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  • But I also think Perks of a Wallflower is YA, and that book was disqualified because it wasn't published specifically as a young adult book.

    It Looked Like Spilt Milk Roger Sutton 2007

  • The Wallflower is a manga that I recently obtained for free and read out of curiosity about the genre.

    How to kill 15 minutes of your lunch hour. bradamant 2005

  • She sang with Richard Berry, among others, and "The Wallflower" was an answer to the Midnighters' hit "Work With Me Annie."

    NYDN Rss DAVID HINCKLEY 2012

  • The Wallflower is the story of four guys-Kyohei (the popular one), Takenaga (the stoic, level-headed one), Yuki (the innocent one), and Ranmaru (the playboy) - living in a mansion.

    Toon Zone News 2009

  • The Wallflower is the story of four guys-Kyohei (the popular one), Takenaga (the stoic, level-headed one), Yuki (the innocent one), and Ranmaru (the playboy) - living in a mansion.

    Toon Zone News 2009

  • While the majority of this exhibition felt humorous (Phelan's Bock beer-drinking bears), light, and, well, dreamy -- job well done -- it was the video works that gave it some weight, with usual suspects like Bruce Nauman and Mike Kelly and then less expected works like Bruce Bickford's claymation "Prometheus 'Garden", 1988, and Kate Gilmore's "Wallflower", 2006-2007.

    Marina Cashdan: The Promised Land? Will Portugal Arte 10 Become a Fixture on the Art World Calendar? Marina Cashdan 2010

  • Ephron made her name with witty and trenchant articles for Esquire and other magazines, collected in books such as Wallflower at the Orgy (Viking, 1970) and Crazy Salad (Knopf, 1975).

    2007 March 20 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

  • Many birds and other pretty noveltys there was, but I was afeard of being louzy, and so took boat again, and got to London before them, all the way, coming and going, reading in the "Wallflower" with great pleasure.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Many birds and other pretty noveltys there was, but I was afeard of being louzy, and so took boat again, and got to London before them, all the way, coming and going, reading in the "Wallflower" with great pleasure.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Many birds and other pretty noveltys there was, but I was afeard of being louzy, and so took boat again, and got to London before them, all the way, coming and going, reading in the "Wallflower" with great pleasure.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 16: May/June 1662 Samuel Pepys 1668

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