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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Nightmares are creeping through the city of dreams... Renata Viraudax is a con artist who has come to the sparkling city of Nadezra -- the city of dreams -- with one goal: to trick her way into a noble house and secure her fortune and her sister's future. But as she's drawn into the elite world of House Traementis, she realizes her masquerade is just one of many surrounding her. And as corrupt magic begins to weave its way through Nadezra, the poisonous...
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Pub. Date
[2022].
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English
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From the author of What Do You Do With an Idea? comes an all-ages picture book to awaken the dreamer in all of us. It's about the magical way dreams create opportunities, stretch our horizons, and give us a glimpse into our own potential. Featuring adorable illustrations of a loveable raccoon character, each spread holds empowering nuggets of wisdom--and beautiful encouragement to be brave, risk failure, and chase all you hope for.
7) Reverie
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English
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While recovering from an attack that leaves him without his memory, gay teenager Kane Montgomery stumbles into a world where dreams known as reveries take on a life of their own, and it is up to Kane and a few unlikely allies to stop them before they spillover into the waking world.
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Français
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Cette délicieuse collection d'histoires courtes pour l'heure du coucher vise à divertir, inspirer et enseigner aux enfants l'importance des vertus intemporelles. À travers des personnages dynamiques et des récits passionnants dans chacune de ces courtes histoires morales pour enfants, ces histoires morales pour enfants encouragent leur esprit à adopter les valeurs qui les façonnent. Avec chaque histoire, les enfants se lanceront dans une aventure,...
11) The heavens
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English
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New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium. A young man, Ben, meets a young woman, Kate-and they begin to fall in love.
Kate lives with her head in the clouds, so at first Ben isn't that concerned when...
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"Richard Hsieh's dad studies dreams, and one day, they decide to hook Richard's new Slappy doll up to the dream machine as a joke. All of a sudden, Richard starts having nightmares of Slappy, coming to life and wreaking havoc. But they're only dreams, right? Except, when his cousin Willow comes to visit, she also dreams of Slappy. It's impossible! But when Slappy threatens to invade more kids' dreams, they'll have to figure out how to defeat him before...
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"Sophie's parents run a secret shop where dreams are bought and sold. When Sophie dreams, her dreams become real, so she is forbidden to have any. Sinister events are set in motion when she is accidentally seen by one of her parents' customers, and it's up to Sophie to save her family"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Mia Graydon's life looks picket-fence perfect; she has the house, the husband, and dreams of starting a family. Their relocation to small-town Pennsylvania comes with the usual challenges--finding a new job, new friends, new furniture--but the move is nothing the couple can't handle. That is, until Mia finally meets the stranger she has been dreaming about for a decade. And here's the catch: He's been dreaming of her, too. Now Mia must navigate the...
17) Goodnight racism
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Illustrations and text show children the language to dream of a better world.
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English
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Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it. Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared...
19) Just a dream
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When he has a dream about a future Earth devastated by pollution, Walter begins to understand the importance of taking care of the environment.
20) Just Because
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Why is the ocean blue? What is rain? What happened to the dinosaurs? Curious minds are rewarded with curious answers in this fantastical bedtime book for dreamers who are always looking for more than just the answer "just because!"
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