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1) Hades
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English
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Hades messed up his relationship with Doc and he knows it. He doesn't remember a thing, but he's seen the proof. He just wants, no needs, another chance to do things right. He doesn't want to live without her, why can't she see how much he cares?Maybe it's not fair that she won't give him another chance because of the way her father was. Hades was tried and convicted in the court of public opinion and her own for that matter. Are there facts that...
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English
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JulietFor three years I've been relying on Aldric.After my parents died, he swooped in to take care of me.It's not fair to him. I know I'm holding him back.I'm a ballerina, but only in private.I'm also Little…but only in private.My fantasy of Aldric being the Daddy I crave is just that, a fantasy.What if I admit what I really want and I lose him? AldricWith our age difference, I know we have an unconventional relationship.There's no place I'd rather...
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Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, brand-new illustrated book for middle-grade readers that looks at the early history of humankind. Even though we'll never outrun a hungry lion or outswim an angry shark, humans are pretty impressive-and we're the most dominant species on the planet. So how exactly did we become "unstoppable"? The answer to that is...
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Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since mysterious bones were found in 1822, scientists and artists have tried to figure out what the creature they came from looked like. But it seems that every time they've made up their minds, someone makes a new discovery, and they have to start all over. That's only fair, though--after all, it's how knowledge advances!"-- Publisher's website
"Traces the process of defining--and redefining--the dinosaur called Iguanodon"--
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Purls and prayers volume 2
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English
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"Fair Meadows Retirement Community might as well be a country club for most of the retirees enjoying the pool, golf course, and book clubs. But for the caregivers whose family members reside upstairs in the special Memory Care Unit, vacation is over. Comforting these caregivers is exactly why the Woolgatherers group has formed. They make prayer shawls to support those affected by the heartbreaking reality of not being recognized by a loved one-people...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back"--
"A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back. In an era of supposed great equality,...
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Weird sisters volume 3
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Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The town of Covenly's Fall Fair is in full swing, and when a prized show chicken goes missing, the Weird Sisters--Hildegurp, Yuckmina, and Glubbifer--along with their nine-year-old friend, Jessica Nibley, have a new mystery to solve. And to make matters more baffling, cat Graymalkin and an elegantly dress fog have also vanished. Could it be fowl play?"--
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Publisher
Candlewick Studio
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Rachel Carson once wrote, "It is not half so important to know as to feel." What do we know about clouds? There are three basic types: stratus, cumulus, and cirrus. Some are fleecy and fair-weathered while others portend storms. But clouds are more than pretty or ominous backdrops. They're the vehicle of water between sea and land, land and sea, in a cycle without end or beginning. They are the writing of the wind on the sky, a language all their...
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Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Fun, tangible advice on how to live with money, not for money, from the women behind The Financial Diet. The Girlboss came in many forms, and she struggled valiantly against the rising wave of exhaustion at her brand of pinkwashed-capitalism-as-liberation-but it's fair to say that we can finally put her to rest. Yes, money is essential to life, and managing it well is often the difference between freedom and constraint. But once you have enough of...
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Auschwitz, 1943: I stroke my beautiful baby's hair. It's a miracle it's blonde because it will keep her alive, it will keep her safe. Soon they will come and take Pippa out of Auschwitz-Birkenau - and out of my arms. But while there's life, there's hope I might find my daughter again... An incredible story of one woman's courage and determination to reunite her family in the aftermath of surviving Auschwitz. 1945, Ester Pasternak walked out of the...
12) Fi: a memoir
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child. "Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." And so begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It's midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from...
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...
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Publisher
Aster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Ever sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? Think there's 'no point' in just one drink? Welcome! There are millions of us. 64% of Brits want to drink less... Catherine Gray was stuck in a hellish whirligig of Drink, Make horrible decisions, Hangover, Repeat. She had her fair share of 'drunk tank' jail cells and topless-in-a-hot-tub misadventures. But this book goes beyond the binges and blackouts to deep-dive into uncharted...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From octopuses on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to brown bears on Alaska's Aleutian Islands, we follow adventurous researchers as they design and conduct experiments seeking answers to new, intriguing questions: When did play first appear in animals? How does play develop the brain, and how did it evolve? Are the songs and aerial acrobatics of birds the beginning of avian culture? Is fairness in dog play the foundation...
16) Tweet cute
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Publisher
VR Editoras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Pepper, la perfeccionista, es la lengua mordaz detrás de los tweets de la cadena de hamburguesas de su familia. Jack el payaso de la clase, y está dispuesto a ir a la guerra por defender la tienda de comidas de su abuela, literalmente. Cuando Big League Burger roba la receta más famosa de Girl Cheesing, comienza el enfrentamiento de Twitter más icónico y sabroso. Pero mientras Pepper y Jack se matan a fuerza de memes, likes y retweets en las...
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Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Daredevil takes on all comers! The Man Without Fear faces the maniac without pain: the irrepressible Madcap! But that's just a warmup for DD's rematch with one of his most powerful foes -- Mister Hyde! And the hits just keep coming...Klaw, Master of Sound makes some noise, Chance tries his luck, and the savage Sabretooth crosses Daredevil's path right in the middle of the Mutant Massacre! Plus, DD's old flame the Black Widow returns -- but will Matt...
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Series
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet. The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development? While the vast majority of scientists who study the environment agree that humans play a large part in climate change, there is a counterargument. Author Gail Herman...
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Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An epic history of the people and institutions that have built the global economy since the Great Depression"--
"In this vivid landmark history, the distinguished economic historian Martin Daunton pulls back the curtain on the institutions and individuals who have created and managed the global economy over the last ninety years, revealing how and why one economic order breaks down and another is built. During the Great Depression, trade and currency...