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Book cover for "The rock from the sky".
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
©2021
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Turtle really likes standing in his favorite spot. He likes it so much that he asks his friend Armadillo to come over and stand in it, too. But now that Armadillo is standing in that spot, he has a bad feeling about it . . . This book is a meditation on the workings of friendship, fate, shared futuristic visions, and that funny feeling you get that there's something off somewhere, but you just can't put your finger on it. -- Provided by publisher....
Book cover for "It fell from the sky".
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AD: Adult Directed 670L
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English
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All the insects agree that the object that fell from the sky is a Wonder, but when Spider decides it is his, he risks losing all of his friends.
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"The Girl Who Fell from the Sky can actually fly." —The New York Times Book Review
 

Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.
Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black

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Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"All Pineda Matlage wants is to get through the school year and maybe pull an epic prank or two with his friends Junior, Ernesto, and Patsy. But class is disrupted when a slew of American soldiers descends upon their rural Texan town of Soledad. They’ll be carrying out a training exercise and taking over everything, from Pineda’s school to the local government. But Pineda knows why they’re really here. For days he’s hidden the strange creature...
Book cover for "And Laughter Fell From the Sky".
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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"A timely story about what matters most deeply: our quest for love and acceptance....Jyotsna Sreenivasan's writing speaks straight to the heart."
—Kim Barnes, author of In the Kingdom of Men

And Laughter Fell from the Sky, the enthralling first novel from Jyotsna Sreenivasan, is a stirring contemporary love story about two young Indian-Americans trying to find love and their place in the world, while dealing with the confines and

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Book cover for "What it means when a man falls from the sky".
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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4 stars
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"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist forThe New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground....
Book cover for "When I Fell From the Sky".
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Publisher:
Titletown Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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She was 17-years-old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm. A strike of lightning left the plane incinerated and Juliane Diller (Koepcke) still strapped to her plane seat falling through the night air two miles above the Earth. Her survival is unexplainable and considered a modern day

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Our Media Limited
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English
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Twenty-five years ago this month, the Hubble Space Telescope launched into Earth orbit and into the history books: it changed the way we view our place in space for ever. In this special edition of BBC Sky at Night Magazine, we celebrate the unparalleled clarity of Hubble’s greatest images. With 116 pages of stunning galleries, plus features on the science Hubble enabled, the daring maintenance missions and more, you’ll never see the Universe

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Book cover for "They Fell From the Sky".
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Publisher:
Mad Cave Studios Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Tommy Murphy is just an ordinary kid. He goes to school, hangs out with his friends, and fanboys over his favorite TV show. But when a chance encounter in the woods thrusts him into an unlikely friendship with an otherworldly creature, he is forced to navigate bullies, family squabbles, and tween all while trying to prevent an interplanetary war!
Book cover for "Bones would rain from the sky".
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Akin to Monty Roberts's The Man Who Listens to Horses and going light-years beyond The Hidden Life of Dogs, this extraordinary book takes a radical new direction in understanding our life with canines and offers us astonishing new lessons about our pets. From changing the misbehaviors and habits that upset us, to seeing the world from their unique and natural perspective, to finding a deep connection with another being, BONES WOULD RAIN FROM THE SKY...
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English
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5 stars
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"Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries"--
Book cover for "Hanna who fell from the sky".
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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"Hanna has never been outside her secluded community of Clearhaven. She has never questioned why her father has four wives or why she has fourteen brothers and sisters. And in only one week, on her eighteenth birthday, Hanna will follow tradition and become the fifth wife of a man more than twice her age. But just days before the wedding, Hanna meets an enigmatic stranger who challenges her to question her fate and to follow her own will. And when...
Book cover for "White dog fell from the sky".
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A portrait of 1970s Botswana is told through the intertwined stories of three people, including a medical student who is forced to flee apartheid South Africa after witnessing a murder and an American Ph.D. student who abandons her studies to follow her husband to Africa.
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Price Stern Sloan, An Imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Discover the alphabet from a bird's-eye view! Geographer and designer duo Benedikt Gross and Joey Lee have taken the alphabet to new heights-literally! Using satellite imagery and computer technology, the pair has discovered "accidental letters" all over the world: in roads, rivers, buildings, lakes, and more. Take a journey around the Earth in 26 letters with this special book.
Book cover for "3rd rock from the sun".
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Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2013]
Language:
English
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All episodes from the six seasons of the television series which aired from 1996 to 2001.
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"Discusses comets, asteroids, and meteors, including how and where they are formed in space, what scientists are doing to study and track them, and what danger these doomsday rocks are to Earth"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "It came from the sky".
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HL: High-Low 670L
Language:
English
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Gideon and Ishmael Hofstadt, ages sixteen and seventeen, accidentally start a hoax that aliens have landed, turning their town of Lansburg, Pennsylvania, into a circus. Told through narrative, police interviews, text messages, blog posts, and more.-- When one of his science experiments went wrong, Gideon Hofstadt and his older brother Ishmael blamed the resulting explosion on extraterrestrial activity. Their lie was embraced by the town. As the brothers...
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A noted meteoriticist shows how meteorites have helped build our planet and influenced humanity since the start of civilization.
Book cover for "The man who fell from the sky".
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Publisher:
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley engage in a dangerous manhunt involving two Native American victims and Butch Cassidy's famed hidden treasure.
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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From 23-year-old Sámi debut novelist and reindeer owner Moa Backe Åstot, Fire From the Sky is a queer coming-of-age story about heritage, family ties and ageold commitments to the past. Ánte's life has been steeped in Sámi tradition. It is indisputable to him that he, an only child, will keep working with the reindeer. But there is something else too, something tugging at him. His feelings for his best friend Erik have changed, grown into something...