Amy Chu
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Trot, a Vietnamese American surfer girl, and Cap'n Bill, her cranky one-eyed cat, catch too big a wave and wipe out, sucked down into a magical underwater kingdom where an ancient deep-sea battle rages. The beautiful Sea Siren mermaids are under attack from the Serpent King and his slithery minions--and Trot and her feline become dangerously entangled in this war of tails and fins. This beautiful graphic novel was inspired by The Sea Fairies, L. Frank...
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"In Turning Red, Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited (which for a teenager is practically ALWAYS), she "poofs" into a giant red panda!"--Provided by publisher.
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"Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was...CARMILLA. At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1990s New York City, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered and no one, especially the police, seems to care. A series of clues points her to Carmilla's, a mysterious nightclub in the heart of her neighborhood, Chinatown. There she falls for the next likely target, landing her at the...
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The stunning sequel to Sea Sirens, the middle-grade graphic novel about a spunky Vietnamese American surfer girl and her cantankerous talking cat. This time Trot and Cap'n Bill have to rescue a Sea Siren friend from the clutches of a ruthless amusement park owner. School's out and Trot and Cap'n Bill are looking forward to a carefree summer of surfing. But trouble surfaces when Grandpa hooks a message in a bottle while fishing. Clia, the Sea Siren...
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Mysterious media mogul megaquadrillionaire Dr. Laslo issues a challenge to the best and brightest students in the Galactic Scholastic Federation to a cosmic scavenger hunt. The grand prize – his vast empire. But the clues are hidden across time and space, and only the best and brightest will be able to find them. Thirteen-year-old super-studious Ana, on a scholarship at Dalton Phillips Prep, is determined to win, for herself and her struggling family...
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Summit volume 3
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The road to recovery continues for sole survivor Valentina Resnick-Baker, as memories of her girlfriend Kay still haunt her. In between memories of Kay and hallucinations of her fallen teammates, Val must deal with how to save Fiona from the hands of mysterious mercenaries in the Peruvian jungle. Luckily, Val isn't as alone as she thinks she is, with her ex-husband JD and his team of young scientists on her side. |The road to recovery continues...
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Ever since The Event, Dr. Valentina Resnick-Baker attempted to move on with her life and find a sense of normalcy again. Normal was never fully achieved, but with the loss of her powers, Val thought she finally had a real chance. Until she learns the voice in her head is Jamila Parks, one of her teammates who was presumed dead. Now Val finds herself on the run from a new enemy, separated from her friends, and thrust into a full-on alien conspiracy....
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Summit volume 2
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Dr. Valentina Resnick-Baker helped save the world from annihilation and gained cosmic powers because of it. She tried to hold the power in check and failed. Now, Val's testing the limits of the plasma energy her body harnesses, but the clock starts ticking when Val finds out a young friend of hers is in danger, and the path to becoming the hero called Summit takes a sharp turn.
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Aero volume 7
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Aero finally faces the menacing and mysterious Madame Huang! But who is she - and will her experience and power stop Aero in her tracks? Huang's deadly plans threaten not only Shanghai but the whole world! Now, Lei Ling must try to unravel the mystery of the crystal towers and the monstrous creatures infiltrating Shanghai - but saving the city from certain doom may come at the cost of her secret identity! Plus: Aero meets one of the Marvel Universe's...
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Summit volume 11
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Val thought The Event was behind her, but now new mysteries surrounding the asteroid and the fate of her crew are surfacing. As Val digs deeper into the secrets behind The Event, the trail leads her to a conspiracy blogger who may have the answers she seeks. Val thought The Event was behind her, but now new mysteries surrounding the asteroid and the fate of her crew are surfacing. As Val digs deeper into the secrets behind The Event, the trail leads...
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Summit volume 3
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Val Resnick-Baker never wanted superpowers. She wanted to be an astronaut, but life has a funny way of developing. After all her trials and her takedown of MaxGenz, Val has gotten her wish: no more superpowers. But since life is funny, the voices in her head have returned. Before Val can figure out what the voices mean, she's sent on the run from a spiraling conspiracy set against her.
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Summit volume 8
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Val thinks back on all the strange happenings that have been disrupting what she hoped would be a return to the quiet life. Instead, she's had mecha spiders knocking on her door, her best friend ended up in the hospital, and two of her team are missing in action. Not good. Val, feeling cornered, has to seek out help from the one person she lacks all trust in to save herself and those close to her. Who exactly is behind all these strange, dangerous...
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Summit volume 1
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Valentina Resnick-Baker is the only known surviving astronaut from a suicide mission that saved the world, and the media won't let her forget it.Now a social recluse, Val is seeing visions, hearing voices, keeping a very dangerous power inside her, and the cosmic gift she received from surviving a near-death experience is about to be unleashed.
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What lies beyond our world? Is there a heaven? Is there a hell?
When a young man finds himself on the wrong side of life, he encounters Death itself and is set on a quest to seek out his errant demon offspring in an attempt to make his way back to the world of the living! But there is much peril on the way and the only ones who can help him are KISS!
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Summit volume 6
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Settling into life after The Event and saving Fiona Singh from the hands of actual murderous mercenaries is harder than former astronaut Valentina "Val" Resnick-Baker thought it would be. With the public eye now on her, Val finds herself the topic of far too many conversations that she didn't sign up for. Worse still, there's someone out there testing Val's enhanced abilities and putting innocent people in the cross fire. Looks like normalcy will...
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Leaving a world of fast motorcycles and cold beer, Sonja returns to a more familiar setting of swords and magic and mead. At a nearby tavern, she learns strange magic is afoot in this land, and a desperate priest is offering mercenaries some serious gold for a dangerous job. But something doesn't seem right...
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Summit volume 13
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The secrets of the alien conspiracy are slowly unraveling before Val's eyes, but first she has to rescue Fiona and J.B. from Wald's clutches, while the only allies in her corner are either reluctant or untrustworthy. Not the best of times for one Valentina Resnick-Baker, but if there's one thing Val knows how to do, it is climb any mountain. The secrets of the alien conspiracy are slowly unraveling before Val's eyes, but first she has to rescue J.B....
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Summit volume 7
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Valentina "Val" Resnick-Baker wants two things in her life: to help Fiona deal with the death of her parents, and teach physics to some of the brightest and youngest minds in the world. What Val gets in her life is Lorena Payan on her doorstep and a cocky company from Silicon Valley that goes by MAXGENZ attempting to steal away her team members. What does Lorena want? And is there something more sinister to MAXGENZ than Val realizes? Val really wants...
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Summit volume 4
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The last thing Valentina 'Val' Resnick-Baker wants to be is a superhero, yet here she is in the jungle saving Fiona, the daughter of two close friends, from mercenaries of all things. Val may not want to be a superhero, but the universe sure is pushing her in that direction.