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Rising Water
The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
2025 || Paperback || Marc Aronson || Atheneum Books for Young Readers
The incredible true story of the twelve boys trapped with their coach in a flooded cave in Thailand and their inspiring rescue—as seen in Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives.
On June 23rd, 2018, twelve members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach were exploring the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex in northern Thailand when disaster struck. A rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels, trapping them as they took shelter on a shelf of the dark cave. Eight days of searching yi...
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The Meaning of Jungkook
The Triumph of BTS and the Making of a Global Pop
2025 || Paperback || Monica Kim || Simon & Schuster
Celebrate Jungkook, the once-in-a-generation talent at the center of BTS, in this illuminating look into the forces that have made him a global icon.
Jungkook is one of the world’s biggest stars, period. His first album, Golden, sold more than 2 million copies on the day of its release and stayed on the Billboard 200 for twenty-four consecutive weeks. How did a young prodigy from South Korea make music history?
The Meaning of Jungkook is an unofficial kaleidoscopic explor...
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Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
A Novel
2025 || Paperback || Janet Skeslien Charles || Atria Books
From the New York Times bestselling author Janet Skeslien Charles and based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France—this is “a moving tale of sacrifice, heroism, and inspired storytelling immersed in the power of books to change our lives” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author).
1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to...
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Lifespan
Why We Ageāand Why We Don't Have To
2025 || Paperback || David A. Sinclair e.a. || Atria Books
From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, this paradigm-shifting book shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated.
For decades, experts have believed that we are at the mercy of our genes, and that natural damage to our genes—the kind that inevitably happens as we...
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
2025 || Paperback || Oscar Wilde || Simon & Schuster
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
Wilde’s classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy and considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement, and his other popular...
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The Everything Essential Latin Book
All You Need to Learn Latin in No Time
2025 || Paperback || Richard E Prior || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
The Everything Essential Latin Book is your perfect introduction to this fascinating language. With easy-to-follow instructions and simple explanations, this portable guide covers the most important basics of Latin.
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The Sacred Band
Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek
2025 || Hardcover || James Romm || Scribner
From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.
The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades ...
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Whispers
The Voices of Paranoia
2025 || Paperback || Ronald K. Siegel || Simon & Schuster
From a renowned scientist, a vivid and "utterly fascinating" (Los Angeles Times) exploration of the suspicion, terror, and rage that possess the mind of the paranoid.
The paranoid inhabits a different realm of being, one that tilts the world ever so slightly. Delusions and hallucinations feed on each other, flourishing with amazing speed. Locked in a new mode of thinking the paranoid views life as from a cell. In a dozen case studies Dr. Ronald Siegel takes us on a chilling but mesmeri...
Basic Dutch / Druk 2
A Grammar and Workbook
2025 || Paperback || Jenneke A. Oosterhoff || Taylor & Francis Group Limited
Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. This second edition contains new chapters on spelling, pronunciation, and indirect speech, as well as revised and additional exercises with lists of new vocabulary.
Colloquial Amharic / Druk 3
The Complete Course for Beginners
2025 || Paperback || David Appleyard || Taylor & Francis Group Limited
Colloquial Amharic: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Amharic as it is written and spoken today. This third edition offers new and updated vocabulary and key revisions to the text to reflect changes in language and culture.