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1) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults....
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Crown
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English
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"The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America's booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into...
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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...
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Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2024.
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English
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Revisits the world of social epidemics first explored in Gladwell's 2000 book "The tipping point," this time taking a closer look at the dark side of social engineering. Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light. Why is Miami...Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell...
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2024.
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English
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"'Magical thinking' can be broadly defined as the belief that one's internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world: Think of the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches, or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency...
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2025.
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English
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"The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits. Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He's a loner, awkward and obsessive; she's charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream - as we all dream - of running away from it all. What if they quit their jobs, sold their house, bought a boat, and sailed away?...
7) Bulldozers
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English
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"This search-and-find book invites emergent readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about a bulldozer's structure, parts, and jobs they do"-- Provided by publisher.
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"For as long as she can remember, Suleika Jaouad has kept a journal. She has used it to mark life's biggest occasions and to ride its roughest waves. It has buoyed her through illness, through heartbreak, and the deepest oceans of uncertainty. And Suleika is not alone. For so many people, journaling is a process of discovery, sometimes vulnerable and terrifying, always transformative. The Book of Alchemy is based on the premise that journaling is...
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"The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what's available--sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we're attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing?...
10) Backhoes
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces backhoes to young readers through leveled text and related photos"-- Provided by publisher.
11) Helicopters
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English
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Hover! Learn how helicopters get the job done through narrative nonfiction, Fun Facts, infographics, a glossary, and more!
12) Airplanes
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English
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Fly! Learn how airplanes get the job done through narrative nonfiction, Fun Facts, infographics, a glossary, and more!
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2025.
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English
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"Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first...
14) Dump trucks
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English
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"This search-and-find book invites emergent readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about a dump truck's structure, parts, and jobs they do"-- Provided by publisher.
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DK Publishing
Publication Date
2025.
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192 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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"Ever wondered if you could grow plants from the food you buy? Grow Your Groceries shows you how. Discover 40 simple, fun hacks to try - no gardening experience needed, just a window sill and a recycled container. Raise tomato plants from tomato slices. Collect strawberry seeds for endless strawberry plants. Pick salad leaves from beetroot tops. Split teabags for flowering camomile. Grow fresh cobs from popcorn kernels. So don't throw away your melon...
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Sourcebooks
Publication Date
[2024]
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xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Bigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and books, on coffee mugs, beer koozies, car polish, and CBD oil. Which begs the question: what is it about Bigfoot that's caught hold of our imaginations? Journalist and self-diagnosed skeptic John O'Connor is fascinated by Sasquatch. Curious to learn more, he embarks on a quest through the North American wilds in search of Bigfoot,...
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Storey Publishing
Publication Date
2025.
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143 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Adriana Cinteza explains how to choose the right rabbit for you and your family and gives detailed information on proper care-including feeding and watering, grooming, housing, handling, exercise, litter training, and visits to the vet. She also provides advice about the most popular and friendly bunny breeds and shares bonding and socialization techniques"-- Provided by publisher.
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Abrams Press
Publication Date
2023.
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392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Dust may seem inconsequential, so tiny and mundane as to slip below the threshold of thought. Yet within the next one hundred years, life on Earth will be profoundly changed by heat and drought - and that means dust. In this ground-breaking book, Jay Owens argues that dust is a legacy of twentieth-century progress and a toxic threat to life in the twenty-first. Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles tells the gripping story of how the relentless...
19) Pheasants
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Abdo
Publication Date
2026.
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Step into the farm yard and meet the colorful, feathered pheasant! Readers will learn all about pheasants, from their diet and daily needs to their personalities and babies. The title is filled with bright, colorful images, simple text, and QR codes loaded with extra material. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards.
20) Mars
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DK Publishing
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English
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This beautiful non-fiction book is the ultimate guide to the fourth planet in our solar system. Has there ever been life on Mars? Will we be living there soon? HOW?! Discover the past, present, and future of the mysterious red planet in this beautiful non-fiction book for kids. The launch of Mars rovers by NASA, Europe, and China in 2020 will be the biggest science news of the year, and will reveal more about Mars than ever before. Get ahead with...









