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Storey Communications
Language
English
Description
Transform leaves, grass, and kitchen scraps into gardener's gold! This easy-to-use guide shows you how to turn household garbage and backyard refuse into nutrient-filled compost that can nourish your soil and promote a thriving garden. You'll soon be saving money, minimizing waste, and enjoying bountiful harvests. Stu Campbell provides an in-depth explanation of how composting works and offers clear instructions for a variety of both traditional and...
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English
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"Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house--and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling--go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Transporting readers to a Regency England-inspired fantasy world. A Fragile Enchantment is a sweeping romance threaded with intrigue. Unforgettable characters, and a love story for the ages! Niamh Ó Conchobhair has never let herself long for more. The magic in her blood that lets her stitch emotions and memories into fabric is the same magic that will eventually kill her. Determined to spend the little time she has left guaranteeing a better life...
6) Cobra
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 4
Language
English
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"At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed. It's clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling clue: Each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, a skilled young thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. Then one day he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American...
7) Last exit
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago, Zelda led a band of merry adventurers whose knacks let them travel to alternate realities and battle the black rot that threatened to unmake each world. Zelda was the warrior; Ish could locate people anywhere; Ramon always knew what path to take; Sarah could turn catastrophe aside. Keeping them all connected: Sal, Zelda's lover and the group's heart. Until their final, failed mission, when Sal was lost. When they all fell apart. ...
Publisher
Disney Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
This treasury of 12 stories stars everyone's favorite preschool princess, Sofia the First, along with fellow Disney Junior characters, Doc McStuffins and Minnie! Each story is the perfect length for reading aloud in just around five minutes. With a padded cover and beautiful full-page and spot illustrations, this collection is great for bedtime, on the go, or any time!
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Publisher
North-South Books Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's bedtime for the five little ducklings. The first little duckling says, "Okay. It's been a very busy day." The second little duckling says, "Come on! Let's go and put our jammies on." But when the fifth little duckling says with delight, "I'm not going to bed tonight..."--the smooth-running train to bedtime is temporarily derailed. However, a little cooperation from the ducklings and a little love from Mama duck soon set things right for a happy,...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A thief steals the air from a room. Children invent a nursery rhyme to make sense of their fate, and a band of girls rots from the outside in. These characters stumble through joy and murder and confusion, only to survive and wait for the next catastrophe to arrive. Moments so brief and disturbing you can't afford to look away. Jac Jamc''s affecting stories mine the territory between what is real and what it means to create understanding.
14) Do no harm
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"It's 1954 and Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case--a young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally murdered. He claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife. But all the evidence points to a disturbed husband who has grown tired of married life and yearned to be free at all costs. Sheppard is swiftly convicted and sent to rot in prison. Just how firm was the evidence...and was it tampered with to fit a convenient narrative...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Language
English
Description
"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling...
Author
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
How does a hagfish use clouds of slime to stay safe from fierce predators? And is it true that this eel-like fish can produce gallons of slime when attacked? Learn the answers to these questions and more -- and prepare to get slimed!
18) Count
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Series
Publisher
Humanoids Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From Eisner nominated writer/artist Ibrahim Moustafa comes a thrilling sci/fi reimagining of the greatest revenge story ever told, The Count of Monte Cristo! Framed for treason and wrongfully imprisoned at the hands of a jealous rival and a corrupt magistrate, Redxan Samud escapes his hovering prison colony hell-bent on retribution. Give a map from his dying jail companion to the location of a stolen cache of Union Credits large enough to make him...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
With Rachel's flair for fashion, it's easy to stand out---especially in a town as dead as hers! But when a new girl shows up at school looking tall and pale and totally tragic, suddenly Rachel's not the only one turning heads! Rachel has a plan to take Lily's style from rags to runway-ready, but she can't help noticing Lily's a little, well, odd. She won't let Rachel near her family and spaces out so much she could pass for a zombie. Could there be...
Author
Series
Publisher
SFBC Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Moon called: When Mercy's repair shop becomes the hideout of choice for a young runaway werewolf, she's thrust into a power-struggle between packs that threaten to "out" them all--in a way that could get them killed.
Blood bound: Mercy agrees to act as extra muscle when a vampire friend delivers a message to another of his kind. But this new vampire has a demon inside, a sorcerer who's wreaking havoc on Washington's Tri-Cities. And Mercy's pulled...