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1) The tan can
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A rhinoceros, crab, monkey, and bird join forces to open a can they find in the sand.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations--looking, listening, touching, and asking--something a man can never do with a female patient....
Author
Series
Penguin drop caps volume T
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, gather to play mah jong, remember the past, and gossip into the night. United in unspeakable loss and new hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. . . . Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, memories that reveal these women's strength, worries, and determination, which their American-born daughters reject as irrelevant. The daughters, in turn, recall pivotal moments...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live. Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is...
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 pages) : chiefly color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Kid Code and his allies must fight back against The Power who sampled the first sounds made from the God MC and created the Dark Mix long ago. Soon, they embark on a wild adventure across the universe to find The Everlasting Cosmic Mixtape, nine tracks that can re-assemble the God Sample and restore balance in the universe.
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
ix,281 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm`
Language
English
Description
Expanding on the philosophy and methods of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren have developed the first-ever comprehensive book devoted to helping educators use nature journaling as an inspiring teaching tool to engage young people with wild places. In their workshops Laws and Lygren are often asked the how-tos of teaching nature journaling: how to manage student groups in the outdoors, teach drawing skills...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy's father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking...
Author
Language
English
Description
Life often looks so very different than we hoped or expected. Some events may simply catch us off guard for a moment, but others shatter us completely. We feel disappointed and disillusioned, and we quietly start to wonder about the reality of Gods goodness. Lysa TerKeurst understands this deeply. But she's also discovered that our disappointments can be the divine appointments our souls need to radically encounter God. In It's Not Supposed to Be...
Author
Publisher
Tessa Bailey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod--just me and my beloved brother--but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the back of his motorcycle to catch the killer and refuses to believe I can be helpful, despite countless hours of true crime podcast listening. Not to mention a fulfilling teaching career of wrangling second...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Reissued edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tara has a thousand good reasons not to return to the little coastal town of Lucky Harbor, Washington. Yet with her life doing a major crash-and-burn, anywhere away from her unfulfilled dreams and sexy ex-husband will do. As Tara helps her two sisters get their newly renovated inn up and running, she finally has a chance to slow down and come up with a new plan. But a certain tanned, green-eyed sailor has his own ideas, such as keeping Tara hot,...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Larissa Bogdan was supposed to spend her summer babysitting and bookselling. Instead, she tagged along with her mom to the Outer Banks, working on her tan and making new friends. Now she's back and starting her senior year at Stratford High, only to face another unexpected turn: she's finally attracted the attention of superstar quarterback Chase Harding, the guy she's crushed on since middle school. Then Jasmine Killary shows up. Jasmine, who's supposed...
Author
Lexile measure
AD 1080L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The companion to Chelsea Clinton & Alexandra Boiger's #1 New York Times bestseller, She Persisted. Perfect for tiny activists, mini feminists and little kids who are ready to take on the world. Now abridged as a board book for our youngest feminists and activists! Women around the world have long dreamed big, even when they've been told their dreams didn't matter. They've spoken out, risen up and fought for what's right, even when they've been told...
16) ℗ŁLluvia!
Author
Description
"℗C©đmo puede ser que dos personas vean el mismo d©Ưa de manera tan diferente? ℗Y qu©♭ ocurre cuando estas dos personas se conocen? ℗ŁToma el paraguas y averigualo!"--
"How can two people view the same day so differently? And what happens when the two meet? Grab your umbrella and find out!"--
17) ¡Lluvia!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 13 cm
Language
Español
Description
"¿Cómo puede ser que dos personas vean el mismo día de manera tan diferente? ¿Y qué ocurre cuando estas dos personas se conocen? ¡Toma el paraguas y averigualo!"--
"How can two people view the same day so differently? And what happens when the two meet? Grab your umbrella and find out!"--
Author
Series
Keepers volume 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Horace F. Andrews and his friend Chloe are Keepers of magical objects of extraordinary power. But as the presence of a new Keeper is made known, they are drawn into a struggle to find out who she is and where her loyalties lie. This is a gripping sequel to The Box and the Dragonfly, the first book in Ted Sanders' Keepers series, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a "satisfying and original quest tale." As Horace and Chloe adjust to their...
Author
Pub. Date
1973
Physical Desc
x, 115 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Outdoor cooking tools, grill, lightweight grill, reflector baker, charcoal stove, double boiler, tea kettle, toaster, plank for a salmon, all-purpose sheet, kitchen-knife case, free refrigeration, ice for camping, making a fish line, fish hooks, ice fishing, grill net, bola, figure-four trigger, snares, knife, knife sheath, arrowheads, bow and arrows, stone knife, stone spear, boomerang, solar water still, water filter, water-holding basket, pottery,...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Spider-Man's life has been thrown into upheaval! As Peter deals with the aftershocks from Mary Jane's recent decision, a super villain rearing their head is not helpful. And nor is--absolute carnage! Only Spider-Man stands between Carnage at his scariest and young Dylan Brock. To make matters worse, everyone who has ever worn the Carnage symbiote now has a codex--including Norman Osborn from his time as the Red Goblin! Can Spider-Man save Norman...