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1) Beautyland
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Language
English
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From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth. At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge...
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Language
English
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"A new book of 50 bigger, bolder, next-level STEAM experiments for the whole family, including even more diverse science biographies and stories, from Emily Calandrelli, host of Netflix's Emily's Wonder Lab and author of the national bestseller Stay Curious and Keep Exploring"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"After her confrontation with Ikol, Emily finally understands the stone's power and what she must do to defend Alledia from the shadows. As she travels to Typhon to help her mom and Navin, Prince Trellis returns to the Kingdom of the Elves to save his countrymen -- and confront the fraud who has seized power in the absence of a king. The threat of darkness follows all Stonekeepers closely, and it will take the strength of both new friends and old...
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...
Author
Publisher
Figure 1 Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations, color portrait ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ice cream really does make everything better. Compiled with love by the team at The Merry Dairy, Great Scoops features a cheerful collection of 80 easy, custard-style and vegan ice creams and delectable desserts. From hibiscus & passion fruit and bourbon black cherry to triple chocolate and caramel popcorn, this exciting new cookbook also includes recipes for signature sauces, toppings, and baked goods (say hello to chocolate chip cookies and meringue...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words - and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa - Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is light years away from the world he knew...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages, 16 unnumbred pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
9) Moro easy
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Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
319 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lucky Four Press
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
color pages
Language
English
Description
Ruby can’t believe what she’s seeing. Her favorite trees have lost all their candy! And the Amber Fairies who usually help fix up her home are nowhere to be found.
Now Ruby is worried her normally beautiful garden won’t look perfect for the upcoming festival. But when she finally tracks down her friends, there’s a ginormous problem: They’ve run out of magic dust!
Can Ruby help the fairies find more enchanted sprinkles in time for a sugary...
Author
Publisher
Beaten to Badass
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 v. 107 pages : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In our daily lives, how often do we pass someone who is deemed less than by society, one who walks the streets, sleeps in the bushes and begs for humanity to help in their time of need? We call the homeless, yet they are like you and me, human. Do we know their stories? Do we take the time to acknowledge and connect with them and show them a tiny amount of kindness? No, we pass them by, busy rushing to the next thing we have to get to, pretending...
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Physical Desc
189pp.
Language
English
Description
The stories of the "Dustoff" rescues have been told before, but the heroic levels of courage that the crews displayed cannot be celebrated too often nor too loudly. The soldiers assigned to Vietnam used helicopters to go from point 'A' to point 'B' as safely as possible. Medical evacuation helicopters (medevac choppers), also known as 'Dustoff' ships, were the lifeline between a soldier with a severed foot and a top-notch, case-hardened facility that...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2015, ©2002.
Edition
Young Readers Edition.
Physical Desc
164 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of the epic adventure and harrowing disaster that inspired "Moby Dick."- Cover.
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