CURIOUS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT INCREDIBLE JOURNEY

Curious Questions & Answers about Incredible Journeys takes a sideways look at all that is weird and wonderful about some wild expeditions for kids aged 5+. Mind-boggling questions and answers Fresh, modern illustrations will appeal to children Fun approach to learning with humorous Would you Rather? questions This brilliant book uncovers every fascinating fact you could possibly want to …

POWERED BY PLANTS: MEET THE TREES, FLOWERS, AND VEGETATION THAT INSPIRE OUR E…

Plants exhibit an incredible range of diversity in their shape, structures and how they interact with other living things and their environment. Some of this great diversity is being increasingly studied and copied, inspiring innovation in science, design, engineering, and technology. This book guides readers through a startling collection of fascinating vegetation, from towering cottonwood…

CONTINENTAL DRIFT

Explore how the continents have drifted, from the Devonian Era to the Jurassic Period, to form the world as we know it! This beautiful book will take readers through different periods and explore the ecosystems and conditions of each time and how the changes led to where we are now. Learn about sea life, insects, animals, plants, rocks, and more! This book will be sure to capture the attention …

POETRY PROMPTS: ALL SORTS OF WAYS TO START A POEM FROM JOSEPH COELHO

Each fun and engaging prompt for writing a poem helps children discover how to write poems and then read them out loud. This is a book to build confidence and literacy skills through channeling children's imaginations. This is a book for the whole family to enjoy, bright, cheerful but cool illustrations will appeal to children of all primary ages.

THE POET OF PINEY WOODS

A misunderstood wolf writes poems about his forest home and friends in this breathtaking picture bookBlack Bear-ies Cute blackfruit snack.Tiny.Shiny.Pick some,lick thumbs. Cubgrub. The Poet Wolf loves to write pithy verse in the pine forest, but his forest friends see not a poet, but a hungry wolf. That is, until they listen to his lovely poems about life in the woods and discover that behind t…

Firefly Lane

This is impressive, well-developed, captivating story about testing the bond of your friendship throughout the years, mother-daughter, husband- wife relationship, family dramas, betrayal, secrets.

Scythe

In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned") by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as …

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The complete and unabridged translation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame . The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval a city of vividly intermingled beauty and ugliness, surging with violent life under the two towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre Dame.

Night

Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.

Atomic Habits : an easy & proven way to built good habits & break bad ones

In this ground-breaking book, Clears reveals exactly how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. He uncovers a handful of simple life hacks (the forgotten art of Habit Stacking, the unexpected power of the Two Minute Rule, or the trick to entering the Goldilocks Zone), and delves into cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience to explain why they matter. Along the way, …

I Who Have Never Known Men

The story starts in an underground bunker where thirty-nine women and one young girl-- our narrator --are imprisoned in a cage. They don't remember how they got there and they have no idea why they are there. The women remember a life before the cage with families, friends and jobs, but the child remembers only their current existence. They are watched over and fed by male guards who tell them …

Speak

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9780312674397

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197 p. : 21 cm.

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If I Stay

Simultaneously tragic and hopeful, this is a romantic, riveting and ultimately uplifting story about memory, music, living, and dying.

The Anxious Generation

A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

A River in Borneo : a tale of East Indies

It is the summer of 1964 during the Far Eastern war euphemistically called ‘Confrontation.’ A British Royal Marine patrol has orders to penetrate Indonesian Borneo to locate a river thought by Allied intelligence to be in use by the Indonesians to build up supplies before launching a major attack on Sarawak. Charged with this mission, Lieutenant Charles Kirton makes a most extraordinary dis…

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural’s most celebrated book—featuring a new introduction by Kelly Link

Beloved

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single Beloved.

Waiting

In Waiting, Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart.

The Sun Is Also a Star

A story of a girl, a boy, and the universe Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my st…

Interpreter of Maladies

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In…

The Hate U Give

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9781432893378

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529 p. : 2 cm.

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Long Way Down

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9780571335121

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322 p. : 20 cm.

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821 REY l

Grendel

This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf , tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our…

The New Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

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9781620971932

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377 p. : 22 cm.

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364.973 ALE n

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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9781982110994

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218 p. : 22 cm.

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CURIOS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT THE ICE AGE

Do you have a lot of curious question? This book is full of amazing answer! Humorous illustrations and astounding facts explore all that is wild, wonderful and downrigth weird about the ice age.

AROUND THE WORLD 80 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Come on a journey around the globe to explore a musical cave, peek inside a piano and find out how to play an instrument without touching it. From ancient instruments made from shells to instruments that make music with lightning, discover an orchestra of instruments you can shake, pluck, scrape, hit and blow-and how you can make your own. Learn how instruments are used in celebrations, ceremon…

The Book of Time Adventures in The Past, Present, Future and Beyond

What, exactly, is time? Why does it sometimes seem to speed up or slow down? Is time on earth the same as time on mars? And is it possible to travel through time? This book holds the answer to these questions, and many more!

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE

In the future, will we teleport from place to place, keep dinosaurs as pets, or 3D-print our dinner? Will we live on Mars or upload our brains to computers? Could we solve climate change by making all our energy from mini stars we build here on earth? In this book, you'll meet the scientists working to bring science fiction to life and learn how soon we might have amazing new technology. You'll…

MILLIONS OF CATS

Once upon a time, an old man and old woman lived in a charming little house with so many beautiful flowers but they were not happy. they felt lonely, if only had a cat said the old woman sadly a cat ? asked the old man. An Old Man wanted to give a cat to his wife. He found one, two, three, then ... tens, hundreds, thousands, even millions of cats! He had a hard time choosing between them. F…