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Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This engaging picture book shows everyday life with little crow siblings when one of them is on the autism spectrum. My Brother Otto is a child-friendly, endearing, and fun picture book for children about the love, acceptance, and understanding a sister, Piper, has for her little brother Otto, who is on the autism spectrum. The book provides explanations for Otto's differences and quirkiness in an easy-to-understand language, and highlights Otto's...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Piper and her little brother Otto, who is on the autism spectrum, are excited to attend a birthday party for their friend Ruthie. In kid-friendly language, Piper explains the accommodations Otto and Ruthie, who is also autistic, need in order to feel safe and secure in a stimulating new environment, such as wearing headphones to keep distracting noises muffled. The book provides explanations for Otto's differences in easy-to-understand language and...
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English
Description
Liah is excited about becoming a big sister. Her adopted brother Otto will be arriving today and she can't wait. She spends the day daydreaming about what Otto will look like. Is he a ticklish fire - breathing dragon or a sharp - tooth dinosaur who likes to eat pizza and french fries? To her surprise, Otto is the complete opposite, and she couldn't love him more.
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"From one of Japan's most notable manga artists: a heartbreaking and redemptive tale of mourning and acceptance that compares and contrasts the contemporary nature of gay tolerance in the East and the West. Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo, married to wife Natsuki, father to young daughter Kana. Their lives are suddenly upended with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares...
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English
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"MY BROTHER'S KEEPER unfolds powerful stories of Christians from across denominations who gave everything they had to save the Jewish people from the evils of the Holocaust. This unlikely group of believers, later honored by the nation of Israel as "The Righteous Among the Nations," includes ordinary teenage girls, pastors, priests, a German army officer, a former Italian fascist, an international spy, and even a princess. In one gripping profile...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It shares the story of returning war veteran SFC Travis Fox who has one more battle to fight, PTSD. Fox and his best friend SFC Ron "Preach" Pearcy are on their sixth combat deployment when Preach and his entire Ranger platoon are killed in a deadly improvised explosive device attack. Travis returns to his hometown to settle the affairs of his parents who had passed away years before. In searching for answers about his parents, he also discovers a...
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the year 2099, Otto Octavius-- the Superior Spider-Man-- follows a trail of dead spiders through the multiverse. He tracks the deaths to a man named Karn and confronts the villain head-on, but finds himself hopelessly overpowered! The time-lost Superior Spidey will need to gather an army of allies, but will it be enough to make a dent in Karn's plans?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Alex Ehren is poet, a prisoner, and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, also known as the Children's Block. He spends his days trying to survive and illegally giving lessons to his young charges, all while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a diary.
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Art history is filled with paintings that shocked, intrigued, enraged, and mystified their audiences - paintings that exemplified the period in which they were created and forever changed the way we think. Here, 100 examples of these icons of art are presented in beautiful, high-quality reproductions. Each double-page spread features comparative illustrations and details as well as engaging texts that explain why the painting belongs in the pantheon...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Guilty hands: when a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.
The mouthpiece: after a traumatic experience, a prosecutor changes his lifestyle in order to cope.
Secrets of the French police: a man tricks a French woman into posing as a Russian.
The Match King: a man rises from rags to riches but is then distracted by a beautiful woman.
Ever in my heart: a German...
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants like Toots Shor's, "21," and Sardi's, as well as glittering nightclubs like the Stork Club, The Latin Quarter, and El Morocco, were the nightly gathering spots for great figures of that era: movie and Broadway stars, baseball players, champion boxers, comedians, diplomats, British royalty, prize-winning authors, and famous...
17) The labyrinth
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
English
Description
Memoirs of Hitler's Secret Service Chief.
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