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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Dedham's Pride Month List (Children's Titles)
Read a book that has been challenged or banned (Youth)
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Two worms in love decide to get married, and with help from Cricket, Beetle, Spider, and the Bees they have everything they need and more, but which one will be the bride and which the groom?
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 21
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English
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"Todd loves his basement worm farm. Worms are fascinating creatures--it's just a convenient bonus that they happen to gross out his family. But when Todd starts to find worms in unlikely and unwanted places--like his bed, his toothbrush, and his spaghetti--the tables have turned. Now Todd is the one running scared!"--
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"If you can find a worm, then you can be a biologist! Foster a love of animals and science with this charming manual for finding and observing earthworms. Hands-on experiments help young zoologists answer questions like "Which end is which?" and "Do worms make noise?" Insider tips encourage readers to think like a scientist and handle living things with care. Equal parts activity book and picture book, This Is a Book to Read with a Worm is just as...
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"Worms play a vital role in soil health, soil fertility and ultimately, the yield of a garden. Designed as a straightforward, easy-to-use handbook, [this book] is a no-fuss guide to creating and harnessing the power of vermicompost. Intended for the beginning gardener and experienced farmer alike, all that is required is a healthy appreciation for healthy, happy soil!"--
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New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns that the hard way after her girlfriend Donna vanishes without a trace. Only after the disappearances of several other impoverished women does Monique hear the rumors. A taloned monster stalks the city's underground and snatches victims into the dark. Donna isn't missing. She was taken. To save the woman she loves, Monique must descend deeper than the...
6) Crash
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"With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe's stock exchanges. To provide that one thing that goes wrong. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. The Wall Street gang's investment bank will be the last one standing, able to make a killing amid the ruins. But one...
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"Negative emotions like anger, spite, contempt, and envy are widely seen as obstacles to a good life. They are like the weeds in a garden that need to be pulled up before they choke out the nice plants. This book argues that bad feelings aren't the weeds; they are the worms. Many people are squeamish about them and would prefer to pretend they aren't there, but the presence of worms mean the garden it thriving. I draw on insights from the history...
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Last chronicles of Thomas Covenant volume 3
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English
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Linden's defiant act of love--resurrecting Thomas Covenant--awakens the Worm of the World's End. If they have any chance to save the Land, it will come from unlikely sources--including the mysterious boy Jeremiah, Linden's adopted son, whose secrets are only beginning to come to light.
9) Night shift
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College student Kendall Holiday, who spends her Fridays working the graveyard shift in the library, loses herself in the pages of her favorite love stories until the school's star basketball player turns up, giving her a chance at real-life romance.
10) 1001 kids' jokes
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"Have you ever laughed 1001 time in a row? Well, take a deep breath, because you're about to! Are you ready to giggle until your sides hurt? If you love laughter more than worms like to wiggle, then this is the book for you! With eye-wateringly funny chapters and hilarious cartoons for bonus bursts of laughter, you're sure to find the perfect joke to leave your family and friend in stitches!"--Back cover
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The engaging story of how an unlikely group of extraordinary people laid the foundation for the legal protection of animals.
In eighteenth-century England-where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew large crowds, and the abuse of animals was routine-the idea of animal protection was dismissed as laughably radical. But, as pets became more common, human attitudes toward animals evolved steadily. An unconventional duchess defended their intellect in her...
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"Good guy Karl Bender is a thirty-something bar owner whose life lacks love and meaning. When he stumbles upon a time-travelling worm hole in his closet, Karl and his best friend Wayne develop a side business selling access to people who want to travel back in time to listen to their favorite bands. It's a pretty ingenious plan, until Karl, intending to send Wayne to 1980, transports him back to 980 instead. Though Wayne sends texts extolling the...
15) The last dark
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Last chronicles of Thomas Covenant volume 4
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English
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Compelled step by step to actions whose consequences they could neither see nor prevent, Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery have fought for what they love in the magical reality known only as "the Land." Now they face their final crisis. Reunited after their separate struggles, they discover in each other their true power--and yet they cannot imagine how to stop the Worm of the World's End from unmaking Time. Nevertheless they must resist the ruin...
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"On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber’s anus. To find a meal, the female bolas spider releases pheromones that mimic a female moth, luring male moths into her sticky lasso web. The Glyptapanteles wasp injects a caterpillar with her young, which feed on the victim, erupt out of it, then mind-control the poor (and somehow still living) schmuck into protecting them from predators. These are among the curious...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Natalie and Alphonse mostly like living in a flat on the seventh floor. They love playing drive the double-decker bed and doing roly-polies in the hall. But when the two monster siblings invent a game of wriggly worms in the jungle...oh dear! "OW!" SHFLWUMP! That is not a good game for indoors! Will this adorably rambunctious pair ever manage to create a magical, wild camping experience in their little apartment? From the award-winning Daisy Hirst...
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ben Kingsley and Theo James, the gripping true story of a young program coordinator at the United Nations who stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves.
"What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much the lies we told one another, but the lies we told ourselves."
A recent Brown University graduate, Michael Soussan was elated when he landed a position as a program...
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