Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
3) Resistance
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
ix, 163 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores opposition and defiance--to globalization, xenophobia, political and cultural hegemony, conspicuous consumption, environmental degradation--in a slim, brooding collection of timely fictional testimonials.
4) Nevada
Author
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"A beloved and blistering cult classic finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters--a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering British financier in Hong Kong, an old woman running a tea shack in China, a transmigrating "noncorpum" entity seeking a human host in Mongolia, a gallery-attendant-cum-art-thief in Petersburg, a drummer in London, a female physicist in Ireland, and a radio deejay in New York--hurtle toward a shared...
6) Three fires
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century. An anti-corruption campaigner, his hellfire preaching increasingly spilled over into tirades against all luxuries that tempted his followers toward sin. ... Mina brings a modern take to this ... historical story, drawing parallels between the febrile atmosphere of medieval Florence and the culture wars of the present day. In dramatizing the life and...
7) City on fire
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 57
Language
English
Description
It's New Year's Eve, 1976, and New York is a city on the edge. As midnight approaches, a blizzard sets in -- and amidst the fireworks, an unmistakable sound rings out across Central Park. Gunshots. Two of them. The search for the shooter will bring together a rich cast of New Yorkers. From the reluctant heirs to one of the city's greatest fortunes, to a couple of Long Island kids drawn to the punk scene downtown. From the newly arrived and enchanted,...
8) Paranoia
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam Cassidy is twenty-six and a low level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the system to do something nice for a friend, he finds himself charged with a crime. Corporate Security gives him a choice: prison -- or become a spy in the headquarters of their chief competitor, Trion Systems. They train him and feed him inside information. Now at Trion, he's a star, skyrocketing to the top. He finds he has talents...
9) Smoke screen
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
568 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trevor Barnett is the scion of an old tobacco family. Trevor is 31 and will come into a $10 million trust fund when he turns 60 so long as he has been in continuous employment from graduation until his 60th birthday with the cigarette company his ancestor founded. Trevor is consequently not the most motivated person in the world -- at least when the novel opens. At the beginning of SMOKE SCREEN, the tobacco industry is facing a multi-billion dollar...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
414 pages : illustrations, maps, ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
What happens when your god goes missing? The lord god of Cahokia has been spirited away to the Underworld and the empire teeters on the brink of disaster as clans fight for control. Night Shadow Star, the god’s human sister, and Fire Cat, her warrior bodyguard, are the only two people who can bring him back. They descend into the Sacred Cave where monsters dwell, willing to sacrifice themselves to save their kingdom. What they find makes them question...
Author
Series
Seasonal volume 1
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive,...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
194 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Over eleven thousand years ago the plains of the great Southwest were covered with sweet long-season grass. Herds of camels, bison, mammoths lived with predators like dire wolves, saber-toothed cats, and the hunter gatherers we now call the Clovis people. This story of Willow, Jak, Etol, and their clan takes place in a land that we unconsciously recognize, and shows us people whose needs, hopes, and fears are our own. They live in a world where communication...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Leaving New York for the heat, humidity and anonymity of Bangkok, Sarah arrives in Thailand with the sole desire to lose herself, a stranger in a strange land. Yet she also leaves behind a complicated past, and a deception she holds close to her chest. Taking up a lease at a high-end apartment complex called The Kingdom, she finds herself drawn into the close-knit social circle of three very different, but equally mysterious, ex-pat women: Ximena,...
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thousand years ago, the mighty Cahokian civilization dominated the North American continent from its capital near modern St. Louis. From Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico, settlers and priests carried word of the power of their gods. People who wouldn't bow to that power were conquered or slaughtered. At the heart of the empire stood a vast city, teeming with tens of thousands. Power rested in one being, Morning Star, a god resurrected in the body...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
492 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The city of Cahokia, at its height, covered more than six square miles around what is now St. Louis and included structures more than ten stories high. Cahokian warriors and traders roamed from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. What force on earth would motivate hundreds of thousands of people to pick up, move hundreds of miles, and once plopped down amidst a polyglot of strangers, build an incredible city? A religious miracle: the Cahokians...
Author
Series
Nick Heller novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lauren Heller and her husband Roger, a brilliant executive at a major corporation, are attacked in a Georgetown parking lot after an evening out. Knocked unconscious by the assailants, Lauren lies in a coma in the hospital while her husband has vanished without a trace. With nowhere else to turn, Lauren's teenage son Gabe reaches out to his uncle, Nick Heller, a high-powered investigator with a corporate intelligence firm in Washington, D.C. Having...
17) Shine
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (approximately 600 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When asked what would she give for a chance to live her dreams, seventeen-year-old Korean American Rachel Kim says almost everything? Six years ago, she was recruited by DB Entertainment, one of Seoul's largest K-pop labels, known for churning out some of the world's most popular stars. The rules are simple: Train 24/7. Be perfect. Don't date. Easy right? Not so much. As the dark scandals of an industry bent on controlling and commodifying beautiful...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request