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Drawing on a vast array of sources, including interviews with the last surviving seamstress, this powerful book tells the story of the brave women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, exposing the greed, cruelty and hypocrisy of the Third Reich.
At the height of the Holocaust, young inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp-- mainly Jewish women and girls-- were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions in a...
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"A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community face in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed 'most effective' gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything...
6) Camp
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Click volume 2
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"Olive and Willow are happy campers! Or are they? Olive is sure she'll have the best time at summer camp with her friend Willow - but while Olive makes quick friends with the other campers, Willow struggles to form connections and latches on to the only person she knows - Olive. It's s'more than Olive can handle! The stress of being Willow's living security blanket begins to wear on Olive and before long... the girls aren't just fighting, they may...
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"Nineteen-year-old Sam's summer isn't off to a great start. Her boyfriend, Eli, ditched her for a European backpacking trip and now she's a counselor at Camp Blue Springs: the summer camp her eleven-year-old self swore never to return to. Sam expects the next seven weeks to be a total disaster. That is, until she meets Gavin, the camp's sailing instructor, who turns her expectations upside down. Gavin may have gotten the job just for his abs. Or that...
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"Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect, Facebook-fantastic and Instagram-impressive mommies, is failing miserably. Will the opportunity to attend the Motherhood Better boot camp run by the mommy-blog-empire maven she idolizes, help her to become the perfect mom she's always wanted to be?"--
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Cupcake diaries volume 7
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"Emma is not thrilled with always needing to rearrange he schedule to babysit her younger brother, Jake, after school. But it's summer, and Emma is free--or so she thinks. Emma's parents have broken the news that really threatens to push Emma over the edge: Emma and Jake are going to the same day camp together. And Emma will have to babysit Jake on the bus. Every day. Can't Emma catch a break?"--Publisher.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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An extraordinary first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs. Two inspiring women by the names of Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac, both lawyers and childhood friends, enjoyed the lives of "ordinary modern women" in Bosnia-Herzegovina until one day familiar faces and neighbors became tormentors. When taken away to the notorious Serb concentration camp of Omarska, the two women, like...
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Heroes of Olympus volume 4
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"Greek and Roman demigods from the Prophecy of Seven must work together to seal the Doors of Death--and help Percy and Annabeth escape the Underworld in the process"--
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The girls at Miss Bunsen's are excited at the news that Nova Celeste, the famous astronaut, is offering space camp scholarships to three lucky students. All the winning team has to do is invent a flying machine--in just a week! The girls don't have much to work with, but during a sewing class, they stumble across an incredible idea. But will it fly?
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Moving to a senior citizen trailer park with her father, Hazel, the estranged wife of a corporate CEO who demanded she install a brain chip so that they could be constantly connected, tries to carve out a new life while her ex uses sophisticated technology to stalk her.
Hazel has just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable...
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Find the confidence to rock out to your own beat in this big-hearted middle grade novel. Not to be missed by fans of Raina Telgemeier's Drama and Tim Federle's Better Nate Than Ever ! Melly only joined the school band because her best friend, Olivia, begged her to. But to her surprise, quiet Melly loves playing the drums. It's the only time she doesn't feel like a mouse. Now she and Olivia are about to spend the next two weeks at Camp Rockaway, jamming...
19) Family camp
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Roadside Attractions LLC
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[2022]
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English
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When Grace Ackerman signs her family up for their church's rustic summer Family Camp, a comedy of errors ensues as these polar-opposite families must share a yurt and compete for the camp's coveted games trophy. It's not until the two dads end up lost in the woods that their faith and family bonds are truly tested in this heartwarming family comedy.
20) Internment
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2019.
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"A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
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