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The silence factory : a novel / by Collins, Bridget,author.;
Sophia reluctantly accompanies her husband James to a remote Greek island, where he hopes to make his name by collecting rare biological specimens. Once there, however, she is the one set on a voyage of discovery -- as well as stumbling across the very creature he is looking for, she meets a local woman who makes her realise she has never truly known her own desires. Decades later, Henry Latimer is sent to the home of James' descendant, industrialist Sir Edward Ashmore-Percy. Tasked with curing the man's enchanting young daughter, Philomel, of her deafness, Henry is soon drawn in by both Sir Edward's magnetic charisma and the fascinating nature of his business: spinning a rare spider-silk into a cloth which has the extraordinary ability to shut out sound completely. Ignoring repeated warnings, Henry becomes more deeply involved with Sir Edward's project -- by the time he realises the terrible truth about what the silk will be used for, is it too late to turn back?
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Deaf; Factories; Governesses; Secrecy; Silence; Silk;
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Momo Arashima Duels the Queen of Death [electronic resource] : by Sugiura, Misa.aut; cloudLibrary;
In the thrilling finale to the epic fantasy series filled with gods and monsters of Shinto mythology, a twelve-year-old girl with divine heritage risks everything to save her family—and the world—from the vengeful goddess of the underworld. Momo Arashima is half goddess and half human—torn between two worlds. But with her friends Danny, Ryleigh, Jin and Niko by her side, she’s finally starting to find a place where she belongs. Too bad none of that matters when Izanami, the treacherous goddess of death, threatens the life of someone Momo loves and forces her into a terrible bargain. Izanami is after the Jewel of the Heart, an artifact that will help her finally escape the land of the dead...and she wants Momo to get it for her. Along with her friends, Momo must face fire demons, fanged mermaids, and spiders as big as horses. But even if they succeed, what will Momo do? Sacrifice the person most precious to her, or hand over the Jewel and unleash Izanami on the world?
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fantasy & Magic; Asian; Family;
© 2025., Random House Children's Books,
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An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us / by Yong, Ed,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension-the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic fields, and brainless jellyfish that nonetheless have complex eyes. We discover that a crocodile's scaly face is as sensitive as a lover's fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, and that even fingernail-sized spiders can make out the craters of the moon. We meet people with unusual senses, from women who can make out extra colors to blind individuals who can navigate using reflected echoes like bats. Yong tells the stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, and also looks ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved"--
Subjects: Animal behavior.; Neurosciences.; Perception in animals.; Physiology.; Senses and sensation.;
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102 traveling songs [sound recording (CD)].
Vol. 1 -- SMILE -- Ten little fish -- Be kind to your web footed friends -- One hundred bottles of pop -- This old man -- Do your ears hang low? -- Down in the valley -- One lonely bird -- Old brass wagon -- Big rigs -- I wonder what flying is like -- A bulldozer operator I will be -- The wheels on the bus -- Eensy weensy spider -- Sing your way home -- The ants come marching -- She'll be coming around the mountain -- I'm a little piece of tin -- London Bridge -- Jack and Jill -- Twinkle, twinkle little star -- Hey diddle diddle -- Humpty Dumpty -- Mary had a little lamb -- Baa, baa, black sheep -- Little boy blue -- Let's play make-believe -- Zip, button, buckle and tie -- Silly faces -- Ta ra ra boom de ay -- Rise and shine -- I'm a nut -- The tongue twister song -- Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?. ; Vol. 2 -- Oats, Peas, Beans And Barley Grow -- There's A Hole In My Bucket -- Do You Know What Has a Trunk? -- Can You Name That Animal Sound? -- Silly Alphabet Song -- A Is For Alligator -- What Is a Spider? -- What Is a Mammal? -- What Is a Reptile? -- My Aunt Came Back -- A Sailor Went To Sea -- All the Children of the World -- We Are One World (Theme Song) -- Counting from One to Ten -- There Are Four Seasons -- Adventures by the Ocean -- Row, Row, Row Your Boat -- Down By The Station -- The Animal Fair -- Fireflies, Won't You Come Out Tonight? -- Can You Name These Sounds? -- Space Colonies -- Down By The Bay -- Six Little Ducks -- How Much Wood -- Tyrannosaurus Rex Didn't Get His Supper -- Let's Go on a Dinosaur Dig -- Have you ever Wondered? -- A-Hunting We Will Go -- Did You Know That Monkeys Like to Swing? -- Make New Friends -- Yon Yonson -- I See an Elephant in the Sky -- The Bear Went Over The Mountain ; Vol. 3 -- We're Here Because We're Here -- Apples And Bananas -- Smelly Feet -- B-I-N-G-O -- Days Of The Week -- The Green Grass Grows All Around -- Hungry Alligators -- The Peacock Song -- King of the Beast -- The Tiger's Loose -- John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt -- Did You Ever See A Lassie? -- Five Little Skunks -- Michael Finnegan -- A Pilot Flies Her Plane, Plane, Plane -- Traveling Is A Dream -- I Love The Mountains -- Two Is Safter Than One -- The Wabash Cannonball -- The Buddy System -- I'm Lost! -- Learning Our Safety Rules -- Bought Me A Cat -- Switch -- Home on the Range -- I've Been Working On The Railroad -- America -- Yankee Doodle/Yankee Doodle Dandy -- The Alphabet Swing -- Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes -- My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean -- Sally The Camel -- Sing-A-Ling -- Have you Ever, Ever, Ever?
© p2005., Twin Sisters,
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Wednesday Wilson looks on the fright side / by Galbraith, Bree.; Goble, Morgan,1996-;
Wednesday Wilson is devastated to learn her house is on the Do-Not-Knock List for Halloween trick-or-treaters because her moms don't give out candy. Thankfully, Wednesday has come up with an awesome idea for a treat that's sure to draw crowds to her house despite the list: slime! Even better, she's got a plan to turn slime into her next business venture. There are just a few things she'll have to overcome first to pull off Halloween, such as a haunted house, a giant robot spider and the scariest thing of all -- the Emmas! Bree Galbraith's critically acclaimed series stars a young girl who sees obstacles as challenges to overcome and is always quick on her feet. With short chapters, a page-turning plot and illustrations by Morgan Goble on nearly every page, this series is a perfect choice for emerging readers. The series encourages ingenuity, creative thinking and problem-solving, and includes definitions for business terms throughout the text. It also features a diverse cast of standout characters. A slime recipe is included within this story.
Subjects: Racially mixed children; Business enterprises; Slime (Toys); Problem solving; Haunted houses; Halloween;
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No mercy / by Schaffhausen, Joanna,author.;
Police officer Ellery Hathaway is on involuntary leave from her job because she shot a murderer in cold blood and refuses to apologize for it. Forced into group therapy for victims of violent crime, Ellery immediately finds higher priorities than "getting in touch with her feelings." For one, she suspects a fellow group member may have helped to convict the wrong man for a deadly arson incident years ago. For another, Ellery finds herself in the desperate clutches of a woman who survived a brutal rape. He is still out there, this man with the Spider-Man-like ability to climb through bedroom windows, and his victim beseeches Ellery for help in capturing her attacker. Ellery seeks advice from her friend, FBI profiler Reed Markham, who liberated her from a killer's closet when she was a child. Reed remains drawn to this unpredictable woman, the one he rescued but couldn't quite save. The trouble is, Reed is up for a potential big promotion, and his boss has just one condition for the new job--stay away from Ellery. Ellery ignores all the warnings. Instead, she starts digging around in everyone's past but her own--a move that, at best, could put her out of work permanently, and at worst, could put her in the city morgue.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Policewomen; Women detectives;
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Aru Shah and the end of time / by Chokshi, Roshani.;
In which Aru regrets opening the door -- Oops -- Wake up -- In-ep-tee-tood -- The other sister -- Look, but not really -- The council of guardians -- Who's your daddy? -- The three keys -- A trip to the beauty salon -- Ashes, ashes, we all fall down -- Bring on the next demon! Wait, maybe not ... -- The hipster in the anthill -- A trip to the grovery store -- Why are all enchanted things so rude? -- That was so last season -- The library of A-Z -- A strange case -- I really ... really ... wouldn't do that -- Welp, she did it -- The door and the dogs -- Who's a good boy? -- Soul index -- Dare, disturb, deign -- What meets the eye (and what doesn't) -- My home, not yours! No touchie! -- ... And then came the horde of Godzilla-size fireflies -- The palace's story -- The bridge of forgetting -- The tale of Shukra -- The place smells funky -- #1 on Mini's top ten ways I don't want to die list : death by halitosis -- I'll be a cow in my next life -- The pool of the past -- Can you give me better hair on the way out? -- The TV started it -- Attack! -- Aru Shah is a liar -- Who's the liar now? -- Failure -- Got all that? -- Word vomit -- Why, why, why? Stupid words -- Woof.Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at her private middle school. While her classmates are jetting off to exotic vacations, she'll be spending her autumn break in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture that her mom curates. Is it any wonder Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. Just a quick light, Aru thinks. Then she'll never ever fib again. But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon who is intent on awakening the God of Destruction. Her classmates and mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them. The only way to stop the demon is to find the reincarnations of the legendary Pandava brothers and journey through the Kingdom of Death. But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all that?--From dust jacket.
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Demonology; Blessing and cursing; Mythology, Indic; Antiquities; Museums; Honesty;
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The girl who takes an eye for an eye / by Lagercrantz, David,author.; Goulding, George(Translator),translator.; Larsson, Stieg,1954-2004.Millennium trilogy.; translation of:Lagercrantz, David.Mannen som sökte sin skugga.English.;
"From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker, the obstinate outsider, the volatile seeker of justice for herself and others--even she has never been able to uncover the most telling facts of her traumatic childhood, the secrets that might finally, fully explain her to herself. Now, when she sees a chance to uncover them once and for all, she enlists the help of Mikael Blomkvist, the editor of the muckraking, investigative journal Millennium. And she will let nothing stop her--not the anti-Muslim gang she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the deadly reach from inside the Russian mafia of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment known only as The Registry. Once again, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, together, are the fierce heart of a thrilling full-tilt novel that takes on some of the most insidious problems facing the world at this very moment."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Blomkvist, Mikael (Fictitious character); Salander, Lisbeth (Fictitious character); Hackers; Journalists;
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Don't turn out the lights : a tribute to Alvin Schwartz's scary stories to tell in the dark / by Maberry, Jonathan.; Horror Writers Association.;
The funeral portrait / by Laurent Linn -- The carved bear / by Brendan Reichs -- Don't you see that cat? / by Gaby Triana -- The golden peacock / by Alethea Kontis -- The knock-knock man / by Brenna Yovanoff -- Strange music / by Joanna Parypinski -- Copy and paste kill / by Barry Lyga -- The house on the hill / by Micol Ostow -- Jingle jangle / by Kim Ventrella -- The weeping woman / by Courtney Alameda -- The neighbor / by Amy Lukavics -- Tag, you're it / by N.R. Lambert -- The painted skin / by Jamie Ford -- Lost to the world / by John Dixon -- The bargain / by Aric Cushing -- Lint trap / by Jonathan Auxier -- The cries of the cat / by Josh Malerman -- The open window / by Christopher Golden -- The skelly-horse / by T.J. Wooldridge -- The umbrella man / by Gary A. Braunbeck -- The green grabber / by D.J. MacHale -- Brain spiders / by Luis Alberto Urrea and Rosario Urrea -- Hachishakusama / by Catherine Jordan -- Light as a feather, stiff as a board / by Margaret Stohl -- In stitches / by Michael Northrop -- The bottle tree / by Kami Garcia -- The ghost in Sam's closet / by R.L. Stine -- Rap tap / by Sherrilyn Kenyon -- The garage / by Tananarive Due -- Don't go into the pumpkin patch at night / by Sheri White -- Pretty girls make graves / by Tonya Hurley -- Whistle past the graveyard / by Z Brewer -- Long shadows / by James A. Moore -- Mud / by Linda D. Addison -- The tall ones / by Madeleine Roux.Featuring stories from R.L. Stine and Madeleine Roux, this middle grade horror anthology curated by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry is a chilling tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. A life-size baby doll that stalks its prey. A flesh-hungry ogre who jingle jangles when he walks. A haunted house just dying for a visitor. What do all these things have in common?LSC
Subjects: Children's stories, American.; Horror tales.;
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Death of a spy / by Beaton, M. C.,author.; Green, R. W.(Novelist),author.;
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with - crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals, as well as those in the wider area of his territory in Sutherland, will react to his new assistant officer. The officer is none other than the enigmatic American James Bland who is on an exchange scheme from his home city of Chicago in the United States, supposedly to study policing methods in Scotland. Hamish knows that this is far from the truth. Having recently become involved in identifying a Russian spy ring to solve a murder, he is aware that Bland's mission is to track down the members of the spy network still at large. Bland trusts Hamish to help him find all of those who may have been, or may still be, in league with the Russians. In the meantime, he and Bland have to contend with the everyday chores of rural policing. The tourist season brings with it the usual crop of traffic incidents, lost wallets, lost dogs, and people who are simply lost, but a spate of burglaries and robberies committed by a man described as having a gold tooth and a spider's web tattoo on his neck give Hamish cause for serious concern. The robberies become increasingly violent and the man is dubbed "Spiderman" by the local press. Hamish has to use all of his contacts and every ounce of his Highland guile to find the robber.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Macbeth, Hamish (Fictitious character); Espionage, Russian; Murder; Police; Robbery; Secrecy; Thieves;
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