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1) Missouri
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Missouri! Let Bennet show you around the state where he lives. Learn about his state's flag, animal, and flower. Find out his favorite activities too!"--
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Traverse Route 66 with Lonely Planet's collection of 3 amazing drives. From Chicago to Santa Monica and beyond, discover quirky towns and open roads. Pick a road trip that works for you, from just one stretch to the entire route. Take in the diverse landscapes around Meramee Caverns, Cadillac Ranch and Pasadena. Fill up on pie in Atlanta, IL, and step back in time at Tucumeari.
Author
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This ... biography is the first full account of a fascinating American scientist whose leadership created the modern science of entomology that recognizes both the essential role of insects in natural systems and their challenge to the agricultural food supply that sustains humankind. Charles Valentine Riley: Founder of Modern Entomology tells the story of how Riley (1843-1895), a young British immigrant to America - with classical schooling, only...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus...
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English
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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Series
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Catalogs a lifetime of bird sightings to explore the part-Lakota author's search for identity and his reckoning with colonialism's violence against Indigenous humans, animals, and land."--
"Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill...
10) Pocket Peaches
Author
Series
Pocket peaches volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Peaches and her pals Mango and Pogi all live in a cozy town called Pocketon. When a new cat, Taro, moves in, Peaches is on a mission to befriend her. The only thing is, Taro loves all things spooky and Peaches does not. Can Peaches find a way to become friends despite their differences.
Author
Series
Diary of an 8-bit warrior volume 5
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite villager-turned-warrior, Runt and his friends have had loads of adventures already. They have worked hard (at least some of them) as students, undergone intensive training in Villagetown, battled monsters sent by Herobrine, and even successfully completed their very first quest at Owl's Reach! But their greatest adventure begins now: making their way to the capital Aetheria City! What will Runt and his friends face at the Greater...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In August, 2014, Michael Brown--a young, unarmed Black man--was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing biased policing and court practices in the city. It is a document that exposes the racist policies and practices that have become commonplace--from disproportionate arrest rates, to flagrant...
Author
Publisher
iUniverse.com
Pub. Date
[2000].
Language
English
Description
For 40 years, the truth about the exorcism of 14 year old Robbie Mannheim remained a mystery. Then a priest's diary, hidden in a locked room in the mental ward of a St. Louis hospital, came to light - a diary written by one of the Jesuit priests who witnessed the bizarre and harrowing events firsthand."--
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Language
English
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Description
"When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home, she isn't expecting much. It's the usual holiday travel experience: busy, crowded, stressful. Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan sports dark hair, blue eyes, and a deliciously rugged charm that Izzy can't resist. Their connection is undeniable. Izzy never believed in destiny before, but she does now. Just ninety seconds after takeoff, their plane goes down in the Missouri...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Missouri, 1955. Loretta Davenport has led an isolated life as a young mother and a wife to Pete, an ambitious assistant professor at a Bible college. They're the picture of domestic tranquility-until a local girl is murdered and Loretta begins receiving messages from beyond. Pete dismisses them as delusions of a fevered female imagination. Loretta knows they're real-and frightening. Defying Pete's demands, Loretta finds an encouraging supporter in...
16) Heridas abiertas
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Returning to her hometown after a long absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling is a history of professional wrestling’s formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the “sport” as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced...
19) Kitten Ninja
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]-
Language
English
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Description
"Before Cat Ninja became Metro City's greatest defender, he was tiny, adorable Kitten Ninja and he battled...much tinier foes. (Everybody starts somewhere, right?)."--
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Beautiful sad eyes explores the romance of melancholy" -- Back cover.
"A poem told in two parts: Beautiful sad eyes explores the romance of melancholy, while Weary waiting for love shines light on the resilience of optimism and peace" -- Slipcase.
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