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Language
English
Description
"From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet. Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and-because many have never been recorded-when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin,...
Author
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
86 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It is hard for Chihuahua Ember to decide which is worse: a pack of pugs who announce that they are aliens, or the dog park which is filled with large and overexcited dogs--but he is convinced that he and his animal friends must stop the pugs to save the world (for themselves).
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 16th-century New Spain, Lady Leonora, with witchcraft punishable by death, masquerades as Pantera, who uses her magic to fight the tyranny of Spanish rule--and who is doomed to a short life, and must fight to the end when an ancient prophecy of destruction threatens to come true.
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A woman warrior, a ruthless general, and a single mother -- three stories deftly braided into the legacy of a stolen nation. The U.S. Government stole the Black Hills from the Sioux, as it stole land from every tribe across North America. Forcibly relocated, American Indians were enslaved under strict land and resource regulations. Indigenous writer Angie Elita Newell brings a poignant retelling of the catastrophic, true story of the 1876 Battle...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"SOON TO BE A MAJOR STREAMING SERIES. A riveting technological thriller following a woman whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash and she is left alone with an unnerving home robot, only to get caught up in an AI-related conspiracy. In near-future Japan, Susie Sakamoto is mourning the loss of her husband and son to a plane crash. Alone in her big modern house, which feels like more of a prison, Susie spends...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
483 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of five children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a middle class suburb of Toronto. He loves watching Cher and Carol Burnett on TV, making clothes for his best friend's Barbie dolls, and helping his mum with her hair salon which she runs out of the basement of the house. In short: he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because his family is part of the Christian Reformed Church, a...
Author
Publisher
Tra Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"Do you wonder...how many times a black bear's heart beats each hour?... What happens when you keep placing zeros at the ends of numbers? The answers are all in this book--along with many more incredible facts that involve the numbers zero to nine and power of ten numbers ten to nine billion. Be prepared to cuont and get curious as you fall in love with numbres and with the world around us."--
Publisher
[DaddiLife Books]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
429 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn from a whole community of dads so you're fully prepared to be a great first-time dad and partner. The moment you find out you're going to be a dad is one of incredible joy, shock, and anxiousness - often all the same time! This detailed new dads guide, from the writers and dads at DaddiLife - the world's leading online platform for fathers - provides the reassurance and practical advice needed for first time fathers. It addresses the real challenges...
Author
Publisher
K.L.A. Fricke Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
[paperback edition]
Physical Desc
vi, 290 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Portia Hastings has spent her life rescuing her younger sister from one scrape or another. Now, she has to step through time to do it, following Miranda from the nineteenth century to the eighteenth. Almost immediately, Portia is beset by highwaymen, which might be the most exciting thing to happen to her in a long time, even if she'd never admit it. When one of the highwaymen is injured, Portia makes the inexcusable mistake of helping him-she is...
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