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21) Good bad girl
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world. Jacqueline Millender is a reclusive billionaire/women's...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Forced from her home in postwar Paris, aspiring young writer Delphine Auber embarks on a journey to New York’s Harlem, and then to Havana and Key West, in search of her father, whom she believes is famed luminary Ernest Hemingway.
24) The maniac
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas"--
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His unexpected appearance and assiduous attention revives her and...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 324 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The stars have shifted. The earth has turned. The time is here. I am dying. Come and collect your inheritance. The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won't ever leave their home in Four Rivers--not for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the night garden, you can lie on the cool grass and look up to the millions and trillions of stars...
In the night garden, blinking stars and pale moonlight might reveal a lone cat tiptoeing across a roof, intoxicating flowers unfurling in the cool air, or a mama fox escorting her sleepy cubs home. Listen closely and you might hear the wind blowing through the trees, the murmur of a slow stream, or the gentle song of crickets and bullfrogs, lulling...
29) Fools crow
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xv, 393 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1870, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Pikuni (or Blackfeet) Indians, are living in the Two Medicine Territory of Montana. The extinction of the Pikuni way of life is ominously in sight. Only the form of that end is in question.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[This edition published 2023.]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In this interactive, laugh-out-loud story where readers must only ever count to one, children can find ways to outsmart the book... and count all the way up to 100!
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As a little cat rushes in from a day’s adventuring, her owner asks her where she’s been and what she’s seen. Was she happy? Was she brave? Was she kind? The richly imagined answers—in Richard Jones’s gorgeous illustrations, beautifully complementing his own simple text—will surprise, delight, and melt hearts.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. As the mother--a novelist--attempts to understand her daughter, she finds herself revisiting her own uneasy, unresolved relationship with her mother. Weaving between childhoods past and present, laced with temptation and betrayal, Nonfiction: A novel is an unflinching account of a mother, daughter, wife, and author reckoning with the world around her. But can...
33) Moon demon
Author
Series
Daughters of the moon volume 7
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2002.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As her sixteenth birthday approaches, Vanessa, a girl with the power to become invisible, worries that the other goddesses are shutting her out, fears a demon sent by the Atrox, and desires a handsome stranger.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
[New] ed. /
Physical Desc
xiv, 138 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sensitive young man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana relates the haunting memories of his proud heritage while drifting through life on his father's ranch in a search for meaning.
Author
Series
Apartment house on Poppy Hill volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Ella considers herself the official greeter, tour guide, and is generally in charge of 1106 Wildflower Place, but the elusive Robinsons who live on the top floor are a mystery--one which Ella is determined to solve, and bring the elderly couple into the community of the apartment building on Poppy Hill.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Published in March, 1991, The Firm was hailed by reviewers, booksellers, and readers alike, and soon became the number one bestseller across America. Now comes Grisham's equally gripping new novel: an unforgettable story that begins with the simultaneous assassinations of two Supreme Court justices. . . .
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's time for bed! But Little Man can't get to sleep without his beloved stuffed animal. Suddenly everyone's very awake, and a house-wide search breaks out way past bedtime. Nana searches up high, Grandpa searches down low, and still no one can find the sheep! Will Little Man reunite with Sheep-Sheep before bed?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Izzy volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
168 pages : 100 illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Isabel and Zoë are going to their first summer camp and everything's going to be a blast! -- until it isn't. Not only does the camp not allow dogs, they also don't allow Izzy's favorite songs, awesome penguin races and necessary lunch trades. But it isn't until Izzy accidentally uses permanent maker to draw some fake eyebrows on herself, that the camp experience really goes downhill. So, what do the girls do when camp isn't all sunshine and roses?...