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Series
Rachel Knight novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
While interviewing students in the aftermath of a school shooting in the San Fernando Valley, prosecutor Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller realize the facts don't add up and the real killers may still be out there.
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Language
English
Description
Doctor Dolittle loves animals. In fact, he loves animals so much that his cozy cottage in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh is bursting with pets: goldfish in the pond, rabbits in the pantry, white mice in the piano, a squirrel in the linen closet, a hedgehog in the cellar, not to mention a horse, chickens and pigeons, two lambs, and many others. But his favorite pets by far are Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and...
3) Lean on me
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Series
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lean on Me is an endearing children's picture book that beautifully demonstrates the power of friendship, based on Bill Withers's classic song of the same name. "Lean on Me" appeared on Withers's 1972 album Still Bill. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and ranked #208 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. With Withers's lyrics and illustrations by Rachel Moss, this picture book follows four close friends through...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Con un enfoque en las pesadillas, la ansiedad, y la valentía, esta serie es perfecta para los fans de las películas Coco, Coraline, y Slumberland. Bienvenidos al entremundo, un lugar al que van los vivos cuando están dormidos y al que llegan los fantasmas cuando tienen asuntos pendientes. En el entremundo los visitantes pueden enfrentar sus miedos o visitar a un ser querido que recientemente haya dejado el mundo de los vivos. Por suerte, cualquiera...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books Award (2023) A stunningly illustrated fable about cultural humility and the transcendent power of stories. A young teacher sets out for the Amazon rain forest, eager to share geography, science, and math with the remote community of Las Delicias. The town's children love the books the young teacher brings, and yet they keep repeating legends about a great and dangerous serpent....
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"This Caldecott Honor-winning bilingual children's book, Spanish/English, is a fun way to introduce simple words and phrases in both languages and is sure to be a welcome resource at home and in schools and libraries. Choo choo! A train is passing by! Can you count the cars? Can you name the colors? Where is the train going? There's only one way to find out--all aboard the freight train! A bilingual edition of the classic Caldecott Honor Book for...
Author
Series
Bloody Joe Mannion volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In Del Norte, Joe suspects Long-Shot Hunter Drago, an ex-con, of seeking revenge. The town thinks Drago wants a peaceful life. Mannion doubts it, confronts Drago, and faces backlash. The town wants Joe gone. A deadly showdown on Burial Rock determines their fates, including Jane's.
8) Climb On
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Take a hike with this father-daughter adventure that's sure to inspire you to get outside. When a young child reminds her dad about the hike they planned, her father is hesitant --To the tippy top? It's a great day to watch futbol (soccer). But as the two climb on, her enthusiasm is contagious. Filled with setbacks, surprises, and stunning views, this warm and humorous story highlights in vivid colors the bonding power of a shared experience. A list...
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Series
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English
Description
The author of the national bestseller The 500 returns with a pulse-pounding new thriller--the story of two brothers, billions of dollars, and the heist of a lifetime.
After escaping the corrupt back rooms of Washington, DC, Mike Ford is again playing a dangerous game--and this time the stakes are even higher.
Mike's brother is in over his head in a powerful conspiracy to steal a secret worth billions from the rarely understood, vitally important...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
¡Es el primer dia de clases de Rashin en Estados Unidos! Todo tiene diferentes formas de lo que esta acostumbrada, desde las comidas en su desayuno hasta las letras en sus libros ¡Y las familias de sus companeros vienen de todos los rincones del mundo! La nueva maestra le pide a cada estudiante que se imagine la forma de su hogar en un mapa. Rashin sabe que dira de inmediato ¡Iran tiene forma de gato! ¿Que iran a decir los otros ninos? ¿Y que...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"This sweet bilingual picture book follows a boy and his stay-at-home dad, who takes care of him while his mom goes to work at the port, "where huge cargo ships come and go every day." She oversees the containers that go around the world! The boy recounts his days spending time with his father, from "when the sun starts filling the room with light," to eating breakfast, brushing his teeth and talking to his grandparents who live in a different country....
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lali has worked hard to earn money for a special treat--but should she spend her earnings on herself or her friends? Lali works hard to earn some money while her animal friends watch. She stirs. She stokes. She pounds. She pours. Then off she goes to the market on the twisty-curvy, dusty, stony, prickly, sizzly-wizzly path. What shall she buy with the jingle in her pocket? Lentils for Hen? Berries for Goat? Ribbons for Bird? Or perhaps a lovely pair...
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Language
English
Description
"It all happens so quickly. One day you're living the dream, commuting to work by ferry with your charismatic neighbor Kit in the seat beside you. The next, Kit hasn't turned up for the boat and his wife, Melia, has reported him missing. When you get off at your stop, the police are waiting. Another passenger saw you and Kit arguing on the boat home the night before and the police say that you had a reason to want him dead. You protest. You and Kit...
Author
Series
Rachel Knight novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with Detective Bailey Keller to investigate the death of a Hollywood director that has far-reaching ramifications throughout Tinseltown.
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Series
Language
English
Description
The year is 1880, the place San Francisco. Intelligent, outspoken Sarah Woolson is a young woman with a goal and the fortitude to achieve it. She has always dreamed of becoming a lawyer. The trouble is, everyone believes women belong in the home,that it is not only unnatural, but against God's will for them to seek a career.
When Sarah finagles an interview with one of the city's most prestigious law firms, no one thinks she has a prayer of being...
16) Bloody Joe
Author
Series
Bloody Joe Mannion volume One
Publisher
Tantor
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Bloody" Joe Mannion is a town tamer of great renown. Known as the most uncompromising lawman on the Western frontier, he's been the town marshal of Del Norte in the Colorado territory for the past five years. When his temper gets the better of him and he badly beats Whip Helton, the son of a prominent rancher, Joe's house is burned down and his daughter kidnapped and raped. Joe goes on a vengeance-fueled warpath, putting him at odds with the whole...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what...
18) Scrublands
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden...
19) The tenderfoot
Author
Publisher
Tantor
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Turquoise Ranch hand Curly Stevens went into Flagstaff to meet a new employee arriving on the train, his first impression of Rob Barringer is of how big and strong the tenderfoot is. Rob's eagerness to learn and his willingness to take on the most difficult jobs wins everyone over, including ranch foreman Jake Dunford, and Melanie Duford, his beautiful daughter. When accused of stealing from the ranch, ranch manager Lee Garrison reacts by firing...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Your dreams can change the world! Colorful mosaics, playful flowing forms, imaginative facades--Barcelona shines with the buildings of Antoni Gaudí. How did the son of a Catalan blacksmith become a world-famous architect? The first years of Gaudí's life were challenging. Because of an illness, young Gaudí couldn't attend school and was often alone. Many of his days were spent out in nature, which he would later call his great teacher. Even during...
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