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The Golden Compass
Author: Philip PullmanSeries: His Dark MaterialsAccompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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Barakamon Volume 1
Author: Satsuki YoshinoSeries: BarakamonFirst things first.........Visitors are supposed to come in through the front door!! For a certain reason, a handsome, young calligrapher by the name of Seishuu Handa uproots himself and moves to an island on the westernmost edge of Japan. "Sensei," as he comes to be known, is a city boy through and through, and has never experienced rural life until now. And by the looks of it, he has much to learn! Luckily(?), he has…
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Space Boy Volume 1
Author: Stephen McCranieSeries: Space BoyA sci-fi drama of a high school aged girl who belongs in a different time, a boy possessed by emptiness as deep as space, an alien artifact, mysterious murder, and a love that crosses light years. To Amy, everyone has a flavor. Her mom is the flavor of mint--sharp and bright. Her dad is like hot chocolate--sweet and full of gentle warmth. Amy lives on a mining colony in out in deep space, but when…
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Dead Man’s Puzzle
Author: Parnell HallSeries: Puzzle Lady MysteriesSherry is off on her honeymoon when Chief Harper comes to Cora Felton, asking her to solve a crossword puzzle found on the body of Old Man Overmeyer. Small problem. Cora is the Milli Vanilli of cruciverbalists. Her niece, Sherry, writes the crossword puzzle column for her. Cora pokes into Overmeyer’s death, hoping to prove he died of natural causes. She learns the cranky hermit was the sole surviving member of a forty-year-old stock pooling…
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Perfect World Volume 1
Author: Rie ArugaSeries: Perfect WorldThe moving, provocative manga about the struggles and triumphs in love of a woman and a man who uses a wheelchair comes to print! Fans of tumultuous manga romance like A Silent Voice and Your Lie in April - don't miss this! An office party reunites Tsugumi with her high school crush Itsuki. He's realised his dream of becoming an architect, but along the way, he experienced a spinal injury that put him in a…
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4 books I checked out from THE LIBRARY this week
You guys, I LOVE the library. Mine has a tally of the value of the books we check out each year and our family is already over the $13,000 mark, and that doesn’t include audiobooks! So, when I saw that Janssen from Everyday Reading on Instagram shares four books they checked out from the library that week I knew this was something I wanted to do as well. Without further ado, here are four (of many) books we checked out…
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