Sarah Kuhn
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English
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Kimi Nakamura loves a good fashion statement. She's obsessed with transforming everyday ephemera into Kimi Originals: bold outfits that make her and her friends feel like the Ultimate versions of themselves. But her mother disapproves, and when they get into an explosive fight, Kimi's entire future seems on the verge of falling apart. So when a surprise letter comes in the mail from Kimi's estranged grandparents, inviting her to Kyoto for spring break,...
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2021.
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English
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"As a biracial orphan, Rika has never felt like she fully belonged to her family or the Little Tokyo community in LA, until she embarks on a fairy tale-like quest to discover if America's leading movie star could be her biological mother"--
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Taylor and Francis
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction offers a transformative, student-centered approach to higher education pedagogy that integrates embodied cognition into classroom practice. Evidence across disciplines makes clear that people learn with their bodies as well as their brains, but no previous book has provided evidence-based guidance for adopting and refining its practice in colleges and universities. Collecting findings from cognitive
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Heroine complex novels volume 2
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English
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Asian-American superheroines Evie Tanaka and Aveda Jupiter protect San Francisco from perilous threats in the second book in Sarah Kuhn's snarky and smart fantasy trilogy "The superheroine weve been waiting for." Seanan McGuire Once upon a time, Aveda Jupiter (aka Annie Chang) was demon-infested San Franciscos most beloved superheroine, a beacon of hope and strength and really awesome outfits. But all that changed the day she agreed to share the spotlight...
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Heroine complex novels volume 3
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English
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If there's one thing Beatrice Tanaka never wanted to be, it's normal. But somehow, her life has unfolded as a series of "should haves". Her powers of emotional projection should have made her one of the most formidable superheroes of all time. And she should have been allowed to join her older sister Evie as a full-fledged protector of San Francisco, pulverizing the city's plethora of demon threats. And this should have led to tons of adventures,...
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Heroine complex novels volume 5
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English
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"Over the years, the adventures of superheroines Aveda Jupiter and Evie Tanaka have become the stuff of legend -- and now they'll be immortalized in their very own TV show! The pair head to LA for filming, but Aveda struggles to get truly excited. Instead, she's preoccupied wondering about the fate of the world and her role in it. You know, the usual. Now that Otherworld activity has been detected outside the Bay Area, Aveda can't help but wonder...
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English
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Three complete Barbie graphic novels in one collection! Barbie is on the career path in all-new adventures! This all-new 21st century take on Barbie tells the story of a young woman struggling to start her fashion career. Will she be a designer, a photographer, a model? Barbie doesn't know yet but there is one thing she does know – girls can be anything! Plus, Barbie enters the world of coding…inside a video game as she skates around the game...
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English
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Barbie is facing the same problems every young person is facing today ― figuring out how to choose a career, in an economic environment that is becoming increasingly difficult for anyone to find a job. But Barbie is nothing, if not optimistic and determined. Her interest in clothes leads her to seek employment in the highly competitive world of fashion. But as what? A model? A designer? Or something she never even dreamed of? As Barbie pursues her...
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English
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Can Lois Lane scrap her entire life plan for an unpredictable summer of ride-or-die friendships, swoony romance, and writing her truth? Ambitious small-town girl Lois Lane tackles a summer in National City with gusto, but a cavalcade of setbacks-including an annoying frenemy roommate, a beyond-tedious internship at a suddenly corporatized website, and a boss who demotes her to coffee-fetching minion-threatens to derail her extremely detailed life...
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English
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Barbie is living her dream, designing outfits for a rock star's big tour! Everything's going great…until opening night of the show, when she arrives to discover that all of her designs have been destroyed. Is someone trying to get between her and her dreams, before they can even get off the ground? Barbie must don her most fashionable trench coat and jump into detective mode to navigate the glamorous, thrilling backstage world of fashion, music,...
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English
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Cassandra Cain, teenage assassin, isn't exactly Batgirl material...not yet, at least. But with Batgirl missing from Gotham City, can Cassandra defy her destiny and take on a heroic mantle of her very own? She'll have to go through an identity crisis of epic proportions to find out.
After a soul-shattering moment that sends Cass reeling, she'll attempt to answer this question the only way she knows how: learning everything she possibly can about her...
12) Darkling
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Series
Darkling volume 1
Language
English
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From the outside, Darla Lang looks like a normal college student-save for the peculiar voluminous black cloak she wears everywhere. Her peers and professors chalk this up to Darla's eccentric, introverted, slightly creepy persona, but Darla is a young woman with a secret... and a mission. Darla's cloak is actually a mystical artifact that she can use as a melee weapon, trapping her enemies inside and teleporting them away. Darla's power and connection...
13) Holiday Heroine
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English
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Nobody loves Christmas like Bea Tanaka-so when her family visits her for a special holiday celebration, she's beside herself with joy.
After years of chaos, questionable decisions, and flirtations with the supervillain path, Bea is finally thriving. She's got a sweet new gig hunting demons in Maui, she's working hard to hone her powers, and her big sister Evie is proud of her at last. In fact, everyone is so proud of her that she can't tell them...
14) Haunted heroine
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Series
Heroine complex novels volume 4
Language
English
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The fourth book in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine series follows Evie Tanaka, Aveda Jupiter, and Bea Tanaka as they combat a new supernatural threat. Everything in Evie Tanaka's life is finally perfect. As a badass superheroine, she defends San Francisco from demon invasion on the regular. Her relationships with superhero partner Aveda Jupiter, little sister Bea, and hot, half-demon husband Nate have never been stronger. Maybe it's possible...
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Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Can Lois Lane open herself up to friendship, romance, and being vulnerable in order to get the future that's right for her? She might have to change her entire life plan to find out. Ambitious small town girl Lois Lane tackles a summer in the big city with gusto, but a cavalcade of setbacks--including an annoying frenemy roommate, a beyond tedious internship at a suddenly corporatized website, and a boss who demotes her to coffee-fetching minion--threatens...
16) Heroine complex
Author
Series
Heroine complex novels volume 1
Language
English
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Evie Tanaka is the put-upon personal assistant to Aveda Jupiter, her childhood best friend and San Francisco's most beloved superheroine. She's great at her job--blending into the background, handling her boss's epic diva tantrums, and getting demon blood out of leather pants. Unfortunately, she's not nearly as together when it comes to running her own life, standing up for herself, or raising her tempestuous teenage sister, Bea. But everything changes...
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Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Cassandra Cain is the daughter of super-villains and a living weapon trained to be the ultimate assassin, but when her father threatens the world she has grown to love, she will have to overcome that voice inside her head telling her she can never be a hero.
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Series
Heroine complex novels volume 6
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The sixth book in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine series continues the adventures of Asian-American superheroine Bea Tanaka as she takes on demons in Hawaii. After years of chaos, questionable decisions, and flirtations with the supervillain path, Bea is finally thriving. She's got a sweet, new gig hunting demons in Maui, she's working hard to hone her powers, and her big sister Evie is proud of her at last. In fact, everyone is so proud...
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Series
Riverdale diaries volume 1
Publisher
BuzzPop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Betty Cooper and Val Smith are best friends ready to start middle school. They've always done everything together--taken the same classes, played the same games, and created the world of Sparklespacelandia in Betty's backyard together--so naturally, Betty assumes they'll continue to be an unbreakable duo once the school year starts. But Val finds herself drawn toward pursuing a music elective, and does it without Betty at her side. Suddenly Betty's...
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Series
Barbie volume 1
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Barbie gets her first fashion job when she gets to be Whitney Yang's assistant at her fashion show, but everything starts going wrong and Whitney might just cancel the whole thing.