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Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that baby dolphins are usually born tail-first? Did you know that each dolphin has a unique whistle (like a human's fingerprints) that makes them instantly recognizable to their friends? Did you know that killer whales are actually a kind of dolphin?" -- Dust jacket.
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Series
Golden Dolphin volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year old Andi Johnston knows all about keeping secrets from the inhabitants of her island home. She's been hiding the truth about her grandmother's dementia for nearly two years in an effort to keep her family together. After finding a young golden dolphin hidden in a cavern under her cliffside home, Andi knows she is in over her head. The bond between Andi and the dolphin Lux is instantaneous and supernatural. With his strange powers, Lux...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Though another devastating hurricane is raking Florida, its awesome power can't stop the Sunshine State's most loyal son, Serge A. Storms, from his latest scenic road trip: a cemetery tour. With his best bro Colman riding shotgun, Serge hits the highway in his '69 gold Plymouth Satellite, putting pedal to the metal on a grand tour of the past. Beginning in Key West, the sunshine boys' odyssey includes a forgotten mass grave in Palm Beach county holding...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"This remarkable new book covers all the fascinating Titanic research, which the author has been involved in, since 2000. Interspersed with the scientific material are gripping recreations of the last hours of the Titanic and the panic and heroism among the doomed passengers"--
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Bailey believes in miracles. She has to; it will take a miracle to keep her warring parents together. This summer they are at a Marriage Counselling camp, leaving Bailey and her little brother Kevin with their estranged grandmother in the island town of Felicity Bay. There, an eccentric deposed minister makes a prophecy that a stranger from the sea will change everything. When Bailey discovers a mermaid-shaped piece of driftwood,...
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Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv. This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a twenty-first-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country...
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
All Over the Map is Michael Sorkin's urgent response to radical changes in contemporary architecture and the built environment since 9/11. Characteristically polemic, incisive and energetic, these essays explore pressing questions of architectural and urban design, and critical issues of public space and participation. From New York to New Orleans, the Amazon to Jerusalem, Sorkin brings a critical eye to bear on a sweeping range of subjects. Whether...
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh--these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable...
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This set explores climate change from the perspectives of both environmental science and society. It provides comprehensive coverage of scientific terms and concepts, as well as political organizations, geography, social concepts, specific individuals, private associations, and laws.
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