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1581) The curse workers
Author
Series
Curse workers ; 1-3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Cassel Sharpe comes from a family of curse workers, people who have the power to change emotions, memories, and luck with the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're also all criminals. Many become mobsters and con artists, but not Cassel. He doesn't have magic, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family--except for the small detail that he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.
1583) Finding Dory
Series
Publisher
[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dory, the forgetful blue tang, suddenly remembers she has a family who may be looking for her, she, Marlin, and Nemo take off on a life-changing quest to find them, with help from Hank, a cantankerous octopus; Bailey, a beluga whale who's convinced his biological sonar skills are on the fritz; and Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark!--
1584) Brain games: Season 2
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Interactive games and intricate experiments designed to leave viewers rethinking how much faith they are willing to put in everything from memory to multitasking. Host Jason Silva and Deception Specialist Apollo Robbins are teaming up with some of the world's foremost neuroscientists to reveal the incredible inner-workings of the brain.
Author
Publisher
Lit Riot Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Like most Black kids who grew up without diverse representation, Jordan Calhoun learned the skill of assigning race to fictional characters. Piccolo, Panthro, Demona, Ursula...he could recognize a Black character when he saw one. He lived in an all-Black city, went to an all-Black school, and could identify characters whose struggles informed his understanding of the Black experience in America. Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her--paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land--lie...
1588) Éramos mentirosos
Author
Publisher
Blue Salamandra
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Una isla privada. Una ilustre y conocida familia de Nueva Inglaterra. Un grupo de cuatro amigos--los Mentirosos--cuya amistad se vuelve destructiva. Una rebelión. Un accidente. Un secreto. Mentiras y más mentiras. Amor verdadero. Y, por fin, la verdad. Ésta es la bellísima y terrible historia de una familia perfecta que se sostiene sobre pilares de peligrosa fragilidad. A lo largo del relato se van desvelando las piezas de un rompecabezas que...
1592) Infinite
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A man experiences hallucinations which are actually visions from previous lifetimes.
1594) Los niños del verano
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"El FBI estaba preparado para cualquier caso, menos para este. Cuando la agente Mercedes Ramirez encuentra en la entrada de su casa a un niño golpeado, cubierto de sangre y aferrado a un oso de peluche, no se puede imaginar que ese brutal evento es solo la punta de un iceberg siniestro. El chico le cuenta que sus padres fueron asesinados por un ángel que luego lo llevó hasta su porche para que ella lo cuidara. Sin embargo, no se trató de cualquier...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history"--
1597) American Mensa Academy
Publisher
Maximum Games
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Expand your mind with fun and unique puzzles designed to train your brain in key areas including logic, language, memory, and more! 100+ puzzles, mini-games, and challenges. Fun for all ages! Play, coach & test modes. Go against your friends in Brain Race & Brain Fighter. Genuine American Mensa-level questions allow you to find out your Mensa score today!"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, sister of the famous philosopher, and friend of Richard Wagner, traveled with her husband, Bernhard Forster, and a select group of blond-haired, blue-eyed Germans to the remote Paraguayan wilderness to found an Aryan colony she called Nueva Germania. In Forgotten Fatherland Ben Macintyre tracks down the descendants of this early racial experiment, still living in Nueva Germania and breeding among themselves. Many have...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"December 1959: A furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace. Traumatized after two years of working in the army intelligence services, he's now accused of a brutal crime. As le Garrec awaits trial in the tiny Breton town where he grew up, he is asked to look into a disturbing and unsolved murder committed the previous winter. A local teenage girl...
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