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The Naturals

Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn)


Various publishers. Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases.
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Math therapy : 5 steps to help your students overcome math trauma and build a better relationship with math

Vakharia, Vanessa


Math trauma as a concept is new enough that this will be the first book written about it, but old enough as a reality that we have been failing our students by not acknowledging it. Jo Boaler mentions math trauma in her book Mathematical Mindsets, Pamela Seda labels it in Choosing To See, and Peter Liljedahl uses the term in Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics. Yet even though the idea of math trauma has been recognized by leading math educators since 2018, there is no book dedicated to defining the topic, and more importantly, there is no resource for teachers that posits a solution. Math Therapy provides both. Math Therapy provides practical, hands-on strategies and tools that can be immediately used in the classroom. The book starts by defining math trauma and encouraging the reader to unpack their own math history before diving in to what they can do to help their students. The five steps to a solution--rethinking mindset, unpacking past trauma, empowering students to care about their relationship with math, redesigning math identity, and measuring improvement as a way to encourage further growth--are presented with real-world examples and tips for implementation in the classroom. The approach is grounded in research on math education and neuropsychology, and is written in a friendly, conversational tone that will entertain and engage classroom teachers and other readers. It is designed specifically for educators who are looking for professional development resources that are practical, impactful, and groundbreaking and will help address the trauma-induced stumbling blocks that many students face when tackling mathematics.
Date Published:2025

Math trauma as a concept is new enough that this will be the first book written about it, but old enough as a reality that we have been failing our students by not acknowledging it. Jo Boaler mentions math trauma in her book Mathematical Mindsets, Pamela Seda labels it in Choosing To See, and Peter Liljedahl uses the term in Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics. Yet even though the idea of math trauma has been recognized by leading math educators since 2018, there is no book dedicated to defining the topic, and more importantly, there is no resource for teachers that posits a solution. Math Therapy provides both. Math Therapy provides practical, hands-on strategies and tools that can be immediately used in the classroom. The book starts by defining math trauma and encouraging the reader to unpack their own math history before diving in to what they can do to help their students. The five steps to a solution--rethinking mindset, unpacking past trauma, empowering students to care about their relationship with math, redesigning math identity, and measuring improvement as a way to encourage further growth--are presented with real-world examples and tips for implementation in the classroom. The approach is grounded in research on math education and neuropsychology, and is written in a friendly, conversational tone that will entertain and engage classroom teachers and other readers. It is designed specifically for educators who are looking for professional development resources that are practical, impactful, and groundbreaking and will help address the trauma-induced stumbling blocks that many students face when tackling mathematics.

Date Published:2025

Heiress takes all

Wibberley, Emily,


Various publishers. Seventeen-year-old Olivia Owens plans an elaborate heist during her father's wedding to exact revenge for his actions, but things take a chaotic turn with unexpected wedding guests and obstacles.
Date Published:2024

Love requires chocolate : a love in translation novel

Stringfield, Ravynn K.,


Various publishers. Ready to have an epic semester abroad in Paris, theater nerd Whitney Curry anticipates a grand adventure but instead struggles with schoolwork, homesickness and mastering the French language until her cute tutor teaches her lessons about the real Paris--and love
Date Published:2024

Africville : a novel

Colvin, Jeffrey.


Various publishers. For readers of Lawrence Hill and George Elliott Clarke, a ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry. Set in the small Nova Scotia town of Africville, settled by former slaves, Jeffrey Colvin depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time and fate.
Date Published:2019

The society for soulless girls

Steven, Laura,


Various publishers. Ten years ago, four students lost their lives in the infamous unsolved North Tower murders at the elite Carvell Academy of Arts, forcing the school to close its doors. Now Carvell is reopening, and freshman Lottie Fitzwilliam is dertermined to find out what really happened. When her beautiful but standoffish roommate, Alice Wolfe, stumbles upon a sinister soul-splitting ritual in a book hidden in Carvell's library, the North Tower claims another victim. Is there a killer among them... or worse, within them?
Date Published:2023

Various publishers. Ten years ago, four students lost their lives in the infamous unsolved North Tower murders at the elite Carvell Academy of Arts, forcing the school to close its doors. Now Carvell is reopening, and freshman Lottie Fitzwilliam is dertermined to find out what really happened. When her beautiful but standoffish roommate, Alice Wolfe, stumbles upon a sinister soul-splitting ritual in a book hidden in Carvell's library, the North Tower claims another victim. Is there a killer among them... or worse, within them?

Date Published:2023

Concrete rose

Thomas, Angie,


Various publishers. The author revisits Garden Heights 17 years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.
Date Published:2021

Project Hail Mary : a novel

Weir, Andy,


Various publishers. The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Date Published:2021

Bride of the death god. Vol. 02

Ichiiro, Hako,


Graphic novel. Reads right to left. The story of a death god who was welcomed for the first time and a young woman no longer welcome in her own world-a tale of love that even death cannot part. When Aibi had only seven days left to live, the death god extended her lifespan. Since then, she has savored every day and tried to live the life that was previously denied to her. She goes to school and even goes on a date with the death god! But thanks to the special power she possesses, she is still a target for evil spirits. Their attacks become more frequent, and when another god of death appears, the curtain is raised on a life-or-death struggle!
Date Published:2026

Graphic novel. Reads right to left. The story of a death god who was welcomed for the first time and a young woman no longer welcome in her own world-a tale of love that even death cannot part. When Aibi had only seven days left to live, the death god extended her lifespan. Since then, she has savored every day and tried to live the life that was previously denied to her. She goes to school and even goes on a date with the death god! But thanks to the special power she possesses, she is still a target for evil spirits. Their attacks become more frequent, and when another god of death appears, the curtain is raised on a life-or-death struggle!

Date Published:2026

Flight

Nahum, Andrew,


At head of title: Eyewitness. Includes index. Fly like a bird -- Lighter than air -- Gliding aloft -- Powered flight -- The first airplanes -- Flying aces -- Double wings -- The evolving plane -- Light aircraft -- Aero-engines -- The propeller -- Flying the world -- The jet age -- Jet propulsion -- Landing gear -- Controlling the plane -- In the cockpit -- On the flight deck -- Flying instruments -- Rotating wings -- Helicopter -- War in the air -- Hot-air balloon -- Airship -- A modern glider -- Plain sailing -- Did you know? -- Timeline -- Find out more. Soar into the high-flying world of aircraft with this picture-packed, fact-filled book. Eyewitness Flight is an essential guide to the history and science of humanity's most incredible feat: flying! Young readers will pour over stunning photography, alongside fascinating facts, of aircraft from Leonardo da Vinci's wing machines to jet airliners, as well as helicopters, gliders, zeppelins, monoplanes, biplanes, and even triplanes. Learn how technology made flight possible, which tools pilots use, and how our ability to take to the skies has shaped human history.
Date Published:2024

At head of title: Eyewitness. Includes index. Fly like a bird -- Lighter than air -- Gliding aloft -- Powered flight -- The first airplanes -- Flying aces -- Double wings -- The evolving plane -- Light aircraft -- Aero-engines -- The propeller -- Flying the world -- The jet age -- Jet propulsion -- Landing gear -- Controlling the plane -- In the cockpit -- On the flight deck -- Flying instruments -- Rotating wings -- Helicopter -- War in the air -- Hot-air balloon -- Airship -- A modern glider -- Plain sailing -- Did you know? -- Timeline -- Find out more. Soar into the high-flying world of aircraft with this picture-packed, fact-filled book. Eyewitness Flight is an essential guide to the history and science of humanity's most incredible feat: flying! Young readers will pour over stunning photography, alongside fascinating facts, of aircraft from Leonardo da Vinci's wing machines to jet airliners, as well as helicopters, gliders, zeppelins, monoplanes, biplanes, and even triplanes. Learn how technology made flight possible, which tools pilots use, and how our ability to take to the skies has shaped human history.

Date Published:2024

1984 [Mandarin] = Cha tu zhen zang ban

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.


In 1984 the world is divided into three parts, Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia, all perpetually at war. In Oceania, the party has created a totalitarian state that annihilates all opposition. In the forefront of the Party stands Big Brother, a figure of almost mythical power. This is the story of Winston Smith's rebellion against the Party, of his hatred of Big Brother, and of the thoughtcrime which must result in his destruction.
Date Published:2016

In 1984 the world is divided into three parts, Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia, all perpetually at war. In Oceania, the party has created a totalitarian state that annihilates all opposition. In the forefront of the Party stands Big Brother, a figure of almost mythical power. This is the story of Winston Smith's rebellion against the Party, of his hatred of Big Brother, and of the thoughtcrime which must result in his destruction.

Date Published:2016

Making democracy count : how mathematics improves voting, electoral maps, and representation

Volić, Ismar, 1973-


Voting. The best way to choose the winner -- The worst way to choose the winner -- From best to worst -- The impossible democracy -- To each their own -- Strategy and manipulation -- And the winner is ... -- Representation. This old house -- Rather divisive than indecisive -- Divisor and conquer -- A country divided -- Math v. gerrymandering -- Proportional representation -- Civic infrastructure. The Electoral College -- The citizen-mathematician. What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What's the least distorted way to draw voting districts? Not the way we do things now. Democracy is mathematical to its very foundations. Yet most of the methods in use are a historical grab bag of the shortsighted, the cynical, the innumerate, and the outright discriminatory. Making Democracy Count sheds new light on our electoral systems, revealing how a deeper understanding of their mathematics is the key to creating civic infrastructure that works for everyone. In this timely guide, Ismar Volić empowers us to use mathematical thinking as an objective, nonpartisan framework that rises above the noise and rancor of today's divided public square. Examining our representative democracy using powerful clarifying concepts, Volić shows why our current voting system stifles political diversity, why the size of the House of Representatives contributes to its paralysis, why gerrymandering is a sinister instrument that entrenches partisanship and disenfranchisement, why the Electoral College must be rethought, and what can work better and why. Volić also discusses the legal and constitutional practicalities involved and proposes a road map for repairing the mathematical structures that undergird representative government.
Date Published:2024

Voting. The best way to choose the winner -- The worst way to choose the winner -- From best to worst -- The impossible democracy -- To each their own -- Strategy and manipulation -- And the winner is ... -- Representation. This old house -- Rather divisive than indecisive -- Divisor and conquer -- A country divided -- Math v. gerrymandering -- Proportional representation -- Civic infrastructure. The Electoral College -- The citizen-mathematician. What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What's the least distorted way to draw voting districts? Not the way we do things now. Democracy is mathematical to its very foundations. Yet most of the methods in use are a historical grab bag of the shortsighted, the cynical, the innumerate, and the outright discriminatory. Making Democracy Count sheds new light on our electoral systems, revealing how a deeper understanding of their mathematics is the key to creating civic infrastructure that works for everyone. In this timely guide, Ismar Volić empowers us to use mathematical thinking as an objective, nonpartisan framework that rises above the noise and rancor of today's divided public square. Examining our representative democracy using powerful clarifying concepts, Volić shows why our current voting system stifles political diversity, why the size of the House of Representatives contributes to its paralysis, why gerrymandering is a sinister instrument that entrenches partisanship and disenfranchisement, why the Electoral College must be rethought, and what can work better and why. Volić also discusses the legal and constitutional practicalities involved and proposes a road map for repairing the mathematical structures that undergird representative government.

Date Published:2024

House of flame and shadow

Maas, Sarah J.,


Various publishers. Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she's going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that's no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust. Hunt Athalar has found himself in some deep holes in his life, but this one might be the deepest of all. After a few brief months with everything he ever wanted, he's in the Asteri's dungeons again, stripped of his freedom and without a clue as to Bryce's fate. He's desperate to help her, but until he can escape the Asteri's leash, his hands are quite literally tied.
Date Published:2024

Various publishers. Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she's going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that's no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust. Hunt Athalar has found himself in some deep holes in his life, but this one might be the deepest of all. After a few brief months with everything he ever wanted, he's in the Asteri's dungeons again, stripped of his freedom and without a clue as to Bryce's fate. He's desperate to help her, but until he can escape the Asteri's leash, his hands are quite literally tied.

Date Published:2024

Half bad

Green, Sally.


Various publishers. In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
Date Published:2014

Brimstone

Hart, Callie


Various publishers. Queen Saeris must navigate court politics while sending Fisher and Carrion Swift on a dangerous mission through the Silver City to save their realm from darkness.
Date Published:2025

Ashlords

Reintgen, Scott,


Various publishers. Follows alchemists Imelda, Adrian, and Pippa as they reach for their dreams of glory riding phoenix horses at The Races, the modern spectacle that has replaced warfare within their empire.
Date Published:2020

Quicksilver

Hart, Callie,


Various publishers. Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares...but it turns out they're real, and Saeris has landed herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed. The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist's magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him...or her. Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he's the only way Saeris is going to make it home.
Date Published:2024

Various publishers. Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares...but it turns out they're real, and Saeris has landed herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed. The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist's magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him...or her. Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he's the only way Saeris is going to make it home.

Date Published:2024

Half wild

Green, Sally (Novelist).


Various publishers. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, but he is on the run with the Hunters close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.
Date Published:2015

I'll give you the sun

Nelson, Jandy.


Various publishers. A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah.
Date Published:2014

Persona 5. Vol. 03

Murasaki, Hisato,


Graphic novel. "Original Japanese edition published by SHOGAKUKAN."--Colophon. Reads from right to left. Numeration from colophon. "A manga retelling of the hit Persona 5 video game!"--Back cover. After being arrested and having to transfer to a new high school in Tokyo, Akira Kurusu is given the goal of rehabilitation and awakened to a new power--the power of one's true self, a Persona. Using his Persona and the mysterious navigation app Momentos, Akira and his friends take on the role of phantom thieves, saving people from the twisted desires of those around them... After successfully changing Kamoshida's heart, Akira and his friends decide to continue operating as the Phantom Thieves. Not long after, they meet famous Japanese artist Ichiryusai Madarame and his student Yusuke Kitagawa. The Phantom Thieves hear rumors that Madarame might be up to some shady stuff. Ann accepts Yusuke's request to model for him in the hopes that she can get some information out of him, but Yusuke refuses to hear it. Will the Phantom Thieves be able to expose Madarame's crimes? And what is the startling truth about Yusuke's past?
Date Published:2020

Graphic novel. "Original Japanese edition published by SHOGAKUKAN."--Colophon. Reads from right to left. Numeration from colophon. "A manga retelling of the hit Persona 5 video game!"--Back cover. After being arrested and having to transfer to a new high school in Tokyo, Akira Kurusu is given the goal of rehabilitation and awakened to a new power--the power of one's true self, a Persona. Using his Persona and the mysterious navigation app Momentos, Akira and his friends take on the role of phantom thieves, saving people from the twisted desires of those around them... After successfully changing Kamoshida's heart, Akira and his friends decide to continue operating as the Phantom Thieves. Not long after, they meet famous Japanese artist Ichiryusai Madarame and his student Yusuke Kitagawa. The Phantom Thieves hear rumors that Madarame might be up to some shady stuff. Ann accepts Yusuke's request to model for him in the hopes that she can get some information out of him, but Yusuke refuses to hear it. Will the Phantom Thieves be able to expose Madarame's crimes? And what is the startling truth about Yusuke's past?

Date Published:2020