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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus...
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The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina �Zabi�nski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the �Zabi�nskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano...
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Miss Peregrine volume 3
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English
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"A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom. The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he's diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying...
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"An injured victim has disappeared... Can a park ranger and her K-9 find him? When search-and-rescue park ranger Autumn Mercer and her K-9 partner, Sherlock, meet a stranger in the mountains whose brother is injured, they drop everything to help. But all they find where Derek Peterson last saw his sibling is a trail of blood, and men who want them dead. With gunmen closing in, can Autumn and Derek survive long enough to save his brother?"--Back cover....
5) Odder
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2022.
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"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--
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2021.
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"She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever. Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous...
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DK Publishing
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2016.
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English
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What's your emergency? From flashing lights and blaring sirens to K-9 units and EMTs, emergency services have vital roles in saving lives. Find out what it takes to respond to an emergency in Emergency Rescue. Learn police officers' secret radio code, look at a firefighter's daily schedule, and hear what emergency dispatchers say on the phone. Make sure you are prepared for an emergency and that you know who to call! Emergency Rescue shows how hard...
8) Meet Diego!
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Dora the explorer volume 4
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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Join Dora and her cousin Diego at the Animal Rescue Center, where they embark on an expedition to save Baby Jaguar from plunging over a waterfall.
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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"Save Diego": Diego is an animal rescuer, but in this adventure, the animals need to rescue him. "Baby Jaguar's roar": When Baby Bear gets stuck atop Big Mountain, Dora, Boots, Diego, and you need to follow Baby Jaguar to rescue. Preschoolers will learn: Spanish language skills; animal facts; colors and counting
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Tanglewood Animal Park volume 3
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EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Tanglewood's Savannah Safari is complete, and Zoe can't wait to meet its newest inhabitants--six African elephants. But when the head of the herd stops eating, Zoe and the keepers face an elephant emergency." -- Page [4] cover.
11) Puffling patrol
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Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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"Ted and Betsy Lewin detail the annual rescue of baby puffins by the children of Heimaey, the largest island in the Westman Islands off the coast of Iceland. Includes additional information about puffins and the Westman Islands, glossary, and further reading"--Provided by publisher.
12) Supernova
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MGM Home Entertainment
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[2000]
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English
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In the farthest reaches of deep space, a medical vessel keeps a lonely vigil for those in trouble. Responding to a frantic cry for help, the ship becomes disabled. Now the crew must unravel the secrets of the mysterious survivor and the alien artifact they rescued before a forming supernova blasts them and the entire galaxy into oblivion.
13) Heroes of 9/11
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Ten stories of the first-responders who risked their lives on September 11, 2001.
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A true story about a 4-yr-old deaf boy, Jeremy Coots, who wandered away from the babysitter's home south of Atchison, KS, near the Missouri River on February 18, 1977. The author Melodye (Coots) Hathaway describes in captivating and honest detail the 5-day search for her son and the aftermath that followed. She was in her ninth month of pregnancy with her second child as thousands of searchers over the course of 5 days came together to find her little...
16) Barry
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Dog diaries volume 3
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Random House
Pub. Date
�2013.
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English
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Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.
