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1) Cougar clues
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Young sleuths Abbi, Lydia, and Daniel are excited to search for clues of a cougar near Abbi's home, but they soon discover something more might be going on.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...
Author
Language
English
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"Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed...
5) Eclipse
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"After hearing about the total solar eclipse happening in two months, a boy makes a plan with his father to go see it. They drive to the perfect campsite, not wanting to miss the couple of minutes when the sun will be completely hidden by the moon. When the moment happens, being together makes it even more special. Based on a trip that author-illustrator Andy Rash took with his son to see the eclipse in August 2017, Eclipse is a heartfelt and playfully...
Author
Publisher
Long Trail Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 382 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Tells the story of Irena Sendler, who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, and the teenagers who started the investigation into Irena's heroism.
7) Last night
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and Maddie's grieving sister, Hadley, the posh hotel becomes...
Author
Series
Emily Windsnap volume 6
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Ghost ships, lost world of Atlantis and trying to save the ships passengers puts Emily in danger of being lost to her own world.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Temple Baker knows that evil runs in her blood. Her father is the North Point Killer, an infamous serial killer known for how he marked each of his victims with a brand. He was convicted for murdering 20 people and was the talk of countless true crime blogs for years. Some say he was possessed by a demon. Some say that they never found all his victims. Some say that even though he's now behind bars, people are still dying in the woods. Despite everything...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1927--the late days of the barnstorming era, when pilots competed with each other by performing deadlier and more wondrous feats. Injured pilot Hawk E. Baron is back from the frontlines of the war. Still a young man, he's an adventurer who lives his life traveling from town to town in his plane entertaining folks--most of whom have never seen a car, let alone a plane. His world changes when he meets Tillie, a young woman who shares his passion...
11) Mothering Sunday
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the jouney of self-discovery of Jane Fairchild, from 1924, when she works as a maid and has an affair with a wealthy neighbor who is going to marry a woman in his social circle, to the end of the century, when she is an old woman and successful writer.
12) The steel wave
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 493 p. maps 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war.
13) The women
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
14) Kitten Ninja: 1
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
75 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Before Cat Ninja became Metro City's greatest defender, he was tiny, adorable Kitten Ninja and he battled...much tinier foes. (Everybody starts somewhere, right?)."--
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.' Barbara 'Babe' Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister) -- they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. These women captivated and enchanted Capote -- and at times, they infuriated him as well. He befriended them,...
16) The underhanded
Author
Publisher
Oceanview publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
viii, 383 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Europe's last line of defense against neofascism--a history professor? Professor William Dresden has found solitude in the south of France to grapple with his troubled past--a neglected upbringing, failed romances, the recent demolition of his life's work in academia, and even witnessing genocide, among other secrets. But he soon learns that he has much larger problems when an adrift MI6 officer, Adeline Parker, calls and insists on a meeting, revealing...
17) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist...
Author
Series
Nell of Gumbling volume 1
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages : chiefly color illlustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Nell lives an ordinary life in the magical town of Gumbling, but yearns to land her dream apprenticeship and become an artist.
19) Wandering stars
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
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