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| 499fefa1a857da38ea313819c6b639535b3e5554 | src/content/books/9780593798843.md | The publisher's description: > There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her mother’s depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity before she starts college in the fall. Both are seemingly impossible—when her mother isn’t lying in bed for days, she’s lashing out at Nina over any perceived slight. And after a blowjob gone spectacularly wrong, Nina is the talk of Flanagan’s, the Upper East Side bar where young Manhattan society congregates. It doesn’t help that she’s Jewish, an outsider among the blue-eyed blondes who populate this rarified world. She can fit in, kind of, with enough alcohol and prescription drugs stolen from her parents’ medicine cabinet. > > Flanagan’s is where she pines for the handsome, preppy, and charismatic Gardner Reed. Every girl wants to sleep with him and every guy wants to be him. After she’s introduced to cocaine, Nina plunges headlong into her pursuit of Gardner, oblivious to the warning signs. When a new medication seemingly frees her mother from darkness, and Nina and Gardner grow closer, it seems like Nina might finally get what she wants. But at what cost? > > Freud called cocaine “a gorgeous excitement,” but a gorgeous excitement for the wrong guy can be lethal. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her mother’s depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity before she starts college in the fall. Both are seemingly impossible—when her mother isn’t lying in bed for days, she’s lashing out at Nina over any perceived slight. And after a blowjob gone spectacularly wrong, Nina is the talk of Flanagan’s, the Upper East Side bar where young Manhattan society congregates. It doesn’t help that she’s Jewish, an outsider among the blue-eyed blondes who populate this rarified world. She can fit in, kind of, with enough alcohol and prescription drugs stolen from her parents’ medicine cabinet.</p> <p>Flanagan’s is where she pines for the handsome, preppy, and charismatic Gardner Reed. Every girl wants to sleep with him and every guy wants to be him. After she’s introduced to cocaine, Nina plunges headlong into her pursuit of Gardner, oblivious to the warning signs. When a new medication seemingly frees her mother from darkness, and Nina and Gardner grow closer, it seems like Nina might finally get what she wants. But at what cost?</p> <p>Freud called cocaine “a gorgeous excitement,” but a gorgeous excitement for the wrong guy can be lethal.</p> </blockquote> | 9780593798843 | A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel | ["Cynthia Weiner"] | ./covers/9780593798843.jpg | ||||
| 69545efaa02d1906c273d6a3fee579096de2cc1e | src/content/books/9781668007990.md | 9781668007990 | Age of Magical Overthinking Notes on Modern Irrationality | [{"name": "Amanda Montell"}] | 2024 | ||||||
| c41fbcfeaba93bdf758ac3aeaeb672e002d24e44 | src/content/books/9780593190265.md | 9780593190265 | All Fours A Novel | [{"name": "Miranda July"}] | ./covers/9780593190265.jpg | 2024 | |||||
| d2fa98804d40fa29afec2f75de1d6ee30ebe13e1 | src/content/books/9780300278194.md | The publisher's description: > Paris, 1960s. A young dancer and single mother, who might or might not be the narrator’s love interest, is revisited by menacing figures from her past, even as she tries to escape that past through her art. Set in the shimmering world of the Paris ballet, a world populated by giants such as Balanchine and Nureyev, Ballerina revisits the themes of memory, desire, and ineffable danger that have become hallmarks of Patrick Modiano’s fiction. > > Focusing on the dancer’s troubled relations with her young son, her enigmatic involvement with the narrator, her mysterious past entanglements, and the tension between the narrator’s past and present selves, Modiano’s new novel is both a nostalgic evocation of the world gone by and a haunting exploration of time lost and regained. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Paris, 1960s. A young dancer and single mother, who might or might not be the narrator’s love interest, is revisited by menacing figures from her past, even as she tries to escape that past through her art. Set in the shimmering world of the Paris ballet, a world populated by giants such as Balanchine and Nureyev, Ballerina revisits the themes of memory, desire, and ineffable danger that have become hallmarks of Patrick Modiano’s fiction.</p> <p>Focusing on the dancer’s troubled relations with her young son, her enigmatic involvement with the narrator, her mysterious past entanglements, and the tension between the narrator’s past and present selves, Modiano’s new novel is both a nostalgic evocation of the world gone by and a haunting exploration of time lost and regained.</p> </blockquote> | 9780300278194 | Ballerina | [{"name": "Patrick Modiano", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Mark Polizzotti", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9780300278194.jpg | ||||
| 0ee3d90f429497bbad99ec18b889677caaec6a9e | src/content/books/9780385690348.md | The publisher's description: > Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Hired to find a mysterious boy who has disappeared, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group assembled to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as the Leopard. > > As Tracker follows the boy's scent, he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he fights for survival, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep the boy from being found? And perhaps most important of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying? | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Hired to find a mysterious boy who has disappeared, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group assembled to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as the Leopard.</p> <p>As Tracker follows the boy's scent, he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he fights for survival, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep the boy from being found? And perhaps most important of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?</p> </blockquote> | 9780385690348 | Black Leopard, Red Wolf | ["Marlon James"] | ./covers/9780385690348.jpg | the-dark-star-trilogy | 1 | ||
| b073f7d23a859b8d957c458b7240b589ebc13531 | src/content/books/9781250245557.md | The publisher's description: > Built and maintained by corporate benevolence, the city of Fairhaven is a literal bubble of safety and order (and amazing coffee) in the midst of the Brush, a harsh alien wilderness ruled by monstrous Imps and rogue bands of humans. Humans like Morgan, who’s Brush-born and Bubble-raised and fully capable of fending off an Imp attack during her morning jog. She’s got a great routine going―she has a chill day job, she recreationally kills the occasional Imp, then she takes that Imp home for her roommate and BFF, Annie, to transform into drugs as a side hustle. > > But cracks appear in her tidy life when one of those Imps nearly murders a delivery guy in her apartment, accidentally transforming him into a Brush-powered mutant in the process. And when Morgan’s company launches Huntr, a gig economy app for Imp extermination, she finds herself press-ganged into kicking her stabby side job up to the next level as she battles a parade of monsters and monstrously Brush-turned citizens, from a living hipster beard to a book club hive mind. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Built and maintained by corporate benevolence, the city of Fairhaven is a literal bubble of safety and order (and amazing coffee) in the midst of the Brush, a harsh alien wilderness ruled by monstrous Imps and rogue bands of humans. Humans like Morgan, who’s Brush-born and Bubble-raised and fully capable of fending off an Imp attack during her morning jog. She’s got a great routine going―she has a chill day job, she recreationally kills the occasional Imp, then she takes that Imp home for her roommate and BFF, Annie, to transform into drugs as a side hustle.</p> <p>But cracks appear in her tidy life when one of those Imps nearly murders a delivery guy in her apartment, accidentally transforming him into a Brush-powered mutant in the process. And when Morgan’s company launches Huntr, a gig economy app for Imp extermination, she finds herself press-ganged into kicking her stabby side job up to the next level as she battles a parade of monsters and monstrously Brush-turned citizens, from a living hipster beard to a book club hive mind.</p> </blockquote> | 9781250245557 | Bubble | [{"name": "Jordan Morris", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Sarah Morgan", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Cliff Tony", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781250245557.jpg | 2021-07-13 | 272 | ||
| 2a10ba706dcfa2edee393ba8d94e618468de33a0 | src/content/books/9781250320520.md | The publisher's description: > This is a story about hunger. > <br/>1532. > <br/>Santo Domingo de la Calzada. > > A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. > > This is a story about love. > <br/>1827. > <br/>London. > > A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined. > > This is a story about rage. > <br/>2019. > <br/>Boston. > > College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge. > > This is a story about life— > <br/>how it ends, and how it starts. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>This is a story about hunger. <br/>1532. <br/>Santo Domingo de la Calzada.</p> <p>A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.</p> <p>This is a story about love. <br/>1827. <br/>London.</p> <p>A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.</p> <p>This is a story about rage. <br/>2019. <br/>Boston.</p> <p>College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge.</p> <p>This is a story about life— <br/>how it ends, and how it starts.</p> </blockquote> | 9781250320520 | Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil | ["V. E. Schwab"] | ./covers/9781250320520.jpg | 2025 | |||
| daea8196e3ce4223a403fe6c4e5f98e64b898998 | src/content/books/9781250874672.md | The publisher's description: > Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. > > But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale. > > Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he’s just put a target on his back. And what’s worse, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles. > > Haunted by his past, Misha must risk his entire future—before the horrors from the silver screen find a way to bury him for good. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell.</p> <p>But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale.</p> <p>Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he’s just put a target on his back. And what’s worse, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles.</p> <p>Haunted by his past, Misha must risk his entire future—before the horrors from the silver screen find a way to bury him for good.</p> </blockquote> | 9781250874672 | Bury Your Gays | [{"name": "Chuck Tingle", "role": "Author"}] | |||||
| af85a21450c6ef0097eb85d60c34711352bc58bf | src/content/books/9781982116521.md | 9781982116521 | Creation Lake | ["Rachel Kushner"] | |||||||
| a1d127168dc34d8327bc5a774fae6fc25ddf5663 | src/content/books/9780316471855.md | The publisher's description: > When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions...and a member! They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands! | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions...and a member! They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!</p> </blockquote> | 9780316471855 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9780316471855.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 1 | ||
| b962581d6da6c86ab5613f275f5f0bbc5e10ca6a | src/content/books/9781975335595.md | The publisher’s description: > It’s eat or be eaten...literally! Led to Sissel’s threshold by the winged lion imprisoned within it, Laios and friends steel themselves for…some heavy-duty cleaning?! Sissel’s seemingly innocuous cottage is piled with clutter, hindering both their search for the lion and their meal prep! Once satiated, the party hastily lays plans for Falin’s rescue. However, here in the depths of the dungeon, even the cutest residents have a vicious streak a mile wide! | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>It’s eat or be eaten...literally! Led to Sissel’s threshold by the winged lion imprisoned within it, Laios and friends steel themselves for…some heavy-duty cleaning?! Sissel’s seemingly innocuous cottage is piled with clutter, hindering both their search for the lion and their meal prep! Once satiated, the party hastily lays plans for Falin’s rescue. However, here in the depths of the dungeon, even the cutest residents have a vicious streak a mile wide!</p> </blockquote> | 9781975335595 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 10 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781975335595.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 10 | ||
| e406911cf279ee82b390e8f5299a5b8c6668fc67 | src/content/books/9781975346720.md | The publisher’s description: > It’s eat or be eaten...literally! Locked in battle with the Lunatic Magician, Laios is the last man standing against an array of the dungeon’s deadliest dragons. Using his extensive monster knowledge to his advantage, Laios manages to defy the odds of almost certain death—at least until Sissel devises an even more terrible plan! Will Laios’s love of dungeon dining prove to be his downfall? | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>It’s eat or be eaten...literally! Locked in battle with the Lunatic Magician, Laios is the last man standing against an array of the dungeon’s deadliest dragons. Using his extensive monster knowledge to his advantage, Laios manages to defy the odds of almost certain death—at least until Sissel devises an even more terrible plan! Will Laios’s love of dungeon dining prove to be his downfall?</p> </blockquote> | 9781975346720 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 11 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781975346720.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 11 | ||
| a36beca1f6348e09c932fc4a60836a3576627ad6 | src/content/books/9781975367985.md | The publisher’s description: > In her first hours as lord of the dungeon, Marcille has completely transformed the dungeon’s layout, sending hordes of monsters from the deepest floors—as well as several of her own making—hurtling dangerously close to the surface. Though the demon’s influence is strong, Laios has a surefire way to reach Marcille: through her stomach! Drawn from fondly remembered flavors, will Senshi’s ultimate culinary creation be enough to break through to their friend?! | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>In her first hours as lord of the dungeon, Marcille has completely transformed the dungeon’s layout, sending hordes of monsters from the deepest floors—as well as several of her own making—hurtling dangerously close to the surface. Though the demon’s influence is strong, Laios has a surefire way to reach Marcille: through her stomach! Drawn from fondly remembered flavors, will Senshi’s ultimate culinary creation be enough to break through to their friend?!</p> </blockquote> | 9781975367985 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 12 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781975367985.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 12 | ||
| a8234b120e4f0423f9fe0464de9834095cb7acca | src/content/books/9781975393854.md | The publisher’s description: > It’s eat or be eaten...literally! Though the party succeeded in breaking Marcille free from the dungeon’s influence, the winged lion remains at large. Should the demon escape to the surface, its all-powerful manifestation will surely grow to feast upon the world―and the desires of all who live in it! Laios has one last all-or-nothing plan up his sleeve to sate the beast and save his sister, but will his own deepest desires unleash an even greater monster first? | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>It’s eat or be eaten...literally! Though the party succeeded in breaking Marcille free from the dungeon’s influence, the winged lion remains at large. Should the demon escape to the surface, its all-powerful manifestation will surely grow to feast upon the world―and the desires of all who live in it! Laios has one last all-or-nothing plan up his sleeve to sate the beast and save his sister, but will his own deepest desires unleash an even greater monster first?</p> </blockquote> | 9781975393854 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 13 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781975393854.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 13 | ||
| 7b43954596d73f5437c56aeef508f4f0347a3164 | src/content/books/9798855400366.md | The publisher’s description: > Laios’s plan to overcome the demon seems to have worked—but at great physical cost to his monstrous form. As the dungeon crumbles around them, his friends are forced to leave him behind in a race to escape. Even with the demon out of the picture, the people of the Golden Country are still trapped in the dungeon depths, and Falin remains a chimera. Plus, all this running around is really working up an appetite…! Join our heroes for the ultimate feast in the final volume of Delicious in Dungeon! | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Laios’s plan to overcome the demon seems to have worked—but at great physical cost to his monstrous form. As the dungeon crumbles around them, his friends are forced to leave him behind in a race to escape. Even with the demon out of the picture, the people of the Golden Country are still trapped in the dungeon depths, and Falin remains a chimera. Plus, all this running around is really working up an appetite…! Join our heroes for the ultimate feast in the final volume of Delicious in Dungeon!</p> </blockquote> | 9798855400366 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 14 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9798855400366.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 14 | ||
| 86df66f567ba0ecb77ddad26a480355d77bcb082 | src/content/books/9780316473057.md | The publisher's description: > With the possibility of starvation as a constant companion, Laios's party continues advancing deeper into the dungeon. The adventurers have made it to the third floor, but only rotting zombies, ghastly spirits, living paintings, and golems await them--all of which are absolutely inedible. The party has come this far by adapting and learning how to live off the dubious bounties of the dungeon. But how will they manage when even the meanest monster won't make a decent meal? | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>With the possibility of starvation as a constant companion, Laios's party continues advancing deeper into the dungeon. The adventurers have made it to the third floor, but only rotting zombies, ghastly spirits, living paintings, and golems await them--all of which are absolutely inedible. The party has come this far by adapting and learning how to live off the dubious bounties of the dungeon. But how will they manage when even the meanest monster won't make a decent meal?</p> </blockquote> | 9780316473057 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 2 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9780316473057.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 2 | ||
| ef60ce4fd87617787d06648df71a4c108a6b7a82 | src/content/books/9780316412797.md | The publisher's description: > New dangers and new recipes await the party in the third installment of the utterly unique and endearing Delicious in Dungeon! | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>New dangers and new recipes await the party in the third installment of the utterly unique and endearing Delicious in Dungeon!</p> </blockquote> | 9780316412797 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 3 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9780316412797.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 3 | ||
| 4601cdb62080ef57d716a8397b60215d25f67c6f | src/content/books/9780316446440.md | The publisher's description: > The time has come! Showdown with the Red Dragon!!!After finally reaching the fifth floor, it's time for the adventurers to face their greatest challenge yet. They're putting their lives on to the line in a fight with a monster with crimson hide that turns away even the toughest steel and a fiery breath that turns even bones to ash. Can they save Laios's sister? ...And maybe just as importantly, can they eat dragon meat?!? | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>The time has come! Showdown with the Red Dragon!!!After finally reaching the fifth floor, it's time for the adventurers to face their greatest challenge yet. They're putting their lives on to the line in a fight with a monster with crimson hide that turns away even the toughest steel and a fiery breath that turns even bones to ash. Can they save Laios's sister? ...And maybe just as importantly, can they eat dragon meat?!?</p> </blockquote> | 9780316446440 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 4 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9780316446440.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 4 | ||
| 9b626e24ce5641f1c0315216c2024d051ecfca87 | src/content/books/9781975326852.md | The publisher’s description: > The party has defeated the Red Dragon and rescued Farin! But their quest won’t be finished until they make it back out of the dungeon unscathed. The adventure’s not complete until everyone returns alive...and full! | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>The party has defeated the Red Dragon and rescued Farin! But their quest won’t be finished until they make it back out of the dungeon unscathed. The adventure’s not complete until everyone returns alive...and full!</p> </blockquote> | 9781975326852 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 5 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781975326852.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 5 | ||
| c09a925f7e7822d2f02cc57a4315b74f82362d85 | src/content/books/9781975382612.md | The publisher’s description: > Old companions reunited in the dungeon...Will ex-comrads be able to work together in the rescue of Falin from the Lunatic Magician? Will a shared meal manage to right past wrongs? | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Old companions reunited in the dungeon...Will ex-comrads be able to work together in the rescue of Falin from the Lunatic Magician? Will a shared meal manage to right past wrongs?</p> </blockquote> | 9781975382612 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 6 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781975382612.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 6 | ||
| 395407ca8b24515c804605743935c2a615fca5ab | src/content/books/9781975386696.md | The publisher’s description: > Massive changes in the dungeon have drawn out new monsters for Laios and his party to take on—and taste! But the shift has attracted the attention of the western elves, whose intervention could spell further trouble not only for Laios, but also for everyone on the island! Facing the threat of the Lunatic Magician from within and the elves from without, the adventurers must rally as a team like never before, especially when forced to confront a beast straight out of Senshi’s nightmares! | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Massive changes in the dungeon have drawn out new monsters for Laios and his party to take on—and taste! But the shift has attracted the attention of the western elves, whose intervention could spell further trouble not only for Laios, but also for everyone on the island! Facing the threat of the Lunatic Magician from within and the elves from without, the adventurers must rally as a team like never before, especially when forced to confront a beast straight out of Senshi’s nightmares!</p> </blockquote> | 9781975386696 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 7 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781975386696.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 7 | ||
| 1df5e46c474e8d8bf187ebe2884dff49b875ffa1 | src/content/books/9781975399405.md | The publisher’s description: > It’s eat or be eaten…literally!In the dungeon, one false step can be the difference between life and death…or elf and dwarf?! The changeling mushrooms have done their work, leaving Laios and company radically altered, transformed from one race to another! The journey into the heart of the dungeon was never going to be easy, but with new senses, strengths, and statures to contend with, the mission seems more daunting than ever. Thankfully their sense of taste doesn’t seem to have been affected!! | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>It’s eat or be eaten…literally!In the dungeon, one false step can be the difference between life and death…or elf and dwarf?! The changeling mushrooms have done their work, leaving Laios and company radically altered, transformed from one race to another! The journey into the heart of the dungeon was never going to be easy, but with new senses, strengths, and statures to contend with, the mission seems more daunting than ever. Thankfully their sense of taste doesn’t seem to have been affected!!</p> </blockquote> | 9781975399405 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 8 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781975399405.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 8 | ||
| 3c386485ce1fb1b9c6ccaa450b5ae15f7a303ab3 | src/content/books/9781975320171.md | The publisher’s description: > It’s eat or be eaten...literally! Laios nears the bottom of the dungeon and his inevitable confrontation with Sissel, the lunatic lord of its labyrinthine halls. In a succubus-induced slumber, Laios comes face-to-face with the winged lion, the source of Sissel’s power. Laios knows only that the lion is held captive by Sissel in the dungeon’s depths, but it could be the Canaries know a great deal more…With their centuries of experience, the elves’ knowledge could shed some light on the truth of the dungeon and its master-or prove to be Laios’s undoing…! | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>It’s eat or be eaten...literally! Laios nears the bottom of the dungeon and his inevitable confrontation with Sissel, the lunatic lord of its labyrinthine halls. In a succubus-induced slumber, Laios comes face-to-face with the winged lion, the source of Sissel’s power. Laios knows only that the lion is held captive by Sissel in the dungeon’s depths, but it could be the Canaries know a great deal more…With their centuries of experience, the elves’ knowledge could shed some light on the truth of the dungeon and its master-or prove to be Laios’s undoing…!</p> </blockquote> | 9781975320171 | Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 9 | [{"name": "Ryoko Kui", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Taylor Engel", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781975320171.jpg | delicious-in-dungeon | 9 | ||
| ea3b7051e4b3b9736a0d42054973a4a73a6beca8 | src/content/books/9780374605339.md | 9780374605339 | Eating to Extinction The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them | [{"name": "Dan Saladino"}] | 2022 | ||||||
| 3536e237dc3e862dd68984f8c39b804ae045320a | src/content/books/9781250430236.md | The publisher's description: > High school senior Carson Flynn doesn't give a damn—about you, about school, or about her future. The only thing she cares about is jumping into mosh pits at concerts with her best friend Ash. > > But when Ash and Carson's friendship becomes something more, a lot of complicated feelings enter the pit swinging: the unresolved grief they share over the loss of Carson's mother, the realities of growing up queer in small-town America, and the biggest bruiser of all: what does it mean to love and be loved? > > As Carson discovers new corners of her heart, she sees that her too-cool approach to life may have been keeping her closed off from her potential. Maybe there is something greater out there, a bright future full of promise . . . if only she could convince Ash to see it too. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>High school senior Carson Flynn doesn't give a damn—about you, about school, or about her future. The only thing she cares about is jumping into mosh pits at concerts with her best friend Ash.</p> <p>But when Ash and Carson's friendship becomes something more, a lot of complicated feelings enter the pit swinging: the unresolved grief they share over the loss of Carson's mother, the realities of growing up queer in small-town America, and the biggest bruiser of all: what does it mean to love and be loved?</p> <p>As Carson discovers new corners of her heart, she sees that her too-cool approach to life may have been keeping her closed off from her potential. Maybe there is something greater out there, a bright future full of promise . . . if only she could convince Ash to see it too.</p> </blockquote> | 9781250430236 | Everyone Sux But You | ["K Wroten"] | ./covers/9781250430236.jpg | ||||
| 523d4da0f0629e4e4aa551b815c3e7d2121594b0 | src/content/books/9780593701706.md | The publisher's description: > As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make sci-fi films in their yards, convincing their friends to star as victims of grisly murders, smearing lipstick on the “bodies” to simulate blood. Now a talented artist and aspiring filmmaker, Brian, along with Jimmy, Jimmy’s friend Tina, and Laurie—his reluctant muse—sets off to a remote cabin in the woods with an old 8 millimeter camera to make a true sci-fi horror movie, an homage to Brian’s favorite movie: _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_. But as Brian’s affections for Laurie go seemingly un-reciprocated, Brian writes and draws himself into a fantasy where she is the girl of his dreams, his damsel in distress, and his savior wrapped into one. Rife with references to classic sci-fi and horror movies and filled with panels of stunning depictions of nature, film and the surreal, Burns blurs the line between Brian’s dreams and reality, imagination and perception. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make sci-fi films in their yards, convincing their friends to star as victims of grisly murders, smearing lipstick on the “bodies” to simulate blood. Now a talented artist and aspiring filmmaker, Brian, along with Jimmy, Jimmy’s friend Tina, and Laurie—his reluctant muse—sets off to a remote cabin in the woods with an old 8 millimeter camera to make a true sci-fi horror movie, an homage to Brian’s favorite movie: <em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</em>. But as Brian’s affections for Laurie go seemingly un-reciprocated, Brian writes and draws himself into a fantasy where she is the girl of his dreams, his damsel in distress, and his savior wrapped into one. Rife with references to classic sci-fi and horror movies and filled with panels of stunning depictions of nature, film and the surreal, Burns blurs the line between Brian’s dreams and reality, imagination and perception.</p> </blockquote> | 9780593701706 | Final Cut | ["Charles Burns"] | ./covers/9780593701706.jpg | 2024-09-24 | |||
| 5c37b0103d873ff8387829d4f4fcb1843653bccc | src/content/books/9781984838711.md | 9781984838711 | Fire and Blood 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones | [{"name": "George R. R. Martin"}, {"name": "Doug Wheatley"}] | 2018 | ||||||
| bdd1912c810b9d644729fa67e4d3f8b2f4633c22 | src/content/books/9781974729548.md | The publisher's description: > The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. > > Decades after their victory, the funeral of one her friends confronts Frieren with her own near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill the last wishes of her comrades and finds herself beginning a new adventure… | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</p> <p>Decades after their victory, the funeral of one her friends confronts Frieren with her own near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill the last wishes of her comrades and finds herself beginning a new adventure…</p> </blockquote> | 9781974729548 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 1 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974729548.jpg | frieren | 1 | ||
| 99b461f1dc7c424f05485c9bbef08ac90f56115d | src/content/books/9781974743612.md | The publisher's description: > **The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.** > > Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? > > Years before the end of the war against the Demon King, Macht, the most powerful of the Seven Sages of Destruction, made a deal with the lord of the fortress city of Weise in an attempt to understand human emotions. Although the deal was at first beneficial to both sides, Macht eventually transformed the entire city and all of its residents into gold. Now, the strange tale of Macht, the fate of Weise, and Denken’s own past will all lead Frieren and her companions to one of their most difficult confrontations yet. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</strong></p> <p>Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her?</p> <p>Years before the end of the war against the Demon King, Macht, the most powerful of the Seven Sages of Destruction, made a deal with the lord of the fortress city of Weise in an attempt to understand human emotions. Although the deal was at first beneficial to both sides, Macht eventually transformed the entire city and all of its residents into gold. Now, the strange tale of Macht, the fate of Weise, and Denken’s own past will all lead Frieren and her companions to one of their most difficult confrontations yet.</p> </blockquote> | 9781974743612 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 10 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974743612.jpg | frieren | 10 | ||
| 563d74c6c16bf9caf42e8446e5c7d764029fb614 | src/content/books/9781974748983.md | The publisher's description: > **The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.** > > Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? > > Frieren has broken the curse of Diagoldze and released herself and Denken. Now they face Macht and Solitär in a final battle of retribution. With his memories of his wife driving him, Denken challenges Macht, his former master. Frieren takes on Solitär, who is confident of victory. But demons have always underestimated Frieren, one of the greatest mages to ever live, and Macht and Solitär would do well to not count Frieren out just yet! | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</strong></p> <p>Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her?</p> <p>Frieren has broken the curse of Diagoldze and released herself and Denken. Now they face Macht and Solitär in a final battle of retribution. With his memories of his wife driving him, Denken challenges Macht, his former master. Frieren takes on Solitär, who is confident of victory. But demons have always underestimated Frieren, one of the greatest mages to ever live, and Macht and Solitär would do well to not count Frieren out just yet!</p> </blockquote> | 9781974748983 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 11 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974748983.jpg | frieren | 11 | ||
| 75814cb51f448b079116ce7751e32d5f4ec24531 | src/content/books/9781974751815.md | The publisher's description: > **The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.** > > Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? > > Upon touching the ancient monument of the Goddess, Frieren finds herself cast back in time to 53 years before the death of Himmel the Hero. Her old adventuring comrades don’t know she has come from the future, and Frieren realizes she must protect the secrecy of advancements in magic from their enemies. Here, the Demon King has not yet been defeated, and his minions are still powerful and determined to destroy Frieren! | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</strong></p> <p>Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her?</p> <p>Upon touching the ancient monument of the Goddess, Frieren finds herself cast back in time to 53 years before the death of Himmel the Hero. Her old adventuring comrades don’t know she has come from the future, and Frieren realizes she must protect the secrecy of advancements in magic from their enemies. Here, the Demon King has not yet been defeated, and his minions are still powerful and determined to destroy Frieren!</p> </blockquote> | 9781974751815 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 12 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974751815.jpg | frieren | 12 | ||
| d0b3f1dbcc5b701e4c242c041d23466ec96eb96b | src/content/books/9781974752911.md | The publisher's description: > **The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.** > > Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? > > After being reunited in the past with her old friends, the Party of Heroes, Frieren looks for a way to return to the future. But the Demon King’s minions want the knowledge Frieren possesses, and the powerful demon Grausam traps Frieren and Himmel in an illusion so beautiful they may never want to leave! Then a threat that’s been lurking in the shadows for decades rises once again… | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</strong></p> <p>Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her?</p> <p>After being reunited in the past with her old friends, the Party of Heroes, Frieren looks for a way to return to the future. But the Demon King’s minions want the knowledge Frieren possesses, and the powerful demon Grausam traps Frieren and Himmel in an illusion so beautiful they may never want to leave! Then a threat that’s been lurking in the shadows for decades rises once again…</p> </blockquote> | 9781974752911 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 13 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974752911.jpg | frieren | 13 | ||
| 7f7210e75b940880e0b7af0080592670acbea9af | src/content/books/9781974761586.md | The publisher's description: > **The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.** > > Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? > > At the behest of the Continental Magic Association, Frieren and her friends are in the Imperial capital to stop a plot to assassinate the great mage Serie. Frieren must contend with the Imperial Special Forces on one side and a cabal of assassins known as the Shadow Warriors on the other. The hit is scheduled to take place at a grand ball, but before that happens the Shadow Warriors will make their move to take out Frieren in the streets of the city... | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</strong></p> <p>Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her?</p> <p>At the behest of the Continental Magic Association, Frieren and her friends are in the Imperial capital to stop a plot to assassinate the great mage Serie. Frieren must contend with the Imperial Special Forces on one side and a cabal of assassins known as the Shadow Warriors on the other. The hit is scheduled to take place at a grand ball, but before that happens the Shadow Warriors will make their move to take out Frieren in the streets of the city...</p> </blockquote> | 9781974761586 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 14 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974761586.jpg | frieren | 14 | ||
| 9b76ff1ddb543dfbc521b8db54f4a9c08d77310e | src/content/books/9781974731213.md | The publisher's description: > The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. > > At Eisen’s urging, Frieren and her apprentice Fern head north seeking the land where heroes’ souls are said to rest, which also happens to be the location of the Demon King’s castle. Along the way, they meet Eisen’s apprentice, whose fighting skills may come in handy—though the Demon King is long gone, his surviving minions have unfinished business with Frieren! | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</p> <p>At Eisen’s urging, Frieren and her apprentice Fern head north seeking the land where heroes’ souls are said to rest, which also happens to be the location of the Demon King’s castle. Along the way, they meet Eisen’s apprentice, whose fighting skills may come in handy—though the Demon King is long gone, his surviving minions have unfinished business with Frieren!</p> </blockquote> | 9781974731213 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 2 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974731213.jpg | frieren | 2 | ||
| 3df1eddd4592d6781aad170abf50a5e7dbcef38c | src/content/books/9781974731633.md | The publisher's description: > The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. > > An old enemy returns as Frieren continues her journey north. Decades ago, Frieren and her party defeated a servant of the Demon King called Aura the Guillotine, one of the powerful demons known as the Seven Sages of Destruction. Now Aura is back with a score to settle. But what price did Frieren pay for victory in the past, and how will the choices she made then affect the present? | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</p> <p>An old enemy returns as Frieren continues her journey north. Decades ago, Frieren and her party defeated a servant of the Demon King called Aura the Guillotine, one of the powerful demons known as the Seven Sages of Destruction. Now Aura is back with a score to settle. But what price did Frieren pay for victory in the past, and how will the choices she made then affect the present?</p> </blockquote> | 9781974731633 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 3 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974731633.jpg | frieren | 3 | ||
| 83e2b86e29b1abbd30da34f42b944169a5cf6058 | src/content/books/9781974732883.md | The publisher's description: > The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. > > The village priest Sein has no intention of becoming an adventurer, but his desire to find a long-lost friend may lead him to join Frieren’s party on their journey north. They are headed for the magical city of Äußerst, where Frieren can obtain the first-class mage certification needed to enter the Northern Plateau region. At Frieren’s urging, Fern decides to take the certification exam as well, and faces some unexpected competition… | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</p> <p>The village priest Sein has no intention of becoming an adventurer, but his desire to find a long-lost friend may lead him to join Frieren’s party on their journey north. They are headed for the magical city of Äußerst, where Frieren can obtain the first-class mage certification needed to enter the Northern Plateau region. At Frieren’s urging, Fern decides to take the certification exam as well, and faces some unexpected competition…</p> </blockquote> | 9781974732883 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 4 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974732883.jpg | frieren | 4 | ||
| 179d76fa1ed662a869e4bc716a858e834ba51ac9 | src/content/books/9781974733446.md | The publisher's description: > The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. > > Frieren and Fern have ended up on different teams in the highly competitive first-class mage exam. Capturing a rare bird is required to pass, but personality clashes among teammates are making things difficult. Everyone soon realizes there is more at stake than mere success or failure—for some of them, the exam could be a matter of life and death. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</p> <p>Frieren and Fern have ended up on different teams in the highly competitive first-class mage exam. Capturing a rare bird is required to pass, but personality clashes among teammates are making things difficult. Everyone soon realizes there is more at stake than mere success or failure—for some of them, the exam could be a matter of life and death.</p> </blockquote> | 9781974733446 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 5 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974733446.jpg | frieren | 5 | ||
| e08465d9bc57a6ff8124fc64f70645a522fec58e | src/content/books/9781974734009.md | The publisher's description: > The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. > > The mages begin the second stage of their certification exam: a dangerous expedition into the innermost depths of the ruins of the king’s tomb. This time, there are no teams and it’s every mage for themselves. Whether they want to team up or not, the challenge they will face—their own clones—will push their skills to the limit. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</p> <p>The mages begin the second stage of their certification exam: a dangerous expedition into the innermost depths of the ruins of the king’s tomb. This time, there are no teams and it’s every mage for themselves. Whether they want to team up or not, the challenge they will face—their own clones—will push their skills to the limit.</p> </blockquote> | 9781974734009 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 6 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974734009.jpg | frieren | 6 | ||
| 5adbb847ea5de7a6576fb80f830deae8c11c269f | src/content/books/9781974737383.md | The publisher’s description: > After all the dangers the examinees have faced, passing the first-class mage exam will come down to a simple interview with Serie, whose intuition will determine success or failure. Then, Frieren, Fern, and Stark set out again on the road to Aureole, the land where souls rest. The journey provides new challenges—though the most challenging thing Stark and Fern may have to face is a date with each other! | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>After all the dangers the examinees have faced, passing the first-class mage exam will come down to a simple interview with Serie, whose intuition will determine success or failure. Then, Frieren, Fern, and Stark set out again on the road to Aureole, the land where souls rest. The journey provides new challenges—though the most challenging thing Stark and Fern may have to face is a date with each other!</p> </blockquote> | 9781974737383 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 7 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974737383.jpg | frieren | 7 | ||
| 4af69dd7eeca41fb76fea3b9f2fe1a9ea9b4e398 | src/content/books/9781974739622.md | The publisher’s description: > The Northern Plateau is a wild place, teeming with monsters and other dangers—a place Frieren once traveled with her legendary companions now long passed. Now, she finds herself once again following old familiar paths, this time with new friends. But powerful enemies still stand in their way, and a demon lord of exceptional ability may be more than a match for this party of heroes. | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>The Northern Plateau is a wild place, teeming with monsters and other dangers—a place Frieren once traveled with her legendary companions now long passed. Now, she finds herself once again following old familiar paths, this time with new friends. But powerful enemies still stand in their way, and a demon lord of exceptional ability may be more than a match for this party of heroes.</p> </blockquote> | 9781974739622 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 8 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974739622.jpg | frieren | 8 | ||
| 78fd5d9ae3382d1e99dd01b29f745f970ff8bd77 | src/content/books/9781974742035.md | The publisher's description: > **The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.** > > Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? > > As Frieren, Fern, and Stark continue their journey in the Northern Plateau, they face many obstacles, both natural and supernatural, including the Great Tor Canyon. But once across the canyon, they receive a plea for help that will take them to a cursed city and a confrontation with Macht of the Golden Land, the last and most powerful of the Seven Sages of Destruction. Macht also has a surprising connection to Denken that may provide an edge in the struggle… | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.</strong></p> <p>Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her?</p> <p>As Frieren, Fern, and Stark continue their journey in the Northern Plateau, they face many obstacles, both natural and supernatural, including the Great Tor Canyon. But once across the canyon, they receive a plea for help that will take them to a cursed city and a confrontation with Macht of the Golden Land, the last and most powerful of the Seven Sages of Destruction. Macht also has a surprising connection to Denken that may provide an edge in the struggle…</p> </blockquote> | 9781974742035 | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 9 | [{"name": "Kanehito Yamada", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Tsukasa Abe", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781974742035.jpg | frieren | 9 | ||
| ca5fc949751cd7c3ff60c3646bc37d2bfd80edd1 | src/content/books/9780698170490.md | The publisher’s description: > _Funny Girl_ is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingénue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters. | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Funny Girl</em> is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingénue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters.</p> </blockquote> | 9780698170490 | Funny Girl | ["Nick Hornby"] | ./covers/9780698170490.jpg | ||||
| 0dac0930bcbbbdb1a41f2a44d36b020f9d6da60f | src/content/books/9780593942895.md | > Every relationship has one beginning. This one has two endings. > > Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped. > > Now he is. . . 1. Without a home 2. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off 3. Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking. | <blockquote> <p>Every relationship has one beginning. This one has two endings.</p> <p>Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped.</p> <p>Now he is. . . 1. Without a home 2. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off 3. Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking.</p> </blockquote> | 9780593942895 | Good Material A Novel | [{"name": "Dolly Alderton"}] | 2024 | ||||
| 52f670a723cb3c7e8f7c106a7c8d4f1a56835548 | src/content/books/9780593317648.md | 9780593317648 | Health and Safety A Trip Through the Age of Dissociation | [{"name": "Emily Witt"}] | 2024 | ||||||
| e3c144f4b67c1edb9307e940d3b0f8bec7a9046c | src/content/books/9781805461296.md | 9781805461296 | Human Rights, Robot Wrongs | [{"name": "Susie Alegre"}] | 2024 | ||||||
| cbd75cbfe28c785a79ff34e0848f6483494dc1a7 | src/content/books/9781635423853.md | The publisher’s description: > These dazzling stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Bad Girls erase the fine line between fantasy and reality, and establish her as an impressive literary voice. > > In the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a Harlem den, a travesti gets to know none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugby players haggle over the price of a night of sex, and in return they get what they deserve. Nuns, grandmothers, children, and dogs are never what they seem… > > These 9 stories are inhabited by extravagant and profoundly human characters who face an ominous reality in ways as strange as themselves. I’m a Fool to Want You confirms that Camila Sosa Villada is one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature. With her daring imagination, she can speak the language of a victim of the Mexican Inquisition, or create a dystopian universe where travestis take their revenge. With her unique style, Sosa Villada blends everyday life and magic, honoring the oral tradition with unparalleled fluency. | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>These dazzling stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Bad Girls erase the fine line between fantasy and reality, and establish her as an impressive literary voice.</p> <p>In the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a Harlem den, a travesti gets to know none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugby players haggle over the price of a night of sex, and in return they get what they deserve. Nuns, grandmothers, children, and dogs are never what they seem…</p> <p>These 9 stories are inhabited by extravagant and profoundly human characters who face an ominous reality in ways as strange as themselves. I’m a Fool to Want You confirms that Camila Sosa Villada is one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature. With her daring imagination, she can speak the language of a victim of the Mexican Inquisition, or create a dystopian universe where travestis take their revenge. With her unique style, Sosa Villada blends everyday life and magic, honoring the oral tradition with unparalleled fluency.</p> </blockquote> | 9781635423853 | I'm a Fool for Loving You | ["Camila Sosa Villada"] | ./covers/9781635423853.tiff | 2023 | |||
| ea6991fa09ac54ae172d405dd716f14b9eb37332 | src/content/books/9780316595643.md | 9780316595643 | If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All | ["Eliezer Yudkowsky", "Nate Soares"] | ./covers/9780316595643.jpg | ||||||
| eab2f3f6fac4e19374d9e77e7618521c9decd8b9 | src/content/books/9781910395936.md | > Billie Scott is an artist. > > Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. > > Within a fortnight she'll be completely blind. > > As Billie struggles to deal with her impending blindness, she sets off on a journey from Middlesbrough to London; into a world of post-austerity Britain and the problems facing those left behind. Her quest is to find ten people to paint for her exhibition, as well as the inspiration to continue with her art, and the strength to move on with her life. | <blockquote> <p>Billie Scott is an artist.</p> <p>Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months.</p> <p>Within a fortnight she'll be completely blind.</p> <p>As Billie struggles to deal with her impending blindness, she sets off on a journey from Middlesbrough to London; into a world of post-austerity Britain and the problems facing those left behind. Her quest is to find ten people to paint for her exhibition, as well as the inspiration to continue with her art, and the strength to move on with her life.</p> </blockquote> | 9781910395936 | Impending Blindness of Billie Scott | [{"name": "Zoe Thorogood"}] | 2021 | 168 | |||
| a2343947839f5adf1f7337af8a63d4b5cf0221ca | src/content/books/9781534323865.md | > Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. IT’S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival. | <blockquote> <p>Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. IT’S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival.</p> </blockquote> | 9781534323865 | It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth | [{"name": "Zoe Thorogood"}] | ./covers/9781534323865.jpg | 2022 | 120 | ||
| fde4312d1c27adc4f14f00982a76c67e00ac411f | src/content/books/9780593538258.md | 9780593538258 | Land of Milk and Honey A Novel | [{"name": "C. Pam Zhang"}] | 2024 | 240 | |||||
| c3da8f3cece80af721366e5c125df1b4342c9530 | src/content/books/9781770467903.md | The publisher's description: > Antonia is the sole inhabitant of a deserted town, with only a roaming pack of dogs and her own worn out memories to keep her company. Nothing is new in this world, the ponds are so still they are dead, and her recollections feel more vivid than her surroundings. At times, the isolation is unbearable. Until she meets her flower. Her flower gives her purpose: a reason to get up each morning, to ring the bells of the town, to wake up the fields, and to feel alive. And yet a relentless thought eats away at her—what will happen once her flower dies? > > Her quest to save the flower begins alongside a charming traveler from the land of mirrors.The pair embark on a journey filled with music, swimming holes, and folk tales whispered late into the starry night. They march through the fields to the beat of turtledove calls, occasionally stopping to get drunk off the fruits of the strawberry tree. Slowly Antonia opens up to the world beyond her town, to the people who inhabit it—and to the endless possibilities of community and friendship. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Antonia is the sole inhabitant of a deserted town, with only a roaming pack of dogs and her own worn out memories to keep her company. Nothing is new in this world, the ponds are so still they are dead, and her recollections feel more vivid than her surroundings. At times, the isolation is unbearable. Until she meets her flower. Her flower gives her purpose: a reason to get up each morning, to ring the bells of the town, to wake up the fields, and to feel alive. And yet a relentless thought eats away at her—what will happen once her flower dies?</p> <p>Her quest to save the flower begins alongside a charming traveler from the land of mirrors.The pair embark on a journey filled with music, swimming holes, and folk tales whispered late into the starry night. They march through the fields to the beat of turtledove calls, occasionally stopping to get drunk off the fruits of the strawberry tree. Slowly Antonia opens up to the world beyond her town, to the people who inhabit it—and to the endless possibilities of community and friendship.</p> </blockquote> | 9781770467903 | Land of Mirrors | [{"name": "María Medem", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Aleshia Jensen", "role": "Translator"}, {"name": "Daniela Ortiz", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781770467903.jpg | ||||
| 56e9319cc7d3928781f622ca361074ba80c29b5e | src/content/books/9781453235393.md | 9781453235393 | Last Exit to Brooklyn A Novel | [{"name": "Selby, Hubert, Jr."}] | 2011 | ||||||
| 4c384e618d9a9f366467d5051a02d95b267894a8 | src/content/books/9780441007462.md | 9780441007462 | Neuromancer | ["William Gibson"] | |||||||
| 832113a4788bb4d989fc3333e4f16fdcd47d3e97 | src/content/books/9780063434691.md | The publisher's description: > Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: Prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are. > > But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit. > > Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! After a decade, everyone's favorite shapeshifter continues to capture hearts. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: Prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.</p> <p>But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit.</p> <p>Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! After a decade, everyone's favorite shapeshifter continues to capture hearts.</p> </blockquote> | 9780063434691 | Nimona | ["ND Stevenson"] | ./covers/9780063434691.jpg | ||||
| 30677c2fd80395de1b4e6ce816cb626c77cf00d6 | src/content/books/9780802135162.md | 9780802135162 | Oranges are not the only fruit | [{"name": "Jeanette Winterson"}] | ./covers/9780802135162.jpg | 1997-08-20 | 192 | ||||
| 5cd653fd154c93f01affc35e7b98f711795c98ca | src/content/books/9781681378725.md | The publisher's description: > Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored. As their friends move back home or move on, so their own work and sex life—and the life of Berlin itself—begin to lose their luster. An attempt to put their politics into action fizzles in embarrassed self-doubt. Edging closer to forty, they try living as digital nomads only to discover that, wherever they go, "the brand of oat milk in their flat whites was the same." | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored. As their friends move back home or move on, so their own work and sex life—and the life of Berlin itself—begin to lose their luster. An attempt to put their politics into action fizzles in embarrassed self-doubt. Edging closer to forty, they try living as digital nomads only to discover that, wherever they go, "the brand of oat milk in their flat whites was the same."</p> </blockquote> | 9781681378725 | Perfection | [{"name": "Vincenzo Latronico", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Sophie Hughes", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781681378725.jpg | ||||
| 6e7c2c3f9d77686fed75a205b7dda75f3fa4f566 | src/content/books/9781844080380.md | The publisher’s description: > On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband’s home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realises that she barely knows him. In every corner of every room is the phantom of his beautiful first wife, Rebecca, and the new Mrs de Winter walks in her shadow. > > Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the other woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity. | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband’s home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realises that she barely knows him. In every corner of every room is the phantom of his beautiful first wife, Rebecca, and the new Mrs de Winter walks in her shadow.</p> <p>Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the other woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.</p> </blockquote> | 9781844080380 | Rebecca | ["Daphne du Maurier"] | ./covers/9781844080380.jpg | ||||
| c5888ec2ff171487114e9019f0069cb24fd9e132 | src/content/books/9781974715466.md | The publisher's description: > Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head! > > Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn’t know is that the wife he’s chosen is an assassin and the child he’s adopted is a telepath! | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head!</p> <p>Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn’t know is that the wife he’s chosen is an assassin and the child he’s adopted is a telepath!</p> </blockquote> | 9781974715466 | SPY×FAMILY, Volume 1 | ["Tatuya EndouTatuya"] | ./covers/9781974715466.jpg | spy-family | 1 | ||
| 9ec2b3aa8f17d0b620838bf617de428a896c30d4 | src/content/books/9781974717248.md | The publisher's description: > Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head! > > Twilight must infiltrate the prestigious Eden Academy to get close to his target Donovan Desmond, but has he ruined his daughter Anya’s chances with his outburst during the admissions interview? Perhaps the truly impossible mission this time is making sure Anya both becomes an exemplary student and befriends Donovan’s arrogant son Damian! | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head!</p> <p>Twilight must infiltrate the prestigious Eden Academy to get close to his target Donovan Desmond, but has he ruined his daughter Anya’s chances with his outburst during the admissions interview? Perhaps the truly impossible mission this time is making sure Anya both becomes an exemplary student and befriends Donovan’s arrogant son Damian!</p> </blockquote> | 9781974717248 | SPY×FAMILY, Volume 2 | ["Tatuya EndouTatuya"] | ./covers/9781974717248.jpg | spy-family | 2 | 2020-09-01 | 200 |
| 9657888e008d8aff107bfdeeaaa5eb14d3f3ccd0 | src/content/books/9781974718160.md | The publisher's description: > Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head! > > Twilight has overcome many challenges in putting together the Forger family, but now all his hard work might come undone when Yor’s younger brother Yuri pops in for a surprise visit! Can Twilight outsmart Yuri, who actually works for the Ostanian secret service?! | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head!</p> <p>Twilight has overcome many challenges in putting together the Forger family, but now all his hard work might come undone when Yor’s younger brother Yuri pops in for a surprise visit! Can Twilight outsmart Yuri, who actually works for the Ostanian secret service?!</p> </blockquote> | 9781974718160 | SPY×FAMILY, Volume 3 | ["Tatuya EndouTatuya"] | ./covers/9781974718160.jpg | spy-family | 3 | 2020-12-01 | 200 |
| e6224e4a9d61fa57946d8651bee36f9ad8d227df | src/content/books/9781620100462.md | 9781620100462 | Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, Volume 4 | ["Bryan Lee O'Malley"] | scott-pilgrim | 4 | |||||
| c9538e8a603bc79e4da479e3ea21bdad72233d66 | src/content/books/9781620100448.md | 9781620100448 | Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, Volume 2 | ["Bryan Lee O'Malley"] | scott-pilgrim | 2 | |||||
| 3ff2615d1a3574796140df931217e1406f66b608 | src/content/books/9781620100455.md | 9781620100455 | Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness, Volume 3 | ["Bryan Lee O'Malley"] | scott-pilgrim | 3 | |||||
| b8d8b5ef4f2727767f71279bdfa92c22a87a9e32 | src/content/books/9781620100042.md | 9781620100042 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe, Volume 5 | ["Bryan Lee O'Malley"] | scott-pilgrim | 5 | |||||
| 53ce1b73a74d8ceca39d1e5434693361a563044b | src/content/books/9781620100431.md | 9781620100431 | Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, Volume 1 | ["Bryan Lee O'Malley"] | scott-pilgrim | 1 | |||||
| 997144e7f14a15770cfaf165e2026ca139468180 | src/content/books/9781804293317.md | 9781804293317 | Set My Heart on Fire | ["Izumi Suzuki"] | |||||||
| 935ad4ae02941e6a17e0ea223be50d7c2977bc2c | src/content/books/9781643622330.md | 9781643622330 | Sex Goblin | [{"name": "Lauren Cook"}] | 2024 | ||||||
| 6afce5716a326440c9874f07b4c1334101ff9394 | src/content/books/9781770466258.md | 9781770466258 | Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan | [{"name": "Shigeru Mizuki", "role": "author"}, {"name": "Zack Davisson", "role": "translator"}] | ./covers/9781770466258.jpg | showa | 1 | ||||
| 14cab0e9c6e7a56bcfea0ed9155efe52821e7468 | src/content/books/9781646092864.md | The publisher’s description: > At age forty-five, office worker Sasaki has had enough of the corporate grind. His only solace is smoking—and the friendly smile of supermarket cashier Yamada. When Sasaki can’t find Yamada after a particularly trying day, a striking woman invites him to smoke with her. The despondent man thinks he’s made a new smoking buddy in the cool, teasing Tayama, but Sasaki doesn’t realize he already knows her! | <p>The publisher’s description:</p> <blockquote> <p>At age forty-five, office worker Sasaki has had enough of the corporate grind. His only solace is smoking—and the friendly smile of supermarket cashier Yamada. When Sasaki can’t find Yamada after a particularly trying day, a striking woman invites him to smoke with her. The despondent man thinks he’s made a new smoking buddy in the cool, teasing Tayama, but Sasaki doesn’t realize he already knows her!</p> </blockquote> | 9781646092864 | Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1 | ["Jinushi"] | ./covers/9781646092864.jpg | ||||
| bd50650596e6c9abd565ad78a428c624f5e63cce | src/content/books/9781779515681.md | The publisher's description: > It’s Supergirl like you’ve never seen her before, in a character-defining sci-fi/fantasy masterpiece from Mister Miracle writer Tom King and Wonder Woman artist Bilquis Evely! Read the story that inspired the upcoming film, published for the first time in DC’s popular, portable Compact Comics format! > > Kara Zor-El has seen some epic adventures over the years, but she now finds her life without meaning or purpose. Here she is, a young woman who saw her planet destroyed and was sent to Earth to protect a baby cousin who ended up not needing her. What was it all for? Wherever she goes, people only see her through the lens of Superman’s fame. > > Just when Supergirl thinks she’s had enough, everything changes. An alien girl seeks her out for a vicious mission. Her world has been destroyed, and the bad guys responsible are still out there. She wants revenge, and if Supergirl doesn’t help her, she’ll do it herself, whatever the cost. Now a Kryptonian, a dog, and an angry, heartbroken child head out into space on a journey that will shake them to their very core. | <p>The publisher's description:</p> <blockquote> <p>It’s Supergirl like you’ve never seen her before, in a character-defining sci-fi/fantasy masterpiece from Mister Miracle writer Tom King and Wonder Woman artist Bilquis Evely! Read the story that inspired the upcoming film, published for the first time in DC’s popular, portable Compact Comics format!</p> <p>Kara Zor-El has seen some epic adventures over the years, but she now finds her life without meaning or purpose. Here she is, a young woman who saw her planet destroyed and was sent to Earth to protect a baby cousin who ended up not needing her. What was it all for? Wherever she goes, people only see her through the lens of Superman’s fame.</p> <p>Just when Supergirl thinks she’s had enough, everything changes. An alien girl seeks her out for a vicious mission. Her world has been destroyed, and the bad guys responsible are still out there. She wants revenge, and if Supergirl doesn’t help her, she’ll do it herself, whatever the cost. Now a Kryptonian, a dog, and an angry, heartbroken child head out into space on a journey that will shake them to their very core.</p> </blockquote> | 9781779515681 | Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow | [{"name": "Tom King", "role": "Writer"}, {"name": "Bilquis Evely", "role": "Illustrator"}] | ./covers/9781779515681.jpg | ||||
| 87635e7c8911321a0f595e4117a52bb25ac18f40 | src/content/books/9781631498596.md | From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal "Les Fleurs du mal Wikipedia Article"): > Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all of Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist—including painting—and modernist movements. | <p>From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal" title="Les Fleurs du mal Wikipedia Article">Wikipedia</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all of Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist—including painting—and modernist movements.</p> </blockquote> | 9781631498596 | The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs du mal) | [{"name": "Charles Baudelaire", "role": "Author"}, {"name": "Aaron Poochigian", "role": "Translator"}] | ./covers/9781631498596.jpg | ||||
| 5b86f935f04d00139a12b0614454f03ebd0e1c45 | src/content/books/9781847391773.md | 9781847391773 | The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club | ["Peter Hook"] | ./covers/9781847391773.jpg | ||||||
| a5dfe83f1ae992ecd7a751b86043ef17efa8aca9 | src/content/books/9781804271148.md | 9781804271148 | The Use of Photography: Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie | ["Annie Ernaux"] | ./covers/9781804271148.jpg | ||||||
| e23907fdf31fc85331036254f492c9d231381e2c | src/content/books/9780374283247.md | > As if she were a manic, female counterpart to Michel Houellebecq, Virginie Despentes's novels overflow with violence, second-wave feminism, and restlessness to the point of mania. As she declared in her memoir-cum-manifesto, King Kong Theory, "being Virginie Despentes is a more interesting business than anything else going on out there." Her first novel, Baise-moi, was turned into a film full of murderous women and rape; her last novel, Apocalypse bébé (see WLT, Mar. 2011, 60), was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and won the Prix Renaudot; and now she is in the middle of a trilogy. | <blockquote> <p>As if she were a manic, female counterpart to Michel Houellebecq, Virginie Despentes's novels overflow with violence, second-wave feminism, and restlessness to the point of mania. As she declared in her memoir-cum-manifesto, King Kong Theory, "being Virginie Despentes is a more interesting business than anything else going on out there." Her first novel, Baise-moi, was turned into a film full of murderous women and rape; her last novel, Apocalypse bébé (see WLT, Mar. 2011, 60), was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and won the Prix Renaudot; and now she is in the middle of a trilogy.</p> </blockquote> | 9780374283247 | Vernon Subutex 1 A Novel | [{"name": "Virginie Despentes"}, {"name": "Frank Wynne"}] | ./covers/9780374283247.jpg | vernon-subutex | 1 | 2018-11-05 | 352 |
| fe99e4c4fef881619c33e14e0a9ae2a763b6c4e6 | src/content/books/9780374283254.md | 9780374283254 | Vernon Subutex 2 A Novel | [{"name": "Virginie Despentes"}, {"name": "Frank Wynne"}] | ./covers/9780374283254.jpg | vernon-subutex | 2 | 2020-07-07 | 368 | ||
| 05df0e251ba946b0150b9c32a93bd550fa64ac59 | src/content/books/9780374283261.md | > "Although it means leaving behind the community of disciples who have followed him on his travels and assembled at his raves and gatherings, Vernon Subutex is compelled to return to Paris to visit the dentist. Once back in the city, he learns that Charles, his old friend from his days on the Paris streets, has died and left him half of a lottery win. But when Vernon returns to his disciples with news of this windfall, it does not take long before his followers start to turn on each other, and his good fortune provokes ruptures in his once harmonious community. Meanwhile, storm clouds are gathering for Aicha and Celeste: Laurent Dopalet is determined to make them pay for their attack on him, whatever it takes and whoever gets hurt. And before long, the whole of Paris will be reeling in the wake of the terrorist atrocities of 2015 and 2016, and all the characters in this kaleidoscopic portrait of a city will be forced to a reckoning with each other."--Provided by publisher. | <blockquote> <p>"Although it means leaving behind the community of disciples who have followed him on his travels and assembled at his raves and gatherings, Vernon Subutex is compelled to return to Paris to visit the dentist. Once back in the city, he learns that Charles, his old friend from his days on the Paris streets, has died and left him half of a lottery win. But when Vernon returns to his disciples with news of this windfall, it does not take long before his followers start to turn on each other, and his good fortune provokes ruptures in his once harmonious community. Meanwhile, storm clouds are gathering for Aicha and Celeste: Laurent Dopalet is determined to make them pay for their attack on him, whatever it takes and whoever gets hurt. And before long, the whole of Paris will be reeling in the wake of the terrorist atrocities of 2015 and 2016, and all the characters in this kaleidoscopic portrait of a city will be forced to a reckoning with each other."--Provided by publisher.</p> </blockquote> | 9780374283261 | Vernon Subutex 3 A Novel | [{"name": "Virginie Despentes"}, {"name": "Frank Wynne"}] | ./covers/9780374283261.jpg | vernon-subutex | 3 | 2021-05-11 | 416 |
| 33917bc279190998d5709fd2ae4793f07855f9a3 | src/content/books/9780593818183.md | 9780593818183 | Witchcraft for Wayward Girls | [{"name": "Grady Hendrix"}] | ./covers/9780593818183.jpg | 2025 |
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