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Pretty guardian Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon and friends continue to fight the forces of evil.
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No steps behind

Beate Sirota Gordon's battle for women's rights in Japan
"Her parents moved her from Austria to Tokyo, Japan before she started school. They were all rendered stateless when Nazi Germany and Austria stripped Jews of their citizenship. She graduated high school fluent in Japanese plus four other languages and went to college in America at age 15. Cut off from her parents by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and America's entry into World War II, she went years not knowing if they were alive. She returned to post-war Japan as an interpreter, found her parents, and wrote the fateful words that make her a storied feminist hero in that nation even today. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor said about Beate Sirota Gordon, 'It is a rare life treat for a Supreme Court Justice to get to meet a framer of a Constitution. It is rarer indeed for that framer to have been a woman'"--Provided by the publisher.
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Tokyo Mew Mew omnibus

High school student Ichigo is accidentally injected with the DNA of a Iriomote wildcat, transforming her into Mew Mew, a super-powered catgirl with enhanced agility. She must lead four other girls, who have each been fused with a different endangered animal, to protect Earth from an alien biological threat called Deep Blue.
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Pretty guardian Sailor Moon

short stories
The second of two short story collections featuring new adventures of Sailor Moon and her fellow Guardians.
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Wonder Woman

ends of the earth
Tricked by Stalker, Wonder Woman is transported to a dark realm where she must face the demon D'Grth and avoid succumbing to the evil of the world.
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Lunch lady and the cyborg substitute

The school lunch lady, a secret crime fighter, uncovers an evil plot to replace all the popular teachers with robots.
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Haphaven

2019
"Alex Mills will do anything to avoid a jinx--picking up pennies, knocking on wood, collecting rabbit's feet . . . you name it. That is, until she steps on a crack and it actually does break her mother's back. To save her mom, Alex must journey through the end of a rainbow to Haphaven, the world from which all of Earth's superstitions draw their power"--Provided by publisher.
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The epic crush of Genie Lo

2019
The struggle to get into a top-tier college consumes sixteen-year-old Genie's every waking thought. But when she discovers she's a celestial spirit who's powerful enough to bash through the gates of heaven with her fists, her perfectionist existence is shattered. Enter Quentin, a mysterious transfer student from China who becomes Genie's self-appointed guide to battling demons. Genie has no idea that Quentin, in another reality, is Sun Wukong, the mythological Monkey King incarnate, right down to the furry tail and penchant for peaches. Suddenly, acing the SATs is the least of Genie's worries. The fates of her friends, family, and the entire Bay Area all depend on her summoning an inner power that Quentin assures her is strong enough to level the very gates of Heaven. But every second Genie spends tapping into the secret of her true nature is a second in which the lives of her loved ones hang in the balance.
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The last adventure of Constance Verity

2016
"Granted a wish at birth, Constance Verity has become one of the world's great adventurers. A master of exotic martial arts and a keen detective, she is in possession of a collection of strange artifacts, which are mostly kept in unlabeled boxes in her apartment. Constance has spent the past twenty years saving the world, and she's sick of it. She wants an office job and a boyfriend who isn't going to get killed by who knows what, and she's figured out the way to get them: she's going to kill her fairy godmother--Grandmother Willow--who granted the wish--and reset her life. The problem is, saving the world is Constance's destiny. She's really good at it, and there are forces at work to make sure she stays in the job. Then again, it's also her destiny to have a glorious death."--.
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She-ra and the princesses of power

2019
"On a planet called Etheria, two forces battle for control. The Horde, with its skillfully trained soldiers and advanced technology, has one goal: to conquer all of Etheria in the name of Hordak. The other force, the Rebellion, is made up of princesses and has been fighting to maintain harmony and freedom for all of Etheria's people. Hidden among them all is a hero to be. Her destiny was written by the First Ones a thousand years ago. Now she is about to rise again"--Publisher's description.
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