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  Baseball's Leading Lady - Effa...

  Andrea Williams

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  Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, Negro Leagues Baseball was the only game in town for black athletes. And those leagues owed their existence and success to savvy businesspeople like Effa Manley, the black female co-owner of the Newark Eagles. Effa was the team's business manager, leading her team to win the Negro World Series in 1946. But this victory was bittersweet: Integration was on its way, and the demise of the Negro Leagues would soon follow. In this riveting nonfiction account, author Andrea Williams weaves the parallel stories of the segregated leagues with the tale of an inspiring woman who was at the center of it all.

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  Drip Drop

  Sarah Weeks

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  A Junior Library Guild Selection 
  Drip! Drop! 
  Plip! Plop! 
  “Oh, no!” cried Pip Squeak. 
  “I’ve got a leak!” 
  A nighttime rainstorm sends Pip Squeak scrambling to catch the drips pouring through his leaky roof. But the drops just won’t stop, and soon it’s wetter inside the house than out! 
  Sarah Weeks’s spirited story and Jane Manning’s dazzling pictures will delight beginning readers as they follow Pip Squeak’s comic adventure to the very last drop! 
   

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  Greenbrier Bunker The: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  In October 1962, American spy planes discovered the Soviets were building nuclear missile sites in Cuba, and intelligence officials informed President John F. Kennedy of this on October 16th. It went without saying that nuclear missile sites located just miles off the coast of the American mainland posed a grave threat to the country, especially because missiles launched from Cuba would reach their targets in mere minutes. That would throw off important military balances in nuclear arms and locations that had previously ensured the Cold War stayed cold. Almost all senior American political figures agreed that the sites were offensive and needed to be removed, but how? Ultimately, Kennedy's administration crafted an eventual plan that sought to avoid all-out war: a blockade of Cuba. 
  In the weeks and months following the crisis, Kennedy sought to ease nuclear tensions. By 1963, the first agreement was signed to limit the testing of nuclear devices, and the habit of secretly taping all meetings, phone calls, and other communications continued, due to the great assistance the practice had provided throughout the crisis.  
  As it turned out, October 1962 was probably the closest the Soviet Union and United States came to formally engaging in a war against each other, but of course, the possibility of a destructive nuclear war had been contemplated years before the Cuban Missile Crisis. That doomsday scenario is precisely why the federal government was working on a secret nuclear fallout bunker underneath the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia in the years preceding the crisis. Its existence would remain a secret for decades until being declassified shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and to this day the bunker remains both a source of curiosity and mystery. 

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  Skunks - Photos and Fun Facts...

  Isis Gaillard

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  Do you want to be amazed by Skunks pictures? Let's see color photos of Skunks!  
  You and your child will find pictures of Skunks in short simplified text for children learning to read or those who like picture books.  
  Skunks: Photos and Fun Facts for Kids. It is Book 77 in the Kids Learn with Pictures Series. This book is around a clear concept: see pictures of Skunks.  
  This is a stock photo book of animals that ASK QUESTIONS of the pictures shown to the reader to encourage interaction and responses from the child.  
  Be sure to read the other books in the Kids Learn With Pictures Series.

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  Children's Stories with Chris & Pui

  Chris Jarvis, Pui Fan Lee

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  Enjoy this enchanting collection of eleven children's stories read by beloved presenter and entertainer duo Chris Jarvis and Pui Fan Lee. In this collection you and your little one will enjoy some fun adaptations on classic tales, as well as discover some brand new stories. 
   
  This collection includes: 
  - Forgetful Farmer with Chris 
  - Giant Turnip with Chris 
  - Little Red Hen with Chris 
  - Three Billy Goats Gruff with Chris 
  - Three Little Pigs with Chris 
  - Boy Who Cried Wolf with Pui 
  - Dragon and the Pearl with Pui 
  - Goldilocks and the Three Bears with Pui 
  - Hare and Tortoise with Pui 
  - Prince and the Pea with Pui 
  - Rat and the Cat with Pui

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  No Ordinary Thing

  G.Z. Schmidt

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  When a mysterious customer tells Adam great things await him in the attic of his uncle’s bakery, he brushes off the exchange. It’s 1999 in New York City—and Adam has already met his fair share of oddballs and eccentrics. 
   
  But days later, in the attic, Adam makes a discovery that quickly sets him off on a whirlwind adventure. And Adam soon suspects he may not be the only one aware of his extraordinary secret when a tall man with long eyebrows and a thin mustache appears to be following his every move. … 
   
  With words that are warm, witty, and wise, debut author G. Z. Schmidt has written a fantastical novel that celebrates pluck in the face of adversity, and the timelessness of human nature.

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