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"November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she's horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince's grand...
2) One fine day
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After the old woman cuts off his tail when he steals her milk, the fox must go through a long series of transactions before she will sew it back on again.
3) Swimmy
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Swimmy escapes when a big fish swallows his school of fish. He swims away to see many wonderful creatures and later saves another school from being swallowed.
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"With global cooperation and cohesion in decline, Hotez, a former member of the US Science Envoy Program, zeroes in on the factors that drive our most controversial and pressing global health concerns, including war and conflict, climate change, antivaxxers, and poverty. He proposes historically proven methods to soothe fraught international relations while preparing us for a safer, healthier future. The 2020 coronavirus crisis makes the book more...
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AV2 fiction readalong volume 185
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Geri, the shortest giraffe who ever lived, is afraid he will ruin a group photograph so the other giraffes try everything they can think of to bring him up to their height until a caterpillar offers a different perspective.
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Spying has never been more ubiquitous-or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are more congressional experts on powdered milk than espionage. This crisis in intelligence education is distorting public opinion, fueling conspiracy theories, and hurting intelligence policy. Amy Zegart separates fact from fiction as she offers an engaging...
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David Korten argues that corporate consolidation of power is merely a contemporary manifestation of what he calls Empire: the organization of society by hierarchies of domination. Increasingly destructive on every level, the way of Empire is leading to environmental and social collapse. We now face a mounting perfect storm of climate change, peak oil, and the financial instability inherent in an unbalanced global trading system. In “The Great Turning”,...
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3-2-1 penguins volume Episode 6
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When a moon of Planet Tell-a-lie slips out of its orbit and heads for the planet, Jason and the Penguins rush to help out. They discover it is the inhabitant's lies that are causing the moon to drop!
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Furry, feathered, and scaled -- all our animal friends are ready to read. But there's just one big problem: Giraffe is too tall! Or, maybe, the book is too short. Come along for a special story time featuring six friendly animals and one puzzling predicament. Bright speech bubbles encourage readers to take an active role and find creative solutions as this wild squad works together to save story time. Using their bodies and minds, the animals persevere...
15) Luciana
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Luciana is going to space camp, but when picked as the leader for her team, she steers them into trouble. After that her team doesn't trust her, or like her that much either. It's great to be good at science, but she needs more to make it to Mars. Luci needs to become someone her team can depend on, no matter what.
16) Hoof on the roof
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"Lizzy is determined to reach the grass on the farmer's roof! This charming story's fun illustrations and text engage children as they learn to read"--
17) Our library
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A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.
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Seventeen-year-olds Revna, the daughter of a traitor, and Linne, the daughter of a general, must use forbidden magic to fly planes in wartime despite their deep dislike of each other.
Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war machines for the Union of the North. Caught using illegal magic, she fears being branded a traitor and imprisoned. On the front lines, Linné defied her father, a Union general, and disguised herself as a boy to join the...
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Hailed as a masterwork of reporting and analysis, and based on decades of research within China, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look at how the internet and high tech have allowed China to create the largest and most effective surveillance state in history. We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under unprecedented government surveillance--and a dire warning...