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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date:
©2025
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GN: Graphic Novel 550L
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English
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After his brother's death, Robert reluctantly joins the soccer team where he unexpectedly finds joy and purpose as he channels his brother's love for music into his role as a goalie.
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Publisher:
Capstone
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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It's been a year since Robert's brother died, and Robert is miserable. He no longer cares about school or friends, and he's angry all the time. When Robert is forced to join the soccer team, he wants to hate it. But the team's energy is contagious. Robert channels his brother's love of music into his game and starts rocking his time as goalie.
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Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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With his trademark Rock 'N Roll hair and snakeskin spandex pants, plus a hot rod and a Harley, Lüc Carl fit the part as a bar manager based in New York City's gritty Lower East Side. And life was good for this Omaha, Nebraska, transplant-a talented drummer who originally moved to the big city to pursue his Rock 'N Roll dreams-until, suddenly, it wasn't. Fast forward through seven years of working long hours, bingeing on late-night Chinese food, and...
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Stone Soup
Language:
English
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"like being taken on a rock n roll road trip by Holden Caulfield with a head injury in the best of ways." - Dave Hill, comedian, rocker, awesome dude Two music obsessives embark on a hilarious quest to track down Buttery Cake Ass' Live In Hungaria, an album as legendary as it is obscure. Their pursuit of one of the greatest bands ever unknown takes them down many a bizarre path teeming with grand ideas and grander egos in this ode to record shopping...
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Publisher:
Dorrance Publishing Company
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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About the Book This book is a compilation of song lyrics Owings has written over the past fifty years. Without the music, the words and meaning stand on their own for the reader to judge as a work of art. The goal in presenting the lyrics as poetry is to evoke a response from the reader, good or bad, in agreement or disagreement, etc., without the music or melody line interfering. About the Author A native of Indianapolis, Indiana, Frank N. Owings,...
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Publisher:
Randall Blair
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Curse of the Nice GuyIn the fall of 1966, London, England, was the epicenter of the new youth-culture as defined by drugs, rock-n-roll, free love, and liberal political activism. Clark Westfield arrived there to spend his junior year of college at the University of London. He had two simple goals: have exciting international adventures and finally lose his virginity. But he never imagined what it would cost him - emotionally and physically.Swinging...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Jonathan Visbal was born ambitious, eager to live the American dream and find success. A graduate of the prestigious Stanford Business School, Visbal joined a successful startup company and rose to the pinnacle of his career as a leadership advisor and executive recruiter at Spencer Stuart, where his clients included top Silicon Valley technology companies. And throughout his successful career, he never lost sight of his ultimate goal: living a life...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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In The Cloud Idol Speaks, you'll meet an internet billionaire who has assembled a crew of like-minded individuals for a clandestine mission. Peter Booth amassed his wealth by inventing a highly intelligent and entertaining search engine from his bayou home. Now Peter's goals are to elevate the quality of life for all humans while preserving the natural world and returning it to a pristine state. Ambitious doesn't even begin to describe this undertaking....
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Publisher:
Lettra Press LLC
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
What are the odds of a marriage lasting 60 years? Experts calculate that only 1 in 600,000 marriages will last 60 years. And.001 per 1,000 will last 70 years. It is our goal to break the world's record of 90 years or die happy trying. That's another 30 in our world can you live that long? We believe we are our reality, due to our lifestyle, and everyone we meet wants to know "what's your secret for being married 60 years looking as good as you two...
11. Fabulosity
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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Fabulosity (n): 1: a state of everything that is fabulous 2: a quality ascribed to that which expresses glamour, style, charisma, power, and heart. Kimora Lee Simmons knows what it means to have fabulosity and she wants to tell you how to get it. In this empowering new book, Kimora a top model, wife of hip-hop legend Russell Simmons, mother to two daughters, a national media presence, and president and creative director of the multimillion-dollar...
12. Siddhartha
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Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
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This classic of twentieth-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha- a spiritual journey that has inspired generations of readers. Here is a fresh translation from Sherab Chö dzin Kohn, a gifted translator and longtime student of Buddhism and Eastern philosophy. Kohn's flowing, poetic translation conveys the philosophical and spiritual nuances of Hesse's text, paying special attention...
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Publisher:
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
Three-time New York Times bestselling author and six-time WWE champion Chris Jericho shares 20 of his most valuable lessons for achieving your goals and living the life you want, jam-packed with fantastic stories and the classic off-the-wall, laugh-out-loud Jericho references he's famous for. Chris Jericho has known what he wanted out of life since he was a teenager: to be a pro wrestler and to be in a rock 'n' roll band. Most of his high school friends...
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Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
Description:
"Dr. Jill Biden has been described as President Joe Biden's greatest political asset. Like many women of her generation, she holds her commitments as wife, mother and grandmother at the center of her life. She is a professor, earned a doctorate in educational leadership, and taught at Northern Virginia Community College. She broke barriers as First Lady as the first to hold a paying job outside the White House. "Jill" is the story of this accomplished...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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In the fall of 2018, a pangolin coronavirus is discovered in China by an aspiring graduate student, JADE HUANG. A unique gene that is found in the virus by her parents, DRS. MING AND KANESHA HUANG, enables the virus to infect humans as well. DR. FEN YUNG, the "Bat Lady" at the Virology Institute in Wuhan, informs Alex of the discovery in her monthly report. Alex suggests that Roger should use the pangolin virus gene. A year later, deadly infections...
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Language:
English
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Drawing from her life experiences as a lifestyle guru, the author presents a guide to becoming a joyous, confident woman by breaking the cycle of negativity and burnout and pursuing a life of exuberance. With unflinching faith-- and rock-hard tenacity-- Hollis shows readers how to give yourself grace without giving up.
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English
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"A reverse My Fair Lady tale about a pampered Manhattan socialite who must teach an unpolished drifter from the Louisiana Bayou how to fit in with New York City's upper crust. Somewhere between antagonistic dinner parties and tortured tux fittings, this pair of polar opposites slowly find a begrudging respect for one another--and perhaps even something more--as they adventure through the city that never sleeps"--