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When a dear friend dies by suicide, Emilia is left with only memories. Full of humor and poignancy, this graphic memoir is a meditation on the meaning of friendship and a love letter to an irreplaceable friend.
Emilia first met Charlotte in their school locker room in the late '90s. They quickly bonded over indie music, feminist literature, a love of purple, and a shared sense of outsiderness. Their joyful, intense friendship evolved through the...
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The death of a child is a tragedy. When the cause is suicide, the tragedy is compounded. It's not easy to read about, or talk about, and yet it is so crucial that young adults who feel the world closing in know that ending their lives is not the answer. There are people who can help. There are people who care.
A thirteen year old should be enjoying life, planning her future, anticipating the joys to come. Instead, and sadly for all who knew...
A thirteen year old should be enjoying life, planning her future, anticipating the joys to come. Instead, and sadly for all who knew...
3) The attack
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2016
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English
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The Attack opens with Amin Jaafari, an Israeli surgeon of Palestinian origin, trying to save the casualties of a suicide bombing. A day after the deadly attack, an Israeli police officer informs Jaafari that the suicide bomber was his wife, Sihem. Believing her to be on an overnight trip, he completely refuses to accept the accusation. They were leading an ideal life in Tel Aviv, moving among both Arab and Israeli society with ease, or so Jaafari...
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[2022]
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"Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox: Maruso, a nurse who despairs about the future; Taburo, a man who is tortured by his doppelganger; Pii-tan, an engineer with his own robot clone; and Baracchi, a woman who agonizes about the birthmark on her face. They wander together in search of the perfect death, fatefully opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny ..." --
5) Skim
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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This graphic novel debut by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki tells the story of "Skim," aka Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a goth girl in an all-girls school in Toronto, circa the early '90s. Skim is an articulate, angsty teenager, the classic outsider yearning for some form of acceptance. She begins a fanciful romance with her English teacher, Ms. Archer, while nursing her best friend through a period of mourning.
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[2021]
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English
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"The ultimate graphic novel companion to the high-octane, highly anticipated Suicide Squad movie coming in 2021! Featuring everyone's favorite DC antiheroes-from Harley Quinn to Captain Boomerang-this collection is sure to thrill any fan seeking more high-stakes black-ops missions where no one is safe! Ranging from classic adventures by John Ostrander to contemporary takes with art by Jim Lee-all the comics heavy hitters who've shaped the Squad are...
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Kill or be killed volume 1
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2017.
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English
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"Dylan is just an average, depressed grad student until a failed suicide attempt changes everything he knows and propels him, against his will, into a life of vigilante justice."--page 4 of cover
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2021-
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On a snowy school day like any other, classmates and childhood friends Hiroshi and Mizuki arrive at school to find the campus eerily empty. Before long, they find themselves trapped inside with six other friends, and even stranger, all the clocks have stopped at a very specific moment--the exact time when a former classmate jumped off the school roof to their death three months earlier. It turns out that this departed friend is their way out of their...
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[2022]
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"On leave from the Suicide Squad, King Shark and unfortunate tagalong the Defacer get swept into a mystical tournament for totemic animal spirits at the behest of King Shark's father, the god of sharks! Now King Shark must battle brutal warriors like Queen Tiger, King Roach, Prince Nematode, Princess Peregrine, and the terrifying Man King to finally attain his destiny and make his dour dad proud!"--
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Kill or be killed volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Thing go from bad to worse for our vigilante hero, Dylan, as the NYPD begin to realize there's a masked man killing bad guys all over the five boroughs. As a task force is assembled to hunt him down, Dylan finds himself falling further into the darkness of the twisted pact he made with the demon...'Kill for me, or be killed.'"--page 4 of cover
11) Lovesickness
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[2021]
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English
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"Ryusuke returns to the town he once lived in because rumors are swirling about girls killing themselves after encountering a bewitchingly handsome young man. Harboring his own secret from time spent in this town, Ryusuke attempts to capture the beautiful boy and close the case... Starting with the strikingly bloody 'Lovesickness,' this volume collects ten stories showcasing horror master Junji Ito in peak form, including 'The Strange Hikizuri Siblings'...
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[2022]
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"The attacks begin without warning. Brutal, sudden...cannibalistic. A metahuman with all the power of Superman but none of his humanity. An unstoppable being ruled only by hunger and instinct, striking at random across the world. To stop this threat, Harley Quinn, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, and King Shark have been assigned to corral, nursemaid-and if necessary, execute-five deadly new recruits: the expendable products of a secret government procedure...
13) Boy's abyss: 1
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Shōnen no shin'en volume 01
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Reiji's life is as miserable as the small town he can't escape. The most interesting thing that's ever happened there is a double suicide down by the river. Does Reiji have any power over his fate, or will he too fall into the abyss? Reiji's mother is checked out, he's stuck caring for his grandmother with dementia, and his childhood friend treats him like a lackey. Then beautiful, big-city pop star Nagi miraculously shows up working the counter at...
14) Ambushed!
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[2022]
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English
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"With Amanda Waller now back in control-and some surprising new recruits-it's safe to say some things have changed for Task Force X. The Suicide Squad finds themselves in...hell?! And their only chance for survival is...Ambush Bug?! And that's only the beginning. When Conner Kent joins the team, he'll be forced to question everything he thinks he knows about himself and his history"--
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[2021]
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English
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"Task Force X, a secret government program designed to neutralize super-powered threats, has gone through many transformations since it was first created during World War II, but one thing has never changed: its members call themselves the Suicide Squad, and they live up to their name. Faced with a rising tide of meta-human crime and terror, the program's hard-headed director Amanda Waller sold the president on her vision of an updated Task Force...
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[2022]
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English
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"When Task Force X's Amanda Waller sets her sights on Batman's greatest foe, she enlists the Dark Knight's former partner Jason Todd to track down the Clown Prince of Crime and put an end to his mad reign of terror. But The Joker has plans of his own, and he takes control of the Squad, forcing them to do his bidding!"--
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[2021]
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English
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"James Gunn's The Suicide Squad film gathers the weirdest and wildest cast of characters in superhero movie history--from Squad veterans like Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang to the downright peculiar Savant and the Javelin, and more. Discover the legacy of the film's eclectic characters in this second of two collections featuring their stories from throughout DC history! The Suicide Squad Case Files 2 features tales starring Captain Boomerang,...
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[2021]
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English
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"James Gunn's The Suicide Squad film gathers the weirdest and wildest cast of characters in superhero movie history--from Squad veterans like Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang to the downright bizarre King Shark and Polka-Dot Man. But every character starts somewhere--and find out exactly where in The Suicide Squad Case Files 1, a new collection featuring debut and key appearances of Bloodsport, Mongal, Polka-Dot Man, King Shark, Weasel, the Thinker,...
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[2019]
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English
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"Batman has broken Deadshot out of Belle Reve! Now the Dark Knight and the assassin who never misses have a new mission: rescue Deadshot's daughter! Deadshot's daughter has been kidnapped by Kobra, a group of mutant snake assassins! Amanda Waller uses all her resources to stop his escape, but he won't allow anything to stand in the way of saving his daughter--not even his Task Force X teammates!"--
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[2015]
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English
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Recounts the authors' experiences as filmmakers who were working on a project on Mike's Place, a Tel Aviv blues bar where Jews, Christians, and Muslims freely mingled with expatriates, and the events that led up to the destruction of the bar in a suicide bombing.
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