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Author
Series
Strangeworlds Travel Agency trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Flick Hudson accidentally visits Strangeworld Travel Agency where she can travel to other worlds through magical suitcases.
Author
Series
Strangeworlds Travel Agency trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"With worlds everywhere under threat of collapse and mysteries abounding, it's up to Flick and Jonathan to discover why the Strangeworlds Society exists and who it is trying to protect. And only if they can uncover these secrets, and the secrets of a mysterious new world called the Stormforest, will they have any hope of defending their world--and others--from the threat that is facing them all"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Strangeworlds Travel Agency trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Flick tries to save a watery world from total destruction in this magical second book in the Strangeworlds Travel Agency series.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Musically gifted seventeen-year-old Kyler and his new neighbor Lennon, who is crippled by her OCD, discover that the strength to survive, live, and love can be found in unexpected places." --
If Lennon Davis flicks the bedroom light switch five times, maybe her new LA school won't suck. Ten more flicks and maybe her new stepfamily will accept her. Fifty more and then she can finally go to sleep.... Kyler Benton witnesses this pattern of lights from...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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A pioneering canine behaviorist draws on cutting-edge research to show that a single, simple trait--the capacity to love--is what makes dogs such perfect companions for humans, and to explain how people can better reciprocate their affection.
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Language
English
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Description
As COVID-19 gripped America, we learned that African American communities were being disproportionately infected and killed by the pandemic. Minority communities lag behind in access to medical care, healthy food, clean air and water, mental health care, education, and more. D.L. Hughley does a deep dive into the white lies surrounding Black public health, resulting in a lively work of social commentary that's essential for understanding race relations...
9) Trump 45
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A pictorial history of America's greatest president, Donald Trump."--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What do the Clintons, Republicans, fellow Democrats, and Obama's own family really think of President Barack Obama? Finally, the truth is revealed in this ... 'oral history' parody ... In the vein of Jon Stewart's America : the book, [this] is an acerbic ... take on Obama's two terms, looking at the president's accomplishments and foibles through the imagined eyes of those who saw history unfold"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Clarence Thomas is a Justice of the Supreme Court, one of America's most important jobs, but he was once a kid just like you! Building houses, planting a vegetable garden, driving his grandfather's truck, and helping those in need, these are just a few things Clarence Thomas learned while growing up in Pin Point, Georgia. The things Clarence Thomas learned are what led him to become the 106th Supreme Court Justice to the Supreme Court.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Melania Trump's journey from a communist upbringing to becoming First Lady gives her a perspective on true freedom that most people from western Europe and the United States take for granted. This book details in photographs and commentary the spectacular journey of a woman who brings elegance back to the White House. Fashion-forward and sophisticated, but also incredibly approachable and humble, her personal staff is less than half the size of the...
17) Fungarium
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Series
Publisher
Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Return to the Museum with exquisite, detailed images of some of the most fascinating living organisms on this planet--fungi. Exploring every sort of fungi, from the kinds we see on supermarket shelves to those like penicillium that have shaped human history, this collection is the definitive introduction to what fungi are and just how vital they are to the world's ecosystem.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Zeke Meeks will be nine soon, but he is not looking forward to a party that his sisters want to take over and nobody but his closest friends want to attend--but the alternative is going to Grace Chang's party on the same day, and she is really scary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Zeke's school is having a fund-raiser and the student who sell the most cake mix will get four tickets to Thrillsville Amusement Park, but Zeke is not having much luck until his great-grandmother gives him a lesson in salesmanship--and he takes his little sister with him.