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In this heartfelt novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a young woman with an unforgettable voice fights for the freedom to pursue her dreams. Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long,...
2) Front desk
Author
Series
Front desk volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed. Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism and points to desirable alternatives to it. Not only in society at large, but also on the left, we are held captive by the hegemony of growth. Even proposals...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Amy had dreams of going to college, until the Collapse destroyed the economy and her future. Now she is desperate for any job that will help support her terminally ill grandmother and rebellious younger sister. When she finds herself in the running for a slot on a new reality TV show, she signs on the dotted line, despite her misgivings. And she's right to have them. TLN's Who Knows People, Baby--You? has an irresistible premise: correctly predict...
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Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pig wants the biggest and finest new house for the cheapest price, even if that involves telling a little porky... He's about to find out exactly what happens to greedy pigs who fleece their workers! When the bricks fall, who will save this pig's bacon?
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Publisher
Health Communications, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For seventeen years The Betrayal Bond has been the primary source for therapists and patients wrestling the effects of emotional pain and harm caused by exploitation from someone they trusted. Divorce, litigation, incest and child abuse, domestic violence, kidnapping, professional exploitation and religious abuse are all areas of trauma bonding. These are situations and relationships of incredible intensity or importance lend themselves more easily...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
For almost three decades, Georgia Tann ran a children's home in Memphis, Tennessee, selling her charges to wealthy clients nationwide. Part social history, part detective story, part expos, this is a riveting investigative narrative that explores themes that continue to reverberate in the modern era.
8) Muted
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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A tale inspired by true events traces the experiences of a talented singer who wants to escape her all-white community before catching the attention of an R&B star who gives her access to fame and luxury in exchange for unscrupulous sacrifices.
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Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"On a chilly November morning, eighty-eight-year-old Iris Blum goes missing from Azalea Court, a six-bungalow development on the grounds of a long-closed state mental hospital. Her husband, Asher Blum, was the last head psychiatrist at the hospital and iswriting a book about the treatment of mental illness. Their daughter Lexi, the neighbors, and police detective McPhee suspect Dr. Blum of being involved in Iris's disappearance. When the searches...
11) The curiosity
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After discovering the body of a man buried deep in the Arctic ice, Dr. Kate Philo and her team bring him back to life in their Boston lab, igniting a media firestorm that forces them to decide how far they are willing to go to protect their experiment.
12) Hustlers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny, a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona, the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street client©·le hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players in this wild, modern-day Robin Hood
A crew of savvy former...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000...
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Nura longs for the simple pleasure of many things—to wear a beautiful red dupatta or to bite into a sweet gulab. But with her mom hard at work in a run-down sweatshop and three younger siblings to feed, Nura must spend her days earning money by mica mining. But it’s not just the extra rupees in her pocket Nura is after. Local rumor says there’s buried treasure in the mine, and Nura knows that finding it could change the course of her family’s...
15) Death proof
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A sociopathic stuntman, who likes to accost young women in his "deathproof" Dodge Charger, meets his match in a gang of feisty ladies on a Texas highway.
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