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3) A kid's guide to fandom: exploring fan-fic, cosplay, gaming, podcasting, and more in the geek world!
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Being a fan is a big deal. Whether it's comics, video games, podcasts, cosplay, books, films, or something else, there are so many ways to share and celebrate with the things that you love. So, it's high time for a guide to help young fans navigate the world of fandom and its many flourishing communities--from fan works to cosplay, gaming, podcasting, and more!"--Amazon.com
6) Bright
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Series
Shine (Jessica Jung) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Now that Girls Forever is the number-one K-pop group in the world, Rachel Kim is famous and happy, but when she meets Alex she considers breaking the rules of fame to fall in love.
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English
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Instead of going to prom, seventeen-year-old Elena Soo wants to spend her time saving the local community center, and she is determined to keep her priorities straight even when her childhood best friend--who is now a K-pop superstar--returns to make good on their old pact to go to prom together.
8) Pigeon kings
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Pigeons do somersaults in mid-flight, and there is a subculture of men in South Central L.A. devoted to this phenomenon as a competitive sport.
9) Seoulmates
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Hannah Cho had the next year all planned out--the perfect summer with her boyfriend, Nate, and then a fun senior year with their friends. But then Nate does what everyone else in Hannah's life seems to do--he leaves her, claiming they have nothing in common. He and all her friends are newly obsessed with K-pop and K-dramas, and Hannah is not. After years of trying to embrace the American part and shunning the Korean side of her Korean American identity...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the world of Bitcoin and Silk Road, of radicalism and pornography. This is the Dark Net.
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
12) Beastly
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Kyle Kingson has it all, including a wicked cruel streak. He zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra inviting her to the school's extravagant bash. After she accepts, he blows her off in a very cruel fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he hates. Enraged by his horrible appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only way to break the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is, which...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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In this gonzo history of the "City of the Violet Crown," author and journalist Joe Nick Patoski chronicles the modern evolution of the quirky, bustling, funky, self-contradictory place known as Austin, Texas. Patoski describes the series of cosmic accidents that tossed together a mashup of outsiders, free spirits, thinkers, educators, writers, musicians, entrepreneurs, artists, and politicians who would foster the atmosphere, the vibe, the slightly...
14) Shine
Author
Series
Shine (Jessica Jung) volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Rachel Kim confronts the dark underbelly of the K-pop world as she strives to become a K-pop star.
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Magical girl apocalypse volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
High School student Kii Kogami is looking for excitement in his life when a girl clad in gothic attire begins bludgeoning, dismembering, and mutilating all in her path while chanting the mantra "Magical." The high schoolers are terrified but even more so because the girl's victims reanimate and join her in the rampage as her minions. What will be left of the world outside, even if young Kii escapes the high school?
16) Tangerine
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles.
17) Una educación
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
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"Westover ha escrito una historia extraordinaria--su propia historia--una formidable epopeya, desgarradora e inspiradora, sobre la posibilidad de ver la vida a través de otros ojos, y de cambiar"--
A "memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University"--
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"From a rising fashion historian, the story of how Japan imitated, assimilated, perfected, and ultimately saved traditional American fashion Look closely at any typically "American" article of clothing these days, and you may be surprised to see a Japanese label inside. From high-end denim to oxford button-downs, Japanese designers have taken the classic American lookknown as ametora, or "American traditional" and turned it into a huge business for...
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Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt right" ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, a culture of struggle sessions and virtue signalling lurks behind a therapeutic...
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Xin jing dian wen ku volume 1408
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Simplified Chinese edition of Educated: A Memoir
人们只看到我的与众不同:一个十七岁前从未踏入教室的大山女孩,却戴上一顶学历的高帽,熠熠生辉。 只有我知道自己的真面目:我来自一个极少有人能想象的家庭。我的童年由垃圾场的废铜烂铁铸成,那里没有读书声,只有起重机的轰鸣。不上学,不就医,是父亲要我们坚持的忠诚与真理。父亲不允许我们拥有自己的声音,我们的意志是他眼中的恶魔。...
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