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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"David Crader is a has-been. A former child actor from the hit 90s teen drama Rev Beach, he now rotates between his new roles as deadbeat dad, part-time alcoholic, and occasional videogame voice actor. But when David is summoned to Los Angeles by Grace, his ex-wife and former co-star, he suddenly sees an opportunity for a reboot--not just of the show that made him famous, but also of his listless existence. Hollywood, the Internet, and a fractured...
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Language
English
Description
“The Spoiled Heart confirms Sunjeev Sahota's position as one of our essential novelists.” —Karan Mahajan, author of the National Book Award Finalist The Association of Small Bombs
A brilliant and riveting story of ambition, love, family secrets, and unintended consequences, from “bold storyteller” (The New Yorker) and two-time Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota
Nayan Olak keeps seeing...
A brilliant and riveting story of ambition, love, family secrets, and unintended consequences, from “bold storyteller” (The New Yorker) and two-time Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota
Nayan Olak keeps seeing...
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Our world is filled with extraordinary diversity, from amoebas to zebras, from tiny toadstools to giant oaks. The wonders of the natural world are on display in The Animal Book. This guide to life on our planet is packed full of information about creatures big and small. This tome is structured according to scientific classification, with straightforward explanations of more than 1,500 specimens, each stunningly photographed. A "tree of life" greets...
7) Black white
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
White illustrations against a black background, alternating with black illustrations against a white background, depicting objects such as an elephant, butterfly, leaf, horse, baby bottle, and sailboat.
8) The Telling
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Series
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English
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Winner of the Locus Award • Winner of the Endeavor Award
"[Le Guin] can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory—in The Telling, she does both, gorgeously." —Jonathan Lethem
Sutty, an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to a new world—a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state, the Corporation.
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Building the Brooklyn Bridge was no simple feat. Despite a brilliant plan from a father-son team of engineers, the process was a dangerous and grueling one. Construction workers developed a mysterious illness (now known as the bends), several died, and the project had devastating effects on the engineers' lives. Still, after fourteen years, the Brooklyn Bridge was finished and became the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time and is still...
10) Counting kisses
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Series
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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Description
How many kisses does a tired baby need to change her from crying into sleeping?
Series
Publisher
DK/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Una recopilación de los datos e imágenes más increíbles de la naturaleza, la ciencia y la historia del mundo. ¡Sumérgete en este fascinante libro para niños sobre el mundo que nos rodea! Incluye toda la información sobre diferentes aspectos de la vida y del planeta: los mayores récords mundiales, las personas más influyentes de la historia, la tecnología más vanguardista y los animales más asombrosos de la naturaleza. En sus páginas,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our...
13) Falling for Gage
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Language
English
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"How is it possible that perfect Gage Buchanan is still single after all these years? He can't quite figure it out himself. Perhaps he just hasn't met the right woman yet. Maybe he spent too many years enjoying the life of bachelor-hood as all the available women got scooped up by those more willing to commit. Or perhaps...he isn't quite as perfect as he seems"--
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Series
Publisher
Nora Sakavic
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas.
It is a truth Jean has built his life around, a reminder this is the best he can hope for and all he deserves. But when he is stolen from Edgar Allan University and sold to a more dangerous master, Jean is forced to contend with a life outside of the Nest for the first time in five years. The Foxes call his transfer to California a fresh start; Jean knows
...15) Finders Keepers
Author
Series
Millionaires club (Sandra Kitt) volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
She found a love worth more than money.
When Olivia Cameron set out to renovate the house left to her by her great-aunt, the last thing she expected to find behind the walls was millions of dollars worth of currency dated circa 1929. As the director of a charter school, to reap this much money would be life changing, so long as it's hers to keep. But when FBI agent Sloan Kendrick comes to question her, the instant attraction
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Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Set in the same universe as Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these five linked Hainish stories follow far-future human colonies living in the distant solar system
Here for the first time is the complete suite of five linked stories from Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed Hainish series, which tells the history of the Ekumen, the galactic...
Here for the first time is the complete suite of five linked stories from Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed Hainish series, which tells the history of the Ekumen, the galactic...
17) The Image of You
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Identical twins with a bond so strong nothing can tear them apart. Until...one of them meets her perfect man.
Anna and Zoe are identical in appearance, absolutely opposite in personality. They are so close that nothing—and no one—can come between them.
When Anna meets the charismatic Nick through online dating, her heart tells her she's found the one. Zoe, however,...
Identical twins with a bond so strong nothing can tear them apart. Until...one of them meets her perfect man.
Anna and Zoe are identical in appearance, absolutely opposite in personality. They are so close that nothing—and no one—can come between them.
When Anna meets the charismatic Nick through online dating, her heart tells her she's found the one. Zoe, however,...
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English
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In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her. Then an enemy's iron bullet kills her mother, Venus's life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister...
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