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7481) Guantánamo diary
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Pub. Date
c2015.
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"This is the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go. Three years into his captivity Slahi...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing...
7483) Guantanamo diary
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantnamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go....
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Peanuts kids volume 12
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Lucy van Pelt is one of the most outspoken members of the Peanuts gang, and she speaks volumes in this new collection! When Peppermint Patty campaigns for women's equality in sports, she recruits Lucy to speak out for her cause. Later, Lucy becomes a reporter-at-large for her school newspaper and writes a scoop about Charlie Brown's baseball team. Eventually, Lucy's gardening skills land her into trouble with farmer Woodstock and Snoopy the county...
7485) First aid
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"A new installment in the A True Book series focusing on Survival Skills"--
"Learn basic survival skills and connect with nature! Knowing how to treat injuries is a skill that every outdoor adventurer needs. Did you know that you can splint a broken finger using only tape? Or that cool water is the first step to treating a burn? Learn all this and more in First Aid - a book that gives kids the confidence they need to get outside and explore. ABOUT...
7486) Navigation
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A new installment in the A True Book series focusing on Survival Skills"--
"Learn basic survival skills and connect with nature! Knowing how to navigate - whether it's by using a compass or by using objects found in nature - is a skill that every outdoor adventurer needs. Did you know that you can make a compass out of sticks and rocks? Or that you can use the stars as a guide? Learn all this and more in Navigation - a book that gives kids the confidence...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
With a gift for fine art and a lifelong love of nature, Daniele paints magnificent animal subjects on an unconventional canvas--human hands. This awe-inspiring collection showcases 16 creatures along with photos and factual information about the various species. Full color
7489) Vault of shadows
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Series
The Nightsiders volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Milo must choose between risking his life to save both the human and magical universes--or to live and save only his own"--
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"This lively, hands-on guide to meditation, mindfulness, and yoga is a perfect introduction for tweens and teens. Don't just do something, be here.The key to happiness is being able to find comfort in this moment, here and now. When you are completely present and not distracted by regrets, worries, and plans, even for a little while, you begin to feel more confident and can deal more easily with everything you experience. This is mindfulness: paying...
7493) Friends
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A girl from a faraway place begins her first day at school. She doesn't speak the language and she looks different. She just doesn't fit in. But one day, she makes an unexpected friend, a squirrel! Then a rabbit joins them. Soon the girl's fuzzy woodland friends are followed by human ones and school becomes more fun!"--Provided by publisher.
7494) Dreaming dangerous
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
At Brassmere Academy for the Extraordinary, twelve-year-old Plum and her best friends share adventures in dreams each night, but when Artem disappears they discover alarming secrets about Brassmere and its intentions.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with. Fans often wish they'd discovered these learning strategies earlier and ask how they can...
7496) Christmas Eve cowboy
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Snow is falling, and when it comes to love, so are the rugged, gorgeous cowboys, in this romantic holiday collection.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Little Poet Walt Whitman: Miracles Everywhere shows little ones how to find the miracles of daily life with lines from Walt Whitman's Miracles in Leaves of Grass. Learn to spot the miracles in houses and towns, birds, bees, and butterflies, the moon and stars, and more with Whitman's famous poetry and Carme Lemniscates adorable artwork. Inspiring little readers to Be Creative, Be Brilliant, and Be Yourself, with Walt Whitman, everything is a miracle!...