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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
253 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Natalie Marx, obsessed with The Inn at Lake Devine in Vermont ever since learning that Jews are not welcome at the family-owned resort, changes the course of her life when she manages to finagle an invitation to join a friend there on vacation.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is...
Author
Series
Derby daredevils volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When they get lost in a strange city during roller derby camp, the Daredevils lose their confidence and their ability to work as a team, but shy Tomoko's wilderness skills and navigational know-how help them escape the urban jungle.
Author
Language
English
Description
"She changed the world with her discovery. Three men took the credit.
Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider―brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets.
Rosalind knows if she just...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, whose mother cleans and stitches costumes for a ballet company, dreams of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and is thrilled to see a performance of Janet Collins, the first "colored" prima ballerina.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
70 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marmalade, a trained architect who also happens to be an adorable kitten, finds allies in other construction-trade cats when her plans for the new mayor's mansion are rejected by the city planner"--OCLC.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
“One of the finest writers of her generation” (Brad Watson), and author of three previously acclaimed novels, Elizabeth H. Winthrop delivers a brave new book that will launch her distinguished career anew. An incisive, meticulously crafted portrait of race, racism, and injustice in the Jim Crow era South that is as intimate and tense as a stage drama, The Mercy Seat is a stunning account of one town’s foundering over a trauma in their midst.
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Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Audio Editions
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
ADVENTURE / THRILLER. He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dragged off to her death on Oat Mountain, and traces the DNA on the murder weapon to a small-time criminal. But...
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