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Bletchley Circle San Francisco volume 3
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English
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Iris struggles with husband Marcus' imminent deployment overseas.
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English
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Hector is an unimportant mouse on a very important journey. His happy family life on a small farm comes to an end when he's accidentally carried off to the city. Hector discovers that finding a new home in an unfamiliar place is a challenge, but a song, a voice of love, and friendships guide him in his new life. Throughout his journey, he wonders if he'll find the place he truly belongs while questioning if he'll ever see his family again.
Hector's...
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Kella dreams of joining her family and friends in the magical sky dances over Lake Maracaibo. But this dream is threatened by her own bad habits of inconsistency, forcing Kella to face down her fears and overcome them. As the young Verdantmaw embarks on a solitary journey through the mysterious jungle to Angel Falls, where she must fly through the waterfall's healing mist, she meets new friends and challenges old traditions. These experiences give...
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An amazing guide to some of the most beloved, original, inspiring, hysterical, heart-warming, compelling, rude and downright scary books that have enchanted children the world over. In 100 Children's Books That Inspired Our World, author Colin Salter surveys an exceptional collection of truly groundbreaking children's books—from Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer to the graphic novels of Dr. Seuss. All the classic children's authors are represented with one...
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A Year with Nature is an almanac like none you've ever seen: combining science and aesthetics, it is a daily affirmation of the extraordinary richness of biodiversity and our enduring beguilement by its beauty. With a text by herpetologist and natural history writer Marty Crump and a cornucopia of original illustrations by Bronwyn McIvor, this quirky quotidian reverie gazes across the globe, media, and time as it celebrates date-appropriate natural...
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Andrew Blauner is a literary agent and the editor of seven previous anthologies, including Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference, The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life, and In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs. Facebook.com/ThoreauAnthology
From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden
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This one-of-a-kind collection reminds weary adults not to lose sight of the values and virtues they learned as kids. Here are over three hundred quotations from over two hundred well-loved children's books, such as Charlotte's Web, Peter Pan, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Eloise, Sounder, Number the Stars, and Goodnight Moon, organized by topic, among them Acceptance, Goodness, Family Woes, and Growing Old. On Silence: "I assure you that...
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PublicAffairs
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2023.
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English
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"Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia -- peddling vaccine misinformation, tales of child trafficking, and wild conspiracy theories. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a disturbing social media trend emerged: a large number of yoga instructors and alt-health influencers were posting stories about a secretive global cabal...
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"London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her mother's death than Charlotte had been told. She turns...
11) Scrapper
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie, a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden...
12) Dune, part two
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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The mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen on a warpath of revenge and endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
13) Planet earth III
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BBC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Completing the Planet Earth trilogy, Planet Earth III explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our imagination. From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet₂s last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have evolved to survive. Each episode focuses on a distinct...
14) Wandering stars
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"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where...
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Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Français
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Newly single mother Elisabeth is left to support her two teenage children, Mathias and Judith. Securing a job on her favorite late-night radio show hosted by Vanda Dorval, she encounters struggling teenager Talulah, whom she offers a place to stay. In this new set-up, a new dynamic takes hold as each will experience compassion, determination love, and an abiding bond between them.
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Clarkson Potter Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A unique, illustrated introduction to astrology that explores the zodiac through a literary lens, drawing lessons from celebrated authors including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, W.E.B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, Oscar Wilde, and dozens more. AstroLit is a cosmic voyage through the lives and works of literary giants from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Renowned literary history scholars McCormick Templeman and Rachel Feder...
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Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Aware that her time is running short, the irascible Wu family matriarch Lily is eager to repair the strained relationship with her adult daughter Mary and help her shy eighteen-year-old granddaughter Emma find her voice. As her final wish, she persuades longtime friend Charlotte, Emma, and Emma's best friend Karen to spring her from her L.A. nursing home and take a wild road trip up the California coast to a special place from her past. Along the...
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S. hrg volume 118-36
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U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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S. hrg volume 117-393
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2023.
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English