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Fuel Under Fire: Petroleum and Its Perils

Margaret J Goldstein · Twenty-First Century Books
Pages: 104
Format: Print book

Every day, people on Earth use about 90 million barrels of petroleum (oil and natural gas) to fuel cars, buses, airplanes, farm equipment, and factories; to heat their homes; and to manufacture detergents, paints, plastics, and countless other products. To get that petroleum, oil and gas companies...
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Dark Mansions

Dinah Williams · Bearport Publishing
Format: Book

Readers will get a lesson in history in this series of titles that looks at what happened in various historical places and how these happenings are tied to tales of ghosts, poltergeists and other unexplainable phenomena.Title: Dark MansionsAuthor: Williams, Dinah/ Taylor, Troy (CON)Publisher:...
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The Word for Yes

Claire Needell · Harper Teen
Pages: 242
Format: Print book

At once honest and touching, Claire Needell's debut novel is a moving look at date rape and its aftermath, at the love and conflicts among sisters and friends, and how these relationships can hold us together - and tear us apart.The gap between the Russell sisters - Jan, Erika, and Melanie...
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I Woke Up Dead at the Mall

Judy Sheehan · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

When Sarah wakes up dead at the Mall of America, she learns that not only was she murdered, her killer is still on the loose. I WOKE UP DEAD AT THE MALL is a terrifically fun & voicey YA novel that tackles some of life's - and the afterlife's - biggest questions. When you're sixteen,...
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Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One

April Daniels · Diversion Distribution Se
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

An action-packed series-starter perfect for fans of The Heroine Complex and Not Your Sidekick. "I didn't know how much I needed this brave, thrilling book until it rocked my world. Dreadnought is the superhero adventure we all need right now." -- Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds...
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Frost

M P Kozlowsky · Scholastic Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

16-year-old Frost understands why she's spent her entire life in an abandoned apartment building. The ruined streets below are hunting grounds for rogue robots and Eaters.She understands why she's never met a human besides her father. She even understands why he forbids her to look for medicine...
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Zen and Gone

Emily France · Soho Teen
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

With another aching deep dive into human spirituality, Emily France mines her home state of Colorado in a novel of a teen girl's harrowing search for her missing younger sister - and her own search for self.Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, Essence McKree feels older than any seventeen-year-old...
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The Reader

Traci Chee · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 442
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times BestsellerA stunning debut set in a world where reading is unheard-of, perfect for fans of Inkheart and Shadow and BoneSefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt,...
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No and Me

Delphine de Vigan · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Parisian teenager Lou has an IQ of 160, OCD tendencies, and a mother who has suffered from depression for years. But Lou is about to change her life—and that of her parents—all because of a school project about homeless teens. While doing research, Lou meets No, a teenage girl...
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Dinosaur Bones: And What They Tell Us

Rob Colson · Firefly Books
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Resembling a paleontologist's sketchbook filled with labeled watercolor drawings and descriptive notes, Dinosaur Bones is an accurate reference to 40 dinosaurs, marine reptiles, flying reptiles and prehistoric mammals. The book begins with a brief introduction to life before the dinosaurs...
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Ripley's Believe It Or Not!: Reality Shock!

Ripley's Believe It Or Not! · Ripley Entertainment Inc
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Reality Shock! is the 2015 edition of Ripley's Believe It or Not! bestselling annual series. This incredible collection is loaded with unbelievable facts, amazing stories, and incredible animals. With amazing photography, zany stories and unbelievable facts and figures, this book is sure...
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Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution

e.E. Charlton-Trujillo · Candlewick
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

More trouble at school and at home - and the discovery of a missive from her late soldier sister - send Angie and a long-ago friend on an RV road trip across Ohio.Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, has moved away; her good friend, Jake, is keeping...
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Sun Warrior: Tales of a New World

P C CAST · Wednesday Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author of the House of Night series, P.C. Cast, brings us Sun Warrior, an epic fantasy set in a world where humans, their animal allies, and the earth itself has been drastically changed. A world filled with beauty and danger and cruelty ... The battle lines...
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Gutless

Carl Deuker · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

With good speed and good hands, wide receiver Brock Ripley should be a natural for the varsity team, but he shies away from physical contact. He also avoids provoking the star quarterback, Hunter Gates, well known for his bullying tactics. Hunter struggles on the field, causing him to act even...
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Ash and Quill

Rachel Caine · Berkley
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover

The unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone and Paper and Fire unite to save the Great Library of Alexandria from itself in this electrifying adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Great Library jealously guards its secrets....
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