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As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing, fast-paced epic, Douglas Brinkley returns to the...
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Time quintet volume 1
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English
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5th Grade Rocks
Family Road Trip
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Women's History - Tweens
Family Road Trip
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Women's History - Tweens
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Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. Includes "An appreciation" by Anna Quindlen and an interview with the author.
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Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 1
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2009.
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English
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In 1938, three orphans--Theo, Carl, and Ian, ages ten to thirteen--lead three teachers through a portal that takes them from Dover, England, to Morocco in their quest to locate six silver boxes before the ancient prophecies therein are found by the evil Demogorgon's offspring.
5) Caught
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The missing volume 5
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[2012]
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English
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When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 19
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1999.
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English
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Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.
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Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 3
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[2012]
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In 1940, when Delphi Keep's taken over by the Royal Navy as a communications outpost, Ian, Theo, and Carl dread being evacuated to the earl's winter residence where they'll no longer be protected, but are even more concerned about deciphering the third prophecy and identifying the Secret Keeper.
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When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
10) Seven stories up
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2014.
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In 1987, while her mother sits in a Baltimore hotel at the deathbed of a grandmother twelve-year-old Annie never knew, Annie travels back fifty years and shares adventures with the lonely girl who will grow up to be her feisty grandmother.
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Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 2
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[2010]
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English
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According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the Dover, England, orphanage where Ian and Theo live will bring them to the third Oracle, a child with extraordinary healing powers to help defeat a great evil, but it will also lead to Ian's death.
12) Voyager: a novel
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Outlander novels volume 3
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English
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Their love affair happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic Battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her ... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams. When she discovers that Jamie...
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Starfell volume 1
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2020.
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English
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"Willow Moss's small magic has always seemed unremarkable. But when the most feared witch in the land of Starfell appears on the Moss family's doorstep looking for help, it's not Willow's talented sisters she seeks, it's Willow. Because Willow is a finder of lost things--and Moreg Vaine says that last Tuesday has gone missing. Willow and Moreg set out on a perilous journey across the wilds of Starfell, looking for what they've lost. If they don't...
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2011.
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"Ziggy and his Black Dinosaur pals are excited about their camping trip to Caesar's Creek State Park. Their camp counselor, Noni, happens to be a descendant of Caesar, and fills the campers' imaginations with spooky stories about Shawnee legends and traditions. When Ziggy and the boys discover an old canoe by the lake, they decide it's the perfect time to test their courage. But the Shawnee kids probably wouldn't have found themselves in the middle...
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[2016]
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English
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Destroy thy Neighbor! A gate to another dimension has burst open, and invincible monsters called Neighbors invade Earth. Osamu Mikumo may not be the best among the elite warriors who co-opt other-dimensional technology to fight back, but along with his Neighbor friend Yuma, he'll do whatever it takes to defend life on Earth as we know it. Osamu has less than sixteen minutes to safely deliver Chika, who's been cubified, to HQ. Will Osamu make it in...
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ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens - 2023
Pride Month - Adults
Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - 2023
Pride Month - Adults
Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - 2023
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A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt. Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes--reimagining the events that...
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2011.
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English
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Twins Joe and Nancy were raised in a circus but on their eleventh birthday they learn their parents are still alive and need their help, so they set out on an quest filled with many extraordinary beings and adventures. Consists of twenty-seven episodes by nineteen authors and pictures by five illustrators.
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[2003].
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After killing Zarbon and Dodoria and nearly killing Goku, Vegeta thinks he's the strongest in the universe. But Reacoom, the Ginyu Force's indestructible muscleman, can stand up to anything Vegeta can dish out. Soon Gohan and Kuririn step in to save their old enemy.
20) Ai de ji ke
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Zi tu jing dian wen ku volume 004
Pub. Date
2021.
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中文(繁體)
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The author exquisitely describes the deep psychology of the characters. The overall structure maintains the rigorous pattern of Japanese classical traditions. It is meticulous, ingenious, and the changes in time and space are neat and tidy. It is highly praised by the Japanese academic circles.
★★爱情若不能消灭孤独,就会消灭爱人 ★三岛叙事完美之作 悦子丈夫去世后,依附于公公的庄园生存。 她从与公公的暧昧关系中寻求安全感,又渴望从青年雇工三郎身上获得纯真而有活力的爱情。...
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