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Series
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
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In a novel set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, two young women--Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants, and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing--find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental magic.
2) Stillicide
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage. As news breaks that construction of a gigantic Ice Dock will displace more people than first thought, protestors take to the streets and the lives of several individuals begin to interlock. A nurse on the brink of an affair. A boy who follows a stray dog out of the city. A woman who lies dying. And her husband, a marksman: a man forged by his past and fearful...
Author
Language
English
Description
As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles. In the tradition of his best-selling alphabet book, Animalia, author and illustrator Graeme Base takes young readers on an exhilarating journey of discovery with an ingenious fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook, and art book. From the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Publication Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
James W. Huston takes the hottest issue of our time-the War on Terrorism-and explores it with a compelling, stay-up-late thriller filled with high-stakes courtroom drama, white-knuckle in-the-cockpit flying, and the shadowy world of American Special Forces operations. Lieutenant Kent "Rat" Rathman is back. In the middle of the desert, in the dead of night, Lieutenant Rathman parachutes with his Special Forces team into Sudan, where an arms merchant...
5) Drought
Author
Language
English
Description
Ruby's blood holds the secret to the Water that keeps her and her fellow Congregants alive and enriches Darwin West, who has enslaved them for two centuries, but when her romance with an Overseer, Ford, brings her freedom in the modern world, she faces a terrible choice.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Publication Date
2012.
Language
English
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Jump, Hop, Leap Into These Reads - Juvenile Fiction - April 2025
OBD Leap Into Reading! - YOUTH
OBD National Pet Month (May) - YOUTH
OBD Leap Into Reading! - YOUTH
OBD National Pet Month (May) - YOUTH
Description
When the evil Kroc hatches a plan to steal the Earth's water, Plastic Frog sets out to track him down and return the bodies of water to their rightful places.
7) Thirst
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"On a searing summer Friday, Eddie Chapman has been stuck for hours in a traffic jam. There are accidents along the highway, but ambulances and police are conspicuously absent. When he decides to abandon his car and run home, he sees that the trees along the edge of a stream have been burnt, and the water in the streambed is gone. Something has gone very wrong. When he arrives home, the power is out and there is no running water. The pipes everywhere,...
Author
Series
Magical mix-ups volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"After Tate falls into a magic well in her backyard, she can read a book in minutes. But she's strangely attracted to water of all sorts and can't always control her magic"-- Provided by publisher.
10) Błękit
Author
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Literackie
Publication Date
2018.
Language
Polish
Description
Zachodnia Norwegia, rok 2017. Siedemdziesiecioletnia Signe przybywa w rodzinne strony. Powracaja bolesne wspomnienia o Magnusie, niespelnionej milosci, straconym dziecku... Nie ma juz sladu po wzgórzach, rzece Breio i wodospadach Dwie Siostry, o których przetrwanie walczyla jako nastolatka. Dzika nature okielznano i wykorzystano do napedzania elektrowni wodnej. Pozostal tylko lodowiec. Ale i jego zwolennicy postepu postanowili przekuc w kostki lodu...
Author
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"On a lonely road in a remote desert stands a roadhouse. Formerly a home station on a now abandoned stagecoach route, it is the only source of water and supplies for miles. Accommodations are crude adearnd coarse, the hospitality rough and raw, the proprietor boorish and vulgar. Travelers are few and far between, and almost all must stop for water-which comes at a price. A mounted mail carrier who visits the roadhouse with some regularity suspects...
12) Orbs
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Simon451
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A masterful blend of horror, science fiction, and pulse-pounding thrills, the first book in Nicholas Sansbury Smith's bestselling Orbs series introduces the last survivors of an alien invasion. The year is 2061, and the planet is dying. Cataclysmic solar storms have forced leaders from around the world to finally put aside their differences and agree on one thing--to jump ship. The human race is headed to Mars. Dr. Sophie Winston is hired by New...