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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
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When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved — plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar, Harrison...
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Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty.
4) Suttree
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English
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Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there -- a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters -- he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
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Zero Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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v, 89 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience....
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Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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163 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Novelist and essayist Brian Doyle describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape in this collection of short vignettes. The book gathers previously unpublished work along with selections that have been published in Orion, The Sun, and The American Scholar, among others"--
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Stone Barrington novels volume 13
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English
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Stone Barrington embarks on his most dangerous adventure yet when he takes on a job as a lawyer for a sleazy and clueless con man-and ends up getting embroiled in the underworld of the New York mafia. It started out as just another late night at Elaine's, where Stone was eating a porterhouse steak and enjoying the company of his friends. But when Herbie Fisher, a notoriously not-so-sharp swindler, walked in, the pleasant atmosphere turned to ice....
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Amish greenhouse mysteries volume 3
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Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
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561 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
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English
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"For the past two years Belinda King, along with her two grown daughters and teenage son, has been struggling to keep the family greenhouse running. Despite disconcerting events that have threatened to put them out of business, they have survived two growing seasons. And now Belinda can focus on the two suitors vying for her attention. Herschel Fisher, a new acquaintance, makes her feel relaxed, and Monroe Esh, an admirer from her past, reminds her...
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The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xvii, 117 pages; 22 cm.
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English
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"Moving through the settings of her life red rock canyons, aspen forests, mountains, and cities Jana Richman probes the depths of her internal landscape and asks how we can find stillness in our noisy world. In essays both personal and profoundly universal, Richman eschews quick and easy answers for quiet reflections on the questions: In a culture demanding that every voice be heard, how do we make sense of the resulting roar? Where do we seek solace...
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Binge Box volume British Horror 3
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5 videodiscs : sound ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A collection of themed DVDs gathered into one convenient "Binge Box"
The Curse of Frankenstein | Approved | 1h 22min :
Victor Frankenstein builds a creature and brings it to life, but it behaves not as he intended.
Taste the Blood of Dracula | R | 1h 31min :
Three distinguished English gentlemen accidentally resurrect Count Dracula, killing a disciple of his in process. The Count seeks to avenge his dead servant, by making the trio die in the hands...
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Misewa saga volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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247 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Aski, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek...
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