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The Good Stuff From the Staff of Driftwood Public Library September 2023 |
Featured Collection: Emergency Preparedness |
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This book shows you how to create a self contained disaster preparedness kit to help you survive your journey from ground zero to a safer location. Survival expert Creek Stewart details from start to finish everything you need to gather for 72 hours of independent survival: water, food, protection, shelter, survival tools, and so much more.
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Apocalypse ready: the manual of manuals, a century of panic prevention by Taras YoungAn expertly curated compilation of officially published step-by-step guides on how to deal with every kind of disaster imaginable, drawn from government archives all around the world from the 1910s to today. Organized into four broad disaster-themed scenarios - Pandemics, Natural Disasters, Nuclear War and Alien Invasion - this visual guide displays the plethora of public survival advice and scare tactics proposed from all around the globe to deal with every disaster scenario that has occurred or been imagined since the early 20th century.
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This book shows how to prepare for and respond to any crisis, man-made or natural, wherever it might occur and however small or large it might be. Critical decisions faced during an emergency are considered: whether to stay or to go, where to go, how to stay informed, and more. This comprehensive guide takes a clear-eyed look at what to do should the worst happen.
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Scientists have identified Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver as the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake, also called a mega-quake, in the continental United States. Seattle Times science reporter Sandi Doughton introduces readers to the scientists who are dedicated to understanding the way the earth moves and describes what patterns can be identified and how prepared (or not) people are.
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Juvenile fiction
As a forest fire sweeps the area, forcing them to evacuate their home, Malia's mother tells her to pack only what's important. At first, Malia struggles to decide what to take with her. As the urgency and chaos swirl around her, Malia is able to come to an understanding that what is most important won't fit in a backpack: her little brother, her cat and her dog. |
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| | A team of top scientific minds from around the world are assembled to determine what has been happening to Earth. Dr. Keyes makes the startling discovery that the Earth's electromagnetic forces have begun to collapse. If the planet is to be saved, the core of the Earth needs a jump start, and Keyes assembles a team to burrow to the center of the planet and bomb the insides back into action. However, as the crew digs deeper into the Earth, the more they discover what they haven't been told about their mission and what's really been causing the worldwide chaos. |
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Volcano
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Dante's peak
A long-dormant volcano in the town of Dante's Peak erupts, devastating the area
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San Andreas When a magnitude nine earthquake leaves California in ruins, a helicopter pilot and his estranged wife make their way to San Francisco to save their only daughter.
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| | When a massive gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through Tokyo, the Japanese government scrambles to save its citizens. A ragtag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side, because the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes. |
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To name the bigger lie: a memoir in two storiesby Sarah VirenPart coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this book, based in part on a viral New York Times essay, follows the author's quest to prove her wife's innocence in a sexual misconduct case, exploring the line between truth and deception, fact and fiction and reality and conspiracy. A compelling, incisive journey into honesty and betrayal, this memoir explores the powerful pull of dangerous conspiracy theories and the pliability of personal narratives in a world dominated by hoaxes and fakes. |
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Goodbye, Eastern Europe: an intimate history of a divided land by Jacob MikanowskiThis masterful narrative about a place that has survived the brink of being forgotten chronicles a thousand years of war, strife and bloodshed, from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism and the birth of modern nation-states. Mikanowski paints a magisterial portrait of a place united by diversity, and eclecticism, and a people with the shared story of being the dominated rather than the dominating. |
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Homicide: the graphic novel. Part oneby Philippe SquarzoniIn 1988, journalist David Simon was given unprecedented access to the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit. Over the next twelve months, he shadowed detectives as they took on a slew of killings in a city where killings were common. Only the most heinous cases stood out--chief amongst them, the rape and murder of eleven-year-old Latonya Wallace. Now, this true-crime classic is reimagined as a gritty two-part graphic novel series.
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Hopeless Aromantic: An Affirmative Guide to Aromanticism by Samantha RendleAromanticism is defined as experiencing little to no romantic attraction to others. Sam Rendle, onetime aromantic asexual, and present-day label unspecified, knows a thing or two about the aro spectrum - and she has some answers for you. You'll explore what aromanticism is, how aromantic people form relationships, how to know if you're aromantic and deal with internalised shame and societal stigma. This is the affirmatory aro companion to have in your back pocket
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Non-fiction graphic work
In a humorous graphic novel set in Minnesota around 1914, we see W. B. Laughead, an advertising manager for a lumber company, spin the Paul Bunyan tall tales. Highlights the impact of clear-cutting old-growth forests. With contributions by Native authors as well as historical maps, photos, and a bibliography. |
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This real-world survival guide...gives you everything you need to survive in any situation. As well as crucial wilderness skills, find out how to stay safe in urban environments, and even how to protect your online identity |
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Your freedom, your power: a kid's guide to the First Amendmentby Allison MatulliThe First Amendment grants kids and every other citizen five privileges: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and the right to petition the government. A nonpartisan, unbiased look at the First Amendment and how it informs our daily lives, this book engages children in learning more about their country and their rights and responsibilities.
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Killing the Wittigo: Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing by Suzanne MethotKilling the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how trauma alters an individual's brain, body, and behavior. It explores how learned patterns of behavior -- the ways people adapt to trauma to survive -- are passed down within family systems, thereby affecting the functioning of entire communities. These stories offer concrete examples of the ways in which Indigenous peoples and communities are capable of healing in small and big ways.
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Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms but what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear-and even follow you home. In twenty-five wholly original and shiver-inducing tales, bestselling and award-winning authors introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge.
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Dark ride: a thriller by Louis BerneyA scare actor at an amusement park, 21-year-old Hardy Reed, for the first time in his life, decides to fight for something when he decides to save two abused children from their father who runs a violent drug-dealing operation, committing himself to save these kids from further harm. This might be the one point in his entire life, he realizes, that is the entire point of his life. Faced with a different version of himself than he has ever known, Hardly refuses to give up. But his commitment to saving these kids from further harm might end up getting the kids, and Hardly himself, killed
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Black sheepby Rachel HarrisonReturning home to the family farm for her beloved cousin Rosie's wedding, Vesper, forced to reunite with her mother, a former horror film star and forever ice queen, must reckon with her family's staunch religious beliefs and her own crisis of faith when her homecoming unearths a horrifying family secret. This haunting novel explores the way family ties can bind us as we struggle to define our own separate identities |
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Learned by heart by Emma DonoghueBased on a true story and a five-million-word secret journal, this extraordinary work of fiction follows an orphaned heiress, banished from India to England, and a brilliant, troublesome tomboy who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in 1805 York where they fall secretly, deeply and dangerous in love. |
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The sunset years of Agnes Sharpby Leonie SwannWhen Agnes and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside, investigate the murder of their neighbor while covering up another, they step out of their comfort zone to tangle with inept criminals, the local authorities and their own dark secrets. |
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An evil heart by Linda CastilloOn a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish family. Who would commit such a heinous crime against a young man whose life was just beginning? The more Kate gets to know his devastated family and the people-both English and Amish-who loved him, the more determined she becomes to solve the case.
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The last devil to dieby Richard Osman "Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust. With the body count rising, the clock ticking down, and trouble firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fantasy
While reading aloud fairy stories in hopes of bringing her comatose eight-year-old daughter back to this world, Ceres is called to a land colored by the memories of childhood and the folklore beloved by her father where old enemies are watching and waiting. |
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Science fiction graphic novel
In the not-too-distant future, the Earth has been destroyed, its orbit withering and its citizens desperate to escape to the stars. The solution? The Arka project, massive vessels bound for the distant planet of Leonis. When the passengers of Arka III awaken from their long intergalactic journey, they realize they're not on Leonis and their ship has landed them in a starless, seemingly endless void. Eric Rives, the ship's second-in-command, and his partner Jia Tang are sent on an exploratory mission to investigate the dark labyrinth that surrounds them...but what they find is beyond belief |
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Fantasy
As two royals fight to keep their crowns amidst old friends and new enemies in fantastical realms connected by a single city—London, a girl with an unusual magical ability comes into possession of a device that could bring them together—or unravel it all. |
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The best science fiction of the year, Vol. 7 Edited by Neil ClarkeA yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence.
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Her radiant curseby Elizabeth LimWhen her beautiful 17-year-old sister Vanna is to be auctioned off in a vulgar betrothal contest, Channi, who is cursed with a serpent's face, defends Vanna from the cruelest of suitors, unleashing an evil that could sever their bond forever. |
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Graphic novel
Trying to exist in a world where she's the only one left with a heart, June stumbles upon an abandoned heart and must choose between saving a boy she barely knows, who's in pain, and revitalizing the sister she loves dearly, who feels nothing. |
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Science fiction
Arriving on Ouris to steal a fortune, expert thief Cass is set up to take the fall when the emperor is murdered and works with a mysterious rebel to clear her name, unraveling a secret that could change the fate of the empire. |
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You, Me, We: a celebration of peace and community by Arun GandhiCo-authored by one of Mahatma Gandhi's grandsons, who draws from both Gandhi's philosophies and those of Maria Montessori, this inviting primer encourages children to celebrate the peace that can be found in us all.
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The scariest kitten in the worldby Kate MessnerThis laugh-out-loud picture book takes readers to a just-PURR-fect haunted house where they'll meet a not-so-scary kitten and a collection of the cutest little critters anyone has ever seen. |
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I am a dragon! : a squabble & a quibble by Sabina HahnMistaken for a very large frog, a grumpy dragon gets fired up when a group of frogs insist he's the one who's wrong, in this laugh-out-loud picture book about misunderstandings, imagination, forgiveness and friendship. |
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Dogtownby Katherine ApplegateChapter book
When Chance, a real dog, and Metal Head, a robot dog, break out of the Dogtown shelter, they embark on an adventure to find their fur-ever homes, encountering both danger and unexpected kindness along the way.
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by Sayantani DasGupta Chapter book
Ten-year-old Kinjal knows something strange is going on. But he does not expect his dog, Thums-up, to disappear before his eyes in the middle of the night! Even stranger, two enormous flying horses appear and insist on taking Kinjal and his twin sister,Kiya, to a place they have never heard of: the Sky Kingdom. They have come to this dimension to seek help--bees are disappearing, along with the nectar the horses need to survive. Whisked away to a magical realm, the twins must use Kiya's scientific skills and Kinjal's love of books and language to help the horses.
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This hilarious new early graphic novel series introduces best friends Gnome and Rat who celebrate Hat Day, learn magic tricks, and find Gnome a new signature hat in their charming forest. |
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Accepted to the Guardian Academy on Lotus Island, a place where kids transform into magical creatures sworn to protect the natural world, young Plum finds herself struggling and might be forced to leave school if she cannot embrace her inner animal soon. |
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While on a field trip to Bokati Island with the mysterious Guardian Master Em, Plum must decide whether or not to reveal her own Guardian powers when an unseen force puts the entire ecosystem at risk. |
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