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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly dead. Nebula and Alex Award winner P. Djeli Clark introduces a brand-new world and a fantastical city full of gods and assassins. A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 According to Bookish, She Reads, Civilian Reader, and FanFiAddict. Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi....
Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when adventures are small in the cosmic scope, the terminology of thrilling exploits promotes a life lived at a high pitch. This go-to glossary for the philosophical explorer delves into these contradictions and insights through more than five hundred terms, from...
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Series
Publisher
Boston
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Rainbow Dash is a huge fan of the Daring Do book series, but after the newest book comes out, she's not alone! Suddenly, every pony in Ponyville is reading the books! To prove she's' the ultimate fan, Rainbow Dash decides to show her friends that she can be just as brave and "daring" as her hero. But Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow's other friends worry about how far she's willing to go. Just how daring should one pony be?"--
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Series
Flashback Four volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman's thrilling Flashback Four series, four very different kids are picked by a mysterious billionaire to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events. Blends fascinating real history with an action-packed adventure!
This time, Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel are headed to the deck of the doomed Titanic. Their mission? Capture a shot
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Publisher
Disney · Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a distress plea goes up from the isolated planet Minfar, Resistance heroes Rey, Poe and Rose hear the call! Together they will face down a First Order battalion, terrifying flying creatures, and a weapon that could change the course of the war!
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Language
English
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"In the tradition of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse comes a gorgeously illustrated fable about a young child's journey into the world beyond the shadow of home, a magical landscape where he discovers the secrets of sharing, connection, and finding peace with the people we love. Infused with the author's signature wit and imagination, in collaboration with visionary artist Sabina Hahn, it's a tale for readers of all ages--to be read aloud...
9) Hawk
Author
Series
Hawk volume 1
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Maximum Ride's seventeen-year-old daughter, Hawk, is living under the radar in post-apocalyptic New York City until a destiny that is perilously close to her mother's forces her to take flight.
11) Into the wild
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...
Author
Publisher
Afterglow Books by Harlequin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Up until a few months ago, Rheo Whitlock had it all. Stability, self-confidence and a safe job as an interpreter for the United Nations... It was the predictable sort of existence she, as a dedicated homebody, had always dreamed of -- the security she'd needed thanks to her nomadic #vanlife upbringing. But ever since an unfortunate "hot mic" moment threw her career into a tailspin, she's been struggling -- really struggling -- with fear, anxiety...
Author
Series
Never after volume 5
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Mysteries abound when Filomena and her friends set off for Neverland where they must navigate mermaids, magical fruit, and prophecies to find and protect Sabine, the last surviving fairy.
Author
Series
Pokemon adventures. Original series volume 24
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Red is downhearted after being defeated by the mythical Pokémon Deoxys and fears that Professor Oak has given up on him, while Silver discovers secrets of his past in Viridian City.
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Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On the ground, a rampaging army of armor-clad zombies is roving across the biomes. In the sky, a wicked Wither is leaving a path of destruction -- and Wither roses -- wherever it goes. And in Bobbie's party, the tension is tighter than a skeleton's bowstring . . . because, somehow, Logan just became its newest member. The same Logan who set zombies on Bobbie's village and turned her little brother, Johnny, into one of the walking dead. Who bullied...
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