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Fortuna beach volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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After being magically gifted with incredible luck, sixteen-year-old Jude discovers this gift just may be a curse when it comes to love.
Jude is determined to fly under the radar. He just wants to draw his comics, host regular D&D night with his friends, work at his parents' vinyl record store, and escape high school as unscathed as possible. That is, until the night he comes across a mysterious twenty-sided dice and finds himself inexplicably gifted...
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"Abby Akerman believes in the Universe. After all, her Midwest high school marching band is about to perform in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City--if that's not proof that magical things can happen, what is? New York also happens to be the setting of her favorite romance novel, making it the perfect place for Abby to finally tell her best friend Kat that she's in love with her (and, um, gay). She's carefully annotated a copy of the...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can't escape the changes sweeping the country. On Chicago's North Shore,...
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Witch Hall volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in Jasmine Skye's high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut, Daughter of the Bone Forest. Rosy is a bone familiar, gifted with the power to shift into animals marked with exposed bone. She spends most of her days in the magical Bone Forest, caring for her feral grandmother and hiding her powers to avoid conscription by the Witch King's...
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Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Would you want to make the world a kinder place? Get crafting! Stitch cozy pet beds to donate to animal shelters. Make colorful care packages for people experiencing homelessness. Create an uplifting fidget toy for someone who is feeling stressed. These fun crafts will help you spread kindness in your home, at school, in your community, and beyond"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court; this is the true behind-the-scenes story of that testimony.
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"From Olympic gold medalist and two-time professional basketball MVP A'ja Wilson comes an inspirational collection on what it means to grow up as a Black girl in America. This is a book for all the girls with an apostrophe in their name. This is for all the girls who are "too loud" and "too emotional." This is for all the girls who are constantly asked, "Oh, what did you do with your hair? That's new." This is for my Black girls. In this empowering...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"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...
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Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet, changing the course of one another's lives. Dinah has come to Japan from New Zealand to teach English and grieve the death of her brother, Michael, a troubled genius who was able to channel his problems into music as a classical pianist until he wasn't. In the seemingly empty, eerie apartment block where Dinah has...
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Artisan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions in human history. It can literally transport you to places you want to go-to your school or office, to the summit of a local hilltop, to some objective in your pursuit of fitness-but it can do more than that. A bicycle can also transport you to an entirely different mindset, a place where you can embrace the unexpected and live in the moment. People are drawn to riding for many of the same reasons-to...
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English
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Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when Gwen was just three years old. Defying the odds, she lived another eight years, during which time she filled a chest with gifts and letters to Gwen and her brother, Jamie, for every major milestone and birthday through age thirty. The day Gwen got her driver's license. The day she graduated from high school. Gwen is now in her thirties and, when Did I Ever Tell You? begins,...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats--the essential tool kit for psychological warfare--have evolved from military weapons used against foreign adversaries into tools used in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War-era fake newspaper and reaching its apotheosis with disinformation during twenty-first-century...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Few friendships have had such far-reaching implications for the world, from finance to technology to philanthropy, as that between Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. After meeting at a party in 1991, the two played cards and golf, shared jokes, swapped trade secrets, ate junk food, talked and listened. The growing friendship would affect each man and lead to change on a grander scale, culminating in the development of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,...
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Outdoor school volume vol 5
Publisher
Odd Dot
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In this next gift-worthy, full-color, definitive guide in the Outdoor School line, discover the rich possibilities of gardening. With over 400 pages of full-color, highly illustrated pages, Outdoor School is your indispensable tool for the outdoors. Fully illustrated, highly designed, gorgeous and interactive, this field guide to gardening includes: - Immersive activities to get you growing - Write-in sections to journal about experiences - Next-level...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A revolutionary guide to navigating the financial aspects of real relationships Have you ever asked yourself "What if I'm a tightwad and my significant other is a spendthrift?" or vice versa? Scott Rick, a behavioral scientist at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, knows that many people do. He also knows that the financial aspects of an intimate relationship can become a money minefield if couples try to navigate it without first...
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Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A lively celebration of all the wonderful things that make school so much fun, from learning facts to making new friends. A fun counting element makes this book perfect for reading aloud! Children spend a large part of their lives in school--and this upbeat book celebrates all of the wonderful things that are part of a child's school experience! From learning facts about the world, to making friends, to playing with others at recess, young readers...
18) Story Ave
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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South Bronx teen Kadir is a gifted visual artist who loses his way following the death of his younger brother. Overcome with grief and struggling with the pressures of school and family, he escapes into the thrilling yet dangerous world of graffiti gangs, seeking an outlet for the creative force threatening to explode out of him. To prove himself and join his neighborhood₂s ruling gang, Kadir tries to rob no-nonsense MTA conductor Luis on the Story...
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Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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A debut picture book about a curious student who finds herself in trouble for talking in class--even though she just wants to share all that she's learned. "Did you know that flamingos don't have teeth?" Questions, facts, and dreams--Ruby René could talk for hours. Once she got going, it was hard for her to stop. It didn't matter if it was history, science, or the lunch menu--Ruby René had so much to say! But when her teacher called home because...
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Egmont UK Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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It's time festive fun for EVERYONE at Unicorn School! It's the week before Christmas and it's time for Mira and her friends to get festive and celebrate the holidays with their UBFFs! Dave the naughtiest unicorn LOVES Christmas, mainly because there are so many delicious things to EAT. Plus there's a tree to decorate, a festive quest and a very special CHRISTMAS SHOW to rehearse. Mira is desperate for her and Dave to play the lead roles of Snow Unicorn...
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