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Trust her
by Flynn Berry
Building a new life in Dublin with their young children, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian are drawn back into the IRA conflict when Tess is told she must track down her old handler from MI5 and attempt to turn him into an IRA informant or lose everything.
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Becoming Earth : how our planet came to life
by Ferris Jabr
"The notion of a living world is one of humanity's oldest beliefs. Though scorned by scientists in the sixties and seventies, the facts supporting this concept have now become tenets of modern Earth system science, a relatively young field that studies the living and nonliving components of the planet as an integrated whole. Life did not evolve passively in response to its environment, as scientists have long assumed. Instead, it evolved with Earth, shaping its climate and terrain at every scale, one part in a great orchestra, in which non-living elements-the air, rocks, and water-are the instruments that life, in its multitudes, has emerged to play. Jabr transports the reader to some of the world's most extraordinary places--an underwater kelp forest onthe coast of California, a vertiginous tower above the Amazon rainforest, and a former gold mine two miles below the Earth's surface--to explain how these symbiotic relationships evolved. He shows us how plants and other photosynthetic organisms help maintain the right level of atmospheric oxygen to support complex life. We see how microorganisms participate in many geological processes, producing new minerals and converting rock from one state to another; some scientists think they played a crucial rolein forming the continents. In these pages we learn that large mammals maintain grasslands and prevent permafrost from melting; coral reefs and shellfish store huge amounts of carbon, buffer ocean acidity, improve water quality, and defend shorelines fromsevere weather; and so much more"
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Crashing into you
by Rocky Callen
Dreaming of becoming a famous street racer, 17-year-old Leti Rivera vows to give up driving after tragedy strikes following a race, until she realizes it could be the very thing that saves her — and the boy she's come to love.
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Fire escape : how animals and plants survive wildfires
by Jessica Stremer
This timely nonfiction book, featuring riveting, kid-friendly text, shows the many incredible ways animals detect, respond and adapt to wildfires, as well as discusses injury rehabilitation efforts and the impact of climate change on the frequency and severity of these natural disasters.
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I see you smile
by Deborah Farmer Kris
In rhyming text, a caregiver lovingly validates their young one's use of body language to communicate their emotions
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