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Stanford University Press
Language
English
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"In our digital world, data is power, and information hoarders reign supreme. The practices of these digital pillagers are analogous to those of cartels--they use intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain control and power. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of the "data cartels," demonstrating how the entities mining, hoarding, commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Addison Sullivan has been in an accident. In its aftermath, she has memory lapses and starts talking to a boy who keeps disappearing. She's afraid she's going crazy, and the worried looks on her family's and friends' faces aren't helping. Addie takes drastic measures to fill in the blanks and visits the Overton Clinic. But there she unwittingly discovers it is not her first visit. And when she presses, she finds out that she had certain memories...
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Webtoon Unscrolled, a division of Wattpad Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Jugyeong Lim has been treated unfairly by her family and bullied by her enemies due to being perceived as ugly. She learns how to use makeup by binge-watching Youtube tutorials. As she slowly masters the art of makeovers, her dramatic transformation leads to her overwhelming popularity and fame. Armed with her newfound beauty, Jugyeong is in a love triangle with two of the most handsome boys at school: Suho, the stoic mystery man who knows her secret...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
They longed for change, but when it found them, all they wanted was to go back. It's 1965 and 13-year-old Gia, along with her older brother and cousins, are desperate to escape their sleepy, tree-lined neighbourhood where nothing ever happens. The only thing Gia would miss is the surrounding marsh, where she feels at home among sea birds and salt water. But when one of Gia's cousins brings drugs into their neighbourhood, it sets off a chain of events...
10) True beauty
Author
Publisher
Webtoon Unscrolled, a division of Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this third book of the series, we focus on Seojun, Suho and Seyeon... three guys whose painful pasts are about to be revealed. The three S's! Best Friends Forever! But that last F... forever may be shorter than any of them ever dreamed"--
11) Rave
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's the early 2000s. Lauren is fifteen, soft-spoken, and ashamed of her body. She's a devout member of an evangelical church, but when her Bible-thumping parents forbid Lauren to bring evolution textbooks home, she opts to study at her schoolmate Mariah's house. Mariah has dial-up internet, an absentee mom, and a Wiccan altar--the perfect setting for a study session and sleepover to remember. That evening, Mariah gives Lauren a makeover and the...
12) I.o.n
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
For years Ion Tsuburagi has chanted the letters of her name as a good luck charm, but after meeting the president of the Psychic Powers Research Society, her chants begin to give her telekinetic powers.
13) A haunted girl
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Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A Haunted Girl is a horror story that explores the real-life terror that comes with the struggles of anxiety and depression. The fate of all life on Earth depends on a girl who doesn’t know if she wants to live. Cleo, a 16-year-old adopted Japanese-American whose anxiety and depression drives her to suicidal thoughts, is fresh out of the hospital and trying unsuccessfully to reintegrate back into her old life. What she doesn't know is that her...
14) Trots and Bonnie
Author
Publisher
New York Review Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1970s and 1980s, National Lampoon was home to not only some of the funniest humor writing in America, but also many of its best cartoons. The best of them was Trots and Bonnie by Shary Flenniken, a comic strip that followed the adventures and mishaps of the guileless teenager Bonnie and her wisecracking dog, Trots. Bonnie stumbles through the mysteries of adulthood, as Flenniken-one of the few female contributors to the Lampoon-dissects the...
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