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Publisher
Rebel Girls, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"All Rebel, all the time. The Rebel Girls handbook is the ultimate ticket to trivia, activities, and more about 300+ extraordinary women featured across the bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series. Malala Yousafzai fights for girls' education around the world. . . and there's an asteroid named after her. Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved lives during the Crimean War. . . and she had a pet owl named Athena. Maria Isabel Urrutia...
Publisher
Dynamite
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Struggling to adjust to their new circumstances, Eddie and Trudy are hunting for Eric Nightingale and his mysterious sister--and hitting one legal brick wall after another. But an unexpected benefactor puts them on the trail of another suspect altogether--question is, is Little Boi Days likely to come quietly?
Publisher
Dynamite
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Eddie and Trudy start realizing just how deep they're in, as the extent of Eric Nightingale's influence becomes clear. Eric has agreed to wear a wire--but will the evidence he gathers help or hinder our heroes' investigation? And will the complications of their personal lives throw a further spanner in the works?
25) Black Cotton #2
Publisher
Scout Comics
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The public outcry for justice after police officer Zion Cotton shoots an unarmed minority white woman, Elizabeth Nightingale, causes calamity and despite Zion's wealthy family trying to quell social tensions and fix the problem, Zion decides to take matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, Elizabeth struggles with what has happened to her.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From morning to night and from the Antarctic to the equator, birds have busy days. In this short book, ornithologist Mark E. Hauber shows readers exactly how birds spend their time. Each of the book's twenty-four brief chapters covers a single bird and a single hour. At 1:00 in the night, we meet a nearly-blind kiwi, hunting with smell for earthworm prey. Later that morning, at 11:00, we float alongside a common pochard, a duck that can sleep with...
27) Butterfly
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Butterfly is one of Project Delta's deep cover agents, no birth certificate, no social security number, a complete ghost. When her cover is blown and she is set up for a murder she did not commit, she is unknowingly led to her father's doorstep, a man she thought died 20 years ago. Codenamed Nightingale, her father was once a member of the very same Project Delta, a spy in the violent aftermath of the Cold War, and believes they are behind her set-up....
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019, c2013.
Edition
American PB edition.
Language
English
Description
"From ancient ideas about anatomy to today's sophisticated gene therapies and robotic surgery, A Short History of Medicine combines riveting storytelling and beautiful images, historical accounts and lucid explanations, to illuminate the story of medicine through the ages. Packed with photographs, diagrams, and visual analyses, this book illustrates the science, equipment, trial and error, and great medical practitioners central to this extraordinary...
29) Butterfly #1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
WHY WE LOVE IT: Weve all spent hours glued to episodes of shows like True Detective and House of Cards that explore deeply flawed and morally complex characters. In BUTTERFLY, screenwriter Arash Amel (Grace of Monaco, Erased) brings that aesthetic to comics and the espionage genre, exploring the true nature of people who devote their lives to covert ops and the deceit, solitude, and violence that comes with it.
WHY YOULL LOVE IT: Marguerite Bennett...
Author
Series
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third installment in the Stoic Virtues series, he argues for the necessity of doing what's right - even when it isn't easy For the ancients, everything worth pursuing in life flowed from a strong sense of justice-or one's commitment to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult. In order to be...
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