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Mia, a matter of taste / by Simon, Coco.; Wu, Chuyi.;
"Ages 8-12"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Middle school students; Beauty, Personal; Friendship; Clubs; Cupcakes;
© c2013., Simon & Schuster Children's Pub.,

Spider-Man 2 / by Ziskin, Laura.; Arad, Avi.; Sargent, Alvin.; Raimi, Sam.; Maguire, Tobey,1975-; Dunst, Kirsten,1982-; Franco, James,1978-; Molina, Alfred,1953-; Harris, Rosemary,1927-; Simmons, J. K.; Murphy, Donna.; Elfman, Danny.; Lee, Stan,1922-2018.; Ditko, Steve.; Columbia Pictures.; Marvel Enterprises.;
DVD.Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons, Donna Murphy.Director of photography, Bill Pope ; editor, Bob Murawski ; music, Danny Elfman ; costume designers, James Acheson, Gary Jones; production designer, Neil Spisak ; visual effects supervisors, Greg Anderson, Eric Durst, John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk ; special effects supervisor, Steve Johnson.MPAA rating: PG-13; for stylized action violence.Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, is desperately trying to balance his dual identities. He can't keep up at college, pay his rent, or seem to make amends with his estranged best friend Harry and his beloved Mary Jane is more skeptical than ever. Peter begins to notice that he's losing some of his powers and wonders if the cost of being a superhero isn't too high. Meanwhile Peter's idol, the renowned scientist Otto Octavius, has turned into a maniacal cyborg after a failed science experiment. Peter realizes he must decide between the ordinary life he so desires and the responsibilities of retaining his secret identity to stop "Doc Ock" and save New York City from destruction.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Drama.; Feature films.; Films for the hearing impaired.; Superhero films.; Superhero films.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Films for the hearing impaired.; Spider-Man (Fictitious character); Crime prevention; College students; Spider-Man (Personaje literario); Prevenciaon deldelito; College students; Crime prevention;
© ©2004., Columbia Pictures,

Diper överlöde / by Kinney, Jeff.;
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Subjects: Diary fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Heffley, Greg; Middle school students; Families; Brothers; Band music;

Guess again / by Donlea, Charlie,author.;
"Ten years ago, 17-year-old high school volleyball star Callie Jones vanished from her quiet Wisconsin lake community. A highly publicized search followed but her body was never found. The case went cold, but the echoes still linger. Ethan Hall, a former renegade detective turned ER doctor, left law enforcement to escape the horrors of the kid crime division. But on the tenth anniversary of Callie's disappearance, his former partner, Pete Kramer, makes a desperate request. Pete is the veteran detective who originally investigated the case. Now he's dying, and to ease his conscience and get closure for the Jones family, he needs Ethan to return to the haunting work he left behind -- and solve what happened to Callie, once and for all. Word soon spreads and everyone in the small town of Cherryview feels a rush of hope that answers will finally be found. Amid a sweltering heatwave, Ethan's investigation gains momentum, but reexamining old evidence won't be enough. He needs a new way into the case, no matter how dangerous or unconventional. Soon Ethan's methods draw him deeper into a twisted psychological game. Because there is much more to the nightmare of Callie's disappearance than he imagined, including a connection with his own dark past ... and secrets that are still worth killing for."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); High school students; Missing persons;

No bus, no fuss / by Penney, Shannon.;
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Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Loud, Lincoln (Fictitious character); School buses; Families; Middle school students;

Wrecking ball / by Kinney, Jeff.;
An unexpected inheritance allows the Heffley family to make major improvements to their home, but construction causes so much trouble they consider just moving, instead.LSC
Subjects: Diary fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Heffley, Greg; Middle school students; Dwellings; Families;

Bottoms [videorecording] / by Cruz, Ruby,actor.; Dominczyk, Dagmara,1976-actor.; Edebiri, Ayo,1995-actor.; Galitzine, Nicholas,actor.; Gerber, Kaia,2001-actor.; Liu, Havana Rose,1997-actor.; Lynch, Marshawn,1986-actor.; Seligman, Emma,film director,screenwriter.; Sennott, Rachel,1995-actor,screenwriter.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.; Orion Pictures,production company.;
Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Ruby Cruz, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Nicholas Galitzine, Dagmara Domińczyk, Marshawn Lynch.In this refreshingly unique comedy directed by Emma Seligman, two girls, PJ and Josie, start a fight club as a way to lose their virginity to cheerleaders. And their bizarre plan works! The fight club gains traction, and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each other up in the name of self-defense. But PJ and Josie find themselves in over their heads and in need of a way out before their plan is exposed.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA Rating: R.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Digital surround.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Dark comedy films.; Feature films.; Lesbian films.; Queer films.; Clubs; Hand-to-hand fighting; High school students; Lesbians; Popularity; Self-defense;
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The finalists / by Bell, David,1969 November 17-author.;
"The competitive selection process for a prized college scholarship turns deadly in the latest thriller from USA Today bestselling author David Bell. On a beautiful spring day, six college students with nothing in common besides a desperate inability to pay for school gather to compete for the prestigious Hyde Fellowship. Milo-The front-runner Natalia-The brain James-The rule follower Sydney-The athlete Duffy-The cowboy Emily-The social justice warrior The six of them must surrender their devices when they enter Hyde House, an aging Victorian structure that sits in a secluded part of campus. Once inside, the doors lock behind them. The students are not allowed to leave until they spend eight hours with a college administrator who will do almost anything to keep the school afloat, and Nicholas Hyde, the privileged and notoriously irresponsible heir to the Hyde family fortune. If the students leave before time is up, they'll be immediately disqualified. But when one of the six finalists drops dead, the other students fear they're being picked off one by one. With a violent protest raging outside, and no way to escape, the survivors viciously turn on each other. The Finalists is a chilling and profound look at the lengths both students and colleges will go to survive in a resource-starved academic world"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; College administrators; College students; Contests; Heirs; Scholarships; Survival;

Shadow of the lions : a novel / by Swann, Christopher,1970-author.;
"How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? A prestigious boys' boarding school. A best friend's betrayal. A decades-old mystery of a missing student. In this sharp literary thriller, Matthias Glass gets drawn into his past as he attempts to come to terms with the long-ago disappearance of his prep-school roommate -- and to become the man he is meant to be. In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's roommate and best friend Fritz Davenport runs off into the woods after the two boys have an argument -- and vanishes without a trace. Ever since, Matthias has felt responsible, thinking that their fight, about a betrayal of the school's honor code, led to Fritz's disappearance. A decade later, after an early triumph with his first novel, followed by too much partying and too little work, Matthias realizes he has stalled out, become a failure as a writer, a boyfriend, a man. So when he is offered a job at Blackburne as an English teacher, he sees it as a chance to put his life back together. But once on campus, Matthias gets swiftly drawn into the past, and is driven to find out what happened to Fritz. Along the way he must reckon with Fritz's complicated and powerful Washington, D.C., family, the shocking death of a student, and begin to understand his own place in the privileged world of Blackburne. In the spirit of film noir, Shadow of the Lions is a tale full of unexpected turns -- a thriller, but also a moving story that is as much about the mystery as it is about the redemption of a broken friendship and a lost soul"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); English teachers; Missing children; Preparatory school students; Preparatory schools;

The laughter : a novel / by Jha, Sonora,author.;
"Dr. Oliver Harding, a tenured professor of English, is long settled into the routines of a divorced, aging academic. But his quiet, staid life is upended by his new colleague, Ruhaba Khan, a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor. Ruhaba unexpectedly ignites Oliver's long-dormant passions, a secret desire that quickly tips towards obsession after her teenaged nephew, Adil Alam, arrives from France to stay with her. Getting to know them, Oliver tries to reconcile his discomfort with the worlds from which they come, and to quiet his sense of dismay at the encroaching change they represent--both in background and in Ruhaba's spirited engagement with the student movements on campus. After protests break out on campus demanding diversity across the university, Harding finds himself and his beliefs under fire, even as his past reveals a picture more complicated than it seems. As Ruhaba seems attainable yet not, and as the women of his past taunt his memory, Harding reacts in ways shocking and devastating. An explosive, tense, and illuminating work of fiction, The Laughter is a fascinating portrait of privilege, radicalization, class, and modern academia that forces us to confront the assumptions we make, as both readers and as citizens"--
Subjects: Campus fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; College teachers; Interpersonal relations; Minority women college teachers; Student movements;