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A short history of women

a novel
2010
Turn-of-the-century British suffragist Dorothy Townsend dies in a hunger strike and four later generations of women in her family struggle to answer the question of what it means to be a woman and overcome obstacles in their lives.

Paradise Kiss

2004
After Paradise Kiss's first runway show, Yukari learns the fashion world is not all glamour and glitz.

Paradise kiss

2003
The school fashion show is fast approaching and the Paradise Kiss posse find themselves under an enormous amount of stress as they try to make their garments the best in the school.

Paradise Kiss

2002
Yukari has always tried not to stand out; but when she meets a drag queen and a pierced punk, she finds herself drawn into the bizarre world of Paradise Kiss, where her normalcy sets her apart from the others.

Are you "normal"?

2011
This collection of quizzes on a variety of subjects allows readers to compare their answers to those given by others around the world and gauge their answers on the weird-o-meter to find out how normal or unique they are.

Square Beak

1993
Square Beak, famous for the beautiful and unusual eggs she lays, abandons an egg-laying contest the other chickens expect her to win and returns to the life she loves, traveling and dreaming.

What makes you so special?

1992
Discusses the many different factors that make each one of us a unique human being.

Frankie's run

1987
As she and her best friend really start to grow up and enter the boy-watching stage, thirteen-year-old Mary Frances wonders if she should try to be like everyone else or fight for her own identity.

The absolute value of Mike

2012
Mike, a fourteen-year-old boy with a math learning disability, is sent to rural Pennsylvania for the summer to work on an engineering project, and while his plans to impress his mathematician father fall flat when Mike discovers the project has nothing to do with engineering, he learns much more valuable lessons while working with his eccentric, elderly aunt, a homeless man, and a punk rock girl as part of a town-wide effort to adopt a Romanian orphan.

Ayn Rand's Anthem

2011
A graphic novel adaptation of Ayn Rand's story in which a man in a future world defies the ideals of collectivism, makes his own decisions and personal choices, seeks knowledge, and ultimately becomes a target for death.

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