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81) HEATWAVE
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An almost unbearably hot day of one hundred degrees is transformed as raindrops fall one by one, culminating in a downpour.
82) THE TOURNAMENT
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jett Warner receives a coveted invitation to the Southwest Regional Minecraft Tournament, but with unpredictable rules and the sudden need for a partner, he reluctantly teams up with his father, and the duo will need to work as a team in order to win.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Former editor of the Cabot Cove Gazette, Evelyn Phillips is back in Cabot Cove. Evelyn tells Jessica and Seth that she got a couple of really weird notes from Bertha Mae Cormier so she's come back to town to check on her old friend. She demands that Jessica come with her to see Bertha Mae, who is a bit dithery but no more so than Jessica remembers her being in recent years. Jessica does become somewhat concerned when Bertha Mae starts to talk about...
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
To keep the devil at bay, her beauty-obsessed kingdom sacrifices unattractive children to hell's entrance every season, prompting plain, poor, plus-sized, autistic Alesta to travel to the very depths of hell to avenge her best friend's death and stop thesacrifices forever.
Author
Series
Calico volume ninth
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of Latin American horror short stories in translation"--
Author
Publisher
Highlights Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Mouse is looking for a new house, but everything Bear and Squirrel suggest isn't quite right. In this Level P Highlights Puzzle Reader, readers can join in the search for a house for Mouse and then find hidden letters throughout the book. The simple texthas lots of picture support that will keep readers turning the pages, while the puzzle encourages re-reading. With a bonus matching activity to reinforce vocabulary, kids will love playing along in...
Publisher
Inklore
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Chaos reigns in Olympus as Zeus publicly declares Persephone a traitor and issues a warrant for her arrest. But Hades defies his brother's decree, sheltering Persephone in the Underworld-and as the pair spend more time together, they are able to speak openly about their pasts. The goddess of spring admits the truth behind the bloody secret that led to Zeus's ire, and the king of the Underworld shares the trauma he suffered at the hands of his power-hungry...
Author
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Time comes for us all--including Uramichi's poor back muscles. While contending with an aging body and brutally honest kids may all be in a day's work for him, dealing with a happy-go-lucky con artist sure isn't! As Uramichi is unwillingly dragged into another one of Hanbei's desperate attempts to meet upper management at the bare minimum, Mitsuo and Hachita are standing by to help with pure disinterest and an onslaught of painful truths"--
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon's The Deep in this high-octane post-climate disaster novella written by Nommo Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerousrise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region's survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometers-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Now the towers' most affluent rule...
91) IN TONGUES
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Delaney Detective Agency gets a taste of the spotlight when they are called to a case on a movie set in Greenville, MS, right on the Mississippi River. Marlon Brandon, heir to a wealthy and influential political family, has brought a film crew to town tofilm a drama about the 1927 flood that submerged a great deal of Greenville. Marlon wants the world to know the story of the flood-and the heroic role the Brandon ancestors played in rescuing dozens...
93) MALIBU SUMMER
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lose yourself in this enemies-to-lovers romance set on a sunny Malibu hillside Ivy Bauer is a young, bright environmental scientist, PhD candidate, and inventor of a game-changing organic irrigation system. She's on top of the world when, suddenly, her husband is killed in a biking accident. Needing space to grieve, she takes a summer job as a gardener in Malibu. Conrad Reed is a wealthy Hollywood has-been who, after the death of his young wife,...
Author
Series
Band camp volume 1
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Join four musical instruments in their first year at Band Camp! Pranks and food fights aren't all that is in store for this group of unlikely friends in this new, laugh-out-loud, graphic chapter book series. Cordelia the accordion, Trey the triangle, Kaylee the ukulele, and Zook the kazoo meet when they're assigned to Bunk J--nicknamed "Junk Bunk" by the other instruments. Despite their differences, they'll have to become fast friends as they explore...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to confront our inherited traumas and prejudices so that we may heal the sins of our fathers--from the bestselling author of Never Unfriended. Lisa-Jo Baker knows how burdened we can feel by the weight of the past. Born white in the heart of Zululand during the height of apartheid, her longing to write a new future for her children...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit, climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.
Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it's an invitation to everyone to understand
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