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Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie Heller and her family emigrated from Germany to the small town of Victory, Illinois, well before WWII began. But now that the war has deeply affected the town, local residents are beginning to turn a cold shoulder toward them. Then tragedy strikes when a train is derailed, and the Heller family is unfairly blamed. With paranoia and discrimination threatening to destroy the once peaceful town, the handsome teacher from the high school gallantly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A baseball player slides on the ground to tag a base. A toy car's wheels rub against the floor and slow the toy car down. Friction is at work all around you. But what exactly is friction? And how does it affect different objects? Read this book to find out! Learn all about matter, energy, and forces in the Exploring Physical Science series, part of the Lightning Bolt Books collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning...
Author
Series
Shadows of New York volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"[A] gripping mystery about a sinister murder that everyone wants to stay buried -- except one dogged NYPD detective. Jo Greaver is a model of success. Young and ambitious, she's built a thriving beauty business from nothing. But she has secrets she'll do anything to keep buried. When her blackmailer offers to meet, Jo expects to pay him off -- but gets a bullet instead. Bleeding and in shock, Jo flees with no one to turn to. When NYPD detective Sheryn...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Simone Yang is excited to be visiting her grandmother and her best friend Olive in Maine, but Olive and her friends want to visit the carnival that just arrived and ride the ferris wheel, and Simone is really, really afraid of heights; she does not want to let her friend down, but the rides at the Forever Fun Carnival are falling apart, the workers are creepy--and the fortune-telling machine is telling her "you are right to be scared."
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When estranged siblings seventeen-year-old Niko and fifteen-year-old Aili meet at a selective camp for art students, they embark on a quest to uncover their shared history and grapple with their personal identities and perceptions.
When Nico and Ali meet at Ogilvy Summer Art Institute, a selective camp for art students in New York City, they seem like complete opposites. Ali comes across as standoffish to laid-back Niko, who feels like a fish out...
10) Looking down
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A series of views of one landscape is seen from progressively higher vantage points, beginning with a view of the sidewalk as seen by a kneeling child and ending outside our galaxy.
14) Don't look down
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
With Don't Look Down, Skylar Grey takes listeners on a sonic exploration that spans darkly brooding yet beautiful vocal textures, innovative beats, intricate instrumentation, and vast cinematic imagery. Many have already been introduced to the singer-songwriter through her work on such hit singles as smash Eminem and Rihanna duet Love the Way You Lie. Grey also served as a co-writer on Dr. Dre's I Need a Doctor.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Slow Down series encourages kids (and their grown- ups!) to take the time to stop and experience mindful moments in nature. Zoom in to observe a hummingbird drinking nectar or a pea shoot appear. Delight in a little snail as he comes come out to drink. Charming text paired with real science invite you to observe nature up close. Let it stop you in your tracks, so that you can truly find joy in the present moment"--
19) I am so pregnant: an illustrated look at the ups and downs, and everything in between, of pregnancy
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Being “a little bit pregnant” may not be a thing. But being “so pregnant”? It's so possible. In this hilarious book, mom and illustrator Line Severinsen delivers the often ignored, but always honest truth about those magical, and sometimes messy, nine months of pregnancy.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Sloane Crosley, Mindy Kaling, and Katie Heaney, a hilarious and insightful memoir about one New York City Millennial's journey to find herself, her dream career, and true love, all while juggling a truly unique job as the world's only professional bridesmaid. After moving to New York City in her mid-twenties to pursue her dream of writing--and not living on the "Upper East Side" of her parents' house anymore--Jen Glantz looked...
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