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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Born with water on the brain, Arnold Spirit, aka Junior, transfers to an all-white school off his reservation. He knows he won't easily fit in, but with self-determination and a solid personal identity, he has the chance to succeed. -
Ash
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Months before the landmark 1955 Montgomery bus boycott began, one fifteen-year-old girl refused to give up her seat and became a key part of the legal battle to overturn segregation. -
Gay America: Struggle for Equality
This work provides a chronological overview of public attitudes toward homosexuality throughout American history, as well as the experience of gay people during these prescriptive, restrictive, and even dangerous periods. -
Going Bovine
When Cameron is diagnosed with Mad Cow Disease, he sets out on an adventure with a video game obsessed dwarf and a Viking god trapped in a yard gnome in the hopes of finding a cure.
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The Photographer
Photojournalist Didier Lefèvre documented the efforts of a team of doctors in Afghanistan in 1986.
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Pluto (Series)
A re-entry into the world of Osamu Tezuka's legendary 1964 classic Astro Boy, Pluto follows the clever, conflicted investigator Gesicht as he tracks down the terrorist who has sent an invincible robot to execute the seven best robots in the world. -
Refresh, Refresh
Three young men struggle to cope with the absence of their fathers: Marine Corps reservists who have been sent to war in Iraq.
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Sold
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.