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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
It wasn't the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see...where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later...where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military...
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Language
English
Description
You don't have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our visual perception, attention, memory, and behavior. This has an impact on education, employment, housing, and criminal justice. In Biased, with a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Jennifer Eberhardt...
3) Fly away
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Series
Language
English
Description
Tully Hart has always been larger than life, a woman fueled by big dreams and driven by memories of a painful past. She thinks she can overcome anything until her best friend, Kate Ryan, dies. Tully tries to fulfill her deathbed promise to Kate -- to be there for Kate's children -- but Tully knows nothing about family or motherhood or taking care of people. Sixteen-year-old Marah Ryan is devastated by her mother's death. Her father, Johnny, strives...
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Series
Minecraft Woodsword Chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Get ready for Book 5 in the ongoing chapter book series based on Minecraft! The adventures continue in the fifth official Minecraft chapter book based on the most popular video games of all time. When Po, Morgan, and three of their fellow Minecraft players track the Evoker King to his home in the heart of a perilous dungeon, they have to gear up for an epic fantasy quest filled with danger, dragons, and hostile mobs. Meanwhile, in the real world,...
5) Flies for selective trout: complete step-by-step instructions on how to tie the newest swisher flies
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Doug Swisher cowrote Selective Trout, the bestselling fly-fishing book of all time. Now he's back with brand new flies. Flies for Selective Trout covers a few of the "No Hackle Types" and many of Doug and Sharon's new attractor flies, such as glow-in-the-dark, ultraviolet, brush flies, advanced pupas, and our action-dubbing versions--with wiggly legs right in the dubbing."--Book flap.
Author
Publisher
Pam Krauss/Avery
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The first cookbook from homesteaders and co-stars of Discovery's Alaska: The Last Frontier Eve and Eivin Kilcher features appealing recipes for anyone looking to live more sustainably, healthfully, and independently, regardless of where and what they call home. Eve and Eivin Kilcher, stars of the hit Discovery show Alaska: The Last Frontier, are experts in sustainable living. Homesteaders by choice, the couple has had to use their self-reliance skills...
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Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 7
Language
English
Description
Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family, unlike his sister Icicle, who has been raised to challenge IceWing queen--but now that Icicle has broken the truce and escaped from Jade Mountain Academy, so Winter, accompanied by his new clawmates, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou, embarks on his own quest to free his brother from the clutches of Queen Scarlet, and win the respect of his family.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published."This is a book I reread a lot... it gives me hope... it gives me a sense of strength."--Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNNThis seminal book, which has been called "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought" by Carl Rogers and "one of the great books of our time" by...
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Series
Cat Kid Comic Club volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Trying to stay true to their vision as the comic club goes in all different directions, Naomi, Melvin and siblings search for their purpose until a desire for money and power clouds Naomi's judgment, which could mean the end for the club.
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Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). The broken code volume 5
Warriors the broken code volume 5
Warriors. The broken code volume 5
Warriors the broken code volume 5
Warriors. The broken code volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The imposter walking in Bramblestar's pawsteps retreats to the Dark Forest, where the other Clans must follow if they hope to restore their connection with their ancestors in StarClan"--
13) I am enough
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Language
English
Description
Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another.
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Series
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Herobrine is rallying all the monsters of Minecraft to one server in hopes of eliminating Gameknight999 and his friends once and for all. They destroy every village they find, threatening to continue until the User-that-is-not-a-user surrenders. Gameknight has just two things: the Oracle's command to seek out the lost ocean monument and an impenetrable riddle: "Look to the lowliest and most insignificant of creatures, for that is where your salvation...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD. In 2011, James began researching the strange disappearance of Maura Murray, a UMass student who went missing after wrecking her car in rural New Hampshire...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An ancient jungle temple holds the secrets to stopping the evil Herobrine! Gameknight999's true enemy has finally surfaced: Herobrine, an artificially intelligent virus that wants to escape Minecraft and destroy mankind with their own creation--the Internet. If he is able to escape the game and get online, Herobrine will infect millions of computer systems and turn machines and weapons on their masters, threatening all of humanity. After facing Herobrine...
17) Black Elk speaks
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk's searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota...
18) What if it's us
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Series
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.
19) In deeper waters
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Language
English
Description
Prince Tal has long awaited his coming-of-age tour. After spending most of his life cloistered behind palace walls as he learns to keep his forbidden magic secret, he can finally see his family's kingdom for the first time. His first taste of adventure comes just two days into the journey, when their crew discovers a mysterious prisoner on a burning derelict vessel. Tasked with watching over the prisoner, Tal is surprised to feel an intense connection...
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Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). The broken code volume 6
Warriors. The broken code volume 6
Warriors the broken code volume 06
Warriors. The broken code volume 6
Warriors the broken code volume 06
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"StarClan, the Dark Forest, and all five warrior Clans band together for a final battle that seeks to destroy Bramblestar's impostor before he destroys everything they hold dear"--