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Author
Lexile measure
HL 1010L
Language
English
Description
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained...
Author
Lexile measure
GN 500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rapunzel is raised in a grand villa surrounded by towering walls. Rapunzel dreams of a different mother than Gothel, the woman she calls Mother. She climbs over the wall and finds out the truth. Her real mother, Kate, is a slave in Gothel's gold mine. In this Old West retelling, Rapunzel uses her hair as a lasso and to take on outlaws--including Gothel.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 530L
Physical Desc
223 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
303 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder's haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secrets). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of 'the Plague'), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover's decline into madness)....
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (207 pages) : chiefly illustrations
Language
English
Description
The deadly game of cat-and-mouse continues! Imprisoned for a decade without trial or explanation - and then released just as unceremoniously - and now armed with a cell phone that his former torturer has provided for him, will Goto be able to hunt down the truth behind his decade in hell, or will he become even more his tormentor's plaything? No doubt, Goto's adversary still has a few surprises in store, and if Goto wants answers, he'll have to fight...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (206 pages) : chiefly illustrations
Language
English
Description
Deciding that he must know the truth, the man who calls himself "Yamashita" follows a trail of clues that lead him back to the mysterious building where he was imprisoned and kept incommunicado for ten years. There, with the help of violence and a brutal imagination, he will try to find answers to the questions that haunt him. However, he will discover that his opponent will not yield to him so easily, and that his ordeal is far from finished.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (209 pages) : chiefly illustrations
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn't know who. For ten years he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jailers. In time, he lost himself. He changed . . . transformed himself into something else . . . something hard . . . something lethal. Suddenly one day, his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated,...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (170 pages) : chiefly illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
Left for dead in the Arctic waters with a bullet wound, Christy White is rescued by assassin Black Kaiser, and uses his knowledge and training to enact revenge upon her ruthless attacker.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (178 pages) : chiefly illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
Targeted by a psychotic redheaded female torture expert, the Black Kaiser comes out of retirement to take out her and her deadly band of cohorts.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (170 pages) : chiefly illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
Helping his housemaid get out of trouble with a local gang puts retired assassin Black Kaiser in the crosshairs of an up-and-coming hitman aiming for the fame of taking the Black Kaiser down.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Shonen Jump advanced manga edition.
Physical Desc
174 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Now that Yuichiro has earned his place in the Japanese Imperial Demon Army, he prepares to undergo a fiendish test to acquire the most powerful and deadly of humanity's weapons against vampires--Black Demon Series Cursed Gear"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Shonen Jump advanced manga edition.
Physical Desc
173 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After trumpets of the apocalypse proclaim the fall of humanity, vampires arise from the shadows to rule the earth. Yuichiro wants just one thing to get revenge by killing each and every vampire"--Page 4 of cover.
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Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Shojo Beat edition.
Physical Desc
179 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to support him while he made it big as an idol. But he's casting her out now that he's famous! Kyoko won't suffer in silence--she's going to get her sweet revenge by beating Sho in show biz! Kyoko is on the tropical paradise of Guam, and in true fairy-tale fashion, she encounters a magical creature emerging from the sea! She even recognizes him as Corn, a beloved friend from her childhood whose gift...
15) Skip-beat!: 34
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Shojo Beat edition.
Physical Desc
187 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to support him while he made it big as an idol. But he's casting her out now that he's famous! Kyoko won't suffer in silence--she's going to get her sweet revenge by beating Sho in show biz! The President of LME has called Kyoko in for a special meeting, and she is all set for Judgment Day. Especially when Ren shows up too! But to her complete shock, Lory doesn't reveal that she has feelings for Ren....
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
192 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten years after a virus began turning victims into monsters called Dracules, Leila Mikami is a member of the elite VIUS squad, who stand between what remains of civilization and chaos. Leila has an agenda, however; a Dracule killed both her parents and she seeks the Dragon Eye, a magic weapon that will make her the most powerful warrior in the world, in order to exact revenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
180 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Now that Yuichiro has earned his place in the Japanese Imperial Demon Army, he prepares to undergo a fiendish test to acquire the most powerful and deadly of humanity's weapons against vampires: Black Demon Series Cursed Gear. Meanwhile, the vampire nobility welcome a new member--Mika, the best friend Yuichiro thinks died in their escape but who has his own bitter story of survival"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Description
"Long ago, Strauss tried to bring peace to his realm by exposing himself to sunlight, only to have that very sunlight betray him. Now, with his queen freed from her imprisonment, Strauss reveals that her far more bitter betrayal, the cause of his thousand-year quest for revenge, was never what it seemed!"
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Viz Media ed.
Physical Desc
181 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Long ago, Strauss tried to bring peace to his realm by exposing himself to sunlight, only to have that very sunlight betray him. Now, with his queen freed from her imprisonment, Strauss reveals that her far more bitter betrayal, the cause of his thousand-year quest for revenge, was never what it seemed!"
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (78 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Ishmael and Queequeg set out on the Pequod with their hearts set on adventure. But the ship's captain is bent on revenge against a white whale that caused him to lose his leg. And the ship's quest becomes an epic adventure that leaves only one man standing.