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¿Se atrevería a decidir su vida con un dado? Tomás sí; al terminar sus estudios de secundaria enfrenta una grave crisis existencial al definir su futuro. Se le ocurre hacer una lista con las seis opciones que más le apetecen, pero no encuentra una forma racional de escoger una de ellas. Entonces, apela al azar para que le ayude a elegir utilizando un dado y se jura respetar el resultado. Lo que jamás pensó fue que lanzar ese cubo al vacío...
2) La promesa
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Filippa Stagnaro, regidora de la villa de Adra y heredera del ingenio azucarero más importante de la región, deberá enfrentar los fantasmas de su pasado y luchar por el legado de su padre, Nicola Stagnaro, un noble emprendedor genovés, en medio de traiciones y la constante amenaza de una competencia perversa. Pasado y presente se fusionan para revivir dos historias de amor enmarcadas por la expulsión de los jesuitas, las influencias de un movimiento...
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Coco, Klara and Mathilda have known each other since primary school, where they met in folk dancing class. Now they're almost teenagers, and their anarchist ideals and dreams of forming a world-beating punk band set them apart from the other girls at school. They can't play any instruments, practice with pillows and pans, and keep getting told that punk is dead. But they're not going to let any of those things get in their way… Published in English...
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2024.
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297 pages ; 22 cm
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NASA has assured everyone the passage of rogue planet Malachite will be safe, but Crosby's been getting other messages-from a fortune teller and Malachite truther message boards. And now she believes that Malachite will kill everyone who doesn't ascend to the fourth dimension-a higher plane that transcends physicality. She tries to prepare her friends and family to leave their bodies behind and raise their frequency by changing their diets, wearing...
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2024.
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313 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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From the UK Children's Laureate comes a spellbinding YA novel in verse blending the ancient myth of Theseus and the Minotaur with the quest of a modern-day teen in search of his father. Theo, a seventeen-year-old London schoolboy with a single mother, is desperate to track down the father who left them, whom he scarcely remembers. At school he discovers Greek mythology and the ancient story of Theseus, a fatherless son driven on a similar search....
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She may be only 12 years old, but Wendy Marvell is already a member of magical guild Fairy Tail, and a powerful dragon slayer wizard. Even so, she's a little nervous when she sets out for the town of Nanar for her first solo job: to discover why some of the locals have been mysteriously disappearing!
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Mizutani is a self-absorbed overachiever, concerned only with maintaining the highest grades in school. Haru is an impulsive short-tempered brute, who scares everyone with his explosive bursts of violence. Haru gets suspended on the first day of school when he encounters some bullies harassing a student and dispatches the bullies with great bloody violence. Mizutani is tasked with delivering school materials to Haru who interprets this as an act of...
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Scorched volume 18
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Jessica needs someone to infiltrate a cult that may be behind the disappearance of several homeless individuals. Unbeknownst to Haunt...he was just volunteered!
9) Arisa Vol. 3
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Tsubasa thinks that her pretty and popular twin sister, Arisa, has the perfect life. Everyone at school loves Arisaunlike the hottempered Tsubasa, whose nickname is "The Demon Princess." But when Arisa attempts suicide, Tsubasa learns that her seemingly perfect sister has been keeping some dark secrets. Now Tsubasa is going undercover at school disguised as Arisa insearch of the truth. But will Arisa's secrets shatter Tsubasa's life, too? In the shadow...
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Cursed Princess Club volume 1
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2023
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273, 5 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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"Gwendolyn, the youngest of the King's three daughters, is living proof that princesses don't always have it all. She isn't like a typical fairy-tale princess, or other princesses in the Pastel Kingdom. Gwendolyn, with her big heart and love of baking, isn't particularly attractive. Unlike her sisters who have woodland creatures do their hair and makeup, or have flowers blossom wherever they sleep, Gwendolyn is a bit...different. So when her father...
11) The divorcées
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2024.
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256 pages ; 25 cm
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Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce-except in Reno, Nevada. At the Golden Yarrow, the most respectable of Reno's famous "divorce ranches," Lois finds herself living with half a dozen other would-be divorcees, all in Reno for the six weeks' residency that...
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2024.
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214 pages ; 22 cm
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Seventeen-year-old competitive swimmer Tess Cooper grapples with the upheaval of her carefully planned future following an epilepsy diagnosis, and works to get back in the pool despite her doctor's advice or her disctracting feelings for the new guy.
13) Eagle drums
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2023.
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245 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Winter approaches, and there's much to do if Pinga's family wants to be prepared: hunting, fishing, gathering, and more. Now, Pinga must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knapping -- the same mountain where his two older brothers disappeared. As he leaves, Pinga reassures his parents that he will not succumb to the same fate as his brothers. He will return. But when he reaches the mountaintop, he is confronted by a terrifying eagle god...
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Devil that Wears My Face volume 1
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The year is 1740, and the Vatican is in turmoil. Grappling with a profound crisis of faith, outcast exorcist Father Franco Vieri is dispatched on a mission of grave importance - to rescue a Spanish nobleman from the clutches of the sadistic demon known as Legion. But when the exorcism goes tragically wrong, Vieri finds himself trapped in a stranger's body… and learns what horrors lie ahead when the Devil wears his face. Equal parts Face/Off and...
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Amu and her Guardian Characters have found a home at an elite school. But now two new Guardians have been chosen, and each has a secret. One is more complex than Amu thought, and the other may be out to betray the Guardians to the evil Easter Corporation! This volume of Shugo Chara! includes special extras after the story!
16) Cancelled
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2024.
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366 pages ; 22 cm
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High school senior Brynn Whittaker faces a school-wide scandal when a viral video wrongly implicates her, prompting her and her friends to confront the school's misogynistic culture, while Brynn grapples with the decision to expose the true culprit.
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Souradeep is an eighteen-year-old boy who struggles to achieve his dream career despite his regular fight against financial constraints, OCD and addiction. Things were going normal until random people started being attacked in random places. Suddenly his favourite Uncle starts behaving strangely with him. As if things weren't weird enough, a dog appears in front of his doorstep one fine morning. In order to secure his life, Souradeep needs to get...
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How entertaining is it to open a box of random comics? We are not sure, but we are willing to let David find out. He has purchased a Halloween themed mystery box of 11 comics. Will he get the grand prize? Will he find comics he wants? Why does anyone want to share unboxing comics? All questions that could be hidden in the box with the comics. Come along as David discovers what books he received and what thoughts and associations they bring to mind....
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2024.
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293 pages ; 22 cm
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Ellie, a high schooler with a rare genetic condition, navigates the divide between her "hospital-life" and "home-life," as a hospital stay brings her closer to Ryan, who challenges her perspective and makes her consider the extraordinary possibilities of her life.
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