1967-
Author
Series
5 worlds volume Book 2
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
Sisters Jessa and Oona, and new friend Ram Sam Sam, try to stop the Cobalt Prince from Toki, who orders a strike on Mon Domani, starting a new war between the worlds.
42) Bob
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Language
English
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
43) The Amber Anthem
Author
Series
5 Worlds volume Book 4
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
Oona Lee arrives on Salassandra determined to light the yellow beacon and continue her quest to save the Five Worlds from the evil Mimic's influence.
44) The red maze
Author
Series
5 Worlds volume Book 3
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"Oona, Jax Amboy, and An Tzu must light the beacon on Moon Yatta and stop the evil force that threatens to rule the 5 worlds"--
45) Yellow star
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Language
English
Description
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
46) The Boundless
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
48) The emerald gate
Author
Series
5 Worlds volume Book 5
Language
English
Description
"In the epic conclusion to the 5 Worlds series, the final battle looms as Oona, Jax, and An Tzu travel to the treacherous world of Grimbo (E)! There, Oona must light the last beacon to save the 5 Worlds, but first she has to find it! When Jax saves an old friend, Oona is given a clue to the green beacon's location. Unfortunately, the journey to lighting it on this strange, watery planet is the most dangerous yet. Meanwhile, Stan Moon has one more...
Author
Publisher
Ruby Tuesday Books
Language
English
Description
"Every one of the games we love to play started out as an idea in the head of a video game designer. Working with a team of coders, artists, sound engineers, and other game experts, video game designers create new worlds, terrifying enemies, tough challenges, and hours of fun. So where do video game designers get their ideas? How is coding used to create games? How do artists develop and animate a game's characters? And how does a video game development...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Language
English
Description
Pt. 1. City of dreams -- ch. 1. The sinister shore -- ch. 2. Potemkin and the mercenaries -- ch. 3. Beacon -- ch. 4. The governor and the poet -- ch. 5. "There is nothing national about Odessa" -- pt. 2. The habitations of cruelty -- ch. 6. Schemes and shadows -- ch. 7. Blood and vengeance -- ch. 8. New world -- ch. 9. The fields of Transnistria --ch. 10. "I would like to bring to your attention the following" -- pt. 3. Nostalgia and remembrance --...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"Tell Me More is a funny, wise and insightful exploration of seven sentences adult life requires. With Kelly's signature candor and good will, each chapter draws from her sometimes ridiculous, sometimes profound struggles with parenting and marriage, career and friendship, illness, aging and mortality. Each chapter is animated by poignant, hilarious stories from Kelly's own life and is focused on one of seven sentences: Onward, a one-word sentence...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between twenty and forty thousand years...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Language
English
Description
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has traveled the world meeting recipients of famous public shamings, often while their shamings are in full force. These are people like us--people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once a transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane, and the next thing they know, they're being torn apart, jeered at, demonized, sometimes...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves."--Publisher's description.
57) The elements
Author
Series
Publisher
DK/Penguin Random House
Language
English
Description
The elements in the periodic table are the ingredients that make up our world. Explore elements such as carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, and learn why they are essential to our survival. See how precious gold protects astronauts in space, and why the metal mercury can be both a solid and a liquid. Find out about man-made elements, which the smartest chemists are busy figuring out how to use. Learn about scores of other elements, including silver, the...
58) Knot cannot
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Knot cannot do most of the things that Snake can do, such as slithering and hissing, but has one skill that saves the day when Snake is in danger.
Author
Publisher
Impact
Language
English
Description
It's the most mammoth book of manga drawing EVER! If there's one key to drawing manga, it's GO BIG--starting with this humongous book of step-by-step instruction and inspiration. Compiled from nearly 10 years of best-selling books by David Okum, these pages are teeming with the most popular characters--ninjas, wizards, cyberpunk kids, space pirates, evil queens, mindless goons and more--all broken down into easy-to-follow steps, from pencil sketch...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids
Language
English
Description
"From a bestselling illustrator, this utterly unique comic-style book for kids 4 to 8 explores super-small creatures with astounding abilities. Did you know that some of the smallest creatures on Earth have real-life superpowers? The minute oribatid mite can lift more than 1,000 times its own weight. A tiny type of salamander (called an axolotl) can regrow body parts. And the almost microscopic tardigrade? It can survive practically anywhere, even...