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41) Afterland
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English
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Three years after a plague has wiped out the male population, twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence, and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie -- all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son. Someplace like home.
42) City of the Dead
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Hawk volume 2
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English
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Hawk accepts her mother Max's help to prevent vengeful hybrids, amoral scientists, traitorous politicians, and a deadly virus from overwhelming her beloved, polluted city.
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English
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"Swimming, singing and blowing bubbles--baby whale calves and young human children share so many of the same activities! This lyrical picture book compares the relationship of a young child and mother with that of a whale calf and its mother, showing how the lives of the whales can be so touchingly like our own. Patterned in a call-and-response format, where the mother observes and the child responds, the text begs to be read aloud. Safe at night...
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[2023]
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English
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Gifted with an empathic connection to food and wine, Ada, a rogue Chef, goes on the run with her beloved Grand-mère when mysterious assassins ferret her out, and finds her path converging with Solenn, a foreign princess in a strange land and her long-lost mother.
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[2019]
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English
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"Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, and--most heart-wrenching--her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident. Haunted by memories and grief, Jess packs what's left and heads for the small mountain town of Pine Lake, where she takes a position as caregiver to an eccentric old woman. A rumored clairvoyant, Lucy is strange but welcoming and immediately intuits Jess as a loose end in need of closure. But...
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English
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"Life sucks when you're twelve. You're not a little kid, but you're also not an adult, and all the grown-ups in your life talk about your body the minute it starts getting a shape. And what sucks even more than being a Chinese-Filipino- American-Guatemalan who can't speak any ancestral language well? When almost every other girl in school has already gotten her period except for you and your two besties. Manuela "Mani" Semilla wants two things: to...
47) A Million Dreams
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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Unabridged.
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English
Description
“Izzy?s eight-year-old son Noah is her whole life. With his long eyelashes, mischievous grin and boundless energy, he?s got her husband Pete?s sunny outlook and Izzy?s curious mind. When they receive a surprise phone call from the fertility center that helped them have Noah, it?s surely nothing to worry about. But what they learn from that call sends their dreams for their son crashing down around them. Eight years ago, someone made a terrible mistake...
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[2008]
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English
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This wonderful compilation brings together the beloved first three Bear books - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?; and Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? -and includes the newest addition, Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?
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