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"Ave you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you're over forty, you're probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer's or dementia. In reality, for the vast majority of us, these examples of forgetting are...
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Most people think there is little you can do to avoid Alzheimer's, but scientists now know this is not true. After best-selling author Jean Carper discovered that she had the major susceptibility gene for Alzheimer's, she was determined to find all the latest scientific evidence on how to escape it. She discovered 100 simple, scientifically-tested ways to cut the odds of Alzheimer's, memory decline, and other forms of dementia. These range from vinegar...
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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...
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2022.
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English
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2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
For Fans of Encanto: Middle Grade
Titles Worth Trying: Fantasy [Middle School]
For Fans of Encanto: Middle Grade
Titles Worth Trying: Fantasy [Middle School]
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On the eve of her Quinceañera, Princess Solimar discovers that it will take more than magic to save her kingdom and prevent the destruction of the Monarch butterfly.
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2023.
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"Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections--a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera...
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Bravelands. Original series volume 5
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English
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"The true Great Parent has finally risen and must unite all the animals of Bravelands to prevent an ancient evil from taking root"--
"As the new Great Father, the young baboon, Thorn, hopes to guide Bravelands to peace after a period of great turmoil. But a pack of rogue wolves lurks among the Great Herd, committing acts so evil they threaten to shatter that peace before it's even begun. The animals of the Great Herd must once again unite to defend...
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Editorial Planeta
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2022.
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Español
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The Harvard-trained neuroscientist presents an exploration of the intricacies of human memory that distinguishes between normal and concerning memory loss while explaining the profound roles of sleep, stress, and other contributing influences.
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2021.
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"Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one...
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RBA
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2019.
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Español
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How are memories formed? Why do we remember and forget things. Do men and women have different recall abilities? What diseases affect the brain? This book reveals the brain's secrets and teaches you how to take care of and improve your memory.
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"How do some people avoid the slowing down, deteriorating, and weakening that plagues many of their peers decades earlier? Are they just lucky? Or do they know something the rest of us don't? Is it possible to grow older without getting sicker? What if you could look and feel fifty through your eighties and nineties? Founder of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and one of the leading pioneers of longevity...
14) Clarion call
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Ravensong (Cayla Fay) volume 2
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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2024.
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English
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Having failed to prevent her vengeful cousin from breaching the Veil, demi-god Neve attempts to prevent more havoc and destruction in the mortal world while she also grapples with old memories, a new family member's emergence, and the delicate balance between past, present, and an uncertain future.
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"A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States. Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents?...
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"An expanded edition of the first practical, nonjudgmental handbook for dealing with microaggressions, featuring examples, sample scripts, action plans, a new discussion and activity guide, and up-to-date suggestions for creating a culture of belonging in the workplace. Overt discrimination is relatively easy to spot. But the less obvious but more common actions that make people feel left out or stigmatized in our workplaces, commonly called microaggressions,...
17) Bloodmage
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Age of darkness (Stephen Aryan) volume 2
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Orbit
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©2016.
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English
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"The people of Perizzi have survived the Battlemage war, but their future is looking darker than ever. Byrne is a Guardian of the Peace, investigating a series of murders in which the corpses were drained entirely of blood. Fray's expertise with magic is needed to catch the killer, but working with the Guardians destroyed his father years before. Choss, renowned as a fighter, must work for peace and defuse a war in the underworld that will make the...
18) Not all heroes
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
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©2021.
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English
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2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
TAB 2022: Williamsburg
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
TAB 2022: Williamsburg
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Moving halfway across the country did not help eleven-year-old Zinnia deal with her little brother's death, but joining her neighbors and aunt as a Real Life Super Hero does that and more.
19) River
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Warriors (Erin Hunter). Starless clan volume 1
Warriors a starless clan volume 1
Warriors. Starless clan volume 1
Warriors a starless clan volume 1
Warriors. Starless clan volume 1
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English
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"The dawn of a new age is upon the warrior Clans, but when tragedy strikes RiverClan, one young medicine cat must use her gift to prevent the Clans' newfound peace from descending into chaos"--
20) Valkyrie
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Valkyrie (Kate O'Hearn) volume 1
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Freya is a Valkyrie, a reaper of souls. But she hates what she must do. She doesn't like humans and the pain they inflict on each other, and she never wants to visit another battlefield. But when a soldier begs her to help his family back in the human realm, she agrees and discovers a world of friends. Now she'll have to find a way to keep her promise to the soldier and prevent the wrath of Odin from destroying the world"--
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