Playaway
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Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Launchpad Tablet : digital, sound, color ; 14 x 20 x 3cm ; 1 USB charging cable.
Language
English
Description
STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills learned in the classroom and connects them to things kids see every day.
The goal of the Engineering & Design Module is to teach kids to recognize challenges, turn them into opportunities, and identify scalable solutions to solve them. Topics in this module include puzzles, invention, construction, machines, architecture,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Launchpad Tablet : digital, sound, color ; 14 x 20 x 3cm ; 1 USB charging cable.
Language
English
Description
Little learners will discover the magical worlds of princesses with these games, puzzles, and stories perfect for keeping kids playing and learning over the summer months. Inspire creativity and imaginative play, develop hand-eye coordination, practice life skills while learning about nature, and reinforce numbers and early math.
Author
Series
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Launchpad Tablet : digital, sound, color ; 14 x 20 x 3cm ; 1 USB charging cable.
Language
English
Description
STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills learned in the classroom and connects them to things kids see every day.
The goal of the Creation & Sound Module is to teach kids how creativity and self-expression apply to identifying and solving problems. Topics in this module include art, sound, color, tempo, rhyming, and literature.
Author
Series
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Launchpad Tablet : digital, sound, color ; 14 x 20 x 3cm ; 1 USB charging cable.
Language
English
Description
This 5-level guided reading system helps kids master verbal, reading, and writing skills, starting at any level. Every app, storyboook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn.
Pre-Emerging Packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones: forms 3 to 4 word sentences, can talk and carry conversations, continues to grow vocabulary, connects...
Author
Series
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Launchpad Tablet : digital, sound, color ; 14 x 20 x 3cm ; 1 USB charging cable.
Language
English
Description
This 5-Level guided reading system helps kids master verbal, reading, and writing skills--starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn.
Pre-Emerging packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestone: Forms 3 to 4 word sentences, can talk and carry conversations, continues to grow vocabulary, connects...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West"--
7) Zero days
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English
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"Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect--her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is...
9) One by one
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English
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"Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet doesn't sound like the worst problem in the world, especially with others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight of your coworkers ... each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide. When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech startup, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. Then...
10) No man's land
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Series
John Puller volume 4
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English
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John Puller revisits his mother's disappearance thirty years earlier when his father, who suffers from dementia and now resides in a VA hospital, is accused of murdering his wife.
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English
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Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
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Language
English
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"Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply. Madeline's best friend Grace, is hard at work transforming her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome landscape architect. Before she realizes it, Grace is on the verge of a decision that will irrevocably change her life. Could Grace's crisis...
13) Nightwork
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English
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When Harry Booth started stealing at nine, it was to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head and pay her medical bills. At night, in darkness, he'd slip into rich people's empty homes, opening drawers and safes filled with luxuries he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer after a long, valiant battle, he left Chicago - but kept up his nightwork. From leaving a party at a Savannah mansion with a diamond bracelet...
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Series
Jack Reacher volume 20
Language
English
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When he teams up with Michelle Chang, Jack Reacher finds himself involved in a private investigation that has turned lethal.
15) Cold cold heart
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English
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"Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until she was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer. A year has passed since she defeated her attacker, but Dana is still physically, emotionally, and psychologically scarred by her ordeal, with aftereffects including PTSD and memory loss. In an attempt to put herself back together after surviving the unthinkable, Dana returns to her hometown. But it doesn't provide the comfort she expects: She struggles...
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English
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Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in.
“Thank the Lord we found you,” a passenger says.
“I am the Lord,” the man whispers.
So begins Mitch Albom’s most beguiling and inspiring novel yet.
Albom has written of heaven in the celebrated number one bestsellers The Five People You Meet...
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Series
Rose Harbor volume 4
Language
English
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Struggling with the enigmatic Mark's decision to move away, innkeeper Jo Marie welcomes new guests Kellie and Katie, who aim to overcome heartbreak and pursue new chances for love.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"1965: Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as her family believes. She's chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized...
19) Find me: a novel
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Series
Ellie Hatcher volume 6
Language
English
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"She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fourteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary side effect of her injuries, but she never regained her memory. Hope eventually started a new life with a new name in a new town that welcomed her, yet always wondered what she may have left behind--or been running...
20) After Anna
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English
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"Nobody cuts deeper than family... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....