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1) The hunter
Author
Series
Cal Hooper volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
Author
Language
English
Description
"2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global environmental movement. Written in blank verse.
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
58 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the life of Babe Ruth. A story about making it to the top. George Herman Ruth, Jr., more commonly knows as Babe Ruth, was one of the greatest American baseball players of all time. Before he was a sports hero, he was a poor kid who loved playing baseball but often got into trouble. His life changed when he went away to boarding school and he was discovered by the minor leagues. The rest is history! Explore how Babe went from a young boy...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From severe flooding in Louisiana to wildfires in the Pacific Northwest to melting permafrost in Alaska, catastrophic climate events are occurring more frequently--and severely--than ever. And these events are having a direct impact on the lives (and futures) of young people and their families. In the ongoing landmark case Juliana vs. United States, twenty-one young plaintiffs claim that the government's support of the fossil-fuel industry is actively...
6) Red
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Tess's decision to get an abortion goes public, she is rejected and harassed by people in her community, but she soon finds solace in her music and uses her voice to end the cycle of abuse in her small town.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
221 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1980s Troy, New York, nonbinary teenager Claire's stint in court-ordered rehab may be exactly what they need to unpack all the bad they have experienced--if they can stay sober in a world seemingly never made for them.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old amateur sleuth Iris and her sapphic detective agency investigate the disappearance of Iris's cheerleader ex-girlfriend, who also happens to be the creator of a notorious true-crime podcast about Iris's missing older sister.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The United States' most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete tells how she overcame Chernobyl disaster-caused physical challenges through sheer determination and a drive to succeed to win the world's best in elite rowing, biathlon, cross-countryskiing, and road cycling competitions.
Oksana was born in Ukraine-- in the shadow of Chernobyl. She was born with one kidney, a partial stomach, six toes on each foot, webbed fingers, no right bicep,...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there. Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to National Security agent, James Silber, the investigation of the Homecoming Incident is closing, but things don’t add up. At least Tammie is back home safe—and relatively sound. She, along with Schafer and Cassie, are focusing on finding out what really happened to Amy at the Homecoming Incident. So far all they know is that they can’t trust the authorities, and to everyone else Amy is officially dead. But Amy isn’t dead, she’s...
Author
Series
Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 14
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amy settles into her new routine of exercise, work, and chatting with Oliver, trying to put the specter of homecoming behind her. But life in the FCP is anything but boring, as she and Qiana begin unravelling the conspiracy within the agency, one which takes them all the way to the office of the Director himself! Meanwhile in Kokomo, Cassie, Tammie, and Schafer begin their own investigation into Amy's disappearance, and far out in space, Oliver has...
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