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Ms. Rapscott's girls volume 1
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"At Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents, Ms. Rapscott teaches her students How to Get Lost on Purpose, resulting in a series of fantastical adventures that makes each learn a little something about courage, strength, bravery, and teamwork"--
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"Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after Sunday, at bridal shower after bridal shower, they coo over toasters, collect ribbons and wrapping paper, eat minuscule sandwiches and cakes. They wear pastel dresses and drink champagne by the case. But amid the celebration these women have their own lives to contend with: Isabella is working a dead-end job, Mary is dating a nice guy with an awful mother,...
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Teenager Viola Li and her sister Roz are selling bean buns at a science fiction gathering in Seattle when she suddenly collapses--she wakes up in the hospital to find that somehow she has developed an extreme case of photosensitivity (so bad that even ordinary lights can cause blisters), and somehow, in her senior year of high school, she has to craft a new life that will still include journalism school, activism, and the new guy who caught her as...
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Ms. Rapscott's girls volume 2
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"In their second term at Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents, Ms. Rapscott teaches her students that the path to The Top starts at the Bottom of the Barrel and other silly lessons"--
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"¿Cuál es tu mayor inquietud? ¿Por qué causa te gustaría vivir y aún morir? Uziel enfrenta una crisis vocacional que lo lleva a situaciones extremas. Confía en las personas equivocadas y termina enredado en la peor pesadilla de su vida. Rodeado de ratas, a punto de morir, sabe que debe tomar una decisión urgente. Decisión crucial contiene también un análisis de profesiones, indispensable para elegir diez pruebas fundamentales que nos ayudarán...
12) Carpe diem
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Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.
16) Decisión crucial
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"Siempre quiso ser profesionista, pero todo le salió mal. Rodeado de ratas, a punto de morir, supo que debía tomar una decisión urgente."--Cover.
"No basta soñar en ser alguien, hay que hacerlo con estrategia. Una novela hipnótica en la que el protagonista describe como su crisis vocacional lo llevó a situaciones extremas: perdió a su hermana, participó en sobornos y terminó en una terrible cárcel donde aprendió a valorar los privilegios...
17) Noel
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People in various situations struggle with the contrast between their lives and the expectations of the Christmas season.
18) Ghost pains
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"With her novels, The Exhibition of Persephone Q, and The Visitors, Jessi Jezewska Stevens has proven herself as our preeminent purveyor of comical, techno-millenarian unease. Now, with this first collection of her acclaimed short fiction--originally appearing in such venues as The Paris Review , Harper's, and Tin House --some of her very best work is at last readily available to readers. Stevens's women throw disastrous parties in the post-party...
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