Chagollan, Samantha
Summary: An engaging introduction to astronomy for kids, featuring 14 well-known constellations and a star map of each hemisphere. Full color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter Foster 2018
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Contents: Melancholy heat -- Live for the road -- The spirit moving -- The beach -- Patience -- All one breath -- Passing me by -- Leaving -- Begin again
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SAMSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: "Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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Summary: El campo ha cambiado frente a nuestros ojos sin que nadie se diera cuenta. Y quizá no se trata solo de sequías y herbicidas, quizá se trate del hilo vital y filoso que nos ata a nuestros hijos, y del veneno que echamos sobre ellos. Nada es un cliché cuando finalmente sucede. "Distancia de rescate" sigue esta vertiginosa fatalidad haciéndose siempre las mismas preguntas: ¿hay acaso algún...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SCHSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: "The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with a dark choice or the fallibility of parents. This was the collection that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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Summary: "A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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Summary: "A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv,bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHLang, Acantha
Contents: Sugar woman -- Come back home -- Beautiful dreams -- Eventually -- He said/She said -- Interlude: A word from my momma -- Lois Lang -- River keep runnin' -- It's gonna be alright -- Carry the weight -- Whatever happened to our love? -- Keep on -- Ride this train (extended version).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LANSamaha, Albert
Summary: "A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience. Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave ofnon-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SAMBell, Samantha
Summary: "Take a trip to the tallest points from east to west! Which national parks have the tallest mountains? Which trees tower over the landscape? This title brings readers along to find the answers on a high interest journey to Amazing Heights. Part of our 21st Century Skills Library, this series introduces concepts of natural sciences and social studies centered around a sense of adventure."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "From millions of years ago to present day, our national parks teem with life. This title explores the creatures that called, and call, these parks home. Part of our 21st Century Skills Library, this series introduces concepts of natural sciences and social studies centered around a sense of adventure."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Place BellBell, Samantha.
Summary: Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as an architect. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 720 BELBell, Samantha.
Summary: Packed with exciting facts and important aspects on military vehicles, this title also provides historical context, compelling photos, primary source quotations, and critical thinking activities. The title also includes a glossary, web links, and additional resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 623.74 BELBrooke, Samantha
Summary: Ms. Frizzle's class is putting on a play of The Three Little Pigs.The kids want to build a house for their play that even a super-powered fan can't blow down. So Ms. Frizzle and her Magic School Bus take the class to the forest to learn how trees stand up to strong winds. Will these little pigs get blown over or learn to stand strong? -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2018
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Summary: When Dorothy Ann accidentally loses Jyoti's high-tech locket in the ocean, Ms. Frizzle's class travels down through the layers of the sea to retrieve it. Includes glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BROBrooke, Samantha.
Summary: Coral reefs are home to so many beautiful fish and sea creatures. There have been coral reefs since the time of the dinosaurs, but now coral reefs are in danger of dying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BROCook, Samantha
Summary: This practical travel guide to France features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures. Our itinerary suggestions and expert author picks of things to see and do will make it a perfect companion both, ahead of your trip and on the ground. This France guide book is packed full of details on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides 2023
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Summary: "Experience the wonders of life in orbit with a female astronaut's incredible memoir, revealing what it really takes to reach the stars"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRISTOFORETTI, SAMANTHA CRIDowning, Samantha
Summary: "In the latest thrillingly savage stand-alone from the twisted mind behind mega hit My Lovely Wife comes the story of a family--not unlike your own--just with a few more violent tendencies thrown in.... Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons--we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather dies and leaves a cryptic final message...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWDowning, Samantha
Summary: Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored. We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with. We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive. Ours just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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Summary: "A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space-not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: SF HARHarvey, Samantha
Summary: The Western Wind is a riveting story of faith, guilt, and the freedom of confession. It's 1491. In the small village of Oakham, its wealthiest and most industrious resident, Tom Newman, is swept away by the river during the early hours of Shrove Saturday. Was it murder, suicide, or an accident? Narrated from the perspective of local priest John Reve--patient shepherd to his wayward flock--a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHunt, Samantha
Summary: "This is the first collection of stories from a widely acclaimed novelist writing in the realm of the literary fantastical. They urge an understanding of youth and mortality, ghosts, ghost towns, doubling and loss, with the hope that we can know one another more deeply or at least stand side by side to observe the mystery of the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNHunt, Samantha
Summary: "A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022