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"Chiba-san won't make up with Takatsuki-San, and no one can get over his or her crush. Takatsuki-san envies Chizuru-san's boldness for showing up to school in a boy's uniform, and begrudgingly shops for a bra. Nitori-kun and Mako (who also identifies as a girl) decide to record their voices to preserve them before they change. And: what's up with the newbie teacher? There's another gender-bending play in the works?!"--Back cover.

The story of a family for the first few days after the accidental death of the thirty-five-year-old husband and father.

Adam Pennyman, an almost-thirty man with little direction and an obsession with video games, lands a copywriting job with the company holding the film rights to Lucky Wander Boy, an obscure game from his youth, and gets up the nerve to attempt writing its screenplay.

An illustrated retelling in which a young orphan boy in nineteenth-century England lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

Story of Gregory Reeves's search for love and his attempt to reconcile his past which included poverty, neglect, war, and abusive relationships with his current strivings for success and peace of mind.

A sheltered American heir to a fortune is saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner and, living amidst the shipmen, must learn to survive on his own strength.

"Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch. Anchoring herself with stories of Auntie Po, Mei navigates the difficulty and politics of lumber camp work and her growing romantic feelings for her friend Bee. The Legend of Auntie Po is about who gets to own a myth, and about immigrant families and communities holding on to rituals and traditions while staking out their own place in America"--From the publisher's web site.

Grounded for the whole summer before college, seventeen-year-old vegan feminist Ellen Lopez-Rourke decides to join a local Quidditch team in order to spend time with her best friends Melissa and Xiumiao--the only way her father and stepmother will let her out of the house. However, Melissa begins to pull away and Xiumiao moves on from high school relationships, forcing Ellen to bond with members of the team and to forge a new path for her future.

Nick, a teenage boy used to being good at everything he tried his hand at, feels life has ended after an accident leaves him partially paralyzed and his girlfriend dumps him. Then, Nick begins to get too attached to his prescription meds, and everything hits rock bottom--but somehow, Nick vows to find a way to get his life back.

After her best friend Jenna dies, eighteen-year-old Amelia mysteriously receives a rare edition of her favorite book and traces it back to a bookstore in Michigan where she encounters the elusive young author and begins to learn how to live without Jenna.