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Publisher
Francis Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Think of the future. Can you imagine our planet as beautiful as it used to be? You could be the one to help make it beautiful again, with the things you do and the ideas you have. Your planet needs YOU!" From a simple introduction to our home in Space, the authors explain what we need for life on Earth, and show the importance of the rainforests and the oceans; they stress the need to look after our planet and show how some of the things we take...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
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From acclaimed writer and biologist Sean B. Carroll, a rollicking, awe-inspiring story of the surprising power of chance in our lives and the world Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driven...
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Series
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A Christmas Blessing: Widowed Jessie Adams was about to give birth, and she needed help--fast! Unfortunately, the closest ranch in her small Texas town belonged to her late husband's brother, Luke, who didn't know a thing about delivering babies. And though this charismatic rancher was her only hope, he was the last person Jessie wanted to be stranded with in her time of need.
Natural Born Daddy: Jordan Adams proposed a marriage of convenience to...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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""Christensen is a forceful writer whose . . . prose is visceral and poetic. . . . She is a portrait artist, drawing in miniature, capturing the light within."-San Francisco Chronicle From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home-reluctantly-to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In Kylie the Kitten..Kylie the Kitten is heading off to camp. She's excited to make new friends, but afraid to swim in Moonshine Pond. Can Kylie overcome her fear? In Daisy the Deer .. Daisy the Deer meets a little hedgehog who is too scared to go to sleep. Can Daisy persuade him that there's nothing to be afraid of in Misty Wood? In Sophie the Squirrel.. Sophie the Squirrel is going to perform a special dance at the Misty Wood Fair. But when she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Valerie: The last thing Valerie expects at a time like this is to fall in love--and with a man like Colby Winston. As a city businesswoman, she wants a different life than the small-town surgeon does, and she feels like his complete opposite. So Valerie can't understand why she's so attracted to him--or why her father keeps insisting that she and Colby make a perfect couple. Does her father know something she doesn't?"--Page 4 of cover.
"Stephanie:...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Inspector Treadles, Charlotte Holmes's friend and collaborator, has been found locked in a room with two dead men, both of whom worked with his wife at the great manufacturing enterprise she has recently inherited. Rumors fly. Had Inspector Treadles killed the men because they had opposed his wife's initiatives at every turn? Had he killed in a fit of jealous rage, because he suspected Mrs. Treadles of harboring romantic feelings for one of the men?...
68) A call for kelp
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Everly Swan, owner of the Sun, Sand, and Tea shop on the small island of Charm, North Carolina, has never been overly fond of her two great-aunts' beekeeping hobby. Especially when an aging actress they had hired to appear in a documentary about bees turns up dead, and really puts a bee in Everly's bonnet. With the notoriously nosy reporter, Ryan, back in town and continued mixed signals from the town's sole detective (are he and Everly a thing,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
The author of six critically acclaimed novels, Tessa Hadley has proven herself to be the champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories it's the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric or a forgotten jacket. Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, made strange by the darkness;...
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sybil has always taken comfort in her passion for knitting, creating beautiful knits stitch by stitch. But her world suddenly unravels when her fiance ditches her for her identical twin sister at her Star Wars-themed wedding, leaving her sporting a Princess Leia do. Then things go from bad to worse when an incident at work jeopardizes her job. Hoping to escape her woes and forget that she'll be alone for Christmas this year, she visits her friend...
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Series
Blackbird Beach volume 2
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Georgia Carpenter is overwhelmed by the generosity of her late great aunt, who left her a cottage in Blackbird Beach. What lies ahead is more work than she's ever done in her life. Another family member arrives unexpectedly, and things change. She thinks she can handle everything, then her cheating soon-to-be ex does something that could destroy her chance to start over.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Molly Howes uses her own experiences with patients at her practice to exemplify the importance of a proper apology, and how we can all hone our technique. Learn how to craft an effective apology with this four-step model: 1. Listen to and empathize with the other person's hurt 2. Make a sincere statement of regret and acknowledge harmful actions 3. Make restitution for the pain caused 4. Prevent repetition of the injury An apology is a small-scale...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms-Facebook, Amazon and Google-that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and news industries.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This is a collection of free translations from the ancient Greek poet Callimachus, whose surviving work includes the Aitia, a narrative elegy; the Iambi, short poems on occasional themes; and the Hecale, a small-scale epic. The poet and critic Stephanie Burt has written contemporary adaptations of what she calls "Callimachus's lyric, epigrammatic, and narrative genius for our times." These are not literal translations for students of Greek, but instead...
Author
Series
Sunshine Corner volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Abby Engel has a great life. She's the owner of Sunshine Corner, the daycare she runs with her girlfriends; she has the most adoring grandmother (aka the Baby Whisperer); and she lives in a perfect hidden gem of a town. All that's missing is the thing she wants the most: a family. But after a stint of online dating and a string of bad blind dates, she's ready to give up. And then her ex-boyfriend (aka the love of her life) walks back into town ......
77) All the world
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Language
English
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Follow a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night as they discover the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Lily gets a new baby brother, she soon discovers that it's not easy learning new things and helping to look after someone so small. But then Grandma brings her a very special surprise; someone who also needs to be cared for: Blue Kangaroo! And from the moment that Lily and Blue Kangaroo meet it is love!
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Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Written in three parts, The Things We've Seen is a dazzling and anarchic exploration of social relations which offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of humanity, history, violence, art and science. The first part follows a writer who travels to the small, uninhabited island of San Simon, where he witnesses events which impel him on a journey across several continents, chasing the phantoms of nameless people devastated by violence. The...
80) Heartwood box
Author
Publisher
TOR, Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In this tiny, terrifying town, the lost are never found. When Araceli Flores Harper is sent to live with her great-aunt Ottilie in her ramshackle Victorian home, the plan is simple. She'll buckle down and get ready for college. Life won't be exciting, but she'll cope, right? Wrong. From the start, things are very, very wrong. Her great-aunt still leaves food for the husband who went missing twenty years ago, and local businesses are plastered with...
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