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"Shaken by her parents' divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious boyfriend, Nikki Werner seeks solace at her uncle's farm in a small Missouri hamlet. She'll spend the summer there, picking up the pieces of her shattered present so she can plan a better future. But what awaits her at the ancestral farm is a past she barely knows. Among her late grandmother's belongings, Nikki finds an old notebook filled with handwritten...
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Mónica quiere jugar con ls luna, así que su papá se propone traésela. No es fácil subir hasta la luna, pero por fin lo logra... solo para descubrir qu es demasiado grande para llevársela a casa. El modo en el que le problema es resuelto es una alegre sorpresa. Esta encantadora historia acerca del amor de un padre se desdobla literalmente ante el lector, ya que las páginas se abren dramáticamente y se extienden hacia afuera y hacia...
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This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...
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"In this anthology of seven comics essays, author and graphic novelist Nate Powell addresses living in an era of what he calls 'necessary protest.' Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest is Powell's reflection on witnessing the collapse of discourse in real time while drawing the award-winning trilogy March, written by Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, this generation's preeminent historical account of nonviolent...
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Mom fills in for a sick singer and the partridge family is born. Follows the family as it plays concerts, and deals with the lives of teenagers trying to be normal and famous at the same time.
Frances "Gidget" Lawrence lives with her widowed college professor father in California. Anne is her older sister who is married to John Cooper, a psychology student. Gidget spends most of her free time at the beach, hanging out with friends and surfing. She...
686) Interrupting chicken
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Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.
687) Traitor angels
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"One girl must unlock the secrets within Paradise Lost to save her father's life"--
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When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking...