Curveball by Cartaya, Pablo, author.
Elena Rueda loves baseball -- and is the best player on her team -- but recently has stopped having fun, so during a summer spent with her brother's quirky friends she reflects on who she is and maybe learns love to play again.
Crime across time / Crime Across Time by Smith, Brian (Comic book writer), author.
When the town's resident evil genius dives into a portal to the past, Officer Clawsome and his partner, Stariana, must fight crime, dodge dinosaurs and wrangle wild west outlaws as they try to solve a mystery that's fit for a history book.
Curveball by Cartaya, Pablo, author.
Elena Rueda loves baseball--and is the best player on her team--but recently has stopped having fun, so during a summer spent with her brother's quirky friends she reflects on who she is and maybe learns love to play again.
Asterix. Asterix the Gaul, Asterix / the Golden Sickle / Asterix and the Goths Volume one by Goscinny, 1926-1977, author.
"These are the first three adventures of Asterix as he defends his tiny village from the overwhelming forces of the Roman Empire. Join the short, spunky, and super-powerful warrior from Gaul and his faithful friends--including the boar-eating delivery manObelix and the ecologically-minded canine, Dogmatix--as they battle to protect their village against impossible odds"--
Asterix. Asterix the Gaul, Asterix / the Golden Sickle / Asterix and the Goths Volume one by Goscinny, 1926-1977, author.
"These are the first three adventures of Asterix as he defends his tiny village from the overwhelming forces of the Roman Empire. Join the short, spunky, and super-powerful warrior from Gaul and his faithful friends--including the boar-eating delivery manObelix and the ecologically-minded canine, Dogmatix--as they battle to protect their village against impossible odds"--
Profiles in mental health courage
"Portrays those who have struggled with their mental health. This book offers deeply compelling stories about the bravery and resilience of those living with a variety of mental illnesses and addictions"--
Birthing liberation - how reproductive justice can set us free by Wade, Sabia, author.
A renowned, radical, full-spectrum doula, advocate and educator discusses how reproductive justice, including access to health care, the safety of childbirth, house transportation, nutrition and access to resources forms the pathway to equity and liberation.
Profiles in mental health courage by Kennedy, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph), 1967- author.
"Portrays those who have struggled with their mental health. This book offers deeply compelling stories about the bravery and resilience of those living with a variety of mental illnesses and addictions"--
Royal audience - 70 years, 13 presidents--one queen's special relationship with America
"From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts--and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents--Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr., Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden--that other diplomats and leaders could only dream of. A fascinating
Fear itself - exposing the left's mind-killing agenda by Bruce, Tammy, author.
"Tammy Bruce lays out how left-wing politicians and media use scare tactics to control Americans' minds, and offers solutions for breaking free"--
Royal audience - 70 years, 13 presidents -- one queen's special relationship with America by Charter, David, author.
"From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts-and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents-Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr., Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden-that other diplomats and leaders could only dream of. A fascinating, i
The Scythian empire - Central Eurasia and the birth of the classical age from Persia to China by Beckwith, Christopher I., 1945- author.
"In the late 8th to early 7th century BC, Scythian steppe warriors conquered Central Eurasia and peripheral regions in Iran and China, revolutionizing the local cultures. A nomadic herding people who lived with their cats in felt-tent homes on wheels, theScythians spread their complex, mobile, highly innovative culture into the frontiers of Southeast Europe, the Near East, Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia. They produced the world's first "global" civilization: the great cultural flowering
The Icarus changeling by Zahn, Timothy, author.
"Gregory Roarke-former bounty hunter, former Trailblazer, current agent for the ultra-secret Icarus Group-has received a new assignment: locate a suspected but as-yet undiscovered teleportation portal on the backwater colony world of Alainn. The rival Patth are also searching for the device, and have considerably more resources at their disposal. Fortunately, Roarke has Selene and her incredibly sensitive Kadolian sense of smell. On paper, it should be a straightforward enough job. But that was
Absolution - a novel by VanderMeer, Jeff, author.
"A continued exploration of the mysterious Area X by the scientists and voyagers that VanderMeer introduced ten years ago in the original volumes"--
The thermopylae protocol by Weber, David, 1952- author.
"A Time Storm is Brewing. After an industrial ship carrying advanced self-replicating machines explodes on its way to Mercury, analysis of the wreckage reveals it to be forty years too old. Raibert Kaminski, the Gordian Division's top agent, and his crewon the TransTemporal Vehicle Kleio soon discover the ship was transported to an uncharted universe, one with temporarily accelerated time. Forty years passed for the ship's industrial machines while everyone else experienced only a few short days
Service model by Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972- author.
"To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire
Mirrored heavens by Roanhorse, Rebecca, author.
"The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse's Between Earth and Sky trilogy"--
Running close to the wind by Rowland, Alexandra, author.
"Avra Helvac¸i, former field agent of the Arasti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world--and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea. To find a buyer with deep enough pockets,Avra must ask for help from his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Haffar. They are far from happy to see him, but together, they hatch a plan: take the information to the isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls, fen
Daughter of the merciful deep by Penelope, L., 1978- author.
""Our home began, as all things do, with a wish." Jane Edwards hasn't spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other Black resident. Now, twelve years later, she's found a haven in the all-Black town of Awenasa. But the construction of a dam promises to wash her home under the waters of the new lake. Jane will do anything to save the community that sheltered her. So, when a man with uncanny abilities arrives in town asking