Author: BeKa Publisher: Europe Comics ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 59
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After helping two of their members resolve difficult issues about their past and present lives, the Misfits Club for Girls now tries to help Sierra, the angry one, who just can't seem to let go of the rage inside her that is poisoning her life. Getting Sierra to open up about her inner battles has a snowball effect, and soon, the tragic past of a friend and the present day challenges of another member also come to light. A powerful entry in this series about friendship and the empowering effect of love and support.
Author: BéKa Publisher: Dargaud ISBN: Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 60
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In the powerful last installment in this series about five high school students who band together to help one another confront past and present traumas, it is time for Chelonia, the driving force behind their little club, the girl who seems so outwardly cool and confident, to open up about her own tragic past and accept the help and love of her friends.
Author: BeKa Publisher: Europe Comics ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 59
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Four high school girls who have problems fitting in decide to join forces and form their own club, which they feel will empower them to better face the world and their own individual problems. Their first goal is to get girl No. 5 to join them: Paloma, a troubled and anti-social teenager who's lived in more than fifteen foster homes since she was six. But before the Misfits can welcome Paloma into the fold, they must first get her to confront her difficult and tragic past.
Author: BeKa Publisher: Europe Comics ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 59
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Their first mission was successful and Paloma, the troubled foster care teen, is adjusting to a more empowered life in a happier home setting, but now the Misfits Club for Girls has a new project: find out who has been sending shy, withdrawn, bullied Celeste nasty text messages that shatter her sense of self-worth. One of the Misfits is a computer whiz who can hack into just about any system, but what she finds out comes as a shock nobody could have possibly anticipated...
Author: BeKa Publisher: Europe Comics ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 59
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The girls are back. This time, the Misfits focus their attention on Apolline, whose friendly demeanor and eagerness to please others hide an almost debilitating lack of self-confidence that has been weighing her down since childhood. Apolline barely feels that she even deserves to exist, but luckily, her friends won't stand for such nonsense and are going to get her to love herself at all costs, even if it means setting her parents straight about a few things!
Author: Blutch Publisher: Europe Comics ISBN: Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : fr Pages : 82
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Modern-day Paris. One night, as she's leaving rehearsal, Lola, a young dancer, is approached by Renée. She introduces herself as a writer, and asks Lola if she could share her life for a while in order to gather material to write a book about her. Despite not feeling entirely comfortable with the idea, Lola accepts. The very next day, Lola and Renée experience the strangest day of their lives, involving an absent father who reappears at random points throughout the book, a bashful but psychopathic admirer, Omar Shariff, and a huge spider... All this is set against a backdrop of a general power cut, a highly demanding dance class and a very rainy day. In the world of today, where everything goes too quickly, twenty-four hours is sometimes enough to change your life.
Author: Jordi Lafebre Publisher: Dark Horse Comics ISBN: 1506731376 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
After forty years of being madly in love, Ana and Zeno are finally retiring and giving their romance a chance to bloom while they both still have time left. A unique but relatable love story told in reverse, with each chapter stepping further back through the decades of touch and go courting, showing both the heartbreaking moments that kept the two lovers apart and the beautiful moments that kept their flame alive. This isn't a tale of missed connections and regret but rather a story celebrating the complexities of family, responsibility, destiny, and how love persists across time with complete disregard for all of that. Ana is a brilliant, headstrong, and compassionate mayor of a small city, with a lovely husband, daughter, and granddaughter. Yet there has been a lingering piece of her life missing -- a thread of happiness she hasn't been able to pull on for most of her life. Zeno, a lifelong bachelor, bookstore owner, intrepid traveler, and theoretical physicist determined to figure out how to turn back time. Handsome, clever, and kind, he is often questioned about his failure to "settle down." Over the years, they have woven together an impossible and inexhaustible love. Their paths constantly intertwining, from a chance meeting on a boat to clumsily bumping into each other in the city they share. Eventually keeping in touch by letters and late-night phone calls across the world. A luxuriously illustrated love story full of heart, comedy and universal truths, published in English for the first time. Written and illustrated by Spanish cartoonist Jordi Lefebre, co-creator and artist of the graphic novel series Glorious Summers, as well as La Mondaine, and Lydia. A 2023 Eisner and Harvey Award Nominated Graphic Novel.
Author: Issa Rae Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476749078 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 224
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An introvert braves the cybersex, the pitfalls of eating out alone, the difficulties of weight gain, and other hurdles faced by shy people living in a world that urges us to be cool as "J" humorously recounts her life in all its awkward glory.
Author: Kirsten Smith Publisher: Boom! Studios ISBN: 1613987048 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 116
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Smothered by her backwater hometown and frustrated by its 1980s cult-movie fame (The Gloomies...have you seen it? It's a real classic, y'know.), Wilder is pretty sure she's seen everything Cannon Cove has to offer. She's desperate to get away from home as soon as she can, and move on to bigger, better, and less annoying things...even if that might mean leaving her best friends behind. But when Wilder discovers a centuries-old pirate map, she may find out that REAL adventure was in their tiny town all along...and they need each other to get to the bottom of it! It's a rip-roaring adventure written by award-winning screenwriter Kiwi Smith (10 Things I Hate About You, Legally Blonde) and Kurt Lustgarten, and illustrated by Naomi Franquiz.
Author: Pierre Dubois Publisher: Europe Comics ISBN: Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 81
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From the very first moment he meets "Sentence" Sykes, young Jim Starret instantly recognizes a legend of the Old West, just like in the comic books he learned to read with. But his new hero is nowhere to be seen when the fearsome Clayton gang murders his mother before his very eyes. From that moment on, the now-orphaned Jim becomes obsessed with a sole objective: joining Sykes to track down his mother's killers. But what he doesn't yet realize is that legends of the Old West are forged by their demons.
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