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Author
Series
Crazy rich Asians volume 1
Language
English
Description
Overview: Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives...
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 10
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
510 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alastar has settled into his role as the Maitre of the Collegium. Now married and a father, he would like to focus his efforts on improving Imagisle and making it more self-sufficient. However, a crisis is brewing in Solidar, causing the High Holders to call for repeals on the Codex Legis. Once again, Alastar must maintain a careful balance, but he can't avoid the involvement of the Collegium when someone begins killing students. Trying to protect...
Author
Series
Poldark volume 7
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
612 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cornwall, 1798-1799. Ross Poldark sits for the borough of Truro as Member of Parliament, with his time divided between London and Cornwall, and his heart divided about his wife, Demelza. His old feud with George Warleggan still flares, as does the illicit love between Morwenna and Drake, Demelza's brother.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
In the Lowcountry of South Carolina, Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents are throwing a barbecue to celebrate her son's engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride's father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker and one of Chicago's celebrated elite, discovers the limits and possibilities of cell phone range. Meanwhile, mother of the bride, Susan Kennedy Cambria, who dabbles in public relations and believes herself...
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear...
Author
Series
Age of madness volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
c2020
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, finds her judgment, fortune, and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way. For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to end as soon as possible. But grievances must be nursed, power seized, and allies gathered first, while Rikke must master the power of the Long Eye...
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the book trade by St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xix, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains how to cope with difficult relatives--from critical in-laws to troublemaking siblings --providing advice on how to counter the toxic influence of such individuals and transform family gatherings.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
300, 8 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discover untold stories about three dedicated warriors: a ThunderClan warrior who dared to stand in the way of the ambitious cat who would become Tigerstar; a ShadowClan deputy who made the difficult decision to step down for the good of her Clan; and the brave warrior who was the first leader to lose her ninth life.
11) Soot: a novel
Author
Series
Smoke volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 546 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
[Standard format], Two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (148 min.) : si. and sd, b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
14) Bleeding Kansas
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
xii, 431 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The late-twentieth-century descendants of anti-slavery emigrants worry about maintaining religious superiority over a rival family while launching a harassment campaign against a Wiccan newcomer, an effort that is challenged by a young man's military service.
15) A pack divided
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For the first time Storm can remember, she has a place in a Pack, and the world that was devastated by the Big Growl is finally at peace. But tensions are rising among the dogs of the Wild Pack--and the greatest danger they face may come from within.
16) Surviving home
Author
Series
(Angery).Survivalist volume 2
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
499, 19 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"No electricity. No running water. No food. No end in sight. If life as you knew it changed in an instant, would you be prepared? In A. American's first novel, Going Home, readers were introduced to Morgan Carter, the resourceful, tough-as-nails survivalist who embarks on a treacherous 250-mile journey across Florida following the collapse of the nation's power grid. Now reunited with his loving wife and daughters in this follow-up to Going Home,...
17) Summer of '69
Author
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents an assessment of the existential crisis in modern America that explores how increasing social isolation and the collapse of traditional community connections lead to tension and pessimism, arguing that the solution is a rediscovery of human connections.
Author
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
110 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Coursing through an eternal winter, on an icy track wrapped around the frozen planet Eart, there travels a train that never stops. This is Snowpiercer: one thousand and one carriages long.
"From fearsome engine to final car, all surviving human life is here: a complete hierarchy of the society we lost. The elite, as ever, travel in luxury at the front of the train - but for those in the rear coaches, life is squalid, miserable and short. Now the...
Author
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A brand new edition the stunning graphic novel which inspired theOscar-winning movie starring Chris Evans (Captain America, Fantastic Four) and Netflix/TNT series starring Jennifer Connelly and Hamilton's Daveed Diggs!
The inspiration for the highly-anticipated TNT TV series that airs Spring 2020, experience the original post-apocalyptic world of Snowpiercer from award-winning creators Olivier Bocquet and Jean-Marc Rochette!
On a future, frozen...