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Two will come volume Volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Jina is a normal high school student whose family is cursed to have one member of each generation murdered by their close acquaintances, and although she would like to ignore the curse as simple superstition, she fears that she is to be the next.
3) Watchmen
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This stunning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all too human failings. The concept of the super hero is dissected and inverted as strangely realistic characters are stalked by an unknown assassin. Originally published as a 12 issue series in 1986 and 1987, WATCHMEN remains one of DC Comics' most popular graphic novels.
4) Macbeth
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In this manga adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, "a brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia"--Publisher marketing.
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Five nights at Freddy's volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"What really happened to Charlie? It's the question that John can't seem to shake, along with the nightmares of Charlie's seeming death and miraculous reappearance. John just wants to forget the whole terrifying saga of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but the past isn't so easily buried. Meanwhile, there's a new animatronic pizzeria opening in Hurricane, along with a new rash of kidnappings that feel all too familiar. Bound together by their childhood loss,...
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Pub. Date
[2020]-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie -- whose father owned the restaurant -- and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned for years. After they discover a way inside, they realize that things are not as they used to be. The four adult-sized animatronic mascots that once entertained...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"A boarding house full of druggies. A neglected housewife. A young girl who thinks she's a superhero. A cop who wants to be left alone. And a Private Detective looking for a runaway girl. These stories collide one fateful summer in Where the Body Was, a tale of love and murder in the suburbs, told from a dozen different points of view. All the neighbors on the block have an opinion about the murder and how it happened, but which of them is telling...
8) Macbeth
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"When three witches tell the ruthless warrior Macbeth that he is destined to be King of Scotland, it sparks off a series of tragic events.... William Shakespeare's saga of ruthless ambition is retold with simplified dialogue in this vividly illustrated version of one of his most powerful plays"--back cover.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will...
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Series
Graceling volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"The beloved New York Times best-selling YA fantasy by Kristin Cashore is now available as a graphic novel, with stunning illustrations by award-winning artist Gareth Hinds. Katsa is a Graceling, one of the rare people born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she lived a life of privilege until the day her ability to kill a man with her bare hands revealed itself during a royal banquet. Now she acts as her uncle's enforcer, traveling the...
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Criminal volume 6
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"Riley Richards got it all. . . The hottest girl in school and a ticket to the big time. . . so why isn't he happy now? Why is he getting involved in gambling and drugs and shady characters in the city? Why can't he forget the life he left behind in small town Brookview? And why is he suddenly plotting murder?"--P. [4] of cover.
13) The moonlit road
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this graphic version of the story by Ambrose Bierce, Joel Jr. arrives home to find that his mother has been strangled--what follows is told from the perspective of Joel Jr., his father, and his mother's ghost.
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Criminal volume 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Set in the early 1970s, three characters--a boxer, a Vietnam vet, and a femme fatale--struggle to reshape their lives
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Deadman Wonderland volume 1
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"The Great Tokyo Earthquake. Ten years ago, it destroyed lives as it tore buildings asunder. Among those who lived through the disaster was Ganta Igarashi, now a middle school student finally getting a footing in his own life-- that is, until the day the 'Red Man' appears at his school and turns his world upside down again. Ganta's entire class is brutally murdered, and although innocent of the crime, Ganta is sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The life-or-death courtroom game continues at Hope's Peak Academy as Makoto and Kyoko work together to try to prove Yasuhiro's innocence and convict Celestia in the latest round of class trials! And Makoto has learned in his investigations that one of his fellow students is being forced by Monokuma to spy upon them--should he reveal this secret to the others, or wait for the spy to make what could be a very drastic move...?
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Island in a puddle volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Tension mounts as Minato, who's mind was mysteriously swapped into the body of a wanted man on the run for murder, tries to figure out his next move. Stranded, alone, he starts to formulate a plan to get to his younger sister, who's now in the care of the man whose body he swapped with, without suspicion. However, it's not only the police after the man whose body he now occupies—a shadowy organization called the Dodokai is closing in, too..."--...
19) Stray dogs
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Meet Sophie, a dog who can't remember what happened. She doesn't know how she ended up in this house. She doesn't recognize any of these other dogs. She knows something terrible happened but she just.. can't... recall... Wait! Where's her lady? It's all coming back to her now, and it's enough to raise Sophie's hackles. Now Sophie has to figure out where she is, what's happening and how she's going to survive this.
20) The crow
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Pub. Date
October 2017.
Description
When James O'Barr poured the pain and anguish of a personal tragedy into the drawings that comprise The Crow, his intensely cathartic story of Eric--who returns from the dead to avenge his and his fiancee's murder at the hands of a street gang--resonated with readers around the world. Now, the illustrated tale that became the movie is re-released in an expanded version the author originally intended.