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Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A workbook for teens about what popularity is, why some kinds are healthier than others, and how teens can grow their social intelligence"--
"This book is NOT about knocking down those who are popular, or an attempt to convince teens that popularity is a bad thing. In fact, research points to the exact opposite: likeability is important!. It is not elusive or granted only to a select few. Anyone can become their own kind of popular with a little...
3) The blur
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A picture book about a baby with superhero-like abilities...and the parents who are racing to keep up with her!"--
Author
Language
English
Description
John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits had earned him the label "social deviant." No guidance came from his mother, who conversed with light fixtures, or his father, who spent evenings drunk. No wonder he gravitated to machines, which could be counted on. His savant-like ability to visualize electronic circuits landed him a gig with KISS, for whom he created their legendary fire-breathing...
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Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Language
English
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"Some bugs have super-power like abilities. And then there's Burt the beetle. He's not strong and he can't run fast. He doesn't even bite. He's more of a hugger, really. But Burt wants more. He wants a SUPERPOWER. There's just one tiny problem: what kind of special abilities do June beetles have?"--
Author
Series
Wizard for hire volume 3
Language
English
Description
Ozzy and Sigi must decide whether or not they believe Rin is truly a wizard.
8) Quick fix
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Series
Language
English
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"Ciel Halligan, an aura adaptor with a chameleon-like ability to step into the lives of her clients and fix their problems for them--as them--is working a job at the National Zoo with her boyfriend, Billy, and his ten-year-old sister, Molly. It's supposed to be a quick fix, giving her time to decide if it's wise to pursue the romantic relationship her charming scoundrel of a best friend wants, or if she should give Mark, the CIA spook she's crushed...
Author
Series
Yu-Gi-Oh! volume 6
Language
English
Description
Joey searches for a dueling opponent he stands a chance of beating when he finds himself courageously accepting a challenge from veteran duelist, Mai. But when Mai begins to demonstrate an unnerving psychic-like ability, Joey becomes totally flustered, leaving him no choice but to figure out Mai's secret strategy before falling victim to it!
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Language
English
Description
This book is an encyclopedia of superhuman powers and abilities which most people can learn. It includes stories of persons who had these abilities and exercises to learn them.
The abilities and powers reviewed in this book include Telepathy, Psychokinesis, Levitation, Invisibility, Invulnerability, Teleportation, Creating your future, Prophecy, Omniscience, and much more.
This book will help the reader understand what is the basis for these powers...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Marvel-Verse is full of possibilities for Miles Morales! Get to know Miles – the Spider-Man of two worlds – with these ultimately marvelous adventures! In the wake of Peter Parker's death in the Ultimate Universe, brave, young Miles steps forward with his own incredible, arachnid-like abilities to live up to the Spider-Man legacy! But how exactly does he get his ultra-cool costume? Then Miles' life is turned upside down when reality is rewritten,...
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English
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Leo Durocher (1906-1991) was baseball's all-time leading cocky, flamboyant, and galvanizing character, casting a shadow across several eras, from the time of Babe Ruth to the Space Age Astrodome, from Prohibition through the Vietnam War. For more than forty years, he was at the forefront of the game, with a Zelig-like ability to be present as a player or manager for some of the greatest teams and defining baseball moments of the twentieth century....
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Language
English
Description
Your Destiny Is Created, Not Dictated. The year is 3525 and humanity is in the midst of the new Dark Ages. The Centurion Reich rules the galaxy with an iron fist. Everywhere you look is corruption and despair, thanks in large part to the new overly ambitious Emperor Titus the Mad. The only thing standing between the emperor and the complete subjugation of the human race is a ragtag crew of outsiders and misfits. Labeled pyrates by the state-run media...
14) Thirst
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Language
English
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Stories by a writer making a debut in fiction. In Invisible Malls, Marco Polo explains a shopping mall to a Mongol emperor, in Bouquet, an Irish girl in Paris loses her innocence, and Cats in Space is on cruel children who launch a balloon with a kitten.
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Language
English
Description
Lightning Lord: A mysterious thief appears at a museum robbery garbed like a medieval druid. This "monk" exhibits a Zeus-like ability to summon thunderbolts from the heavens. Shortly thereafter, a beautiful woman approaches Calvary. This alluring stranger says that she's traveled back in time to aid in capturing the "lightning burglar." Julia Percy and her team are soon caught up in a web of betrayal and deceit, where nothing is as it seems, and few...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lorena Angell
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
After breaking the 100m world record, sixteen-year-old Calli is whisked away to a secret facility where she's placed with other teens who possess superhuman speed. She soon finds herself in a deadly situation involving other superpowers, traitors, and a centuries-old clan vying for world domination. Calli will have to rely on her quick wit and gut instinct to navigate her new world which includes secretly carrying a power-infusing diamond,
...17) Bug Girl
Author
Series
Bug Girl volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth grader Amanda Price, who love bugs, manages to develop the superpowers characteristic of her favorite insects when evil invaders threaten her hometown and take both her mother and her former best friend's mother captive. Includes bug facts.
Author
Language
English
Description
Master your stage presence, communicate powerfully, and leave a lasting impression.
Miroslav Petrovic's Enlivened Method is the future of public speaking - making the invisible world of communication tangibly felt.
The tools in this book will empower you to utilise embodied presence and authenticity to create deep engagement, trust, like-ability and rapport with any audience.
This book is for speakers, leaders, coaches, facilitators, teachers and...
19) The big fix
Author
Series
Ciel Halligan novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Linda Grimes's sexy and hilarious urban fantasy series that began with In a Fix and Quick Fix continues in The Big Fix. Aura adaptor extraordinaire Ciel Halligan, who uses her chameleon-like abilities to fix her clients' problems--as them--is filling in on set for action superstar Jackson Gunn, whose snake phobia is standing in the way of his completing his latest mega-millions Hollywood blockbuster. There's only one thing Jack fears more than snakes,...
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Series
Killer Pizza volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Having passed the tests to become Monster Combat Officers, teens Toby, Annabel, and Strobe are sent on a secret mission to deliver to the Monster Protection Program a beautiful fourteen-year-old monster who wants to defect, regardless of the considerable dangers this poses.
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