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"Summary Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants-from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest." Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony. ... Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg," writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the...
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Walker Books US
Pub. Date
2023
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"Anthony "Ant" Stevenson isn't sure when he stopped being a virgin. Or even if he has. The rules aren't always very clear when it comes to boys who like boys. In fact, relationships of all kinds feel complicated, even with Ant's oldest friends. There's Charlie, who's both virulently homophobic and in a secret physical relationship with Ant. Then there's drama kid Jack, who may be gay and has become the target of Charlie's rage. And, of course, there's...
3) Windswept
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Years after her sisters venture Outside and vanish in a snow squall, thirteen-year-old Tag sets out to rescue the lost Youngers, accompanied by an unlikely crew--Boots, who can climb anything; Ant, who will eat anything; and Ren, who will say anything. Includes author's note.
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"This is the incredible story of an ex-con turned world-saving Super Hero. In Look Out for the Little Guy, Scott Lang shares with the world a bracingly honest account of his struggles and triumphs, from serving time to being a divorced dad to becoming Ant-Man and joining The Avengers. These are stories of epic battles won and lost, as this everyman turned Super Hero finally tells all--from the official account of what really happened between The Avengers...
6) Anthropoid
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the code name for the secret Czechoslovakian mission to assassinate Nazi SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution to the Jewish question, was the Reich's third in command and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.
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Arcopress
Pub. Date
[2019]
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This guide will teach you about your baby: what tests doctors perform on them and what the results mean, how to breastfeed, how to take care of them, and what to watch for.
El nacimiento de un bebé es uno de los acontecimientos más importantes en la vida de unos padres primerizos, pero muchas veces se asocia a infinidad de dudas sobre prácticamente cualquier ámbito de su cuidado: desde saber si está sano o no, si son normales las cosas que hace,...
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The Breakfast Club meets We Are the Ants in this timely story for a generation of young activists. If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do? This is the question that haunts Amina as she watches new and horrible stories of discord and crisis flash across the news every day. But when she starts at prestigious Gardner Academy, Amina finds a group of like-minded peers to join forces with-fast friends who dedicate their year...
10) Shades of black
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James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Shades of Black is an honest and authentic portrayal of life as a young Black male teen in today's culture and environment at an urban school in Toronto's Etobicoke neighbourhood. Romero, a Guyanese Canadian, is a sensitive kid who is just starting to attend an inner-city-style school with a large racialized population. Romero falls in with a friendly crew but finds himself in trouble when a shot is fired in the school cafeteria -- and he gets stuck...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Meet Celine and Luke: for all intents and purposes, the happy couple. Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more interested in piano than domestic life) plan to marry in a year. Archie (the best man) should be moving on from his love for Luke and up the corporate ladder, but he finds himself utterly stuck. And Vivian (a wedding guest) is the only one with any emotional distance, and observes her friends like ants in a colony. As the wedding approaches...
12) Breakup, makeup
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Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Eli Peterson is a self-taught, up-and-coming makeup artist in the cosplay scene who is barely making ends meet. While they might be slaying it with their breathtaking looks, they’re also trying to save enough money for top surgery and convince their parents that their artistic dream is worthwhile. During a convention, Eli hears about Makeup Wars, a competition that could change everything... The grand prize? A scholarship to Beyond, the best...
13) We are the ants
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Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
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2016.
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"Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: the world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button. Only he isn't sure he wants to. After all, life hasn't been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing...
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Ediciones SM
Pub. Date
c2007
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Huérfano, relojero y ladrón, el muchacho Hugo vive entre los muros de una estación parisina de ferrocarriles. Si quiere sobrevivir, nadie debe saber de su existencia. Sin embargo, un día tiene un descuido y es descubierto por una excéntrica chica, amante de los libros, y por un viejo y amargado juguetero. Y ya nada será como antes. When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931,...
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Letras mayúsculas. Clásicos universales volume 10
Publisher
Bambú
Pub. Date
2010
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A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future, in a story with background information on Dickens and his times.
Adaptaci?n de la novela de Charles Dickens para lectores de 10 a 12 a?os en el que se relata una historia de fantasmas que cuenta la inquietante noche que en la v?spera de esta festividad pasa el miserable y taca?o anciano Ebenezer Scrooge a consecuencia de la visita del...
16) Lions & liars
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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Fifth-grader Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp where he and his terrifying troop mates have just started forging a friendship when they learn a Category 5 hurricane is headed their way.
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate...
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Tales to keep you up at night volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Gilbert is visiting his injured brother, Ant, in the hospital, when he sees a shadowed figure leave behind a satchel filled with old cassette tapes. Despite a strange, garbled voicemail telling him "Don't listen to the tapes," Gilbert can't resist playing them and listening to the chilling stories they reveal: tales of cursed seashells, of doors torn through the fabric of the universe, of cemeteries that won't let you leave, of a classroom skeleton...
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Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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Features 100 cartoons that have delighted kids for generations, with fully restored color and bright, clear sound. Let a new generation see and hear Popeye, Superman, Betty Boop and many more like you have never seen them before and as the original artists intended: bright, clear, and colorful!
20) Hippie
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to re-live the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie, he tells the story of a young Brazilian man, Paulo, and Karla, a Dutch woman in her twenties, who share a journey of self-discovery aboard the Magic Bus, as it travels from Amsterdam to Kathmandu in 1970. In his most autobiographical...
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