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41) Heroes: Season 1
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Niki harbors a secret dark side, cheerleader Claire heals from any injury, Japanese Dilbert Hiro can bend time and space, Senatorial candidate Nathan is able to fly, his brother Peter can copy others' powers, Matt is a cop who can read minds, and junkie artist Isaac sees the future. While Claire and Hiro explore the potential of their new powers. Niki and her son try to elude some hired thugs and end up overwhelmed by her dark side. Suresh searches...
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Biography for kids
Celebrate Women's History Month - YOUTH
Women's History Month @ DGPL
Women's History Month for Kids
Celebrate Women's History Month - YOUTH
Women's History Month @ DGPL
Women's History Month for Kids
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The companion to Chelsea Clinton & Alexandra Boiger's #1 New York Times bestseller, She Persisted. Perfect for tiny activists, mini feminists and little kids who are ready to take on the world. Now abridged as a board book for our youngest feminists and activists! Women around the world have long dreamed big, even when they've been told their dreams didn't matter. They've spoken out, risen up and fought for what's right, even when they've been told...
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The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857. Two-and-a half-centuries of East India Company rule will be reversed by its attempt to crush India₂s Warrior Queen. She is known as one of the most prominent figures within the independence movement of India. The passion to free her province from colonial rule led her to become one of the greatest...
44) Green rider
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After being suspended from boarding school for thrashing a son of the Lord of the Province, Karigan G'ladheon cuts through the forest in an effort to reach her father before he hears of her dismissal. A galloping horse and slumped rider catch Kari unawares and she notices that this Green Rider of King Zachary is shot through by two black shafted arrows. The dying rider pleads with her to deliver the message he carries and explains it is of utmost...
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Celebrate Women's History Month - YOUTH
K&T - Women's History Month
OBD Women's History Month (March) - YOUTH
Women's History Month
K&T - Women's History Month
OBD Women's History Month (March) - YOUTH
Women's History Month
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Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
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The new micro series highlights adventures with Star Wars heroines! Rey and her friend BB-8 faces danger in the sands of Jakku. Rebel Sabine Wren needs help to protect a precious cargo. And Padme Amidala faces off against a bounty hunter with the help of her Jedi Padawan friend Ahsoka.
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Ainbo was born and grew up in the deepest jungle of the Amazon. One day she discovers that her homeland is being threatened. With the help of her spirit guides "Dillo," a cute and humorous armadillo, and "Vaca" a heavy-set tapir, Ainbo embarks on a journey to save her homeland. As she fights to save her paradise against the greed and exploitation by illegal miners, she struggles to reverse this destruction and the impending evil of the "Yacaruna",...
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Wonder Woman (the new 52) volume 1
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Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, has kept a secret from her daughter all her life-and when Wonder Woman learns who her father is, her life will shatter like brittle clay. The only one more shocked than Diana by this revelation? Bloodthirsty Hera. So why is her sinister daughter, Strife, so eager for the truth to be told?
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Sailor Moon eternal edition volume 1
Bishōjo senshi Sērā Mūn volume 2
Naoko Takeuchi collection volume 2
Bishōjo senshi Sērā Mūn volume 2
Naoko Takeuchi collection volume 2
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"A new edition of the Sailor Moon manga, for a new generation of fans! Featuring an updated translation and high page count in a more affordable, portable edition, perfect to go wherever you or the magical guardian in your life want to take it. Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she's never gotten good grades, and, well, she's a bit of a crybaby. But when she meets a talking cat, she begins a journey that will teach her she has a well of great...
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Kyoshi novels volume 2
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"Kyoshi's place as the true Avatar has finally been cemented-but at a heavy cost. With her mentors gone, Kyoshi voyages to the Southern Air Temple, where she can master the elements beyond what she could have ever imagined. But while her bending grows stronger, a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit World. To stop it, Kyoshi, Rangi, the daofei, and their reluctant allies must join forces before the four nations are destroyed irreparably"--
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AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month - Youth
Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month - Youth
Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
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"Dream big, little one. There's so much you can do. Just look at all the leaders who came before you! From Ella Fitzgerald and Oprah Winfrey to Katherine Johnson and Maya Angelou, with these extraordinary role models, your little leader will go to sleep inspired." --
55) Wonder Woman
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Follows the adventures of Amazon princess turned American hero Diana Prince and her cohort Steve Trevor.
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"The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it before. In Joan of Arc : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous...
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"In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When...
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"Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she's never gotten good grades, and, well, she's a bit of a crybaby. But when she meets a talking cat, she begins a journey that will teach her she has a well of great strength just beneath the surface and the heart to inspire and stand up for her friends as Sailor Moon!"--
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Long before Mamoru found his destiny with Usagi, he gave a single rose in thanks to a lonely boy who helped him recover from the crash that claimed his parents. This long-forgotten friend, Fiore, has been searching the galaxy for a flower worthy of that sweet gesture long ago. The mysterious flower he finds is beautiful, but has a dark side- it has the power to take over planets! To make matters worse, the strange plant is tied to an ominous new asteroid...
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