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1) Uprising
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Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
Author
Series
Guncle volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Patrick O'Hara is back. It's been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant's caretaker after their mother's passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and Patrick has relocated to New York to remain close by, and relaunch his dormant acting career. After the run of his second successful sit-com comes to a close, Patrick feels on top of the world... professionally. Some things have had to take a back seat. Looking...
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Series
Secrets of the sky volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Kiya and Kinjal return to the Kingdom Beyond. For their next adventure in the Kingdom Beyond, twins Kiya and Kinjal must help the flying horses with a sudden invasion of their lands. It turns out that the tree ghosts are losing their forest! To save the trees, and the Kingdom, they must use their collective knowledge of this world and of course their magic!
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"From prizewinning writer Joe Fassler comes a brilliant modern reimagining of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a story of obsession, longing, and the radical pursuit of utopia. It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away--while the world around her veers badly off course, hurtling toward economic and ecological collapse. She wants to find something better. But she has no...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, comes the first in-depth examination of Solidarity-not just as a rallying cry, but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change. Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Here, two leading activists and thinkers survey the past, present, and future of the concept across borders of nation, identity, and class to ask:...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When you are outside on a summer's day, have you ever seen fine powder on a flower or floating on the breeze? That's pollen, almost invisible, waiting for the only thing it needs -- a ride on the wind, or a wing, or a feather. And it's the pollinators, small and mighty, who hold the world together with their work.
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Series
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From a foremost author of historic Italy, this is a concise, star-studded retelling of the nation's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence"--
Author
Publisher
tra.publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Come along to Espanola Island, in the Galapagos archipelago, one of the only places in the world where the waved albatross breeds. Meet Waverly, a young albatross who is afraid to spread her wings and fly. What if she gets lonely? What if she misses home? As Waverly thinks things over, she befriends other unusual and special animals on Espanola Island. Together, they help Waverly discover just how brave she can be"--Provided by publisher.
9) Look away: a true story of murders, bombings, and a far-right campaign to rid Germany of immigrants
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Not long after the Berlin Wall came down, three teenagers-a woman and two men-became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of economic crisis: some four million East Germans found themselves out of a job. At first, the three friends spent their nights lingering in train stations, smoking, drinking, and looking for trouble. Then, they began attending far-right rallies with people called themselves National...
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Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"With their stunning black-and-orange wings, monarch butterflies are one of the most recognizable insects on the planet. But despite their delicate beauty, these creatures are warriors. The moment they hatch, they're fighting for their lives. Everything is the enemy: from the very leaf they live on to the humans and animals around them to nature itself. How does such a tiny egg survive to become a butterfly? And even after emerging from the cocoon,...
11) The real deal
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Is it harder to keep a secret when the world is watching - or to tell the truth when no-one is listening? Belle Simon was just 12 years old when she was one of six girls plucked from obscurity to star in reality TV sensation The Real Deal. Under the wing of dazzling star Donna Mayfair, she and the other five girls were meant to become world-famous actresses, singers and dancers. But at 26, Belle is trying to live anonymously, away from being loved...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This book surveys the history of fascism in the United States from the 1930s to the present, examining the rise of right-wing groups from the interwar period to the Trump era, along with the response of antifascists"--
Has fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the USA established a staunch anti-fascist reputation...
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Series
SuperDrew volume 2
Publisher
Snowy Wings Pubishing
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"Who says kids can't make a difference in the adult world? Not SuperDrew, and he's proved it big time. Not only did Drew and Jazz sneak into Donhil Corporation and uncover their secret supervillain plans, but they even negotiated a shaky truce with CEO Lungowe to get them out safely. They could call it quits there and count themselves lucky. But that would mean letting Donhil Corp win, wiping out humanity's free will in the name of world peace. Like...
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Publisher
AuthorHouse"!
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Flying a B-17 Flying Fortress with the Fifteenth Air Force out of Foggia, Italy, Lt. George H. Neilson describes the harrowing experiences of his twenty-eight combat missions as well as the ups and downs of life in the US Army Air Corps from enlistment to discharge (1943-45). Blending selections of his father's letters to home and memoirs he recorded a half century later with documented background history, the younger Neilson tells the saga of the...
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Publisher
Harvard Common Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Get out of the grilling rut and discover a big, colorful, and fantastically flavored world of new possibilities. Is there any kind of cooking that gets more stuck in a repetitive routine than grilling? If you've ever wanted to elevate your grilling beyond the endless parade of burgers, hot dogs, and steaks, Smokin' and Grillin' with Aaron Brown is the cookbook you need for the journey. And author Aaron "AB" Brown is the perfect guide, just as he...
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Publisher
George F. Thompson Publishing in association with the Center for the Study of Place
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The first artist to retrace the steps and revisit the landscapes of John James Audubon, from the East Coast, to the Gulf Coast, to the Heartland and Rocky Mountains. In 2010, when photographer Krista Elrick began traversing John James Audubon country in search of the birds the nineteenth-century American naturalist observed, painted, and wrote about, she encountered scarcely a sighting. Instead, she found the lushly forested watersheds and waterways...
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