Dr. Witch's Animal Hospital


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The Doctor Witch I Am Reading series provides just the right balance of challenge and support for newly independent readers. Large, easy-to-read type, satisfying stories by top writers, and cheerful fullcolor pictures help children love reading. In Dr. Witch's Animal Hospital by Sheila Bird and Emma Parrish, Doctor Imelda Witch uses her magical potions and spells to heal forest animals when they are sick. On the evening of the witches' and wizards' ball, she gets all dressed up in her best black dress and her pointiest hat. But her party finery gets muddy when she stops to help a baby owl that has fallen out of a tree. How can she go to the ball now?







May Bird and the Ever After


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Lonely and shy, ten-year-old May Ellen Bird has no idea what awaits her when she falls into the lake and enters The Ever After, home of ghosts and the Bogey Man.




Hex Vet: Witches in Training


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Have you ever wondered where witches' cats go when they pull a claw? Or what you do with a pygmy phoenix with a case of bird flu? Nan and Clarion have you covered. They're the best veterinarian witches of all time—or at least they're trying to be. When an injured rabbit with strange eyes stumbles into their lives, Nan and Clarion have to put down their enchanted potions and face the biggest test of their magical, medical careers. Hex Vet: Witches in Training is an original graphic novel suitable for kids of all ages! From popular web cartoonist Sam Davies (Stutterhug), this book explores a truly spellbinding story about sticking together and helping animals at all costs. Perfect for fans of The Tea Dragon Society and Steven Universe!




Animal Capital


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The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies--two subjects seldom theorized together--signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the "question of the animal," challenging the philosophical idealism that has dogged the question by tracing how the politics of capital and of animal life impinge on one another in market cultures of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.




Bailee, the Animal Groomer


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BAILEE, the Animal Groomer relates the story of Louisiana State African American straight man, trekking 100 miles to a Voodoo priest house to buy a spirit for helping him in his work of grooming Animal. As condition for the charms to work, Bailee Wood needs to sleep in a- one- room- and one - door- built- house together with the spirit. As his business grows, his appetite for his wife diminishes and his sexual taste inside the house propels intensely every Wednesday night. Finally, Bailee finds out that the spirit was a 20- year-old gay arts student becoming zombie after being buried alive by a mob. Ironically, Bailee bought him from Ironpants , the Voodoo priest from Ville Bonheur a rural town of The Southern State. Here is Bailee who enjoyed the company; however, he never knew he had become gay himself. After so much tergiversation, he finally married the gay lover in a celebrity wedding called Pink Wedding sacrificing his own family. It turns out that the life of Bailee Wood is full of surprises and adventures. Fasten your seat belt and enjoy you reading.







Fever Dream


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“A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.




Medical Record


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The Medical Book


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A lively, accessible, and fully illustrated guide to the history of medicine, from ancient practices to cutting edge innovations. Clifford Pickover continues his popular series that includes The Physics Book and The Math Book with this volume chronicling the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses “obvious” historical milestones—the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Genome Project—with unexpected and intriguing topics like “truth serum,” the use of cocaine in eye surgery, and face transplants.




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