Boiling point: understanding earth's rising temperatures

Record high temperatures that are broken and reset three times in one week. Endless heat waves that happen year-round, regardless of season. Heat so intense it spawns raging wildfires. Our planet is getting hotter and hotter. What is behind Earth's rising temperatures, what toll are they taking on living things, and what can be done about them? Packed with information, dynamic photos, and hands…

Global: one fragile world. an epic fight for survival

Time is running out for Sami and Yuki. Sami and his grandfather live in a village along the Indian Ocean. They earn their living by fishing. But the ocean is rising and each day they bring back fewer and fewer fish. Yuki lives in the far north of Canada where warming temperature are melting the ice. Polar bears have less food to hunt and are wandering into town looking for something to ea…

The Usborne introduction to the first world war

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ISBN/ISSN

9780545039017

Collation

129 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

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940 BRO u

Night watch

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn’t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, …

Held

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a…

The donkey who carried the war on her back

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ISBN/ISSN

9789811816048

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unpaged ; ill. ; 20 cm

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F SHA d

Catch-22

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781451626650

Collation

522 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm

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823 HEL c

World war I

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780241523049

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48 p. ; ill. ; 28 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

940 DOR w

Daring adventures: volume 1

Enjoy three exciting new adventures with some of your favorite Star Wars heroes! Rey and her new friend BB-8 face the dangers hidden in the sands of Jakku; rebel Sabine Wren needs the help of a friend to protect some precious cargo; and Padmé Amidala faces off against a bounty hunter with the help of her Jedi Padawan friend Ahsoka! These thrilling tales have all the action and fun of a gala…

Daring adventures: volume 2

Read all-new adventures with some of your favorite heroes from a galaxy far, far away! Jyn Erso dares to stand up to Imperial stormtroopers: Princess Leia has to save Chewbacca the Wookiee from an ice creature's lair; and Jedi-in-training Ahsoka Tano tries to stop an out-of-control droid before somebody gets hurt! Jyn, Leia. and Ahsoka know that helping others is part of being a hero. …