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“Real Friends Talk About Race” is an essential guide for those who want to have stronger interracial relationships, whether it's with friends, colleagues, or loved ones.
Having conversations about race is uncomfortable. But for progress between individuals (and our communities) to happen, we need to be able to speak openly and honestly. Podcast hosts of The Kinswomen Yseult and Hannah use their own friendship and experiences from different racial...
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In today's world of superficial social media and narcissistic vanity, it can be really hard to forge meaningful, fulfilling friendships. You may realize that all of your friends are fake or that your friendships seem to stay stuck in the small talk zone. If you want to change that, then read this book. This book will help you transform your life through better friendships and refined friendship skills.
The people whom you surround yourself with are...
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I needed a fake wife with no strings attached.
But I Knocked her up, and now we are having a baby!
I was born rich and loved to be a playboy.
I had the looks, the body, and soon all of my family's wealth.
Everything was going perfect until my father threw a stipulation into his testament.
Fall in love, get married, or I would be out of his will.
After weeks of searching, I remembered beautiful Cecile.
The only woman to ever reject me.
I reached out...
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Furia Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Active Voice" started as a column written by P. Kristen Enos in the LGBT Orange County & Long Beach Blade Newsmagazine in 1994. It was an opportunity for her to share random serious and humorous stories as an Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist Activist in ultra-conservative Orange County, California (nestled between Los Angeles and San Diego.) The stories in this collection are primarily from Enos's days in the UC Irvine Gay & Lesbian Student Union...
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Liars Society volume 1
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English
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"Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre. He's...
6) Forsooth
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"When thirteen-year-old theater kid Calvin sets out to make a movie with his friends, drama ensues, forcing him to sort through his first crushes, face family tensions, and learn how to be true to himself"--
7) Miss Amazing
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TVF
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Every year over 140 hopeful young girls and women from across America come together for one very special event: The National Miss Amazing Pageant, for girls with physical or learning disabilities. Join 17-year old Abigail Manery as she prepares for and travels to the national finals in Chicago and eagerly awaits not only the chance to compete for a crown and trophy, but also the opportunity to find what she has been looking for her whole life: a real...
8) Kid Icarus
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Video Project
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2008.
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English
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Eighteen year-old Leigh lives in a trailer park on the outskirts of Los Angeles, he goes to community college, has no real friends, no girlfriend, and works part-time at The Home Depot. With an obsession for Steven Spielberg and enrolled in a film production class at his local college, he is sure all his misery can change, so he sets out to make his cinematic masterpiece, "Enslavence". He hopes this film is his ticket out of a mundane life and into...
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2023.
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"Eleven-year-old Alex knows that starting middle school will be a big change, and for an autistic person, change can be terrifying. He is sure that having a friend by his side will help. But how can he make one? Alex devises a plan to impress the kids at school by winning a trophy at the PAWS Dog Show with his trusty sidekick, Kevin the cockapoo. This should be a walk in the park, right? If only. It turns out that finding a friend is harder than Alex...
10) Five friends
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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American philosopher Elbert Hubbard was fond of quoting his father on friendship. "When you die," his father would tell him, "if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life." Five Friends, written and directed by Erik Santiago, is the story of how one man sought to live that life. Beautifully shot, from the mountains of Southern California to the New England coastline, the film follows a 65-year-old man and his five closest friends as they...
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A nerdy gay teenager jumps headfirst into the bro-y world of high school baseball in this semi-autobiographical LGBTQ+ graphic novel.
Ninth-grader Jonah is not a jock. On the contrary, he loves history class and nerdy movies, and his athletic ineptitude verges on tragic. So, what's he doing signing up for the baseball team? Could it have something to do with the cute shortstop, Elliot?
For the rest of high school, Jonah faces challenges...
Ninth-grader Jonah is not a jock. On the contrary, he loves history class and nerdy movies, and his athletic ineptitude verges on tragic. So, what's he doing signing up for the baseball team? Could it have something to do with the cute shortstop, Elliot?
For the rest of high school, Jonah faces challenges...
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Dark Horse Comics, LLC
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From the creator of One-Punch Man!Mob knows what it means to be withdrawn and afraid of his own powers, yet he overcame that to make real friends. Can he convince Serizawa the same is possible for him, or will their standoff end only in destruction?Meanwhile, Claw's leader has Sho, the son who turned against him, at his mercy, and reveals the secret of his ability as an esper that can turn anyone into one of his psychokinetic soldiers…and him into...
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Cecil Hall and his family have just moved from Florida to Massachusetts, near Boston. Cecil is anxious about making friends because he doesn't know where he'll fit in. His older sister, Leah, thinks he should befriend the other Black kids at his new school, but Cecil isn't sure how he'd go about doing that. He wants to be known for his comics-making talent, anyway. But the few kids who are impressed by Cecil's art aren't always nice to him. When one...
15) Mortality Bites
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Mythical creatures are real, and the world is just finding out.Discovering that your neighbor was once an evil, blood-sucking fiend tends to bring property values down.Katrina Darling's only real friend has been murdered. And not just murdered-ritually sacrificed by a serial killer. Kat is sure more deaths will follow. She should know… she used to be the monster plunging the blade in.
16) The Boatman
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Isabel Wixon is weird. Not only does she see dead things, but her list of friends consists of a talkative ventriloquist's dummy and the gentlemanly spider that lives in her hair.
Real friends? Too hard. Inventing friends is much easier.
Inventing the Boatman-a terrible monster that lures kids into a strange sleeping sickness and never lets them go-probably wasn't one of her better ideas though.
17) Fledglings
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Ayla and Luke were born with wings.They've been hidden away at BioTronics's secret compound since they were found as babies, learning to fly and use their other special skills, completing endless training drills and scientific tests.When Nat, the Director's daughter and their only real friend, discovers that their training has a sinister purpose beyond BioTronics's scientific obsession, she knows she has to help the twins escape, no matter the cost…...
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Spacey Tracey deserved and earned his given island name. As a hermit, he lived his entire wretched life on a small island in the Florida Keys in a tiny, old, wooden Conch house. He was a lobsterman and a drug runner to all who knew him. But, he had a strange habit of bringing things home that didnt belong on the island. He never had any real friends, but he did have partners in crime one of which was an old 1974 Norton black motorcycle. 17 pgs, 4929...
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An illustrated adaptation of Charles Dickens's Victorian classic - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages!
After surviving fourteen long years with her horrible aunt, and nothing but a doll and an old handkerchief for company, Esther Summerson's life is finally looking a little brighter. She's going to school and making friends, real friends!
The only thing Esther's missing now is a mother. But long-lost parents don't just turn up out...
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A wizard's job is never done! Get fired up for the official sequel to Fairy Tail, with story and layouts by original creator Hiro Mashima himself.
Natsu, Lucy, Happy, Erza, and the whole Fairy Tail guild are back in action! And they've decided to tackle the "100 Years Quest" - a job no one's dared take on since the founding of the guild more than a century ago. A mysterious town, a baffling spirit, a ghastly new enemy... and a brand new continent...
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