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Manga-style adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," following two sisters navigating their complex love lives in the late eighteenth century.

A manga adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," the story of the rocky courtship between headstrong Elizabeth Bennett and wealthy Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith. His life is changed forever by two very different meetings--one with an escaped convict and one with an eccentric old lady and the beautiful girl who lives with her. But who is the mysterious person who leaves him a fortune? -- p. 4 of cover.

Grace may have reached her breaking point. As if trying to graduate from a school of supernaturals isn't stressful enough, her relationship status has gone from complicated to a straight-up dumpster fire. And the Bloodletter has decided a drop a bomb of epic proportions. Then again, when has anything at Katmere Academy not been intense? And the hits just keep coming. Jaxon has turned colder than an Alaskan winter. The Circle is splintered over Grace's upcoming coronation. As if things couldn't get worse, now there's an arrest warrant for Hudson's and Grace's supposed crimes, which apparently means a lifetime prison sentence with a deadly, unbreakable curse. Choices will have to be made, and Grace fears not everyone will survive.

"Zahn is one of Krypton's elites: wealthy, privileged, a future leader. Sera is one of Krypton's soldiers: strong, dedicated, fearless. Their rule-bound society has ordained that their paths should never cross. But groundquakes are shaking the planet's surface. Rebellious uprisings are shaking the populace. Krypton's top scientists--Jor-El and Lara--conduct a secret experiment that is meant to reform their planet from the cellular level up. Zahn and Sera must join forces to investigate the hidden dangers truly threatening Krypton. In the process, they form a bond that will endure past the end of the world"--Provided by publisher.

"In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can't go out, but the dead can come in--and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the 'companionship' program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation, creating a new class of people--a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will."--Provided by publisher.

"It's 2002 in Silicon Valley. 9/11's still fresh, the dot-com bubble has burst, and holy calamity is raining down on 14-year-old Chad Loudermilk. His father is about to lose his job, his mother isn't the same since Chad's grandma died, and as one of the few black kids at tony Palo Alto High School, Chad's starting to wonder about his birth parents. Next door lives dot-com mogul Scot MacAvoy, with his luxury SUV and his gardeners and his beautiful wife and his time to play video games with Chad, all making the Loudermilk family's struggle to stay afloat seem that much harder . . . It's a place where the working class, blended Loudermilk family grapple with issues of race and inequality, all while trying to keep a smile on their faces"--Publisher.

Contains George Bernard Shaw's play in which Henry Higgins attempts to turn Eliza Doolittle, a poor, young beggar, into a lady of society by teaching her proper language skills and manners; and includes a critical introduction, a biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, and other reference information.

"In an alternate Old West, the Good Luck Girls reunite to undertake a wildly ambitious plan to free all dustbloods who live as prisoners to Arketta's landmasters and debt slavery"--OCLC.

Young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England.