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"From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation--and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children--two eleven-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old--love the nonstop buffet and the independence they have at the Kids' Club....
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Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 204 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film--featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed. It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on...
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"It begins in Africa... A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle -- known...
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"Water. The single most necessary element to sustain life. Brockovich warns that America's water crisis isn't looming on the horizon--it's already here. Superman Isn't Coming makes clear that the most precious resource on planet Earth is alarmingly polluted by toxins, hazardous waste, lead, fracking chemicals, and more. In the 20 years since her eponymous film, Brockovich has kept up the fight for clean water one town at a time. She receives thousands...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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7 online resources (7 video files) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
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English
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Unnatural causes sounds the alarm about the extent of our glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, Unnatural causes crisscrosses the country investigating the findings that are shaking up conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy or sick. This...
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Lightning Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Detective Kilroy is assigned to investigate a horrible murder. He's a fine cop, from the brim of his hat to the soles of his brogues, but his inquiries, far from solving the mystery, lead him into a deeper one--and to Cynthia, an enigmatic woman with a secret that could overturn Kilroy's entire world. And where is this world? It seems both familiar and strange, with electric cars, but no digital devices, and the audience for a public execution arriving...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 290 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"From an award-winning journalist, a provocative, deeply reported expose of the history and present crisis of anti-Semitism in France--and its dire consequences for the rest of Europe. Hate explores the alarming history and present predicament of anti-Semitism in France. By examining the issue at local, international, and personal levels--interviewing everyday French men and women as well as powerful leaders such as National Front president Marine...
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
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vi, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. Perhaps most alarmingly, boys now account for less than 43 percent of those enrolled in college, and the gap widens every semester! The growing gender imbalance in education portends massive shifts for the next generation: how much they make and whom they marry. Interviewing parents, kids, teachers, and experts, journalist...
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Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2023.
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xxi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Over the last two decades, there has been an inescapable rise of anger and aggression across our planet. Hate speech has become increasingly prevalent online, Western governments are turning towards authoritarianism and populism, and extremist groups are rising across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. Every day, it seems, we're hearing more angry voices and fearful opinions, we're seeing more threats and frightening news,...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
2015.
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xviii, 198 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Protect your retirement from the next big crash with a New Twist on the Old Investment Strategy. For years, advisors have recommended that investors take a "buy and hold" approach to the market, but people over fifty can't afford to rely on this strategy. Buy, Hold, & SELL! uncovers the myth of the "buy and hold" investment philosophy, and explains why it's dangerously incomplete. Written by Ken Moraif, one of Barron's top 100 Financial Advisors...
11) A future we can love: how we can reverse the climate crisis with the power of our hearts & minds
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Shambhala Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
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x, 265 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"In early 2021, a humble, old Tibetan monk in maroon and yellow robes met with a slight young woman from Sweden. He is a survivor of violence and oppression whose radiant happiness and empathy have become world famous; she a fiery activist whose uncompromising clarity helped spark the global youth movement for climate action. When these two people-the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg-met and spoke for the first time, millions of people around the world...
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Catteries not included: Mechanical dogs created by Professor Nimnul are kidnapping all the cats -- Three men and a Booby: The Rangers help a mother Booby find her stolen egg -- Carpetsnaggers: The Rangers investigate a string of burglaries committed by flying carpets -- Piratsy under the seas: A frustrated Dale joins a group of pirate rats -- Adventures in squirrelsitting: While trying to recover the Maltese Mouse, the Rangers babysit two baby squirrels...
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Oggy and Pru volume 1
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Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Princess Pru's life was practically perfect. She had two loving dads, an ostrich named Orville, and three royal tarantulas. And then one day, a ghastly ogre with crusty toenails and goopy ears moves into the house on the hill. At first, Pru sees the ogre as a nuisance: he disrupts her royal rock band practices, weekly tickle tag games, and even the hide-and-seek tournament. The townspeople are also suspicious--everyone knows ogres hate seeing people...
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Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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xxx, 154 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible--albeit flawed--engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial crisis in 2008. Maybe you hate the greed of Wall Street but know that it's important to the proper functioning of the world economy. Maybe you don't really understand...
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MHZ Networks
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 745 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
Description
UFOs Season 1: The dreams of brilliant space engineer Didier Mathure literally go up in smoke when his much-hyped new rocket explodes on take-off. His career at rock bottom, Didier finds himself sidelined as the head of GEPAN, an obscure and improbable research group specializing in UFOs whose members seem to be living on another planet themselves! With the help of his new oddball friends, a shower of flamingos is the first mystery Didier has to solve...
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