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Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Decades ago, Steve Rogers changed the world forever. Now, powerful and insidious forces are assembling to ensure he never does it again. Past, present and future collide as the Sentinel of Liberty reckons with an existential threat determined to set the world on a darker path--at any cost! So the last thing Steve needs is for Spider-Man to crash date night seeking help foiling the Sinister Six's latest plot! Meanwhile, more and more of Captain America's...
3) Native American stories for kids: 12 traditional stories from Indigenous tribes across North America
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America, exploring lore about how the mountain Denali formed, why the...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This book is a historical consideration of how poor posture became a dreaded pathology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. It opens with the "outbreak" of the poor posture epidemic, which began with turn-of-the-century paleoanthropologists: If upright posture was the first of all attributes that separated human from beasts - and importantly a precondition for the development of intellect and speech - what did it mean that a...
Author
Publisher
Rand Mcnally
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
The Rand McNally Road Atlas is the most trusted and best-selling US atlas on the market. This updated North American atlas contains maps of every U.S. state and Canadian province, an overview map of Mexico, and detailed inset maps of over 350 cities and 20 U.S. national parks. Road construction and conditions contact information for every state conveniently located above the maps. Contains mileage chart showing distances between 90 North American...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forces. The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K. O'Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished, a vital shadow...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly. Abrahm Lustgarten’s On the Move is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like....
Author
Publisher
Rowman and Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Fat, Stressed, and Sick makes the case that processed food compromises health not just because of added sugar, salt, and fat, but also because these foods contain significant amounts of glutamate--aka MSG. MSG makes food deliciously addicting. What was not well-known until described here is that most of the MSG in processed food is created during food manufacturing. As the authors show, food processing of protein alone adds 10 grams or more a day...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Christmas is a major holiday celebrated in many different ways from culture to culture, and even from family to family. This book takes readers on a colorful adventure through the way different countries in Latin America celebrate this holiday.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family history of the Buendías, in an illustrated version of the novel commemorating its fiftieth anniversary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A mysterious elder teaches two Indian brothers Chris and Toby Greyeyes about respect for life and why they must not hurt the ravens they consider nuisance birds. All life is sacred and connected. The artist is from the Plains Cree Nation, the illustrator of the Dogrib Nation (from whom he drew the folklore basis of this book); their story is set in the Northwest Territories
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
If America is a melting pot, American English is a stew seasoned with words from other languages. "From abalone to zopilote, this alphabet book of loanwords from North, South, and Central America is full of delightful surprises..." -from back cover.
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Hälle Flygare's interest in photography and wildlife began as a young man in Sweden. After his military service, he emigrated to Canada and pursued a forestry career and worked for Parks Canada. This book reflects his lifelong interest in photography and wildlife. For this book he obtained additional pictures from the very best wildlife photographers to showcase the greatest wilderness on earth. Dr. Valerius Geist, Dr. Geoffrey Holroyd and Dr. Wayne...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Any elected official can talk about how broken our government is. But their solutions always seem to involve more money, new programs-and reelection to another term. Few offer an unfiltered glimpse into how government actually works, empowering citizens with the knowledge to be part of the solution. Governor Kristi Noem never planned on being in politics. But her concern for our nation compelled her, on a local, national, and global level. Because...
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Una extraordinaria selección de obras esenciales, en su mayoría inéditas, que celebran la fuerza, el talento y la diversidad de las mujeres latinas, y tienden puentes que nos conectan las unas con las otras. Desde la prosa implacable de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz hasta los poderosos cantos de la chamana María Sabina; desde las luchas revolucionarias de Audre Lorde, Lolita Lebrón y Berta Cáceres hasta el activismo de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez;...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this interpretation of the Declaration of Independence's famous phrase, the president of the National Constitution Center profiles six of the most influential founders to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives and how it became the foundation of our democracy.
Author
Publisher
Braided River, an imprint of Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Across the West, ranchers, Native elders, scientists, and regular citizens are uniting under one flag: river keepers. They are working to restore habitat, stop pollution and diversions, and speak up for the might Colorado River's right to live. Through visual storytelling, the Living River: The Promise of the Mighty Colorado book and impact campaign shows we can have a resilient watershed if we change our relationship with water. Living River will...