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Coding with dinosaurs

Burns, Kylie,


From sequencing to debugging, learn about important coding skills through fun, dino-centric activities such as drawing a stegosaurus and escaping a T-rex. Each activity includes text on how the activity showcases a coding skill. Bonus challenges offer even more ways for readers to test their skills.
Date Published:2024

Jujutsu kaisen. 13, The Shibuya incident --Thunderclap-- /

Akutami, Gege, 1992-


Translated from the Japanese. "Parental advisory: Jujutsu kaisen is rated T+ for older teen and is recommended for ages 16 and up. This volume contains fantasy violence"--Colophon The incident in Shibuya becomes dire when Toji Zen'in reappears! Meanwhile, Mei Mei confronts the traitorous Geto on a subway platform, and Nanami's furious over the casualties suffered by the assistant managers. Then more grade 1 sorcerers enter the fray as Itadori fights the eldest Death Painting Womb brother, Choso!
Date Published:2021

Translated from the Japanese. "Parental advisory: Jujutsu kaisen is rated T+ for older teen and is recommended for ages 16 and up. This volume contains fantasy violence"--Colophon The incident in Shibuya becomes dire when Toji Zen'in reappears! Meanwhile, Mei Mei confronts the traitorous Geto on a subway platform, and Nanami's furious over the casualties suffered by the assistant managers. Then more grade 1 sorcerers enter the fray as Itadori fights the eldest Death Painting Womb brother, Choso!

Date Published:2021

The white tiger : a novel

Adiga, Aravind


Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
Date Published:2008

Jujutsu kaisen. 18, Fever /

Akutami, Gege, 1992-


Reads from right to left. In order to thwart the culling game, Itadori needs the help of Kinji Hakari, a third-year who is currently suspended from Jujutsu High, so he decides to participate in an underground fight club where Hakari works as a bookie. Meanwhile, Fushiguro infiltrates the fight club and heads for Hakari's base of operations, but another Jujutsu High third-year is using their cursed technique to block his way.
Date Published:2022

Reads from right to left. In order to thwart the culling game, Itadori needs the help of Kinji Hakari, a third-year who is currently suspended from Jujutsu High, so he decides to participate in an underground fight club where Hakari works as a bookie. Meanwhile, Fushiguro infiltrates the fight club and heads for Hakari's base of operations, but another Jujutsu High third-year is using their cursed technique to block his way.

Date Published:2022

Jujutsu kaisen. 17, Perfect preparation /

Akutami, Gege, 1992-


Manga format; reads from back to front, right to left. "First published in Japan in 2018 by SHUEISHA Inc., Tokyo"--Title page verso. To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural! Hunted down by Okkotsu and on the brink of death, Itadori recalls a troubling family scene from his past. But why is the former form of Noritoshi Kamo there? As the sorcerers begin to take action toward suppressing the lethal culling game, Maki pays the Zen'in clan a visit...
Date Published:2022

Manga format; reads from back to front, right to left. "First published in Japan in 2018 by SHUEISHA Inc., Tokyo"--Title page verso. To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural! Hunted down by Okkotsu and on the brink of death, Itadori recalls a troubling family scene from his past. But why is the former form of Noritoshi Kamo there? As the sorcerers begin to take action toward suppressing the lethal culling game, Maki pays the Zen'in clan a visit...

Date Published:2022

Held

Michaels, Anne, 1958-


In 1917, John is immobilized on a battlefield, his mind filled with memories. By 1920, he’s back in North Yorkshire, not fully recovered. He reunites with Helena, an artist, and resumes his photography business. However, the past haunts him as ghosts appear in his photos, communicating messages he can’t decipher.
Date Published:2023

The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo : a novel

Reid, Taylor Jenkins,


Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the late 80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. As Evelyn's life unfolds -- revealing a ruthless ambition, an unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love -- Monique begins to feel a very a real connection to the actress. But as Evelyn's story catches up with the present, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways.
Date Published:2017

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the late 80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. As Evelyn's life unfolds -- revealing a ruthless ambition, an unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love -- Monique begins to feel a very a real connection to the actress. But as Evelyn's story catches up with the present, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways.

Date Published:2017

Allegiant

Roth, Veronica


Sequel to: Insurgent. "Katherine Tegen Books." The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered-- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready.
Date Published:2013

Pongal

Sujan, Sujivany R.,


Includes index. Read about the history of Pongal and how it is celebrated in Canada.
Date Published:2024

Firekeeper's daughter

Boulley, Angeline,


Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Date Published:2021

The art of getting stared at

Langston, Laura, 1958-


16 year old Sloane Kendricks has a chance at her dream film school, and she's not going to let anything get in the way of her short film application, not even having to work with slacker Isaac Alexander. But then one day she notices her hair has started falling out. As she loses more and more hair, Sloane is finally diagnosed with alopecia areata. There is no cause, no treatment, and no cure. Sloane has never cared about her appearance, but that was when she was normal. What will she do now?
Date Published:2014

16 year old Sloane Kendricks has a chance at her dream film school, and she's not going to let anything get in the way of her short film application, not even having to work with slacker Isaac Alexander. But then one day she notices her hair has started falling out. As she loses more and more hair, Sloane is finally diagnosed with alopecia areata. There is no cause, no treatment, and no cure. Sloane has never cared about her appearance, but that was when she was normal. What will she do now?

Date Published:2014

Cress

Meyer, Marissa,


Working to overthrow Queen Levana, a fugitive Cinder and her companions search for Rapunzel-like hacker Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood and who has received orders from Levana to foil Cinder's efforts.
Date Published:2015

The testaments

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-


Sequel to: The handmaid's tale. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.
Date Published:2019

Fullmetal alchemist

Arakawa, Hiromu, 1973-


Pages numbered from right to left. When an alchemical ritual goes awry causing Edward Elric to lose limbs and his brother to become trapped in a suit of armor, Edward begins a quest to recover the one thing that can restore them, the legendary Philosopher's Stone.
Date Published:2005

World trigger

Ashihara, Daisuke


"First published in Japan in 2013 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo"--T.p. verso. Reads right to left. Destroy thy Neighbor! A gate to another dimension has burst open, and invincible monsters called Neighbors invade Earth. Osamu Mikumo may not be the best among the elite warriors who co-opt other-dimensional technology to fight back, but along with his Neighbor friend Yuma, he'll do whatever it takes to defend life on Earth as we know it.
Date Published:2013

"First published in Japan in 2013 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo"--T.p. verso. Reads right to left. Destroy thy Neighbor! A gate to another dimension has burst open, and invincible monsters called Neighbors invade Earth. Osamu Mikumo may not be the best among the elite warriors who co-opt other-dimensional technology to fight back, but along with his Neighbor friend Yuma, he'll do whatever it takes to defend life on Earth as we know it.

Date Published:2013

Half brother

Oppel, Kenneth


In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project--an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills--he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.
Date Published:2010

Infandous

Arnold, Elana K.,


Seventeen-year-old Sephora, a surfer and artist who loves fairy tales and mythology, struggles with a secret so horrible she cannot speak it aloud, especially not to her beautiful, single mother, although they have always been unusually close.
Date Published:2015

Lolita

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.


The protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather.
Date Published:1989

Blue exorcist. 1 /

Katō, Kazue, 1980-


Reads from right to left. Translation of: Ao no ekusoshisuto. 1. When Rin Okumura learns his real father is the Demon Lord Satan, he swears to defeat him and enters True Cross Academy to become an exorcist.
Date Published:2011

Spoon

Peters, Stephanie True, 1965-


"Horizon"--Front cover. Sixteen-year-old Macy faces a test of loyalty when the new school game Spoon spirals out of control, making the star volleyball player Alliyah to act recklessly in her pursuit of victory.
Date Published:2025