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Some days Maya glows...
Maya feels a warm glow when she's with the people she loves and when she sees good things happening in her neighborhood. She feels a different kind of glow when she overhears her family worrying about bills or sees her favorite cousin stopped by police.
Sometimes that glowing feels like too much to carry.
But then the local librarian gives Maya a stack of books about those who felt the same glowing light. Black women throughout...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
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"A picture book about the five largest lakes in North America - how they formed, the importance of these waters, and how they've become a national treasure"--
Author
Publisher
Odd Dot
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm + 12 perforated game cards
Language
English
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In this laugh-out-loud nonfiction picture book with a tear-out memory card game, a group of outspoken seeds show what they can do when the amazing lifecycle of spring begins!
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Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Four Amish Sisters Develop New Beginnings in Sarasota, Florida
Journey with the bestselling Brunstetter authors to the unique tropical Amish community in Sarasota, Florida, along with four young sisters originally from Indiana.
The Seashell Cake by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Leora Lambright is the first to leave home, seeking a warmer climate for health reasons. While on a winter holiday, roofer John Miller meets...
Journey with the bestselling Brunstetter authors to the unique tropical Amish community in Sarasota, Florida, along with four young sisters originally from Indiana.
The Seashell Cake by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Leora Lambright is the first to leave home, seeking a warmer climate for health reasons. While on a winter holiday, roofer John Miller meets...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure. Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn't want love, she doesn't have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless,...
11) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
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Publisher
Random House Studio
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period...
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Publisher
Cross Cult
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Deutsch
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Der Tod steht ihm ... nicht so gut Das erste THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY-Comic-Spin-off: Als der 18-jährige Klaus aus der Umbrella Academy geworfen und ihm jegliches Geld gestrichen wird, macht er sich auf den Weg zu einem Ort, an dem seine schaurigen Talente noch geschätzt werden – Hollywood! Nachdem er einem Vampir-Drogenbaron ganz besonderen Stoff stiehlt und von den Höhen des magischsten Rauschs seines Lebens tief in den Abgrund stürzt, benötigt...
15) Wandering stars
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English
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Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is...
16) Happy place
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English
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"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college--they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now--for reasons they're still not discussing--they don't. They broke...
17) Volcanoes!
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text introduce different kinds of volcanoes, where they are located, how and why they erupt, and other interesting data about volcanoes.
18) The Baxters
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Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"A terrible storm builds in the early morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari's wedding to Tim Jacobs. It's supposed to be the happiest of days, but Elizabeth can't shake a growing sense of dread. Is the storm a sign? Something bad is about to happen. Elizabeth knows it. Indeed, there are dark currents of conflict and doubt coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Herc Beal knows who he's named after--a mythical hero--but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in real life, he's skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Cod--and not a single Hydra in sight.
Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasn't working all the time, Herc...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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From the New York times best-selling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art and new love.