter the Library’s service.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">When his friend inadvertently commits heresy by creating a device that could change the world, Jess discovers that those who control the Great Library believe knowledge is more valuable than any human life—and soon both heretics and books will burn....</span></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-5776389614731270292020-11-09T09:48:00.000-06:002020-11-09T09:48:39.211-06:00The Girl Who Dared to Think - Dystopian Science Fiction Series<h1 style="text-align: left;">The Girl Who Dared to Think</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">By Bella Forrest</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghBuiunQs3Bp2TdGQPBU32EQ1nptjEx31WHEqMu2qEfGwBh1cDQkyN_vt-HsDy6390h5gbxKgLr3WC8AtAlcvcYnMvTIvSinhZB5fMK3dt25mqxEGjPdOheRnAk9VS6MfeVsXFIhyphenhyphenl0g7k/s300/girl+who+dared.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghBuiunQs3Bp2TdGQPBU32EQ1nptjEx31WHEqMu2qEfGwBh1cDQkyN_vt-HsDy6390h5gbxKgLr3WC8AtAlcvcYnMvTIvSinhZB5fMK3dt25mqxEGjPdOheRnAk9VS6MfeVsXFIhyphenhyphenl0g7k/s0/girl+who+dared.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">How do you fight an enemy when they're inside your mind?</em></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">_____________________________________________</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700;">A gargantuan glass-walled tower looms over a deadly wilderness. They say it's all that's left.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Tower's survival is humanity's survival, and each must serve it faithfully...</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Twenty-year-old Liana Castell must be careful what she thinks. Her life is defined by the number on her wristband - a rating out of ten awarded based on her usefulness and loyalty to the Tower, and monitored by a device in her skull. A device that reports forbidden thoughts.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Liana is currently a four, the lowest possible acceptable score, and despite her parents' perfect scores of ten, she struggles to increase it. Rebellious ideas come all too easily, and resentfulness seems part of her being. She is an overseer-in-training, but her future will be dark if she cannot raise her worth...</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700;">Threes require drug treatment.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twos are isolated.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ones disappear.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">When Liana's worst nightmare comes to pass and she drops to a three, desperation spurs her down a path few dare to tread. A chance encounter with a cocky young man whose shockingly dissident attitude toward the Tower couldn't possibly have earned him the perfect "ten" on his wrist, sets her on a trail to save herself - even at the risk of dropping lower.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Stalking the young man seemed like a simple enough task, but after events take an unexpected twist, Liana finds herself taking a treacherous dive into the darkest depths of the Tower - and the decades' old secrets buried within.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700;">In a society where free thinking can make you a criminal, one girl dares to try...</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700;">Find this in the Series Section Under FOR</span></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-52904185851926614352020-11-02T15:08:00.000-06:002020-11-02T15:08:08.581-06:00Heart Bones - Romantic Realistic Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;">Heart Bones</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">By Colleen Hoover</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwU4wmI7b28ZJ_Who1zL4lTawnKE69UCVzBvhi-5vcKF0E4DBQawOMXJ2shpUMOokhgzIFTt_VwHjLhILXAQD0yu9PPMf-mkKhM7Jq_pTUuu3kLX1v7rj5WZzqgenvHPnV8jrMGNEuzFE/s499/heart+bones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="324" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwU4wmI7b28ZJ_Who1zL4lTawnKE69UCVzBvhi-5vcKF0E4DBQawOMXJ2shpUMOokhgzIFTt_VwHjLhILXAQD0yu9PPMf-mkKhM7Jq_pTUuu3kLX1v7rj5WZzqgenvHPnV8jrMGNEuzFE/s320/heart+bones.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea. "This book deserves a whole galaxy of stars, but alas, five is all I can give." -Shades of Rebecca</span></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-35718386669001353632020-10-28T09:36:00.000-05:002020-10-28T09:36:17.095-05:00The Radiance of Tomorrow - Realistic Fiction<p>The Radiance of Tomorrow</p><p>by Ishmael Beah</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_OfWf9q8wDQZRoq44JVj5XcEcx87kfBw3mUUsGkz9adzgMZuJfXrTSyz_5mtwj6hlq9MbDYXWVUPjHwcB9egCoGkh-g-u9XNgN_B9EHGcGBHiTDbvjGlXazaZirDav8HAV746q2uWIiQ/s499/radiance+of+tomorrow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_OfWf9q8wDQZRoq44JVj5XcEcx87kfBw3mUUsGkz9adzgMZuJfXrTSyz_5mtwj6hlq9MbDYXWVUPjHwcB9egCoGkh-g-u9XNgN_B9EHGcGBHiTDbvjGlXazaZirDav8HAV746q2uWIiQ/s320/radiance+of+tomorrow.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">At the center of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Radiance of Tomorrow</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but they're beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the depredations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying the town's water supply and blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order, they're forced to reckon with the uncertainty of their past and future alike.</span> </p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-3635538556746868052020-10-28T09:35:00.000-05:002020-10-28T09:35:34.152-05:00The Best Lies - Mystery Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;">The Best Lies</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">by Sarah Lyu</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ceHjF0PcRQLC1A0qKTGlvMyN4EjoLGQPCvCPrnK_7RJqlVQi_mKr5IuWbwC8GYZlsVGx4mDrM_bQoAM6pOD__ceax_QLpjw-7GQBq512MRjwQfscx5h6IOvPDM697R3E6nRcVZ_fqgfi/s499/best+lies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ceHjF0PcRQLC1A0qKTGlvMyN4EjoLGQPCvCPrnK_7RJqlVQi_mKr5IuWbwC8GYZlsVGx4mDrM_bQoAM6pOD__ceax_QLpjw-7GQBq512MRjwQfscx5h6IOvPDM697R3E6nRcVZ_fqgfi/s320/best+lies.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Remy Tsai used to know how her story would turn out. But now, she doesn’t even know what tomorrow will look like.</span></p><p><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">She was happy once. Remy had her boyfriend Jack, and Elise, her best friend—her </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">soulmate</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">—who understood her better than anyone else in the world.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But now Jack is dead, shot through the chest…</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And it was Elise who pulled the trigger.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Was it self-defense? Or something darker than anything Remy could imagine? As the police investigate, Remy does the same, sifting through her own memories, looking for a scrap of truth that could save the friendship that means everything to her.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Told in alternating timelines, this twisted psychological thriller explores the dark side of obsessive friendship.</span></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-65718513521646153822020-10-22T11:37:00.000-05:002020-10-22T11:37:44.475-05:00Mindfulness for Teens in 10 Minutes a Day- Non Fiction<p> Mindfulness for Teens in 10 Minutes a Day</p><p>by Jennie Marie Battistin</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuOTxRhFjZJMpF0osFVmY60EOuNLMM2BsJGLRflXamrAZWvoowM_-8OdzDfc7aywuiUyPJlVFnDqlYbgu2TdrR_0uUI72nFdbnjJaEpYyQBsENQRMqn68kEREogBJY9uCYYJLGpUtvj1Cc/s499/mindfulness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuOTxRhFjZJMpF0osFVmY60EOuNLMM2BsJGLRflXamrAZWvoowM_-8OdzDfc7aywuiUyPJlVFnDqlYbgu2TdrR_0uUI72nFdbnjJaEpYyQBsENQRMqn68kEREogBJY9uCYYJLGpUtvj1Cc/s320/mindfulness.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Stop stressing and start being your best self―master mindfulness for teens in no time.</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Homework, relationships, social media, life planning…you’ve got a lot going on, but you don’t have to feel overwhelmed by it. In fact, you could actually enjoy life more while getting more done. <em>Mindfulness for Teens in 10 Minutes a Day</em> shows you how to take control of stress and become the boss of your feelings―and boost your focus while you’re at it.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Start feeling better with mindfulness, the practice of being fully present and cultivating calm, one moment at a time. <em>Mindfulness for Teens in 10 Minutes a Day</em> features simple and effective exercises―that fit perfectly into your daily routine―making it easy to keep yourself in the here and now, tackle challenges one at a time, and make the most of every minute.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><em>Mindfulness for Teens in 10 Minutes a Day</em> includes:</p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 18px 20px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><strong>Practice peace</strong>―Learn to manage whatever life throws at you and bring focus, calm, and joy back to your day with mindfulness for teens.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><strong>60 guided exercises</strong>―Practice helpful exercises and develop essential mindfulness strategies sure to help you through high school and beyond.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><strong>Mindfulness now</strong>―Discover how you can rock your homework, connect to others, chill out, and sleep better using mindfulness―it only takes 10 minutes a day.</li></ul><p><br /></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-88641562552191687972020-10-22T10:15:00.000-05:002020-10-22T10:15:33.690-05:00Words on Bathroom Walls- Realistic Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;">Words on Bathroom Walls</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">by Julia Walton</h3><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2WHvNiR2mltvf_mSNlfXPWGYLTkE7XQzbL0Dmnqve7KiQNzqRvHaw-p70wdSS3WLDtDqRdAABPXpU2fuUoupSNgHFJhuVbmT6oyGgzoZnYWpJKFxIvhL9ISRkKgT8fTVdSZ-QHc4axSlq/s499/words+walls.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2WHvNiR2mltvf_mSNlfXPWGYLTkE7XQzbL0Dmnqve7KiQNzqRvHaw-p70wdSS3WLDtDqRdAABPXpU2fuUoupSNgHFJhuVbmT6oyGgzoZnYWpJKFxIvhL9ISRkKgT8fTVdSZ-QHc4axSlq/s320/words+walls.jpg" /></a></b></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></b><p></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Now a Major Motion Picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell!</b></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Fans of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">More Happy Than Not </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> The Perks of Being a Wallflower</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> will cheer for Adam in this uplifting and surprisingly funny story of a boy living with schizophrenia.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">When you can't trust your mind, trust your heart.</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Adam is a pretty regular teen, except he's navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good (beautiful Rebecca) to the bad (angry Mob Boss) to the just plain weird (polite naked guy).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world. When Adam meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy that she thinks he is. But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep this secret from the girl of his dreams?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Echoing the premise and structure of <i>Flowers for Algernon</i>, this [is a] frank and inspiring novel." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review</b>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316256297977799027.post-42268240782544405132020-10-13T14:22:00.000-05:002020-10-13T14:22:08.018-05:00Alive ( #1 in The Generations Trilogy) -Adventure Dystopian Fiction<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px;">Alive <br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px;">(Book 1 in The Generations Trilogy)</span></h1><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal;">by Scott Sigler</span></h3><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBlIVYKExY7w6q5e6I_oFrKQPS7aL6HwxPv7xXu9bln8wZOiHrNejh39NNf8S3yDtzYcWSr_9f3qmxN-2X-WHjVgddYADNA-x3h69bJw0NnjGb63ODK3_Ivw-Q_SnVBizezKFLZ64UF-zb/s499/alive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBlIVYKExY7w6q5e6I_oFrKQPS7aL6HwxPv7xXu9bln8wZOiHrNejh39NNf8S3yDtzYcWSr_9f3qmxN-2X-WHjVgddYADNA-x3h69bJw0NnjGb63ODK3_Ivw-Q_SnVBizezKFLZ64UF-zb/s320/alive.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“I open my eyes to darkness. Total darkness. I hear my own breathing, but nothing else. I lift my head . . . it thumps against something solid and unmoving. There is a board right in front of my face. No, not a board . . . a lid.”</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A teenage girl awakens to find herself trapped in a coffin. She has no idea who she is, where she is, or how she got there. Fighting her way free brings little relief—she discovers only a room lined with caskets and a handful of equally mystified survivors. Beyond their room lies a corridor filled with bones and dust, but no people . . . and no answers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">She knows only one thing about herself—her name, M. Savage, which was engraved on the foot of her coffin—yet she finds herself in charge. She is not the biggest among them, or the boldest, but for some reason the others trust her. Now, if they’re to have any chance, she must get them to trust one another.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Whatever the truth is, she is determined to find it and confront it. If she has to lead, she will make sure they survive. Maybe there’s a way out, a rational explanation, and a fighting chance against the dangers to come. Or maybe a reality they cannot comprehend lies just beyond the next turn.</span></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px;"><br /></span></p>Libbey Parrashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09137115590296838617noreply@blogger.com0