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2) Someone new
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"When three children, Jesse, Jason, and Emma, are confronted with new classmates from different ethnic backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions, and to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima." --
3) Masterminds
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Masterminds volume 1
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323 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"--
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xi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Weaving together natural history, botanical science and insight from his own travels, a nature writer reveals the many hidden truths behind these scourges of lawns and gardens, and explores how weeds have been portrayed from the Bible all the way to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
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103 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"In this sparkling, innovative, fully illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance--time, proximity, space, motion, and tone--into text. Parson invites the reader to share her home, her reading, her walks down the street, and her conversations on everything from Homer to feminist art to social protest. She helps us to see how everyday movement creates the wider world. Dance, it turns out, is everything...
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Branded as a troublemaker, seventeen-year-old Luke is sent to rural Tennessee to live with his preacher father, but when a freak accident removes golden boy (and high school bully) Grant from the top of the social pyramid, outcast Luke replaces him and achieves popularity, but is that what he really wants?
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xv, 237 pages ; 22 cm
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"A collection that brings together some of Archbishop Desmond Tutu's key speeches, sermons, lectures and exchanges, charting the trajectory of his career and showing why he remains one of the world's best-loved and most outspoken religious figures"--www.bookdepository.co.uk.
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322 pages ; 22 cm
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After winning a coveted spot on the high school cheerleading squad, sixteen-year-old newcomer, Jess Parker, is still treated as an "outsider" by the majority of the student body thanks to the harassment campaign led by the popular cheerleader she displaced.
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"We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of the dying spend their last days in general hospitals and nursing homes, in the care of strangers. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are often robbed of their dignity after a long series of excessive and hopeless medical interventions. This is the starting point of Seamus O'Mahony's book on the Western way of death. Dying has never been...
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Offers insight into healthcare practices, identifying the cellular sources of aging and illness and revealing that aggressive treatments provide an illusion of control and survivability at the cost of life quality.
"Bestselling author ... Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, NATURAL...
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275 pages ; 22 cm
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"Text me when you get home." After joyful nights out together, female friends say this to one another as a way of cementing their love. It's about safety; but more than that, it's about solidarity. A personal and sociological examination -- and ultimately a celebration -- of the evolution of female friendship in pop culture and modern society.
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lx, 257 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe interrogates the appeal of true crime through four narratives of fixation. In the 1940s, a bored heiress began creating dollhouse crime scenes depicting murders, suicides, and accidental deaths. Known as the "Mother of Forensic Science," she revolutionized the field of what was then called legal medicine. In the aftermath of the Manson Family murders, a young woman moved...
15) Planet of slums
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According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the shantytowns of the cities of the south. MacArthur fellow Davis explores the future of this radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. He traces the global trajectory of informal settlement from the 1960s "slums of hope" through the debt decades of the 1970s and 1980s, to today's unprecedented megaslums. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills...
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xiii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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"Tour through the life history and cultural associations of the freshwater eel, exploring its biology in streams and epic migrations in the ocean, its myth and lore, its mystery and beauty. Prosek travels the globe to tell the story of the eel -- from New York to New Zealand; from Europe to Japan and the small island of Pohnpei in Micronesia, where freshwater eels are worshipped by members of the eel clan."
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153 pages ; 22 cm
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Español
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En la crisis del Covid, el pastor amado de m̀s de mil millones de cat̤licos ha visto la crueldad y la desigualdad de nuestra sociedad expuestas m̀s v̕vidamente que nunca. Tambǐn ha visto en la resiliencia, la generosidad y la creatividad de tantas personas los medios para rescatar nuestra sociedad, nuestra econom̕a y nuestro planeta. Con una prosa directa y poderosa, el Papa Francisco nos urge a no permitir que el dolor sea en vano.
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18) Winning
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300 pages ; 22 cm
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Who ever said being nice would get you to the top? Certainly not Alexandra Miles. She isn't nice, but she's more than skilled at playing the part. She's queen of Spencer High, effortlessly orchestrating the actions of everyone around her, making them bend to her whim without noticing what they are doing. Alexandra's first step to achieving total domination is to become Homecoming Queen--so when peppy, popular Erin Hewett moves to town and seems to...
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255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"For parents who are separating and want to put their children first, birdnesting could be the interim custody solution you've been looking for. Instead of the children splitting their time being shuttled between mom and dad's separate homes, birdnesting allows the children to stay in the "nest" and instead, requires mom and dad to swap, allowing each parent to stay elsewhere when not with the children. Initially popularized by celebrities, this method...
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