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The Good Stuff From the Staff of Driftwood Public Library NOVEMBER 2024 |
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by Evanovich, JanetStephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Time for a change, Stephanie thinks. Time to find the kind of job her mother can tell her friends about without making the sign of the cross. So Stephanie Plum quits. Resigns. No looking back. No changing her mind. She wants something safe and normal.
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One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains. |
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In such good company: eleven years of laughter, mayhem, and fun in the sandbox by Burnett, CarolComedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. Who but Carol Burnett herself has the timing, talent, and wit to pull back the curtain on the Emmy-Award winning show that made television history for eleven glorious seasons?
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11/22/63: a novelby Stephen King On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination.
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by Klune, TJ
The Bennett family has a secret: They're not just a family, they're a pack. Wolfsong is "Ox" Matheson's story. Ox Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasn't worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when the energetic Bennett family moved in next door, The family are shapeshifters, who can transform into wolves at will. Ox finds an ally in Joe, the youngest Bennett boy. Joe is charming and handsome, but haunted by scars he cannot heal. Ox was twenty-three when murder came to town, tore a hole in his heart, and tragedy split the pack. Joe left town, leaving Ox behind. Three years later, the boy is back. Except now he's a man - and Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them. (This book is 517 pages and I read it in one day!) |
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Ravensongby Klune, TJHardened by the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, Gordo Livingstone sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves. It should have been enough. And it was, until the wolves came back, and with them, Mark Bennett. In the end, they faced the beast together as a pack... and won. Now, a year later, Gordo constantly struggles to ignore Mark and the song that howls between them. But time is running out. Something is coming. And this time, it's crawling from within. Some bonds, no matter how strong, were made to be broken. |
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Heartsong by Klune, TJAll Robbie Fontaine ever wanted was a place to belong when he receives a summons from the wolf stronghold in Caswell, Maine. Life as the trusted second to Michelle Hughes--the Alpha of all--and the cherished friend of a gentle old witch teaches Robbie what it means to be pack, to have a home. But when a mission from Michelle sends Robbie into the field, he finds himself questioning where he belongs and everything he's been told. Whispers of traitorous wolves and wild magic abound. Robbie hungers for answers, because one of those alleged traitors is Kelly Bennett--the wolf who may be his mate.
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Brothersongby Klune, TJDesperate for answers, Carter Bennett takes to the road, leaving family and the safety of his pack behind, all in the name of a man he only knows as a feral wolf. But therein lies the danger: wolves are pack animals, and the longer Carter is on his own, the more his mind slips toward the endless void of Omega insanity. What Carter finds will change the course of the wolves forever: a secret kept hidden by Carter's father. And with this knowledge comes a price: the sins of the fathers now rest upon the shoulders of their sons |
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Into this river I drown by Klune, T. J.Five years ago, Benji Green lost his beloved father, Big Eddie, when his truck crashed into a river. Everyone called it an accident, but Benji knows it was more. Even years later, he lives day to day, struggling to keep his head above water. With ever more frequent dreams of his father's death and waking visions Benji thinks himself haunted; by ghosts or memories, he can no longer tell. Not until a man falls from the sky, leaving the burning imprint of wings on the ground, does Benji begin to understand that the world is more mysterious than he ever imagined--and more dangerous.
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The house in the cerulean seaby Klune, TJCaseworker Linus Baker of the Department in Charge of Magical Youths (DICOMY) believes he is doing right by the preternaturally gifted children placed in DICOMY-sanctioned orphanages. But Linus begins to question DICOMY's methods when the ominous Extremely Upper Management tasks Linus with evaluating the isolated Marsyas Island Orphanage and reporting not only on the island's extraordinary children--among them a female gnome and a shy teenage boy who turns into a small dog when startled--but also on the orphanage master, Arthur Parnassus. The bonds Linus forms with the children and the romantic connection he feels for Arthur set Linus on a path toward redemption. |
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Babette's feast (1987) (stream on Max)A Danish movie (based on a short story by Isak Dinesen) about the cooking of a great feast by a French woman who wishes to express her gratitude for the kindness of the sisters who employed her. |
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A documentary profiling legendary sushi master Jiro Ono as he prepares his son Yoshikazu to eventually take over as head chef at his restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro, famously located in the Tokyo Subway. The restaurant only has 10 counter seats, and was the first sushi restaurant to earn 3 Michelin stars. |
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Ratatouille (2007) (stream on Disney+)Pixar’s delightful story about the adventures of a rat named Remy as he teaches a (human) sous chef working in a declining, former Michelin-starred restaurant in Paris how to cook. |
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Mel Brooks-produced documentary looking at the rise of the automat (restaurants in which fresh-cooked, hot food was dispensed to customers through an early vending machine), beginning in Philadelphia in 1902, their spread to New York City, following their decline in popularity through the 70s and 80s. Featuring reminisces from Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Elliott Gould, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Colin Powell, among many, many others. |
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The comedy in which brothers Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub make a final attempt to save their failing Italian restaurant in 1950s New Jersey by preparing an epic feast to be attended by a famous jazz musician. |
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(stream on Disney+) The unparalleled classic first adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved book Charlie and the chocolate factory, starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, chocolatier extraordinaire. |
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Another final movie from a talented filmmaker who died too young, Adrienne Shelly’s Waitress is a charming romance about Jenna, a waitress in the South whose fabled mouth-watering pies are much sought after. A newcomer arrives in town and Jenna tries for one more stab at happiness. The movie was more recently adapted into a Broadway musical, and that is available through the library as well. |
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Pig (2021) (stream on Hulu)One of Nicolas Cage’s more restrained performances in which he plays a reclusive truffle hunter living in the Oregon wilderness. When his beloved pig is stolen, he must revisit his past in Portland to try to find her. Heartwrenching. |
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First cow (2019) (stream on Prime)Another Oregon-based movie about animals and food, master filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s film tells the story of a cook who has traveled West and joined a group of fur trappers. His only close connection is with a Chinese immigrant, and together they concoct a plan to make a fortune by supplying dairy to the Pacific Northwest. Based on the novel The Half-life, by Jonathan Raymond. |
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Last holiday (2006) (stream on Paramount+)Wayne Wang’s remake of Henry Cass’ 1950 comedy starring Alec Guinness. Queen Latifah plays a sales clerk who is diagnosed with a rare disease and given three weeks to live. She decides to cash in her retirement and do all the things she’s always put off in her life, including actually eating the gourmet food she loves cooking and serving to others. Based on an original screenplay by J.B. Priestly, a prolific novelist and playwright whose work spanned the late 1920s through the late 60s.
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Jon Favreau wrote, directed and starred in this movie in which he plays a talented chef who loses his job due to his temper and buys a food truck so that he can finally cook the food he wants to create. |
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Lunchbox (2014)This romantic comedy from India revolves around a mistaken delivery by the famously efficient Dabbawalas (lunchbox service) of Mumbai, which leads to a relationship between Saajan, a lonely widower close to retirement, and Ila, an unhappy housewife, as they start exchanging notes via his daily lunchbox.
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(stream on Paramount+)Laura Esquivel’s novel Como Agua para Chocolate was adapted into this exquisite movie from Mexico by Alfonso Arau. As the youngest daughter in her family, Tita is expected to care for her mother and never marry. Tita's sister marries the man Tita loves so she expresses her desire for him through the food she cooks for her family. Just recently MAX started streaming a limited series based on the same book, which hasn’t been released on DVD yet. |
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Taste of things (2023) (stream on AMC+)This French/Belgian co-production starring Juliette Binoche and directed by Anh Hung Tran explores the relationship between Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years. Growing fonder of one another, their bond turns into a romance and gives rise to delicious dishes that impress even the world's most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie's reluctance to commit to him, he decides to start cooking for her.
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Growing up Urkelby White, JaleelAn incisive and insightful memoir by one of the most beloved icons of nineties television Jaleel White, the actor who portrayed Steve Urkel on the hit sitcom Family Matters. White balances boilerplate behind-the-scenes reminiscences with frank, sometimes funny discussions of the role's repercussions, and the discomfort he feels that Urkel has become a "punching bag" for critics discussing Black representation on TV. |
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Born of fire and rain by Herring, M. L.Readers peek behind the magnificent scenery into a forest of ancient trees, exploding mountains, disappearing owls, tsunamis, megafires, and ten million people to learn what it means to be a forest in a world of upheavals. Experience the temperate rainforest through science and art as it faces a shifting climate and the shifting priorities of a constantly changing society.
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Heartbreak is the national anthemby Sheffield, RobA Rolling Stone columnist provides an intimate look at Taylor Swift's evolution into a global pop phenomenon, detailing her musical impact, storytelling prowess and cultural significance and unique connection with fans and the broader music industry. Sheffield gets right to the heart of Swift and her music, her lyrics, her fan connection, her raw power. |
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Mushrooms of Cascadia by Beug, Michael W.An illustrated key to identifying the mushrooms of the Cascadian bioregion, stretching from coastal Alaska to central California and Idaho, featuring 1,000-plus full-color photographs and more than 3,000 species. Covering gilled and non-gilled species, Chanterelles, Boletes, Amanitas, Agaricus, Psilocybe, and many, many more -- and including descriptions of lookalikes and similar species
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The product of a stoic, working-class British family, Sacha had a deeply seeded distrust of mental health treatment, but now, living the life she'd built in the US and desperate for relief, she finds herself in a therapist's office for the first time. Past Tense takes us inside Sacha's therapy sessions, which over time become life-changing. Sacha sees how her complicated upbringing and other generational trauma has been passed through her family as far back as her grandmother's experiences during The Blitz of World War Two.
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Ages 15-19
This useful and approachable guide offers important driver-safety information superbly pitched to teen readers. From changing a tire, to merging onto a highway, to checking and filling your own oil, The ultimate driving book is the new go-to manual for new and seasoned drivers alike. With 160 pages of snazzy full-color illustrations throughout, drivers will have all the step-by-steps they need to navigate life on the road. |
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Ages 12-15
This guide teaches tweens and teens the skills they need to make a positive impact on their relationships, schools, and communities. It offers advice for teens wanting to help friends and peers with their mental health and shares information about teens' mental health and the need for teens to learn helping skills. Basic counseling, problem-solving, goal setting, and conflict resolution skills are taught, and advice for what to do when someone's problems put them or others in harm's way is given. |
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Ages 14-17
From the campfire to the digital rumor mill, urban legends have flourished wherever we tell stories. Whether once true, sprouted from half remembered facts or entirely fictional, we have scrutinized these legends for centuries. This book will ferry you across a river of uncanny tales, from classic folklore to contemporary urban legend. So, check the closet, make sure the skies are clear and delve in if you are ready to imagine the strange.
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This is a book for people who worry (so, yeah-everyone!) We all have a mixture of fun and not-so-fun feelings. and everyone feels worried sometimes. But too much anxiety can get in the way. This book is here to help you: from recognizing when you're feeling anxious and worried, to taking charge by training your brain and using awesome techniques to help you feel good again, this book will have you worrying less and living more.
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Ages 8-12
In this seriously funny book, acclaimed creator Elise Gravel Gavel uses her trademark humor and punchy art to celebrate the many wonderful ways humans think and to show readers that understanding how different brains feel and learn can help us connect with others . . . and keep our own brains happy! |
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Incidents around the houseby Malerman, JoshA horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a Bela, a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls "Other Mommy." Bela's naive narrative voice is the book's best feature, freshening up the familiar story beats and enhancing the creeping sense of dread. |
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The book swap by Bickers, TessaWhen she accidentally donates her favorite book containing a memento she can't be without to the community library, Erin, when the book turns up a week later with fresh notes in the margins, starts a life-changing conversation through an anonymous book exchange that leads to something unexpected.
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Step into the world of We alive, beloved, where its words will resonate within the deepest corners of your soul, leaving a mark on your heart and a renewed appreciation for the beauty of being alive. Each poem seeks to immortalize the fleeting moments of joy, love, resilience, and inspiration that often slip through the grasp of our fast-paced lives. With words that stand as guardians against the relentless march of time and the ceaseless tides of change, trauma, and grief, this collection becomes a sanctuary of light in a world that sometimes seems dim.
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A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions--a healer, a weaver, and a seer. The men hunting her will kill her--because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent ambition. She is the first queen of Scotland, married to a king called Macbeth. As the net closes in, what unfurls is a tale of passion, forced marriage, bloody massacre, and the harsh realities of medieval Scotland. Her struggle won her a country. But now it could cost her life. |
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A new lease on deathby Blacke, OliviaTwenty-year-old Ruby Young moves to a new apartment in Boston and finds that she has a ghost for a roommate--Cordelia Graves, who died in the apartment a few months earlier. When a neighbor is killed, the two team up to solve the murder. The camaraderie between the two women is surprisingly strong, and every single joke about being dead or communicating with the dead lands with a pleasant ding. |
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Those opulent days by Pham, JacquieA classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920's French-colonial Vietnam. Four Vietnamese men have gathered for an evening of indulgence, but one of them won't survive the night. Toggling between this fatal night and the six days leading up to it, told from the perspectives of the four men, their mothers, their servants, and their lovers, an intricate web of terror, loyalty, and well-kept secrets begins to unravel.
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The Indian rope trickMead, TomAn outstanding collection of 11 "locked room" short stories set in 1930s England and featuring retired conjurer-turned-investigator Joseph Spector. Mead's "impossible murder" setups include, in the title tale, a strangulation in the aftermath of a legendary magic trick. These ingeniously constructed puzzles are all the more impressive for their brevity. Golden age mystery fans will be thrilled. |
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Drop dead sisters by Coombs, Amelia DianeRemi Finch has spent the better part of her adult life avoiding family--especially her sisters. They just don't click. Besides, her unconventional upbringing and major anxiety have convinced Remi that she can't build a relationship with anyone. Period. When her parents plan a family reunion camping trip to celebrate their anniversary, Remi's willing to reconnect, if only because she doesn't have a choice. But then a dead body turns up at their campsite, and their sisterly bonding kicks into high gear. Remi is about to learn that nothing strengthens family ties quite like crime.
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In the final installment of the Finder Chronicles, Fergus, a professional finder, takes on his last caper. Bas Belos needs Fergus to find his twin sister, so he manipulates Fergus into helping him by offering him a rare reward. Their quest for Belos' sister quickly becomes much more complicated, in part because they are trying to avoid the Alliance and hostile aliens. But ultimately, this last job will lead to their either saving or destroying planets.
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A new collection of her gorgeously strange, inventively subversive, and vividly beautiful short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures and fantastical landscapes. In Nalo Hopkinson's first collection of stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien life-form; a trans woman at a funeral might be haunted by more than just bad memories; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome and most needed. |
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Fantasy At the dawn of the twentieth century in Paris, Samantha Harker, daughter of Dracula's killer, works as a researcher for the Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena. But no one realizes how abnormal she is. Sam is a channel into the minds of monsters: a power that could help her solve the gruesome deaths plaguing turn-of-the-century Paris--or have her thrown into an asylum. Sam finds herself assigned to a case with Dr. Helena Moriarty, daughter of the criminal mastermind and famed nemesis of Sherlock Holmes and a notorious detective whom no one wants to work with. |
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Gentlest of wild things by Underwood, SarahTo save her beloved twin sister Phoebe from marrying Leandros, Eirene must complete four elaborate tasks he sets before her, which leads her to Lamia, the strange, neglected daughter he keeps locked away. It soon becomes clear that the tasks are part of something bigger. As Lamia and Eirene grow closer, she finds herself longing for the outside world. But the price of freedom is high, and with something deadly -- something hungry -- stalking the night, that price must be paid in blood....
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Graphic novel
Young Ryan Fox gets good grades, but he's not sure what he wants to be when he grows up. It isn't until he meets a Blackfoot doctor during a school assembly that he starts to dream big. However, becoming a doctor isn't easy. University takes Ryan away from his family and tribal community, and without their support, he begins to struggle. Faced with more stress than he's ever experienced, he turns to partying. His grades start to slip. His bills pile up. Getting into med school feels impossible. Can Ryan regain his footing to walk the path he saw so clearly as a boy? |
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Lie until it's true by Weaver, JessieWhen her childhood best friend's mom is accused of murdering an eccentric billionaire, True-crime TikToker Amanda Pruitt visits Colorado to reunite with childhood friends and Aunt Amy where she is drawn into an old murder case and her friend is killed. Amanda quickly becomes the prime suspect in this seemingly open-and-shut case — and the target of a killer bent on revenge. Can she unravel the connection between the two murders to clear her name? |
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Ages 4-8
In their third "How to..." book, Alexander and Sweet collaborate with singer-songwriter Preston to guide readers in tuning in to the world of sound around them. Surrounded by nature's chorus and guided by words that vibrate like thunder, How to sing a song invites readers to listen to the song that echoes inside them and let the music ring out. |
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A young girl receives a mysterious invitation to a Pig Town party and follows the mailman through the hedges to discover a dazzling, wildly imagined secret world of pigs — where epic parties, chase scenes and a cake heist soon unfold.
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Ages 3-7
While observing the assorted birds in her town, Sparrow, a curious Black girl, learns about their flight patterns, colors, and songs. Includes bird watching tips and a glossary |
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An introduction to this endangered species — and the only mammal with scales — is told from a Pangolin's point of view, showing how their tough armor deters predators and their super sticky tongue helps them catch the 20,000 bugs they eat per day.
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Ages 8-12
Mr. Limoncello's game-making empire is up for grabs, and he's invited 13 lucky 13-year-olds to compete for it, including Kyle Keeley, who must stop someone from destroying the empire and all it stands for. Highlights the theme that true winning requires not just individual effort but cooperation too. The final book closes with a properly magnificent shower of balloons. |
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Graphic novel for ages 8-12,
Ten-year-old Anang wants to make a ribbon skirt, a piece of clothing typically worn by women in the Anishinaabe tradition, for an upcoming powwow. Anang is two-spirit and nonbinary and doesn't know what others will think of them wearing a ribbon skirt, but they're determined to follow their heart's desire. Anang sets off to gather the materials needed to make the skirt and turns to those around them -- their family, their human and turtle friends, the crows, and even the lake itself -- for help. And maybe they'll even find a new confidence within themself along the way. |
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In an ordinary-looking house in an ordinary-looking village live a group of children who have just uncovered a secret. A tiny and helpless Magical Creature named Bug, lost far from home, leads the O'Hero-Smith children on another Star-crossing adventure across the galaxy. K2, Theo, Izzabird, and Mabel have a secret plan to get little Bug back to the fiery ice planet where it belongs. But a witch's curse, venomous snowsnakes, and a gang of fighter robots are waiting for them through the Which Ways. The fate of the galaxy is once again in their hands -- they better not mess it up! |
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Graphic novel
CheckMate, an ancient AI paperclip designed to fix grammatical errors concocts a plan to eliminate spelling errors once and for all, he wants to turn carbon-based lifeforms into something beautiful, practical, perfect: a paperclip. Now CheckMate has invaded every computer. Only one trio can save day: the First Cat in Space, the Moon Queen and LOZ 4000 come to help.
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Non-Fiction Basketball 100 by The Athletic, David Aldridge & John Hollinger (11/26) |
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