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1681) The dragonet prophecy
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Clay has lived his whole life under the mountain. The MudWing dragonet knows war is raging between the dragon tribes in the world outside - a war that he and four other dragonets are destined to end, according to the mysterious prophecy they have been taught. The five "chosen" dragonets were stolen from their homes while they were still in their eggs - and hidden away for years - all to fulfill the prophecy. But not every dragonet wants a destiny....
Series
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) volume 2
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Wondering when Fred Myers' status as Pete's roommate would blow up? Right now! When Boomerang and Spider-Man walk into a bar, it's no laughing matter--because it's the Bar With No Name, and it's full of villains out to end the wall-crawler! Then, when the Thieves Guild of New York steals the limelight, Spidey turns to his foe turned friend turned crime boss--the Black Cat! Meanwhile, J. Jonah Jameson has a new job as a shock jock -- but is the world...
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The human race is a vast herd--one that John Constantine separated himself from a long time ago. The lonely path he's taken since then hasn't been an easy one, but in the end it's probably been for the best. Given his notoriety as England's greatest street-level sorcerer, every tie that binds him to his fellow man is just another potential weapon for his infernal enemies to use against him. Self-sufficiency, however, can all too easily shade into...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Across these essays, Barrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest for meaning amid the swirl of our post-truth climate. Traversing the country, he introduces us to Americans who are contending with the aftermath of political and economic collapse and who are striving to recover some semblance of meaning and purpose. "Notes from a Last Man" chronicles a period of personal lostness and considers how the end-of-history preoccupation with wellness and...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Robyn McCall is reeling from the fallout of Delilah's discovery that her mother is The Equalizer. While McCall struggles to reconnect with Delilah, she is dismayed to learn that her vigilante profile is growing exponentially online. Just as McCall considers ending her work as The Equalizer due to the social chatter and the district attorney's commitment to bringing her to justice, she takes on an unexpected client: Detective Marcus Dante. Dante approaches...
1686) THE BOUND WORLDS
Author
Series
Devoured worlds volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Naira and Tarquin have found a new home on Seventh Cradle. But the peace they've built is short-lived as mysterious assailants ambush the settlement and Naira is haunted by visions of a monstrous future. Catastrophe strikes when Tarquin uncovers a plot to bring about the end of the universe. As humanity races against the clock to prevent their extinction, old secrets come to light and loyalties fracture, and Naira realizes she may be the key to saving...
1688) Chasing the moon: the people, the politics, and the promise that launched America into the space age
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A charismatic young president issued the historic Moon landing challenge. This book, which greatly expands the companion PBS series, tell the stories of the visionaries--based on eyewitness accounts and newly discovered archival material--who helped America win the space race with the first lunar landing fifty years ago. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed the nation spend twenty billion dollars to land a man on the Moon before the end of...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis, who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches. Based on the beloved children's classic book.
Author
Series
Bad guys volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
En esta hilarante serie ilustrada de libros de capítulos, los chicos malos están haciendo buenas obras ... ¡lo quieras o no! La mala noticia es que el mundo se va a acabar. ¡La buena es que los tipos Malos están aquí para salvarlo! Puede ser que tengan que "pedir prestado" un cohete, y que haya algo desagradable en uno de los trajes espaciales, y que el Sr. Piraña haya comido demasiados burritos. Sobrevivir a esta misión puede ser solo un...
1691) The blood gift
Author
Series
Blood gift duology volume 2
Language
English
Description
"After discovering the depth of betrayal, treachery, and violence perpetrated against her by Mareen's Tribunal Council and exposing her illegal blood-gift to save her Praetorian squad, Ikenna becomes a fugitive with a colossal bounty on her head. Yet, somehow, that's the least of her worries. Her grandfather's longtime allies refuse to offer help, and the Blood Emperor's Warlord is tracking her. She's also struggling to control the enormous power...
1692) Amores perros
Series
Criterion collection volume 1060
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Sending shock waves through the Mexican film industry and the world, this blistering feature film debut from Alejandro G. Iñárritu brought the director's electrifying visual style and bravura multistrand storytelling to the screen with the heart-stopping impact of a primal scream. In Mexico City, the lives of three strangers--a young man mixed up in the gritty underworld of dogfighting, a glamorous woman who seems to have it all, and a mysterious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the Americas. The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsburg, John Updike, and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (translated...
1694) THE LAST HOPE: A NOVEL
Author
Series
Maggie Hope mysteries volume ;0011
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated Maggie Hope series as the intrepid spy teams up with fashion designer - and possible double agent - Coco Chanel to bring down the physicist behind Nazi Germany's nuclear program. Maggie Hope has come a long way since she was Mr. Churchill's secretary. In the face of tremendous danger, she's learned espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance....
1695) Unchosen
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For Charlotte Holloway, the world ended twice. The first was when her childhood crush, Dean, fell in love -- with her older sister. The second was when the Crimson, a curse spread through eye contact, turned the majority of humanity into flesh-eating monsters. Neither end of the world changed Charlotte. She's still in the shadows of her siblings. Her popular older sister, Harlow, now commands forces of survivors. And her talented younger sister, Vanessa,...
1696) Under the paper moon
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Five years after working for the Office of Strategic Services with Nick, whom she gets close to until the World War II end brings with it an act of deep betrayal, former spy Evelyn, now working as a PI, finds herself back in Nick's orbit when her latest case brings the war to her doorstep.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution when humans fell into a trap we ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns. What if humanity s major woes war, plague, famine and inequality originated 12,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens converted from nomads to settlers, in pursuit of the fantasy...
Author
Publisher
Lightning Source Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In our lifetime, the US has seen a major shift in dominant economic thought, yet few women can identify or talk about its influence. Screwnomics issues a wake-up call for today's women to join what has been a nearly exclusively male conversation for the past 2,500 years. It explains the sexual history of economics, and the unspoken but widely applied economic theory that females, including our mother earth, should always work for less, or better,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's late August in Shady Hollow, and the heat has intrepid reporter Vera Vixen eager to get away. She agrees to chaperone the annual field trip to Summers End, an ancient tomb built by an early woodland culture, along with her good friend Lenore Lee tocome with her. But when the two enter the tomb, they find bones that are distinctly more...modern. Digging a little deeper, Vera and Lenore discover that the deceased was involved in a recent excavation...
1700) Free and famous
Author
Series
Victoria Stitch volume 2
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Victoria Stitch has escaped from the confines of Wiskling Wood and flown into the human world. Here, she breaks the most sacred of all wiskling laws and speaks to a human. Where she is feared and disgraced in Wiskling Wood, she is adored and revered in the human world. But the net is closing in. There are wisklings who would like to end Victoria Stitch's famous reign in the human world for good. Will her beloved twin, Celestine, be able to warn her...
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