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"During the opening months of World War II, Vassar-educated career woman Rulka Langer (1906-1993) risked her life and relied on her wits to keep her two small children and elderly mother out of harm's way. "The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt" is a rare eyewitness account of the early, chaotic days of WWII -- the Nazi German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the Siege of Warsaw and the first few months of the Occupation -- written by a young...
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Series
Plants vs. zombies (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2013-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Vol. 1: "Young adventurers Patrice Blazing and Nate Timely fend off a 'fun-dead' neighborhood invasion in Plants vs. Zombies: Lawnmageddon!"--From publisher's web site.
Vol. 2: Crazy Dave helps his niece Patrice and Nate Timely and their plants travel back and forward in time to defeat the evil Dr. Zomboss and his army of zombies.
Vol. 3: Racing to beat Zomboss before the zombie leader can recover the parts he needs to rebuild his ominous Sun Vacuum,...
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Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The Black is the fastest horse in America, and Alex Ramsay is preparing him for a big race. Suddenly there comes a new challenger: the island stallion, Flame! An unproven racer, Flame can run like the wind. Black and Flame come face to face on the racetrack.
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Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A racing accident resulting in a frightened horse and an injured driver leads Alec Ramsey and Henry Dailey to try harness racing, working a son of the Black toward the Hambletonian.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what does this new era of scientific inquiry mean for the future of the human species? "That rare kind of scholarship that is also a page-turner." -Britt Wray, author of Rise of the Necrofauna At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified...
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