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"There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and with no clear international authority, the oceans have become the setting for rampant criminality--from human trafficking and slavery to environmental crimes and piracy. Now, in The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina--prize-winning reporter for The New York Times--gives us a galvanizing account of the several years...
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Gnome and Rat volume 1
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Alfred A. Knopf
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[2023]
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Best friends Gnome and Rat celebrate Hat Day, learn magic tricks, and find Gnome a new signature hat in their charming forest.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop sprang from Willa Cather's love for the land and cultures of the American Southwest. Published in 1927 to both praise and perplexity, it has since claimed for itself a major place in twentieth-century literature. The narrative follows Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, friends since their childhood in France, as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of Santa Fe subsequent to the Mexican War. While...
10) Wherever you go
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2024.
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In simple, rhyming text, an adult expresses their love, hopes, and dreams for a child.
12) Lucy Gayheart
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A young girl in an American village goes to Chicago to study music, falls in love with a middle-aged singer, knows a brief moment of contentment, and then the pain of a separation that is final.
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The Simian World looks at man's simian characteristics. Day speculates on how man might have been better off if we had evolved from ants, bees, dogs cats, or even elephants. Clarence Day travels back in time to examine the species existing after the great saurians had been swept from the earth. Day's use of gentle satire helps make this book a delightful book to ponder.
14) Petunia
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Petunia, the goose, learns that possessing knowledge involves more than just carrying a book around under her wing.
15) Snow and sorcery
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Cardboard kingdom volume 3
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Alfred A. Knopf
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[2023]
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English
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"The kids of the Cardboard Kingdom go on a new adventure! This time, they are in search of new friends--but what they discover is a lot more like enemies... It's winter break in the Cardboard Kingdom, and kids from the town across the park want to play together! But according to the evil Sorceress, not just anyone can join the kingdom... So it's not long before the two communities spiral into battle. Will the Sorceress realize the error of her ways...
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H. M. Tomlinson was a war correspondent for the British army in France during World War I, an experience that made him fervently anti-war. Waiting for Daylight, published shortly after World War I, is a memorable and penetrating collection of essays about his experiences during the war and his reactions to modern warfare.
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A story of the rivalry between Arab traders, the city-state of Venice, and of the struggling nation of Portugal to dominate the spice trade by finding a new sea route to India by going around the "Devil's Cave"--The Cape of Good Hope. In Lisbon, the workshop of Abel Zakuto, a Jew, becomes the meeting place for Vasco da Gama, Bartholomeu Dias, and Ferdinand Magellan to discuss their plans to find this sea route. How the Jews furthered the work of discovery...
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Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown Flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown. Includes: author's note, bibliography, map and historical timeline.
