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Author
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Description
Phillip Hutton lives on a Malaysian island and befriends Endo-san, a Japanese Zen master, who teaches him akido, but when World War II breaks out and the Japanese invade the island, he is torn between saving the lives of his countrymen and his loyalty to his master.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
During final selection for the Demon Slayer Corps, Tanjiro faces a disfigured demon and uses the techniques taught by his master, Urokodaki. As Tanjiro begins to walk the path of the Demon Slayer, his search for the demon who murdered his family leads him to investigate the disappearances of young girls in a nearby town.
45964) Fushigi yûgi: Byakko senki.1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The year is 1923. Suzuno Ohsugi's father, Takao, warns her to stay away from The Universe of the Four Gods, telling her it's a book that only men can touch. He knows that in order to enact its story, the book needs one last heroine: the Priestess of Byakko! After the Great Kanto Earthquake strikes, Suzuno and Takao are trapped in their burning home. Takao has only one chance to save his young daughter, and that is to send her into The Universe of...
45967) The hush
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
It's been ten years since the eve nts that changed Johnny Merrimon's life. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy. His only connection to normal life is his old friend, Jack. But Jack sees danger in the wild places Johnny calls home; he senses darkness and hunger, an intractable intent.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Timothy Snyder's New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow ("4: Take responsibility for the face of the world"), an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent ("11: Investigate"),...
45970) The time museum: 2
Author
Series
Time Museum volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Teaming up with the Epoch Squad under the command of Richard Nixon, Delia and her fellow time travelers visit 1778 Versailles to save a historic alliance between France and the United States.
45971) Becoming Andy Warhol
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Celebrated during his lifetime as much for his personality as for his paintings, Andy Warhol (1928-87) is the most famous and influential of the Pop artists, who developed the notion of 15 minutes of fame, and the idea that an artist could be as illustrious as the work he creates. This graphic novel biography offers insight into the turning point of Warhol's career and the creation of the Thirteen Most Wanted Men mural for the 1964 World's Fair,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
"1937. Naomi Vargas is Mexican American. Wash Fuller is Black. These teens know the town's divisive racism better than anyone. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Naomi and Wash dare to defy the rules, and the New London school explosion serves as a ticking time bomb in the background. Can their love survive both prejudice and...
45975) Islandborn
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding herown heritage.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Ju©Łrez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips"--Amazon.com....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Savage demons devour unsuspecting humans in Taisho-era Japan. Armed with special swords, the Demon Slayer Corps fights to stop the devastation demons spread. Giyu Tomioka, the sole Water Hashira, and Kyojuro Rengoku, a high-ranking Kinoe, embark on missions to eliminate demons and prove their mettle as two of the fiercest Demon Slayers. Giyu heads north to an area where a band of hunters was killed. He and the Insect Hashira meet Yae, the daughter...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Appears on these lists
Description
What Truth Sounds Like exists at the tense intersection of the conflict between politics and prophecy - of whether we embrace political resolution or moral redemption to fix our fractured racial landscape. The future of race and democracy hang in the balance.
45980) Sara
Author
Pub. Date
c2018.
Description
Nazi occupied Russia, 1942. Fight hard. Shoot straight. Do not let them take you alive. Sara is a gripping war story following a team of female Russian snipers as they beat back the Nazi invaders during a brutal winter campaign on the WWII Eastern Front.
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