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1) Malagash
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A precisely crafted, darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning. Sunday's father is dying of cancer. They've come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isn't good enough. Devastated doesn't fix anything. Sunday has a plan. She's started recording everything her father says. His boring stories. His stupid jokes. Everything. She's recording...
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Le récit est construit comme une série de lettres de présentation pour des postes dans différentes firmes. Chaque lettre est à la fois un manifeste contre la multinationale et une entrée de journal intime révélant un aspect de la vie du candidat, un jeune acadien délinquant qui fait le deuil de son petit frère tué par un chauffeur ivre. Surqualifié est un texte inventif, drle, caustique et subversif.
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Applying for a job is stupid. It is a demeaning, humiliating exercise in learning to grovel in front of faceless strangers. Everyone who has ever sent a job application letter has felt the urge, the temptation to say what they really think. To say something completely insane, or to be brutally honest. With 2007's Overqualified, Joey Comeau acted on those urges and delivered a book collecting his cover letters. "It's sad and fragmented and, in places,...
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At turns heartwarming and horrifying, this strange and funny novel deals with the terror of losing one's family and the extreme measures people will take to hold on. Jackie and her crush, Ann, both have odd family situations: Jackie's mother, although dead from cancer, is a ghost that only Jackie can see, while Ann's mother and sister have turned into such violent creatures they need to be kept in the basement and fed living animals. Meanwhile, old...
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Cover letters are all the same. They're useless. You write the same lies over and over again, listing the store-bought parts of yourself that you respect the least. God knows how they tell anyone apart, but this is how it's done.
And then one day a car comes out of nowhere, and suddenly everything changes and you don't know if he'll ever wake up. You get out of bed in the morning, and when you sit down to write another paint-by-numbers cover letter,...
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La madrastra y las hermanastras maltratan a Cenicienta.Todos los di´as la obligan a lavarles la ropa y cocinarles, mientras que ella debe vestir harapos y comer migajas. Pero en las noches, escondida entre las sombras, ¡Cenicienta se entrena para convertirse en ninja! Su suen~o es ser guardaespaldas personal del pri´ncipe. Cuando recibe una invitacio´n para el baile real y tiene la oportunidad de demostrarle al Pri´ncipe lo que vale, ¡su madrastra...
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La madrastra y las hermanastras maltratan a Cenicienta.Todos los di´as la obligan a lavarles la ropa y cocinarles, mientras que ella debe vestir harapos y comer migajas. Pero en las noches, escondida entre las sombras, ¡Cenicienta se entrena para convertirse en ninja! Su suen~o es ser guardaespaldas personal del pri´ncipe. Cuando recibe una invitacio´n para el baile real y tiene la oportunidad de demostrarle al Pri´ncipe lo que vale, ¡su madrastra...
9) Ninja-rella
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Cinderella's stepmother and two stepsisters treat her like dirt. Each and every day, they force her to clean their clothes, cook their meals, and only give her rags to wear and crumbs to eat. But each night, in secret and in shadows, Cinderella trains to be a ninja! More than anything, Cinderella yearns to become the Prince's personal bodyguard. When the opportunity to prove her worth to the Prince finally arrives in the form of an invitation to a...
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What do you get when classic fairy tales are twisted about, turned inside out, and reworked for the graphic novel format? Far Out Fairy Tales! Discover what Snow White would be like if she were raised by robots. Find out how Cinderella's story plays out when she walks the path of the ninja. Play along when three billy goats named Gruff get stuck inside a video game. Chase down the Big Bad Wolf with the help of a superpowered Red Riding Hood! Each...