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Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Penguin Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
''Friday Barnes is being attacked on all fronts! When she gets involved in her frenemy Ian Wainscott's family dispute, it appears her knack for uncovering the truth may ruin their friendship. Meanwhile, there's two new teachers—a celebrity artist whose intentions are somewhat unclear, and an over-enthusiastic PE teacher on a fitness crusade. No one said high school would be easy!''--
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Two former high school sweethearts get a second chance in this marriage of convenience romance by Kristina Forest, author of The Neighbor Favor. To Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As a successful celebrity stylist, she travels all over the world, living out her dreams. Professionally, she's thriving, but her personal life is in shambles. After surviving a very public breakup with her ex-fiancé six months ago, Violet is now determined to focus...
Author
Language
English
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"Lulu has always been taught that money is the ticket to a good life. So, when Shanghai’s most eligible bachelor surprises her with a proposal, the only acceptable answer is yes, even if the voice inside her head is saying no. His family’s fortune would solve all her parents’ financial woes, but Lulu isn’t in love or ready for marriage. The only people she can confide in are her two best friends: career-minded Rina, who is tired of being...
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In his riveting follow up to two New York Times bestsellers, bounty hunter and reality television star Duane "Dog" Chapman reveals the story of how God redeemed his life and gave him renewed purpose and along the way recounts the adventures and exploitsthat have made him legend"--
"Go behind-the-scenes with Duane "Dog" Chapman, star of the hit reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter and two-time New York Times bestselling author, as he shares new stories...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
10th Anniversary Edition of Midnight Riot by #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch, the first book in the international bestselling Rivers of London series!
Restored to its original British title Rivers of London, this Author's Preferred Edition includes revised text never before seen by US readers and a new introduction by the author.
My name is Peter Grant and until recently I was just another...
Restored to its original British title Rivers of London, this Author's Preferred Edition includes revised text never before seen by US readers and a new introduction by the author.
My name is Peter Grant and until recently I was just another...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
'This fast, engrossing novel is enjoyable, cheerful, and accessible to new readers.' — Publishers Weekly
My name is Peter Grant, police officer, apprentice wizard and well dressed man about town. I work for ECD9, otherwise known as the Folly, and to the Murder Investigation Team as 'oh god not them again.' But even their governor, the arch sceptic and professional northerner DCI Seawoll, knows that sometimes, when things go bump...
My name is Peter Grant, police officer, apprentice wizard and well dressed man about town. I work for ECD9, otherwise known as the Folly, and to the Murder Investigation Team as 'oh god not them again.' But even their governor, the arch sceptic and professional northerner DCI Seawoll, knows that sometimes, when things go bump...
7) Unstuck
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lyla sets out to write the perfect fantasy novel in her creative writing class, but discovers some unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page. Includes twenty-five ways to overcome writer's block.
"Lyla is thrilled when her seventh-grade English language arts class begins a daily creative writing project. For the past year, she’s been writing a brilliant fantasy novel in her head, and here’s her chance to get it on...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. "Only an alchemist as wise and sure as Alvarez could swirl the elements of folklore and the flavor of magical realism around her modern prose and make it all sing . . . Lively, joyous . . . often witty, occasionally somber...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to rescue their friend Griffith, Drake and Rori team up with a boy named Llew and try to gain the trust of a Crystal Dragon.
"Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When an unexpected new ability to see and speak to the dead reveals family secrets, stories of burnings, lost grimoires and evil spells, Ellie Briar, a steward for the town of Silverton, seeks answers as a devastating plot threatens to destroy everythingthe Briar witches sacrificed so much to build.
"Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations. The Briar family of witches run the town of Silverton, caring for its...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the South African police department. Her family home, recently reclaimed by the government, has become the scene of a criminal investigation.The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from their land, after decades underground. Detectives pepper her with questions: Was your brother a member of a pro-apartheid group in the 1990s?...
Author
Series
RCN series volume 9
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Captain Daniel Leary with his friend-and spy-Officer Adele Mundy are sent to a quiet sector to carry out an easy task: helping the local admiral put down a coup before it takes place. But then the jealous admiral gets rid of them by sending them off on a wild goose chase to a sector where commerce is king and business is carried out by extortion and gunfights. With anarchy and rebellion in the air, a rogue intelligence officer plots the war that...
13) Père Goriot
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1819. Eugene de Rastignac, a young law student, lives at a boarding house. Also residing there is an elderly man known as "Pere" Goriot. Once wealthy, Goriot was has spent most of his fortune on his two daughters, Anastasie de Restaud and Delphine de Nucingen, and his poverty makes him a subject of mockery amongst the other boarders. Rastignac meets the daughters, and hopes to use the rivalry between the sisters to his advantage. He begins...
14) Made glorious
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
''In a vicious, delicious contemporary novel inspired by Shakespeare's Richard III, thelauded author of The Family Fortuna lifts the curtain on a high school thespian who'll stop at nothing to land the lead. Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare's Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she'll go to to secure the leading role in Bosworth Academy's senior musical, confessing without shame that she is...
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Language
English
Description
"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
Author
Publisher
McFarland and Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"These films, with Arbuckle in his prime and Keaton beginning his magnificent career, were, until recently, unavailable. This is the first book to cover each film, from The Butcher Boy to The Garage. It includes information on plot, production and personnel, and covers the unique master-apprentice relationship between the two silent stars"--Provided by publisher.
"From 1917 to 1919, Joseph Schenck produced a series of Comique comedies starring master...
17) One big open sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
"1879, Mississippi. Young dreamer Lettie may have her head in the stars, but her body is on a covered wagon heading westward. Her father, Thomas, promises that Nebraska will be everything the family needs: an opportunity to claim the independence they’ve strived for over generations on their very own plot of land. But Thomas’...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The first definitive biography of the young Elizabeth I in over twenty years���drawing on a rich variety of primary sources���tracing her tumultuous path to the crown. Queen Elizabeth I is renowned for her hugely successful reign that makes her, perhaps, the most celebrated monarch in English history. But what of the trials she faced in her challenging early life? Her status as a princess didn���t last long���when she was...
19) Victim: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming There's a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diversity initiatives and decides to cash in on the odd currency of identity. Javier Perez is a hustler from a family of hustlers. He learns from an early age how to play the game...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Why is it that the mass transit systems of American cities are, by and large, inadequate? It's a common question and one that has generated substantial scholarship. But Jake Berman's The Lost Subways of North America offers a new way to consider it: a visual--and fun--journey through the past, present, and possible future of urban transit. Featuring Berman's own colorful maps of old, often forgotten streetcar lines, lost ideas for never-built transit,...
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