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81) Roses
Author
Language
English
Description
"Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures. Today, many of these cities have more large and charismatic wild animals living in them than at any time in at least the past 150 years. Why have so many cities--the most artificial and human-dominated of all Earth's ecosystems--grown rich with wildlife, even as wildlife has...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight. Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers. Award-winning...
Author
Series
Sopa de libros volume 156
Publisher
Anaya
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
Compares the similiarities the social life and behavior of animals and that of the city dwellers.
86) The stone heart
Author
Series
Nameless city volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kaidu and Rat have only just recovered from the assassination attempt on the General of All Blades when more chaos breaks loose in the Nameless City: deep conflicts within the Dao nation are making it impossible to find a political solution for the disputed territory of the City itself. To complicate things further, Kaidu is fairly certain he's stumbled on a formula for the lost weapon of the mysterious founders of the City. . . . But sharing it...
87) Serendipity
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Faith Harrington is a classic girl of privilege--until her father is convicted of running a Ponzi scheme. Now she's back in her hometown, where she runs into her teenage crush--dark, brooding Ethan Barron, who's no stranger to scandal himself.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"San Francisco was once widely viewed as the prettiest city in America. Today it is best known as the epicenter of the homeless zombie apocalypse. What went wrong? Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years, during which time he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, and for alternatives to jail and prison. But as massive open-air drug markets spread across the state, Shellenberger decided to take a deep dive...
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In this new dark, edgy series, Battle Station Prime, we encounter spies, rebels, conspiracy theories, hacks, and danger unlike anything we've covered before. In the second installment of Battle Station Prime, Pell, Logan, and Maddy join Uncle Colin's secret rebel society as junior insurgents. At first, they are happy to take down the system that failed them and kept them back, but when they receive intelligence of a dangerous presence in the center...
Author
Language
English
Description
When a surprise new member of the family arrives in the fading industrial town of Royal City looking for answers, the past and present all come together and the Pike family must face the truths about their youngest brother's death, decades earlier. The concluding chapter of this generation-spanning saga of one family haunted by their own private ghosts from the New York Times best-selling writer and artist Jeff Lemire (GIDEON FALLS, Sweet Tooth, Essex...
96) How people lived
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
An entertaining and eye-opening journey through the history of humans. How People Lived provides a colourful snapshot of life over different eras around the world, from prehistory to the present and beyond.
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
"Profiles of California provides data on all populated communities and counties in the state of California for which the US Census provides individual statistics. This edition also includes profiles of 212 unincorporated places based on US Census data by zip code"--introduction page.
100) Hide and GEEK
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gina Sparks, aspiring journalist, and her fellow GEEKs, Edgar, Elena, and Kevin, live in Elmwood, New Hampshire, a small town in serious danger of vanishing completely--unless the four friends can find the Van Houten fortune, which was supposedly promised to the town by Maxine Van Houten, a famous toymaker who loved complicated puzzles.
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