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Human Rights in Focus: Human Trafficking

L K Currie-McGhee · Referencepoint Press
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

Globally, millions of people live in modern day slavery. Men, women, and children across the world are subject to forced labor and sexual exploitation at the hands of human traffickers. The challenges human trafficking victims face, the efforts to eradicate this crime, and how to assist...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Adventurer's Guide

PAIZO STAFF. · Paizo Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Wise adventurers don't just march off into the wilderness to search for dragons to slay and wrongs to right, for to adventure without support is to invite disaster. The hardcover Pathfinder RPG Adventurer's Guide presents information on 18 different organizations in need of brave...
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Secrets of the Dragon Tomb

Patrick Samphire · Square Fish
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Mars in 1816 is a world of high society, deadly danger, and strange clockwork machines. Pterodactyls glide through the sky, automatic servants hand out sandwiches at elegant garden parties, and in the north, the great dragon tombs hide marvels of Ancient Martian technology.Twelve-year-old...
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Stay Sweet

SIOBHAN VIVIAN · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Last Boy and Girl in the World and The List comes a bold and sweet summer read about first love, feminism, and ice cream.Summer in Sand Lake isn't complete without a trip to Meade Creamery - the local ice cream stand founded in 1944 by Molly Meade who started...
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How to Disappear

SHARON HUSS ROAT · HarperTeen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Between the Notes comes a story that shines a light on our love of social media and how sometimes being the person you think you want to be isn't as great as being the person you truly are. Perfect for fans of Vivi Greene's Sing and Susane Colasanti's Now and Forever.Vicky...
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Hello, Sunshine

LEILA HOWLAND · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover

A Prep School Girl with a Hollywood DreamBecca Harrington is a reject. After being rebuffed by every college on her list, she needs a fresh start, so she packs up everything and moves to LA, giving herself one year to land an acting gig or kill herself trying. Unfortunately, not everything...
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Ungodly: A Novel

Kendare Blake · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

As ancient immortals are left reeling, a modern Athena and Hermes search the world for answers in Ungodly, the final Goddess War novel by Kendare Blake, the acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood. For the Goddess of Wisdom, what Athena didn't know could fill a book. That's what...
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Malala Yousafzai: Teenage Education Activist Who Defied the Taliban

Cathleen Small · Cavendish Square Publishing
Format: Book

Malala Yousafzai is the teenage Pakistani education activist who stood up to the Talibanand survived. Learn about her life growing up in Pakistans beautiful but troubled Swat Valley and her incredible story of perseverance in the face of violence.
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Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights

Larry Dane Brimner
Format: Book

In 1965, as the grapes in California's Coachella Valley were ready to harvest, migrant Filipino American workers - who picked and readied the crop for shipping - negotiated a wage of $1.40 per hour, the same wage growers had agreed to pay guest workers from Mexico. But when the Fi
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Privacy

Lauri S Scherer · Greenhaven Press
Pages: 120
Format: Print book

"Opposing Viewpoints: Privacy ... are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications"--
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Vitro

Jessica Khoury · Razorbill
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover

A death-defying tropical adventure delivers a frightening message about dabbling with creation from the talented author of Origin.On a remote island in the Pacific, Corpus scientists have taken test tube embryos and given them life. These beings - the Vitros - have knowledge and abilities...
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The Divergent Companion: The Unauthorized Guide to the Series

Lois H. Gresh · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback

The first companion guide to the blockbuster bestselling Divergent trilogy - soon to be a major motion picture
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I Remember You

Cathleen Davitt Bell · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 306
Format: Print book

For fans of THE FUTURE OF US comes an engrossing story of two teens, whose love for each other is tested by time and fate. Lucas and Juliet couldn't be more different from each other. But from the moment Lucas sees Juliet, he swears he remembers their first kiss. Their first dance. Their...
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Rookie Yearbook Two

Tavi Gevinson · Razorbill
Format: Print book

Rookiemag.com is a website created by and for young women to make the best of the beauty, pain and awkwardness of being a teenager. When it becomes tough to appreciate such things, we have good plain fun and visual pleasure. When you're sick of having to be happy all the time, we have...
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Final Curtain: An Edna Ferber Mystery

Ed Ifkovic · Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Who murdered the handsome young actor? And why? In 1940, against the chilling backdrop of Hitler’s rise and the specter of another war, Edna Ferber decides to follow an old dream: to act on the stage. Selecting The Royal Family, the comedy she wrote with George S. Kaufman, for her starring...
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