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Author
Publisher
Two Wise Ones Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Confronting a troubling past, a middle-aged man attempts to decipher the lessons of his childhood as he struggles to rescue his future from a life he once believed would save him. In the dusky shadows of his boyhood, he unearths the courage he'll need to carve the years ahead, to live the life he never believed could belong to him.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
128 p.
Language
English
Description
Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has...
Author
Series
Desert magician's duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Driven by vengeance. Destined for peace.
Niger, West Africa, 2070:
After fifteen-year old Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, her world shatters. In an era of mind-blowing technology and seductive magic, Ejii embarks on a mystical journey to track down her father's killer. With a newfound friend by her side, Ejii comes face to face with an earth turned inside outÀ"and with her own magical powers.
But Ejii soon discovers that her travels across...
Author
Series
Warriors volume 3
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
312 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Allegiances are shifting among the clans of warrior cats that roam the forest. With tensions so delicately balanced, friends can become enemies overnight, and some cats are willing to kill to get what they want. Fireheart is determined to find out the truth about the mysterious death of the former ThunderClan deputy Redtail. But as he searches for answers, he uncovers secrets that might be better left hidden.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nicole Avant--diplomat, philanthropist, filmmaker--grew up surrounded by some of the most extraordinary artists of our time: Bill Withers, Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier. Her parents--entertainment mogul, Clarence Avant, and legendary philanthropist, Jacqueline Avant--turned their home into a place of refuge and inspiration for a generation of geniuses. Nicole drew on that magical upbringing to create a stellar career in the music business,...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-four-year-old Bridge is paralyzed by choices: all the other lives she could have lived, the decisions she could have made. And now, who she should be in the wake of her mother's unexpected death. Jo was a maverick neuroscientist fixated on an artifact she called the "dreamworm" that she believed could open the doors to other worlds. It was part of Jo's grand delusion, her sickness, and it cost her everything, including her relationship with...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. The book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie's pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko's mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground ... and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people--Kyoko, a Japanese...
11) Rouge: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing,|c[2023]
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is...
13) The donut legion
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she's running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as 'The Saucer People'; a space-age, evangelist cult...Along with his brother Felix...Charlie...
14) Sun house
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces her with a love that will eventually help heal the Jesuit, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand: to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Los Angeles, August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O.: tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. ... Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe's death and...
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