Sleeping Beauties: A Novel

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterio…

Windfall

Alice has never believed in luck, but that doesn’t stop her from rooting for love. After pining for her best friend Teddy for years, she jokingly gifts him a lottery ticket—attached to a note professing her love—on his birthday. Then, the unthinkable happens: he actually wins. At first, it seems like the luckiest thing on earth. But as Teddy gets swept up by his $140 million windfall…

Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

An original addition to the beloved Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, Lost in a Book follows the lonely, bookish Belle as she finds an enchanted book in the Beast's library called Nevermore that carries her into a glittering new world. There, Belle is befriended by a mysterious countess who offers her the life she's always dreamed of.

Triangles

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0-516-24186-9

Collation

24p; coll; ill; indx; pbk

Series Title

Welcome Books

Call Number

610 BUR

Uncle Jed's Barbershop

As the only black barber in a county of sharecroppers during the 1920s, Uncle Jed traveled for miles to tend to his customers. Saving his money to build his very own barbershop was a dream that had to be postponed because of his generous heart and the Depression. Then one glorious day, his 79th birthday, Uncle Jed finally opened the doors of his new shop. Full color.

Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat

When proud and haughty Chin Yu Min loses her wealth, she becomes as poor as the village beggars she disdains. But then she meets a very special ginger cat, who teaches her a new way to lead a life full of riches.

See Inside Inventions (See Inside Board Books) Hardcover

How did untidy doctor change the world? who really invented the radio? And what on earth inspired engineers to try to build a space rocket? Lift the flaps to discover the amazing stories behind some of the world's most ground-breaking inventions.

New Zealand: Its Land and Its People

New Zealand is an archipelago with a total area of 269,057 sq km. It is made of of three principal islands.

The Adventures of Sophie Mouse 4: looking for winston

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9781481430036

Collation

115p., col., ill.,

Series Title

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Call Number

GRE

What is Smell

The sweet smell of roses. the rotten smell of rubbish. Your nose lets you smell these scent and more. But how does your nose work? And how does your sense of smell help you? Read this book to find out!