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"Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker for the local utility municipality, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize. In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new novel, Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation's controversial one- child policy. Frog opens with a playwright...
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Young readers can find out exactly what is needed to grow a baby, from introducing the basic building blocks of life such as sperm and eggs, to explaining the different ways that these building blocks can be put together to create a family. Working closely with a leading national LGBT organisation, this inclusive guide to Making a Baby covers sex, sperm and egg donation, IUI, IVF, surrogacy and adoption, as well as explaining how a baby grows in the...
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Explains conception and reproduction in a picturebook format.
"What Makes a Baby is a book for every kind of family and every kind of kid. It is a 21st century children's picture book about where babies come from that reflects the reality of our modern time by being inclusive of all kinds of kids, adults, and families, however they came to be. Geared to readers from pre-school to 8 years old, it teaches curious kids about conception, gestation, and...
10) And so it goes
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Publisher
Groundwood
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Explores the way that some people leave the world and others come into it, and how those who come into it eventually leave it.
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