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1361) Death on the Nile
Author
Series
Poirot volume 15
Language
English
Description
The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what...
Author
Series
The Baby-sitters club volume Bk. 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
1st color edition printing.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
154 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a fight breaks out among the members of the Baby-sitters Club, timid Mary Anne finds herself becoming more assertive as a babysitter and in her relationships with her father and friends.
1363) Vader's little princess
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other--except with all the baggage of being the Dark Lord of the Sith.
1364) Dream girl: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After being injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows, utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions. But Gerry is also beginning to question his own competency. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From literary powerhouse Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, comes a big, brilliant, sweeping novel of love, memory, and history in the making. It tells of the relationship between Pinto and Osman, who cross the battlefields of the First World War, find love, and fight to survive"--
1367) Blowback
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"No one should be above the law-not even the president-in Blowback, "The perfect beach read for political junkies"(Kirkus). US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders CIA agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure...
1368) The Sweet Spot: a novel
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby--belonging to exactly none of them--lands on their collective doorstep"--
1369) The sweet spot
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Single mom Palmer Clark will not be sidelined by the new man in town. Sure, the honey-tongued baseball legend is gorgeous, loves puppies, and has charmed his way into the community's heart, but Palmer craves stability. Nothing about Cole says forever. So why is he so hard to resist? Cole is swinging through town to visit his parents when he meets the kind of down-to-earth distraction he's been looking for since retiring from the majors. True, his...
1370) The killing room
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"While on vacation in Las Vegas, a businessman wakes up in a strange hotel room to find a dead woman in the bathtub. Panicked, he runs. But before he can get far, a pair of detectives stop him. Desperate, he tells them that he's innocent. That there's no way he killed the woman. That he'll do anything not to go to prison. That's when they offer him a way out. But there is no way out-as the detectives will soon learn"--
1371) The rising storm
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A previously unexplored era of Star Wars storytelling comes to action-packed life in this second book in a major cross-publishing event: The all-new High Republic.
In the wake of the Great Hyperspace Disaster and the heroism of the Jedi, the Republic continues to grow, bringing more worlds together under a single unified banner. Under the leadership of Chancellor Lina Soh, the spirit of unity extends throughout the galaxy, with the Jedi and the newly...
1372) The baker's man: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This enchanting and whimsical tale of friendship, love, and the power of baking dreams into life will open readers' eyes to the magic all around them"--
1373) City in ruins: a novel
Author
Series
Danny Ryan trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Every summer for the past ten years, six awe-struck bakers have descended on the grounds of Grafton, the leafy and imposing Vermont estate that is not only the filming site for (3z(BBake Week(3y (Bbut also the childhood home of the show’s famous host, celebrated baker Betsy Martin. The author of numerous bestselling cookbooks and hailed as (3z(BAmerica’s Grandmother,(3y (BBetsy Martin isn’t as warm off-screen as on, though no...
1375) Finding home
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Ashley, moving to Bloomington, Indiana, is especially hard, but with time, prayer, a few surprises, and especially the love of her family, she finally feels at home.
Author
Series
A Daniel Pitt novel volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A killer is on the loose, targeting victims with a mysterious connection that young barrister Daniel Pitt must deduce before more bodies pile up, in this intricately woven mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders happen on rainy nights, but Ian knows the victims must have something...
1378) Things in the basement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
230 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It was supposed to just be a normal basement--some storage boxes, dust, you know, the usual basement stuff. But when Milo is sent by his mother to fetch a sock from the basement of the historic home they've moved into, Milo finds a door in the back that he's never seen before. Turns out that the basement of his house is enormous. In fact, there is a whole world down there. As Milo travels ever deeper into the Basement World, he meets the many Things...
1379) Northwind
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When a deadly plague reaches the small fish camp where he lives, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next, unsure of his destination. Yet the deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer he comes to his truest self as he connects to “the heartbeat of the ocean . . . the pulse of the sea.” With hints of Nordic mythology...
1380) The infinity particle
Author
Language
English
Description
"Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin's assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots--she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there's something about Kye that feels almost too human. When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry...
