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41) Win or lose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
66 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wildcats center PJ Harris is the tallest player on the team, but he's horrible at free throws. When a game comes down to PJ's free throws making the difference between winning and losing, he freaks. Can he solve his problem in time to earn back the respect of his coach and teammakes, and himself?
Author
Series
Language
EspaƱol
Description
Harry vive con sus horribles tĆos y el insorportable primo Dudley, hasta que su ingreso en el Colegio Hogwarts de Magia y HechicerĆa cambia su vida para siempre. AllĆ aprenderĆ” trucos y encantamientos fabulosos, y harĆ” un puƱado de buenos amigos... aunque tambiĆ©n algunos temibles enemigos. Y, sobre todo, conocerĆ” los secretos que lo ayudarĆ”n a cumplir con su destino.
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy...
Author
Language
English
Description
James Henry Trotter's parents have been eaten by a rhinoceros, so now he lives iwth his two repulsive aunts. One hot day something peculiar happens and an enormous peach grows in their garden. Soon James and the Giant Peach are rolling away from his horrible aunts, towards a most marvellous and wonderful place . . .
44) Turtle and me
Author
Pub. Date
2015, [2011]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This charming story details the beautiful friendship between a boy and his plush toy turtle. Turtle and Me is a charming story about the adventures a little boy has with his cuddly toy turtle. Over the years, Turtle gets covered in spaghetti, splattered by mud, chewed by a puppy, and much more--but the boy still loves him. Turtle has become his security blanket, as well as his best friend. But one day Turtle suffers a horrible rip that the boy can't...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Wittels Wachs's younger brother Harris died of a heroin overdose, she didn't know how to make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance. Here she alternates between her brother's struggle with addiction, and the first year after his death. Even in all its emotional devastation, this exploration of the love between siblings will make you laugh, cry ... and wonder if that possum on the fence is really your brother's spirit...
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 5
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
893 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
EspaƱol
Description
Las tediosas vacaciones de verano en la casa de sus tios todavia no han acabado y Harry se encuentra mas inquieto que nunca. Apenas ha tenido noticias de Ron y Hermione, y presiente que algo extrano esta sucediendo en Hogwarts. En efecto, cuando por fin comienza otro curso en el famoso colegio de magia y hechiceria, sus temores se vuelven realidad. El Ministerio de Magia niega que Voldemort haya regresado y ha iniciado una campana de desprestigio...
48) The prank
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
106 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bridgewater High junior Jordan, eager to fit in with a popular crowd, takes part in a series of pranks that go horribly wrong, and as she and her friend Charlie investigate, they begin to wonder if the spirit of a prank victim who died twenty years earlier is to blame.
Author
Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady's maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H's brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve. A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone horribly wrong - with pilot Dickie Dupree plummeting to his death. Harry is certain there is more to this 'tragic accident' than meets the eye, having discovered that someone at the airfield...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An enlightening, thoughtful and witty exploration into how and why we listen to music, from the award-winning author Michel Faber. 'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on inside us when we listen....
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to essayist Kimberly Harrington's poetic and funny world of motherhood, womanhood, and humanhood, not necessarily in that order. It's a place of loud parenting, fierce loving, too much social media, and occasional inner monologues where timeless debates are resolved such as Pro/Con: Caving to PTO Bake Sale Pressure ("PRO: Skim the crappiest brownies for myself. CON: They're really crappy.") With accessibility and wit, she captures the emotions...
52) The gilded girl
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Heartfelt, fast-paced, and utterly absorbing, The Gilded Girl is Alyssa Colman's sparkling debut novel about determination, spirit, and the magic of friendship. Any child can spark magic, but only the elite are allowed to kindle it. Those denied access to the secrets of the kindling ritual will see their magic snuffed out before their thirteenth birthday. In 1906 New York City, Miss Posterity's Academy for Practical Magic is the best kindling school--and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For twenty years now-- yes, twenty-- John Scalzi has been writing on his blog Whatever, writing about, well, whatever: Politics, writing, cats, the internet and the great social and cultural events of our times. In that time he's gone from being just another crank online to being a bestselling, award-winning crank, i.e., the very best kind of crank there is. With Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies, Scalzi looks back on the years 2013 through 2018....
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