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Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Using Olaudah Equiano's autobiography as the source, the text shares Equiano's life story in found verse. Readers will follow his story from his childhood in Africa, enslavement at a young age, liberation, and life as a free man"--
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxii, 610 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Long-married icons Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue offer a collection of intimate conversations with famous couples about their long marriages and how they have made their partnerships last. What makes a marriage last? Who doesn't want to know the answer to that question? To unlock this mystery, iconic couple Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue crisscrossed the country and conducted intimate conversations with forty celebrated couples whose long marriages...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Frederieke Teitler and her sister, Astra, live in a home, in a city, in a world divided. Their father left when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now being a Jew has become increasingly dangerous, even in their beloved home of Czernowitz, long considered a safe haven for Jewish people. And when Astra falls...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this sweeping intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their history, culture--and themselves.
Author
Series
Spirited volume 1
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First Little Simon edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm,
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Olivia "Liv" Livingston loves her town Pleasant Place, but when her family moves to spooky Gloomsdale, she must learn to adjust to this ghost town where its residents are all from various decades and centuries, the hall monitors are bats, and some students have fangs.
8) The well
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
173 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Li-Zhen’s life on the archipelago is simple. Known to friends and family as Lizzy, she takes care of her grandfather and their goats, she flirts with the woman who helps row the ferry, and she stays away from the fog that comes in the night—and the monsters hiding within it.
But Lizzy’s life comes apart when she steals a handful of coins from a sacred well to cover a debt. The well requires repayment, but it doesn’t deal in coins. It needs...
9) In limbo
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set between New Jersey and Seoul, this coming-of-age story follows the author as she goes to South Korea, where she realizes something that changes her perspective on her family, her heritage and herself"--
10) Nightwatching
Author
Language
English
Description
Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs.
She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded in the shadows. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
500 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Working alongside lawyer Moxie Castin to prove the innocence of a woman accused of abducting and possibly murdering of her child, P.I. Charlie Parker, to solve this heart-wrenching case, follows its twists and turns to an old house deep in the Maine woods-house that should have never been built.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Tracey Lange, the New York Times bestselling author of We Are the Brennans, comes The Connellys of County Down: a story about fierce family loyalty, good intentions gone awry, and the consequences of improbable love. When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won't be easy. With no money and no prospects, she returns home to live with her siblings,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
14) Very bad company
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gripping, darkly comic novel from the national bestselling author of Bad Summer People about a team of wealthy and powerful executives on retreat in Miami when one of them goes missing . . . Every year, executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company's top employees for an exclusive retreat in Miami and this year, Caitlin Levy-Aurora's newest hire-is joining the team as Head of Events. The benefits are outstanding: a seven-figure...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Working in secret for years to solve the puzzle in the writings of the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler, Ivan Volkov, after the loss of his son and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA, risking his life to help stop the Doomsday clock.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Spanning multiple generations and nearly 80 years, this emotional tour de force follows one American family, during the radical movement of the 1968 against Big Oil, as they are forced to reckon with the consequences of the resources that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Book Pr Pub
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages
Language
English
Description
The simple toss of a coin presents young journalist Tony Harrington with a fascinating puzzle. And puzzles, he knows, can lead to good stories. As he begins a search for the origins of a particularly unique quarter, he finds himself immersed in a sixty-year-old mystery-an unsolved bank robbery ending in the brutal murder of its president.
As his suspicions of a connection to the past grow, Tony digs deeper, sparking a reaction from evil people determined...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged ) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"An informative picture book that takes readers along on a high stakes mission to battle one of the deadliest natural disasters to threaten the nation, while offering a dramatic look into the work of the highly-trained first responders who risk their lives to fight wildfires"--
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service is awakened by his boss with that news and sent to New York as the agent-in-charge. Not long after he lands, he learns two things - one that Gina Delgado of the FBI has been placed in charge of the investigation as the lead of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and two, that threats of a second terrorism...
20) Agent seventeen
Author
Series
Last man standing volume 1
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
533 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
*Winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller**A Financial Times Best Thriller Book of 2022*You'll never know my name. But you won't forget my number. Behind the events you know are the killers you don't. When diplomacy fails, we're the ones who gear up. Officially we don't exist, but every government in the world uses our services. We've been saving the world, and your ass, for one hundred years. Sixteen people have done this...