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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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1945. War has ended, but for sisters Isobel and Flora the struggles still continue. They've lost their father and had their home destroyed in a bombing raid, and now they must go to live with their aunt and her awful husband Mr Godfrey in their ancestral home, Splint Hall. From the moment of their arrival it seems that this is a place shrouded in mysteries and secrets. Who are the strange men who arrive with packages at night? What is the source of...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. Their extraordinary, half-century-and-counting creative relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019's Rocketman)...
3) Haarville
Author
Publisher
Kelpies
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Manx Fearty is an orphan from Haarville - a foggy island town with a magical secret - on a bizarre quest with his friends to solve a murky mystery and save their hometown.◊bWelcome to Haarville -- if you've arrived, you've survived. Off the grid and not on the maps, it's a place shrouded in fog and steeped in pungent pongs. Everything here smells fishy, especially the town's suspicious new arrivals.Twelve-year-old Manx Fearty is an orphan (his family...
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English
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"Leap into the adventure of a lifetime...Things have never been easy for Antonio, but now it seems like the war will never end. So when Antonio is caught up in the dangerous world of freedom fighters and spies, will it change his life or destroy him?" - back of book
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Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Skull, the Shadow, and a few of the rat army escaped into Perodia, and now Tag and the other defenders must locate them, and also find their friend, Bod, who is still trapped in the Underland with the rest of the rat army.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
20230926
Language
English
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"From bookfluencer and host of the BAD ON PAPER podcast, a riotous holiday rom-com about four friends in NYC who hold onto their unconventional Christmas tradition even when their paths diverge-but the changes they fear might be exactly what they need... Hannah and Finn have spent every Christmas together since college. Neither has anywhere else to go-Hannah's parents died, and Finn's disowned him when he came out. Their tradition of offbeat holiday...
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Series
Shadows of the Apt ; 10
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The Empire stands victorious over its enemies at last. With her chief rival cast into the abyss, Empress Seda now faces the truth of what she has cost the world in order to win the war. The Seal has been shattered, and the Worm stirs towards the light for the first time in a thousand years. Already it is striking the surface, voraciously consuming everything its questing tendrils touch"--
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Series
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Three exciting Batman books-including one all-new glimpse inside the mysterious Batcave-are bound up in this deluxe hardcover edition that's just right for kids 3-7!Batman is the #1 Super Hero the world over who is loved by kids, adults, and generations of fans. Now you can introduce kids to the Caped Crusader with this hardcover bind-up of three of great Batman books, that includes: King Shark Takes a Bite Swamped by Croc and a never before published...
9) Modern art
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Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Modern matters: A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism The modern art adventure began roughly 150 years ago in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, often impasto, strokes. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the establishment salon by organizing their own independent exhibitions. After this first...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Star Trek stands as one of the most popular science-fiction series of all time, and Captain Picard is one of its fan-favorite characters thanks to his inspiring quotes and brilliant leadership. As the captain of the starship USS Enterprise, Picard has taken viewers with him on adventures through space for decades. Now, young fans can learn even more about the famous character, including details about his obsessions with Earl Grey tea and Shakespeare"--...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When the Nazis march onto the cobbled streets of Colmar on November 1st 1940, Josef, a Jewish violin maker, gathers his wife and daughters closely to him and tells them everything will be all right. But one year later, three sharp knocks on the door at midnight turn his seventeen year old daughter Sarah's world upside down. As the oldest child, Sarah must be the first to leave her family, to make her escape in a perilous journey across France via...
13) Salute the dark
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Series
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The vampiric sorcerer Uctebri has at last got his hands on the Shadow Box and can finally begin his dark ritual - a ritual that the Wasp-kinden Emperor believes will grant him immortality - but Uctebri has his own plans both for the Emperor and the Empire."--
Author
Series
Fun day fairies ; 2
Publisher
Gardners Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The goblins are back again, this time stealing the Fun Day flags, and now everyone is quite miserable, as the Fun Day Fairies can't do their job of making each day fun! Can Rachel and Kirsty help Tallulah the Tuesday Fairy retrieve her flag?
Author
Series
Inheritance ; 5
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air--and Murtagh senses that something wicked lurks in the shadows of Alagaësia....
16) F.O.X.E.S
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Series
S.T.A.G.S ; 3
Publisher
Hot Key Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Greer has just recovered from her terrifying experience during the STAGS play. Was she really put on trial by the sinister Dark Order of the Grand Stag? Or was it purely her overheated imagination? The imprint of an 'M' for murderer that has appeared on her thumb, though, is puzzling but incomplete evidence . . . Meanwhile Ty is staying on at Longcross Manor and Greer, Nel and Shafeen are increasingly worried for her safety. When Ty sends a cryptic...
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Publisher
Viz Media, LLC,◊
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The terrifying fusion of Tomura and All For One now seems unstoppable. Since the villains have the upper hand, even the president of the United States is considering the unthinkable—capitulating to Tomura. But Mirko, Edgeshot, and Jeanist are still on the scene, holding on for dear life. The heroes' big plan was always to pit Midoriya against Tomura, and when he finally arrives and sees what's happened, all bets are off—Midoriya's ready to face...
18) Yo-kai watch: 20
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nate Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him the Yo-kai Watch. Now he can see what others cannot: Yo-kai of all shapes and forms! Join the goofy fun as the familiar Yo-kai gang meets up with some bizarre new friends, bringingspirited chaos and gags galore to the life of ordinary schoolkid Nate Adams"--
20) ORIGIN 1
Author
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Inhuman beings hide among us. Tokyo, 2048. The northern hemisphere is now connected by the Eurasian Railroad, which deposits all manner of crime and vice here at its eastern terminus. Night after night, the megalopolis is gripped by fear as bodies turn up mutilated in ways unthinkable for a human assailant. Remorseless killers stalk the shadows-but one man stalks them! He is ORIGIN. And he is not what he seems.
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