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4941) Eve's daughters
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"What Would You Do If a Secret Was Causing Your Family to Crumble? Is there a secret terrible enough that it should never be revealed, not even if it was tearing a family apart? For more than five decades Emma Bauer has kept one--carefully guarding it with all her strength, and for more than five decades that choice has haunted her life and also the lives of her daughters and granddaughter. Is it too late for wrongs to be righted? Does Emma even...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Korean sixth sense for winning friends and influencing people, nunchi (pronounced noon-chee) can help you connect with others so you can succeed in everything from business to love. The Power of Nunchi will show you how. If you're thinking, 'Not another Eastern fad: Marie Kondo already made me throw away half my clothes,' don't worry--it's not a fad. Koreans have been using nunchi for more than 5000 years. It's what catapulted their nation from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
''"Susie Finkbeiner never fails to transport her readers through time and space, welcoming us into worlds we never want to leave." --Julie Cantrell, New York Times best-selling author of Into the Free. "[Pearl's] voice isn't one you'll soon forget."--RT Book Reviews Pearl Spence has finally settled into a routine in Bliss, Michigan, far from her home in Red River, Oklahoma. Like all the other kids, she goes to school each day, plays in the woods,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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Description
Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.
4946) Glory
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Col. Robert Gould Shaw is the 25-year-old white son of Boston abolitionists who volunteers to command the first all-black 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins is the inspirational sergeant who unites the troops. Pvt. Trip is the runaway slave who embodies the indomitable spirit of the regiment. After months of tough training and eventual small battle experience, they are lead to glory in their final assault...
4947) Gone wolf
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In middle-grade debut, Gone Wolf, award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America. In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often – he’s pacing and imagining he’s free. Inmate...
4948) Epic fail
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In this modern take on "Pride and Prejudice," Elise Benton, who has just moved to California, is a junior at an exclusive prep school where, in spite of her initial bad impression, she finds herself attracted to the moody and handsome son of Hollywood's most famous celebrity couple.
Author
Publisher
Tendencias
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Un nuevo y audaz enfoque de como nos reunimos que transformara la forma en que pasamos nuestro tiempo juntos: en el trabajo, en el hogar, en nuestras comunidades y mas alla. En The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argumenta que las reuniones en nuestras vidas son mediocres e improductivas, lo que no tiene por que ser. Confiamos demasiado en la rutina y las convenciones de las reuniones cuando deberiamos centrarnos en el caracter distintivo y las personas...
4950) Boots under her bed
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Crazy Callie : Callie has done a lot of crazy things, but it'll take one more to prove she isn't nuts : find a husband fast! Her only requirement : he has to be taller than she is and swear not have her committed during their ruse of a marriage.
Nat Church and the runaway bride : Felicity Ravenwood was raised to be independent-minded but when this runaway bride opposes her father's choices, it is up to Nat Church to bring her around. But he doesn't...
4951) Despicable me
Publisher
Universal,]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Gru delights in all things wicked. Surrounded by an army of tireless little yellow minions, and armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen, a potential dad.
4952) The great treehouse war
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy after her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
4953) The Banty House
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the fading town of Rooster, Texas, all that's really left is a service station, a church... and the Banty House, a long-ago Depression-era brothel. For more than seventy-five years, Betsy, Connie, and Kate Carson have called their mama's house a home. The three eccentric sisters get by just fine with their homemade jams and jellies, a little moonshine on the side, and big hearts always open to strangers. Like Ginger Andrews. An abandoned teen...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Charles Adams is a product of the Minneapolis's North Side, the city's poorest neighborhood, and of North High, the state's poorest school. After graduation he joined the Minneapolis Police Department, overcoming racial prejudice within its ranks to become his alma mater's resource officer. North High was in rapid decline, a building designed for 1,700 students serving fewer than 200. Once the centerpiece of the community, the school was on the verge...
4955) I'll tell you no lies
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set during the Cold War in upstate New York, Shelby Blaine, the teenage daughter of an Air Force intelligence officer, becomes entangled with an escaped Soviet pilot accused of being a spy.
"From Amanda McCrina, the acclaimed author of Traitor and The Silent Unseen, I'll Tell You No Lies is a riveting YA novel of the Cold War era about a girl in post-World War II America who becomes entangled with an escaped Soviet pilot and must learn to decipher...
Author
Series
Lumberjanes (Sturges graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Boom! Box, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The second original graphic novel set in the critically-acclaimed Lumberjanes world!While adventuring in the woods, Jo, Mal, Molly, April, and Ripley discover the hiding place of a group of magical creatures called Pookas and they think theyve found new friends. But what they dont know is that the Pookas are tired of hiding, and theyve found the perfect way to join the outside worldby impersonating the Lumberjanes themselves and taking over Camp!...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II - a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes - starting with the British Empire. Russian Roulette tells the spectacular and harrowing story of the British spies in revolutionary...
4958) Storm & shade
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome, foolish mortals, to an original and eerie novel inspired by the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disney Parks! When high school student Audrey Perez moves to a town that's supposedly home to a haunted mansion, she and a few of her new friends decide to investigate. Audrey is quickly swept up in a macabre mystery and eerie adventure that holds the fate of the Haunted Mansion's 999 happy haunts in the balance. A storm is coming—both literally...
4959) Never a hero
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"These Violent Delights meets This Savage Song in this sequel to the contemporary fantasy Only a Monster from Vanessa Len that New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Garber called "mind-bending, heart wrenching, and unputdownable!" Despite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family - and destroyed the hero, Nick. But her success has come at a terrible cost. She alone remembers what happened. Now, Aaron,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"A book examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II. Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided. Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends exposes...
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