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Llama Llama talent show / by Dewdney, Anna.;
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Subjects: Radio and television novels.; Llama Llama; Llamas; Talent shows;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Now / by Gleitzman, Morris.;
Includes bibliographical references.While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal wtih unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.AR: 4.0 / Lexile: HL610L"--T.p. verso.LSC
Subjects: Holocaust survivors; Grandfathers; Jews; Separation (Psychology); Wildfires;
© 2013, c2010., Square Fish,
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City of sparrows / by Nour, Eva,author.; Broomé, Agnes,translator.;
"Growing up in Syria in the 1990s, Sami's childhood was unremarkable. His day-to-day life largely sheltered him from the horrors of the authoritarian government, until he founded a successful internet company-which landed him on the regime's radar. Suddenly Sami finds himself in jail, then forcibly enlisted into the Syrian army during the early days of a fast-growing civil uprising. Assigned to the mapmaking division, Sami yearns to simply serve his time and go home, even as he finds himself literally charting the course of the army's response to the growing revolt. The situation hits him full force when he receives a text from his girlfriend: "They're shooting at us." With that, Sami realizes that it is not enough to endure Assad's regime-he has to resist. He has to return home, to the city that will become known as the "capital of the revolution." Based on true events as told to journalist Eva Nour, City of Sparrows is the story of coming of age under siege and the power of hope in the face of unfathomable loss"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Government, Resistance to; Homecoming; Draftees;
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Outside / by Ragnar Jónasson,1976-author.; translation of:Ragnar Jónasson,1976-Úti.English.; Cribb, Victoria,translator.;
"In a deadly Icelandic snowstorm, four friends seek shelter in an abandoned hunting lodge. But nothing can prepare them for what's inside. Forced to spend a long and terrifying night in the cabin, they watch intently and silently. Just as they themselves are being watched. As the night darkens, and old secrets spill into the light, it's soon clear that what they've discovered in the cabin is far from the only mystery lurking there. Nor the only thing to be afraid of ... "--Publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Noir fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Blizzards; Fear; Friendship; Hunting lodges; Secrecy;
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One more lie / by Lloyd, Amy(Novelist),author.;
Charlotte wants to start fresh. She wants to forget her past, forget prison and, most of all, forget Sean. But old habits die hard. Despite the ankle monitor she must wear as part of her parole agreement and frequent visits to her therapist, she soon finds herself sliding back toward the type of behavior that sent her to prison in the first place. The further down that path she goes, however, the closer she gets to the crime that put her in prison all those years ago. And that's the one memory she can't face. Until, one day, Sean tracks her down"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Women ex-convicts; Choice (Psychology); Revenge;
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Matilda's miracles / by Sheldon-Dean, Hannah.; Blake, Quentin.; Dahl, Roald.;
Matilda uses her newfound powers to expel the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, from school and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Schools; School principals; Bullying; Ability;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Llama Llama, be my Valentine! / by Dewdney, Anna.;
Guided reading level: I.LSC
Subjects: Llama Llama; Valentine's Day; Valentines; Schools; Creative ability;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Everyone on this train is a suspect : a novel / by Stevenson, Benjamin,author.;
"On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real in the new mystery from the author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Literature; Meetings; Murder; Novelists; Railroad trains;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Everyone in my family has killed someone / by Stevenson, Benjamin,author.;
"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Dysfunctional families; Family reunions; Family secrets; Murder; Murderers; Ski resorts;
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How the world really works : the science behind how we got here and where we're going / by Smil, Vaclav,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check--because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable--the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020--and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, such that any promises of decarbonization by 2050 are a fairy tale. For example, each greenhouse-grown supermarket-bought tomato has the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel embedded in its production, and we have no way of producing steel, cement or plastics at required scales without huge carbon emissions. Ultimately, Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary guide finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future"--
Subjects: Science and civilization.; Technology and civilization.; Science; Technological innovations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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