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1) The beloved
Author
Series
Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 22
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
The Black Dagger Brotherhood's deadliest fighter, Zsadist, when his daughter, Nalla, falls in love, must confront the future and face the reality he may not be able to protect her forever.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Catherine, a successful barrister, vanishes from a train station on the eve of her anniversary. Is it because she saw a figure--someone she believed long dead? Or was it a shadow cast by her troubled, fractured mind? The answer lies buried in the past. It lies in the events of the hot, seismic summer of 1989, at Vanes--a mysterious West Country manor house--where a young girl, Jane Lestrange, arrives to stay with the gilded, grand Hunter family,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis.
"For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940-2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble." In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis's upbringing in rural Alabama,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He becomes a historian. He has a daughter, Jugnu, who grows up to be a television journalist and then escapes her marriage for a career in the United States. And...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Mercer Mayer's Little Critter has been delighting young readers for over forty years! Ten of his most cherished stories--including Just for you, which was first published in 1975--are featured in this hardcover collection of Original Classics. A must-have for any Little Critter fan!"-- page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Johnny Craig's crisp, elegant, contemporary graphic style set a mood and a surprisingly sophisticated approach to these thirty-one EC crime and horror comics stories, which include his top murder mystery and his best terror tale. Introduction by Grand Master crime novelist Max Allan Collins
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating journey through the history of "Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity. Sung in moments of personal isolation or on state occasions watched by millions, "Amazing Grace" has become an unparalleled anthem for humankind. How did a simple Christian hymn, written in a remote English vicarage in 1772, come to hold such sway over millions in all corners of the modern world? With...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
How do you tell a story? Before Toni Morrison was a Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize-winning author, she was Chloe Ardelia Wofford, a little girl in Ohio who was both the only Black child in her first-grade classroom and the only student who was able to read. This is the true story of how that young girl learned from her upbringing, surrounded herself with stories, and made a tremendous impact on the world. Toni Morrison's pen was her sword,...
Publisher
Trilingual Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of Haitian trilingual poetry (English, French, and Haitian), representing a great diversity of sensibilities and poetic styles. The reader will find in this collection poems which lament the social relations of power and the problematic of imperialist and neocolonial domination in the world. Other poems emphasize the authors' unique aspects of lived experience, their personal intuition, appreciation, or emotion; in short, readers will...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Four short contemporary romances take readers to the author's native state of Kansas. Spring - Stormy Weather Gina Bowden, a young widow, fights city council to regain funding for her son's Boy Scout troop. Something better than lightning hits, though, when she teams up with the equally tenacious troop leader. Summer - King of Hearts Elise Jost is a non-traditional student just one credit short of graduating. A hard-working woman determined to establish...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
© 2024.
Language
English
Description
"From USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the unique multi-narrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth; Hanna Penwyck, the fictionalized Keeper of the Queen’s dogs; and Susan, the Queen’s Corgi, whose love and loyalty were boundless."- From publisher.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Lynsi Snyder's grandparents founded In-N-Out Burger in 1948, they built it with a passion for quality and service that Lynsi embraced at a young age. After starting as a store associate at age seventeen, she then worked in other departments, gaining first-hand experience with almost every aspect of the family business until she became president in 2010. She has led the company through explosive growth--today, there are three-hundred and eighty...
14) Wonka
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the best-selling children₂s books of all time, ₃Wonka₄ tells the wondrous story of how the world₂s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big-screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full...
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"James Falconer -- a tycoon and a self-made man -- seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has...
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Language
English
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Description
"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad's fast-food joint that one day he'd be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he'd be living alone, divorced, with no kids, high on a cocktail of forgetting, he might've asked, "You want fries with that?" John burst onto the scene in General Hospital, propelling him into the teen idol stratosphere, a place that's often a point of no return. But Stamos beat the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Wings of Fire series soars to even greater heights with an all-new collection of stories and art from readers' favorite dragon world! Tui T. Sutherland and Wings of Fire cover artist Joy Ang delve deeper into the legends of the ten dragon tribes, creating the ultimate collection for every FanWing.