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Series
Publisher
Fulcrum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Squirrel Is Alive, Mary Rostad tells the harrowing story of her time working in the Belgian resistance and French underground during World War II. As a teenager in 1940, Mary was horrified by the war unfolding around her as the Nazis invaded her home country of Belgium. Only fifteen years old, and unable to ignore the atrocities she witnessed every day, she started working for the Belgian resistance by passing out literature and thwarting the...
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As the Ice Age came to an end, North America lost a stunning variety of animals. Mammoths, mastodon, llamas, ground-dwelling sloths the size of elephants, beavers the size of bears, pronghorn antelope the size of poodles, and carnivores to chase them--sabertooth cats, dire wolves, American lions and cheetahs; these and many more were gone by 10,000 years ago. Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats surveys all these animals, with a particular focus on the...
4) Uprising
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
5) The shortest history of Israel and Palestine: from Zionism to Intifadas and the struggle for peace
Author
Series
Publisher
The Experiment, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An accessible, balanced history for anyone who wants to understand how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century"--
6) Clear
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted. Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff...
Author
Publisher
The Guilford Press, a division of Guilford Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This second edition of I Love a Fire Fighter is, like the first, intended to raise awareness of the psychological consequences of being a fire service family. It is my objective to describe the subtle and obvious ways the demands of this unique occupation spill over to home and to suggest strategies that you-as a parent, a child, a sibling, a spouse, a friend, or a significant other-can use to manage the spillover and/or learn to live with it"--
Author
Series
Posadas County volume 26
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The morning after his eighty-seventh birthday bash, former Posadas County sheriff Bill Gastner drives past a couple of vehicles stopped on the highway shoulder. It's not an unusual sight: a sheriff's patrol unit, emergency lights ablaze, pulled in behind a pickup truck. The female deputy hasn't radioed for backup. But there's something about the scene that makes him feel uneasy. The next day, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is called to a rather...
Publisher
International Code Council
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The 2024 International Codes (I-Codes) have undergone substantial formatting changes as part of the digital transformation strategy of the International Code Council (ICC) to improve the user experience. The changes, promoting a cleaner, more modern look and enhancing readability and sustainability, include: * Single column text format and modernized font styles improves readability * QR Codes replace vertical margin sidebars and arrows to identify...
Author
Publisher
Redwood Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of her brother Iyad in armed resistance in the First and Second...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Empowering strategies for anyone who works with children and teens on the spectrum. International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum. Examples and stories bring the approaches to life, and detailed suggestions and checklists help readers put them to practical use. Temple Grandin shares personal...
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Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A ghostly estate. A handsome caretaker hiding a secret. And the intrepid Hyacinth Bell who is set on solving the mystery of both. 1887, the Cornwall coast. For years, rumors have flown through the village of Suttonsbury about Ashthorne Hall-that its occupants hoard pirate treasure, that a ghost walks its halls-but botanist Hyacinth Bell only cares about the estate's extensive, one-of-a-kind orchid collection. As an independent woman, she is eager...
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