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Everyone knows how much brainy Bri likes the spotlight (not). So why did she ever agree to something that forces her to learn a new language, give a speech, help organize a party, and juggle drama at school and home?! As the big event inches closer, Bri wonders if it's all worth it. . . .Told in alternating past and present chapters, Bri's heartwarming story unfolds over the eight months leading up to her bat mitzvah--as well as over the course of...

Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime...

Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers? bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town. One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods. As a werewolf, Tam has been wandering from place to place...

Available for the first time as a graphic novel, “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (Wall Street JournalBrave New World: A Graphic NovelThe Guardian

* As the tether between our world and the Otherworld grows dangerously thin, Bridgette and Duncan are determined to stay one step ahead of Arthur and Merlin's plans...though this time it may not be enough. -- * Collects Once & Future #13-18.

When 151 critters appear on earth all with a variety of weird, wild powers, it’s up to two teenagers to figure out where they came from and how to save them from an world that doesn’t understand them...all the while having a ton of fun in the process! It’s the second issue in Becky & Frank’s highly anticipated original series!

Madrid in the eighties, and Barcelona ten years later. In these two vibrant locales, Castaways follows the relationship between Alejandra and Julio against the backdrop of these poetic urban spaces where dreams, love, and uncertainty intertwine. Drawn to one another but constantly pushed or pulled in different directions by work, family, and life, Alejandra and Julio circle in and out of each other's lives, while first denying and then coming to...

-- grain of truth   This graphic novel is the first in a series of adaptations from Sapkowski's acclaimed short story collection The Last Wish

These lushly painted stories, vignettes, and character sketches are told with no or few words. Beginning with the mini-epic, "Ella and The Pirates," an enchanting tale about a little girl and her imaginary adventures as a pirate as she sails through perilous waters, has sword fights, and discovers buried treasure.

Two Emperors, and two halves of the Roman Empire, clash inside a freshly-exploded crater in 312AD – as the Doctor, Alice and Jones attempt to solve the mystery of the horror that rode down to Earth aboard the titanic meteor that caused it!Plus a surprise villain that threatens them all – one so secret there's no way we're mentioning them here!