Harbo, Christopher L.
Summary: "Travel through time and across the globe as Max Axiom explains how and why volcanoes shape and change the Earth's surface! Young readers' curiosity about the volcanic world will erupt. Download the free Capstone 4D app for an augmented reality experience that goes beyond the printed page. Videos, writing prompts, discussion questions, and hands-on activities make this updated edition come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2019
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Summary: "In the early 20th century, English suffragist group the Women's Social and Political Union formed an all-women security unit. Trained by Edith Garrud, these 'jujitsuffragettes' fought against abuse and arrest while pursuing long overdue rights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 324.6 XAVFrith, Uta
Summary: "Professors and husband-and-wife team Uta and Chris Frith have pioneered major studies of brain disorders throughout their nearly fifty-year career. Here, in Two Heads, their distinguished careers serve as a prism through which they share the compelling story of the birth of neuroscience and their paradigm-shifting discoveries across areas as wide-ranging as autism and schizophrenia research,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 FRISmith, Frank
Summary: "In the summer of 1971, New York's Attica State Prison is a symbol of everything broken in America -- abused prisoners, rampant racism and a blind eye turned towards the injustices perpetrated against the powerless. But when the guards at Attica overreact to a minor incident, the prisoners decide they've had enough and revolt -- taking their jailers hostage and making demands for humane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia, a division of Boom Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.974 SMISullivan, Tom
Summary: "A minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the United States uses reproductions of FBI files and investigation photographs to chronicle the events surrounding an unidentified extortionist's 1971 hijacking and disappearance."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: CASE NO. 002: THE ROCK. June 12, 1962. SAN FRANCISCO BAY, CALIFORNIA. 7:18 A.M. A corrections officer at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary tries to awaken inmate AZ-1441, Frank Morris. But when he shakes the unresponsive man, his head rolls off the pillow and crashes to the floor! Soon the guards realize that Morris and two other inmates, brothers John and Clarence Anglin, had done the seemingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 365.641 SULDurán, Cristina
Summary: "A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Their story continues through the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 DURBrown, Box
Summary: "Powered by the advent of television and super-charged by the deregulation era of the 1980s, media companies and toy manufacturers joined forces to dominate the psyches of American children. But what are the consequences when a developing brain is saturated with the same kind of marketing bombardment found in Red Scare propaganda? Brian "Box" Brown's The He-Man Effect shows how corporate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.72 BROBrown, Don
Summary: "A Shot in the Arm!, book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series, is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox-perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date-and concluding with an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly diseases such as measles, polio, anthrax,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BROAwada, Dounya
Summary: "Dounya Awada is a 24-year-old, devout Muslim, happy, healthy, and very much alive. But just a few years before, she nearly starved to death. Her struggle began when she was six years old. Little Dounya wanted nothing less than to be perfect, like her mother. She pushed herself hard every day, excelling in schoolwork and at home. She had to be the cutest, prettiest, smartest girl in the room....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AWAHogg, Lauren
Summary: Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019