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At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life. "As I Lay Dying" is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself.
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2025.
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"In LA's Chinatown in 1924, sixteen-year-old Ruby Chan rebels against her parents' conventional plans for her future when a friendship with nineteen-year-old Anna May Wong, a rising Hollywood film star, opens up new possibilities"-- Provided by publisher.
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2025.
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"One spring day, little Midori asks Jiichan, her grandfather, if the peaches on her family's farm are ripe yet. To her surprise, he asks," Does it taste like a story? That's when you know it is ripe." As Jiichan teaches her about her Japanese American heritage and her family's deep connection to this land, Midori begins to realize the patience, hard work, and endurancethat allowed their roots to grow.Poetic and powerful, Every Peach Is a Story is...
7) Neshama
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2025.
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"Anna sees ghosts. The spirits of her ancestors call to her from the shadows, and no matter where she is, Anna always answers. Kids in her middle school tease her. Teachers and parents are worried by her strange behavior. The only one who seems to understand is Anna's beloved grandmother, Bubbe, who has always treasured Anna's shayna neshama, her beautiful soul. Spending Shabbos with Bubbe is the only thing that gives Anna the sense of love and belonging...
8) Call me Gray
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2025.
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Every winter, as soon as it's cold enough, a child and their father build an ice rink. It's a tradition--something they do together that never changes. But this year, something is different. Something feels different. "Do you ever feel mixed up about who you are?" the child asks their father while they shovel snow. Their dad says he wanted to be an astronaut, once...but that's not quite what they meant. As the day goes on, the child tries again, asking...
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2025.
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Thirteen-year-old Cuban American Gonzalo Alberto García has never considered himself the hero of his own story. He's an observer, quietly snapshotting landscapes and drawing the creatures he imagines emerging from them. Forced to spend the summer with his estranged grandfather, Alberto William García--the very famous reclusive author--Gonzalo didn't expect to learn that heroes and monsters are not only the stuff of fantasy. But that's precisely...
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Young Amelia Bedelia (Picture books) volume 2
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Literal-minded even as a child, Amelia Bedelia muddles through Valentine's Day with her heart on her sleeve, trying to make sense of strange greetings at school and home, and ever on the look-out for the arrows of Cupid.
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2018
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Beschweren sich Ihre Kinder diesen Sommer, dass sie "nichts zu tun" haben oder dass ihnen "langweilig" ist? Brauchen Sie ein paar neue Ideen, um sie beschäftigt zu halten, bis die Schule wieder beginnt? Suchen Sie nicht weiter - dieser Ratgeber für kostenlose und kostengünstige Aktivitäten für Kinder wird Ihnen helfen, die Langeweile zu vertreiben!
Meine Kinder sind wahrscheinlich wie Ihre: Sie lieben es, von der Schule frei zu haben aber bald...
12) Our lake
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2025.
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Today, Brother is taking me up to swim in the lake like Father used to. I want to thank him for bringing us here, but I can't find the words. Instead, I loop my arms around his torso, and he does the same back. Here, in our lake, the water holds us close. On a sweltering hot day, a little boy mirrors his brother as he takes off his shirt, stretches, and walks toward the edge of the tall rock, ready to dive into the cool lake waters glistening below....
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"Lowen Ashleigh una escritora en aprientos económicos, recibe un encargo que le cambiará la vida: Jeremy, el marido de Verity Crawford, una de las autoras más importantes del momento, la contrata para terminar la serie de libros en la que trabajaba su esposa antes de sufrir un grave accidente que la ha dejado en coma. Lowen se instala en la mansión del matrimonio para conocer de primera mano las notas de Verity, con la esperanza de econtrar material...
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2019.
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1 online resource (388 pages)
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Completely updated and revised, the fourth edition provides primary care physicians with must-know information on eye examinations, eye disorders, vision screening, strabismus, dyslexia, ocular trauma, genetic syndromes, and all pediatric-specific eye issues likely to be encountered in primary care.
15) The Trauma-Informed Pediatric Practice: A Resilience-Based Roadmap to Foster Early Relational Health
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[2024]
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1 online resource (xx, 281 pages)
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"In this engaging, approachable book, a pediatrician and a psychologist walk step by step through the transformational process of creating a trauma-informed practice. They begin with essential concepts such as the debate over "ACE screening," then share how to prepare an organization for change, assess risks to relational health, support caregivers, use resilience-based interventions, and finally how to sustain a trauma-responsive practice. Reflecting...
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[2021]
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1 online resource (x, 173 pages)
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The Abu Serga Church is one of the oldest known Coptic churches in Egypt, with a history of almost 1700 years. This reference work presents a comprehensive geotechnical and geophysical survey of the vicinity of the Abu Serga Church. The book details the information of the survey using classical and modern methods of geotechnical engineering while keeping contemporary issues faced by site investigators in view. Chapters provide the data of the church...
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2024
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259 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Marian Schembari was thirty-four years old when she learned she was autistic. By then, she’d spent decades hiding her tics and shutting down in public, wondering why she couldn’t just act like everyone else. Therapists told her she had Tourette’s syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, sensory processing disorder, social anxiety, and recurrent depression. They prescribed breathing techniques and gratitude journaling. Nothing helped. It wasn’t...
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[2024]
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xiv, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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"As winter turned to spring in the year 1699, Sebastian and Jane embarked on a campaign of persuasion. The two wished to marry, and they sought the backing of their community in Boston. Nothing, however, could induce Jane's enslaver to consent. Only after her death did Sebastian and Jane manage to wed, forming a union that was stable and long-lasting despite the fact that husband and wife were not always able to live in the same household. New England...
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2019.
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1 online resource (421 pages)
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Databases have revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives. Information of all sorts is being collected on a massive scale, from Google to Facebook and well beyond. But as the amount of information in databases explodes, we are forced to reassess our ideas about what knowledge is, how it is produced, to whom it belongs, and who can be credited for producing it.
Every scientist working today draws on databases to produce scientific knowledge....




