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1. Booksmart
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English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Told from a wildly original, fresh, and modern perspective, this is an unfiltered comedy about high school best friends and the bonds they create that last a lifetime. Capturing the spirit of the times, it is a coming-of-age story for a new generation.
Publisher:
Read Furiously
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
A love letter to women-led comedies. Based on Elizabeth Teets's program series called "Isn't She Great" at the Hollywood Theater, this anthology is a collection of the most beloved female-centric comedies and the audiences who adore them. From 9 to 5 to Romy and Michelle to the iconic Elle Woods, the essays in this collection build on our devotion to these films and continue the conversation around funny women and how these characters have shaped...
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HL: High-Low 740L
Language:
English
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"Throughout the years both Rowan and Neil have been at competition with one another on everything from who has the best ideas for school functions to which one will be their graduating class's valedictorian. However, in the twenty-four hours left they have as high school students, the two learn they share something much deeper than a rivalry"--
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English
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"Overachiever Luz 'Lulu' Zavala has straight As, perfect attendance, and a solid ten-year plan ... Middle sister Milagro wants nothing to do with college or a nerdy class field trip ... On a journey from Baltimore all the way to San Francisco, Lulu and Milagro will become begrudging partners as they unpack weighty family expectations ... and maybe even discover the true meaning of sisterhood"--
5. We ship it
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Language:
English
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This rom-com debut has the fierce girl energy of the movie Booksmart, blended with the awkwardness of Kelly Quindlen's Late to the Party, topped with a thrilling international meet-cute a la Love and Gelato. Olivia Schwartz has a plan. It's even color-coded. And the plan is this: a perfect SAT score, a prestigious college, and a straight path towards her dream of becoming a doctor. The last thing she wants to do-the summer before her senior year of...
6. Shiva baby
Language:
English
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In this TIFF, SXSW, Deauville, and Outfest (Grand Jury Prize, Best Screenplay) official selection, a young woman's steamy secrets are unearthed during one emotionally frantic shiva, in Emma Seligman's deftly crafted comedy of discomfort. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast led by breakout star Rachel Sennott and supported by Fred Melamed (A Serious Man), Polly Draper (Obvious Child, Thirtysomething), Dianna Agron (Glee), and Molly Gordon (Booksmart)....
7. Bookstore
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
Norm Slider, author of The Big Green Weenie Up Youre A** & Other Poems, is an assistant manager at BOOKsMART, one of a small chain of big-box retail book shops in the Midwest. His shrewish GM, Wanda Kropke, is busy downsizing the staff by attrition, as she makes life at work unbearable for everyone. Norm's personal life is in free fall, too. His problems with booze and women have finally caused his wife Linda to serve him with divorce papers, just...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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"Streetwise and Booksmart." This is the motto that represents fifteen-year-old Kamal Bukhari, nicknamed Knerdie B. He proclaims himself to be the most talented high school basketball player to come out of South Phoenix. Kamal is the only child of immigrant parents has managed to survive the Valley of the Gun. His parents came to America to escape the conflicts back in their beloved homeland to experience the land of endless opportunities.
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Publisher:
North Star Editions
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
It's 1864, and many have come to seek their fortune in the gold-laden mountains of California. Emma Fong, the booksmart and streetwise daughter of a respected Chinese merchant, is more than able to hold her own in the one-room schoolhouse of the mining town of La Porte. But when the town hires a stiff-necked teacher with staunch views against the Chinese, Emma's life crumbles. As the teacher stokes anti-Asian sentiment among Emma's neighbors, Emma...
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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"Dickinson meets Booksmart with a dash of Little Women in Infamous, a Regency-era queer romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist twist, from Lex Croucher, the author of Reputation. Twenty-two-year-old aspiring writer Edith ("Eddie") Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together-from climbing trees and sneaking bottles of wine, to extensive kissing practice. But Rose has started talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified....
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Amateur sleuths and wannabe influencers Kerry and Annie are back on the case when a social media festival inspires some killer content-and several on-camera influencer deaths-in this page-turning and sidesplitting sequel to Murder on a School Night from author and comedian Kate Weston. After catching the menstrual murderer red-handed, Annie and Kerry are now the Tampon Two, Barbourough's most famous-well, only-detective duo. So Annie (and decidedly...
12. Dream State
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Publisher:
Heyday
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
An eminent film writer looks behind the curtain of the California dream It hardly needs to be argued: nothing has contributed more to the mythology of California than the movies. Fed by the film industry, the California dream is instantly recognizable to people everywhere yet remains evasive for nearly everyone, including Californians themselves. That paradox is the subject of longtime San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle's first book...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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An LGBT romantic comedy with a twist from the Comedy Women in Print prize winner Laura Steven, author of A hilarious love story with bite, for fans of Sex Education, Booksmart, Becky Albertalli's and Jenny Han's. Physics genius Caro Kerber-Murphy knows she's smart. With straight As and a college scholarship already in the bag, she's meeting her two dads' colossal expectations and then some. But there's one test she's never quite been able to ace:...
14. Luz at Midnight
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FlowerSong Press
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Winner of the 2021 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction by the Texas Institute of Letters Deeply embedded in the landscapes of South Texas, Luz at Midnight tells the story of an ill-timed love that unfolds in the time of climate change. Booksmart but naïve, Citlali Sanchez-O'Connor has just been hired to organize a San Antonio campaign against "gleaning," a controversial new mining practice that promises a rapid transition away from...
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Publisher:
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by white students in blackface...
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Booksmart meets Today, Tonight, Tomorrow in this page-turning romp about two archnemeses-the valedictorian and the class slacker-who band together for a whirlwind night after discovering that they need each other to achieve their very different sunrise goals. Autumn Povitsky is a high-achieving, booked and busy, straight-A nightmare. She's currently having a crisis of self-she needs a fake ID ASAP-but because she's a total square, she has no idea...
19. Dying Inside
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Publisher:
Vault Comics
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Scott Pilgrim and Wednesday combine into a teenaged Fleabag in DYING INSIDE, a supernatural, emo-fantasy thriller from the mind of FALL OUT BOY's Pete Wentz, Hannah Klein, and Lisa Sterle! Immortality is entirely overrated. From Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz, Hannah Klein (Everything's Fine), and Lisa Sterle (The Modern Witch Tarot, Witchblood) comes the graphic novel about a chronically depressed girl who's tired of fighting for her…death. Today is...
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
The Riches Are in the Niches. Do you desire financial independence and passive income? Being a real estate investor can transform those desires into realities and allow you to live life to the fullest and even to retire early. To achieve all that real estate investing can offer you, finding profitable deals are a must. But how to find deals that turn a tidy profit rather than give you a 'red ink' migraine? Where are they? What do they look like? What...