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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
A humorous and unconventional look at everyday annoyances in teen life, "Crap" tells teens how to determine which types of crap are useful (and which aren't), avoid crap when possible, deal with crap when it can't be avoided, flush crap out of one's life, and break the crap cycle once and for all.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The duo behind the best-selling book No Hard Feelings the popular @LizandMollie Instagram account return with an illustrated guide on how to handle our most difficult emotions in the debilitating uncertainty of modern times.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
One of Zetsubou-sensei's new students, a gifted storyteller, attempts to melt her teacher's gloomy heart, and the obsessive-compulsive Chiri rejoices when the morose young mentor invites her somewhere that could turn out to be either a date or a murder-suicide.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Suicidally depressed high school teacher Zetsubou-sensei, a man for whom the light at the end of the tunnel is the coroner inspecting his glazed eyes, continues his attempt to endure life's suffering while teaching a classful of cute girls. Will Kafuka Fuura, the most optimistic teenager on earth, ever convince her beloved sensei to look on the bright side of life? Or will Zetsubou and his students end up lobotomized and starving in a third-world...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Those suffering from this peculiar condition, according to Zetsubou-sensei, blame themselves for everything that goes on around them. But as Zetsubou-sensei explores this affliction, he realizes that he himself is a victim! Luckily, the sensei has a foolproof plan for putting an end to Delusional Self-Blaming disorder--which happens to involve a long rope dangling from a tree. Could this be the end of Zetsubou-sensei?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Zetsubou-sensei has won a trip to a hot spring, but when he finds several of his students there in the bubbling pools, he launches into a tirade about the evils of detoxing. To Zetsubou-sensei, detoxing is a metaphor for sanitizing the world of the very complexities and idiosyncrasies that define it. So put down that bar of soap and pick up volume 5 of Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Zetsubou-sensei is angry again, and this time he's turned his sights on Inconvenience. Modern-day inventions are supposed to make our lives more efficient, but the sensei sure doesn't see it that way. TV remote controls are meant to save us time and energy, but how much time do we waste just trying to find the remote? Our cellphones are supposed to keep us connected no matter where we are, but we spend half our time walking around trying to find...
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