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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A contestant on a brand-new game show offering young criminals the chance at freedom and a cash prize by winning over viewers, Emerson desperately needs the money to save her family, but little does she know that winning is her only chance at survival because losing means death.
2) Womb city
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This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In this non-fiction book for teens, readers are guided through the development of this world-changing technology, exploring how AI has touched every corner of our world, including education, healthcare, work, politics, war, international relations, and even romance. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how artificial intelligence got here, how to make the best use of it, and how we can expect it to transform our lives"--
"Unlike...
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Series
Ring of Solomon volume 2
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"Aside from his best friend, Sandra; his annoying little sister, Naomi; and his friend Ash (who, by the way, is the King of Demons). Somehow, they've all managed to keep last summer's fights against the Behemoth, the Leviathan, and the evil Knights of Apocalypse cult a secret for almost a whole year. Zach and Sandra have their hands full practicing with the archangel Uriel's flaming sword (in case they ever need to fight monsters again), dodging bully...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
Profiling more than 250 characters from The High Republic era of the Star Wars galaxy, this ultimate reference introduces brave Jedi, ruthless Nihil marauders, cutthroat mercenaries and evil monsters who call this galaxy home.
8) Mama's panza
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
A young boy shares his love for his mother's panza (belly), which is capable of remarkable things, including a place to hide and rest, and she loves it as an important part of herself.
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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
2024.
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Fleeing her prince, Rosamund discovers the Princess Protection Program, an academy where fairy tale princesses evade unwanted fates and unwanted kisses, and as she adapts to real-world life and forms close friendships, she begins to question the academy's secrets and the possibility of changing her own story.
12) Party Rex
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
"Rex invites all of his friends over to celebrate his tenth birthday"--
13) Taxi, go!
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
Description
"Today will be a busy day for Taxi! There are plenty of passengers to pick up, and they all need a ride--to a football game, a play, a business meeting, the airport, and more. Whizzing left, right, and through traffic, Taxi has to STOP for red lights and emergency vehicles. But after every stop, stop, stop, it's Taxi...go, go, GO"--
15) Dwayne Johnson
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Series
Little people big dreams volume 94
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Description
Dwayne Johnson grew up in a family of wrestlers. He was on his way to becoming a professional football player when an injury ended his career. Following in his father's footsteps, he became a wrestler himself. Then Johnson tried his hand at acting, and became a superstar! -- adapted from back cover
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
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126 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Nadia spends as much time as she can at her friend Violet's house, playing with the kittens that Violet's mom brings home from her job at the animal rescue center. When Violet tells Nadia about a pregnant cat urgently in need of a place to stay, Nadia convinces her parents to foster Gracie for the summer. After Gracie gives birth to five beautiful kittens, Nadia is instantly drawn to the smallest and sweetest, whom she names Luna. But while the other...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
"In this beautifully illustrated book, a young, determined Anishnaabe girl decides to go on a transformative journey into a forest on her traditional territory, in search of adventure. She is joined by a chorus of women and girls in red dresses--ancestors who tell her they remember what it was like to be carefree and wild too. Soon, though, the girl is challenged by a monster named Hate who envelops the girl in a cloud of darkness. With the creature...
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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.
20) The dreamatics
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"A fantastical theatre and its troupe perform a young girl's dreams, until nightmares take over and one devoted stagehand must bring joy back into the spotlight"--
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