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181) Charlie's raven
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Newbery Award-winning author Jean Craighead George is beloved for her classic tales about wildlife, such as My Side of the Mountain. When Charlie learns about the Native American belief that ravens can cure sickness, he brings home a nestling to help his ill grandfather. Together, Charlie and Granddad care for the bird and learn valuable lessons about life and death, responsibility, and protecting nature.
183) The Oddlympics
Author
Series
Odd gods volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Oddonis and his misfit friends don't exactly love competition and they aren't exactly athletes. So they're definitely NOT excited when their middle school gets challenged to a sports competition by the Roman middle school on the other side of Mount Olympus. It's bad enough that the Greek Odds have to compete against their Roman twins, but when Zeus and his Roman counterpart, Jupiter, get a little too involved, the Greek and Roman kids end up in a...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This harrowing murder mystery, winner of the Philippine National Book Award, follows two Catholic priests on the hunt for a serial killer in the notorious Payatas dump city of northern Manila. In northeast Manila's Quezon City is a district called Payatas--a 50-acre dump that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin,...
185) Saving Beck
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Gallery books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Reminiscent of the beloved novels by Mary Kubica and Jodi Picoult comes a chilling portrayal of a son's addiction and its harrowing effects on both him and his mother from New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole. There comes a time when offering your life for your child's doesn't work, when you realize that it'll never be enough. The cold needle in his warm vein was a welcome comfort to my son at first. But then it became the monster that...
Author
Series
Shadow magic volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Lily the sorcerer queen and Thorn the giant-bat-whisperer are back to solve the mystery of who's behind the many threats to Gehenna: disappearing villagers, vicious jewel spiders, and a pending troll invasion"--
188) I Hotel
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Karen Tei Yamashita has been honored with the American Book Award and Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A stunning portrait of Asian Americans in 1960s and '70s San Francisco, I Hotel is a remarkable collection of 10 related novellas. Touching on such topics as Japanese internment camps and the Marcos dictatorship, the book presents readers with characters of rich design.
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