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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm.
Description
"Take a trip around our world and visit 20 children with very different ways of life... From Australia to Africa, the festivals we share with family and friends can be serious, exciting, or just plain fun. Come and celebrate!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
32 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Description
Publisher Annotation: Planet Earth is in the Milky Way Galaxy, the cloudy band of light that stretches clear across the night sky. How many galaxies are there in the universe? For years astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the universe. Now we know that there are billions of them. Gail Gibbons takes the reader on a journey light-years away.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Description
Tiny Broadwick, a teeny, uneducated mill girl, had big dreams of soaring above the earth, out of poverty, and above expectations. She became the first woman to parachute from an airplane, and her idea for the rip cord paved the way for pilots to safely escape in-flight emergencies. This thrilling biography shows how Tiny's determination, courage, adventurousness, and joy lifted her up to stand tall as a pioneer in flight.
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Unofficial Minecraft diary volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
It has taken years of determination, but finally Bern the Zombie has assembled the largest army of zombies that Minecraftia has ever seen. What exactly does Bern plan to do with his army? Take over the Overworld, of course! But Bern is the first to admit that most zombies aren't terribly bright. For instance, they have trouble with basic things, like knowing their left from their right.
7) Fungi grow
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Description
"Fungi are all around us. They root and fruit and twist and twine. The mycelium roots spread below ground while the mushroom fruits pop above the earth. Some are edible, and some are poisonous. Some help keep forests communicate, others recycle decaying matter. But all across the world, fungi are growing. Discover when, how, where, and why in this poetic and illuminating nonfiction picture book"--
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Series
Innkeeper Chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
316 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian bed and breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor. Her biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. But Dina is ... different: Her broom is a deadly weapon, and her inn is magic. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can't leave...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
vi, 594 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"This book describes and analyses the nature of male-male sexual relations in Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the European colonies in the Americas and Asia during the period 1400-1750. It discusses the sexual behaviour itself, its social and institutional contexts, the treatment of it in religious doctrine and law (both Christian and Muslim) and the representation of it in literature (both Western and Ottoman). While synthesising, and adding to, a...
11) El comandante del pueblo: una novela basada en la vida de Camilo Cienfuegos y su misteriosa muerte
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiii, 317 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Camilo Cienfuegos fue un carismático revolucionario que se hizo amigo de Fidel Castro cuando empezaron las protestas para derrocar la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista. Siempre fiel a los ideales de la Revolución, Cienfuegos luchó al lado de Fidel, Raúl y el Che Guevara, y llegó a ganarse la simpatía del pueblo cubano gracias a su humildad y franqueza. Tras ganar varias batallas, la rivalidad entre Camilo y Fidel se fue acentuando y sus...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustration, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Description
"Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas acaban suponiendo una irresistible invitación a convertirse en una persona distinta durante una noche al año. Escrita en el inconfundible y fascinante estilo de García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos es un canto a la vida, a la resistencia del goce pese al paso del tiempo y al deseo femenino....
13) Rangikura: poems
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
74 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A fiery second collection of poetry from the acclaimed Indigenous New Zealand writer that U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo calls, "One of the most startling and original poets of her generation.""--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
407 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn't see coming, and all she wants to do is put the whole heartbreaking mess behind her. Enter Marshall Hendricks, a psychologist searching for distraction as he struggles with a life-altering blow of his own. Wren's no longer quite so trusting of men in general, but...
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Series
Blue stars volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
171 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"When cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move to Urbanopolis to live with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start. Outgoing Riley misses her Muscogee cousins but is sure that she and Maya will be instant BFFs. Meanwhile, introvert Maya misses her parents, on active duty in Japan, and just wants some space to herself. At school, Maya joins Robotics Club and Riley bonds with fellow gymnasts. Just when they start to feel at home, their...
16) Victory parade
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
168 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
"One of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe. As we follow the bittersweet, heartbreaking stories of Rose and her fellow Rosie-the-Riveters, we're immersed in the day-to-day challenges of life on the home front as seen through the eyes of these resilient women, as well as...
17) Unflattening
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
193 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge. 'Unflattening' is an insurrection against...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 pictures on 1 poster : double sided, multicolored ; 41 x 60 cm, folded to 20 x 10 cm
Description
Poster depicts "the diversity of plants and animals in these renditions of the restored Elwha watershed, from its headwaters in the Olympic Mountains to its estuary in the Strait of Juan de Fuca." Text describes the damming of the Elwha River in the early twentieth century, the environmental consequences, and plans to restore the Elwha ecosystem and its fisheries by removal of the Elwha Dam and the Glines Canyon Dam.
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