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From the author of Words on Bathroom Walls--now a major motion picture--comes a romance in the spirit of Dear Evan Hansen about overcoming anxiety--and about finding love and friendship in unlikely places.

Bad luck follows lies. That was the first rule for life that Leo's Greek grandmother, Yia Yia, gave him before she died. But Leo's anxiety just caused a fight at school, and though he didn't lie, he wasn't exactly honest about how it all went down--how he went down. Now Leo's father thinks a self-defense class is exactly what his son needs to man up.

Leave the Paros family alone. That was Yia Yia's second rule for life. But who does Leo see sitting at the front desk of the local gym? Evey Paros, whose family supposedly cursed Leo's with bad luck. Seeing that Leo is desperate to enroll in anything but self-defense class, Evey cuts him a deal: she'll secretly enroll him in hot yoga instead--for a price. But what could the brilliant, ruthless, forbidden Evey Paros want from Leo?

Sharp, honest, and compulsively readable, Just Our Luck is as funny as it is heartwarming. Readers will root for Leo as he takes charge of his own destiny.

A feel-good story, with shades of Holes and The Karate Kid --Bulletin
Don't miss Words on Bathroom Walls, Julia Walton's brilliant debut!

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From the author of Words on Bathroom Walls--now a major motion picture--comes a romance in the spirit of Dear Evan Hansen about overcoming anxiety--and about finding love and friendship in unlikely places. Bad luck follows lies. That was the first rule for life that Leo's Greek grandmother, Yia Yia, gave him before she died.

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A piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the "Black Wall Street," and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family's financial situation is in turmoil.

Though they've attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can't turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon.

But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the Black community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of residents displaced. Only then, Isaiah, Angel, and their peers realize who their real enemies are.

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A piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the "Black Wall Street," and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal.

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Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Nina LaCour, this #ownvoices romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley has something for everyone: backstage rendezvous, deadly props, and a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to True Love.

Melody McIntyre, stage manager extraordinaire, has a plan for everything.

What she doesn't have? Success with love. Every time she falls for someone during a school performance, both the romance and the show end in catastrophe. So, Mel swears off any entanglements until their upcoming production of Les Mis is over.

Of course, Mel didn't count on Odile Rose, rising star in the acting world, auditioning for the spring performance. And she definitely didn't expect Odile to be sweet and funny, and care as much about the play's success as Mel.

Which means that Melody McIntyre's only plan now is trying desperately not to fall in love.

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Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Nina LaCour, this #ownvoices romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley has something for everyone: backstage rendezvous, deadly props, and a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to True Love.Melody McIntyre, stage manager extraordinaire, has a plan for everything. What she doesn't have?

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Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison (Graphic Novel)

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Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison (Graphic Novel)

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An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever
In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantánamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780 prisoners who would be held there-and 40 inmates still remain. Eighteen years later, very few of them have been ever charged with a crime.
In Guantánamo Voices, journalist Sarah Mirk and her team of diverse, talented graphic novel artists tell the stories of ten people whose lives have been shaped and affected by the prison, including former prisoners, lawyers, social workers, and service members. This collection of illustrated interviews explores the history of Guantánamo and the world post-9/11, presenting this complicated partisan issue through a new lens.

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An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantánamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780 prisoners who would be held there-and 40 inmates still remain.

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5 Reasons to be Riveted by THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS from Chloe Gong

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A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

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A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction.

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TeachingBooks Book Reading | Under Shifting Stars

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Over the past several years I feel like I've seen a small but noticeable increase in comics about what was previously diagnosed as Asperger's Syndrome but is now part of the larger umbrella diagnosis Autism Spectrum Disorder. They all share a basic purpose and so work to maintain similar balances as they generally tell the story of one person with Asperger's, usually someone who doesn't realize they fall on the spectrum and through a series of realizations seek a diagnosis.

The stories unfold as a way to personalize Asperger's, often as part of a memoir that allows the person with Asperger's the opportunity to tell their own story, but also present information that widens the spread of awareness in such a way that it's useful to others with Asperger's looking for guidance or understanding, looking to feel less alone, and also useful to people who have someone with Asperger's in their life and are seeking to understand or maybe help.

These books also tend to be for people who may not be connected with Asperger's in any personal way, and that's the area that so many tend to fail - not for any reason that is the creator's fault, but with so many goals to juggle, this is the one that seems to be the hardest to achieve.

Invisible Differences does a great job at injecting style and personality in such a way that you could mistake it for a slice of life comic about a young French woman navigating life that just happens to be about Asperger's. Actually, that's exactly what it is.

That woman is Marguerite, in her 20s and well aware of her own quirks though challenged with the task of accepting herself even as others proactively butt up against these aspects of herself that make her undeniably different from others. The most obvious place this becomes a problem is at work where Marguerite finds herself facing lectures from her supervisor about the distance she keeps from the social aspect of office life. She also finds herself at odds with her boyfriend as she typically has to remove herself for social situations as she becomes overwhelmed by the crowds and the noise.

While this is the story of Marguerite's self-discovery and her diagnosis, writer Julie Dachez spends more than half of Invisible Differences depicting Marguerite's experience without bringing the diagnosis into the story at all, but rather letting her character's life unfold on its own terms until she is moved to begin a search for answers. This gives you a lot of time to walk alongside Marguerite in even the most mundane of moments, to watch her distress and awkwardness, to slowly alongside her build a case for seeking out answers.

Once she does answer her questions, the care and time taken depicting her pre-diagnosis life allows the struggles of explaining what Asperger's is and how it manifests in her and generally demanding she be heard and not denied her answer to be more vivid and crucial in the readers' eyes as well as her own.

Invisible Difference also has the added bonus of examining the perception of Asperger's and Autism in France, and the deficiencies in that country's approach compared to others. There's a scarcity of acknowledgment there and this reality bleeds through many of the reactions that Marguerite faces, grounded in a culture that lacks awareness due to a high level of denial.

The story is not autobiographical but rather an adaptation of a real experience through collaboration. Dachez wrote the story in collaboration with Fabienne Vaslet, on whom Marguerite is based. Mademoiselle Carolin e then adapted that story into comics form, adding a charming and stylish visual element that gives the book a lot of personality and helps transform it into something far beyond an instructional comic about Asperger's.

John Seven is a journalist and children's book writer living in North Adams, Massachusetts. His books include 'A Rule Is To Break: A Child's Guide To Anarchy,' 'Happy Punks 1-2-3,' 'Frankie Liked To Sing,' and others. He reviews comics for the Beat in his regular Indie Beat column. Find out about all his things at johnseven.me.

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Over the past several years I feel like I've seen a small but noticeable increase in comics about what was previously diagnosed as Asperger's Syndrome but is now part of the larger umbrella diagnosis Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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The groundbreaking story by New York Times best-selling author Ned Vizzini that inspired the Tony-nominated Broadway musical--now adapted in a graphic novel by #1 New York Times best-selling author David Levithan.

Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip."

A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how to talk and walk, the squip transforms Jeremy from geek to the coolest guy in class. Soon he is friends with his former tormentors and has the attention of the hottest girls in school.

But Jeremy discovers that there is a dark side to handing over control of your life--and it can have disastrous consequences.

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The groundbreaking story by New York Times best-selling author Ned Vizzini that inspired the Tony-nominated Broadway musical--now adapted in a graphic novel by #1 New York Times best-selling author David Levithan.Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way.