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Mondays; 5 p.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (HALL)
521) Under-Earth
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"'Under-Earth' takes place in a subterranean landfill, hollowed out to serve as a massive improvised prison. Sunken into the trash and debris of the past--gameboys, iphones, coffee cups, old cars--we follow two parallel stories. In the first, a new arrival struggles to adapt to the everyday violence, physical labour, and poverty of the prison city. Overwhelmed and alone, he finds a connection with a fellow inmate through an old, beat-up novel. While...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A Wall Street Journal writer's conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction. A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, a voice, and a bit of time into complex and powerful fuel for the heart, brain, and imagination. Grounded in the latest neuroscience...
523) Otra vez!
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
A la hora de dormir, Cedric el dragón quiere a su madre a leer su libro favorito una y otra vez, y otra vez.
At bedtime, Cedric the dragon wants his mother to read his favorite book again, and again, and again.
524) Worlds apart
Author
Series
Story thieves volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After Nobody destroys the connection between fictional and nonfictional worlds, causing nonfictional people to lose their imaginations, Owen and Bethany must risk everything to save multiple realities.
525) Iron hearted Violet
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
"Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being--called the Nybbas--imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true--not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon,...
526) Kind of a big deal
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Dropping out of high school to pursue her Broadway ambitions, a talented performer lands in a directionless job before a visit to the library catapults her into the plotlines of the books she reads.
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