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7021) In her tracks
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 8
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Returning from an extended leave in her hometown of Cedar Grove, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself reassigned to the Seattle PD's cold case unit. As the protective mother of an infant daughter, Tracy is immediately drawn to her first file: the abduction of a five-year-old girl whose parents, embattled in a poisonous divorce, were once prime suspects. While reconstructing the days leading up to the girl's disappearance, Tracy is brought into...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group—commonly
...7023) Cross down
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 31
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random--Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother--have told him. Don't trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Deputy Ken Brody's sweetheart goes missing in the mountains outside Timber Creek, Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are called to search. But it's mid-October and a dark snow storm is brewing over the high country. And they're already too late. By the time they find her body, the storm has broken and the snow is coming down hard. While Brody hikes down to bring back the forensics team and veterinarian Cole Walker gathers supplies to protect...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been over two years since Effie's beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she's become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been sold. When Krista decides to throw a grand "house cooling"...
Author
Publisher
Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"... Brings us into the homes and lives of three main families--the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars--Palestinian immigrants who've all found a different welcome in America. Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: The wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose own family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers. Meanwhile, Marcus Salameh confronts his...
7030) Public school superhero
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family's controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay. Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery... In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is...
7033) The dark secret
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Starflight, one of the dragonets of destiny, is kidnapped by the NightWings he finds that the kingdom of his birth is a miserable place, full of terrible secrets--and that, with his fellow dragonets too far away to help, the fate of two kingdoms rests in his talons.
7034) The Chandler legacies
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beth Kramer is a "townie" who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of tension with her roommate, Sarah. But Sarah Brunson knows there's more to that story. Amanda Priya "Spence" Spencer is the privileged daughter of NYC elites, who is reeling from the realization that her family name shielded her from the same fate as Sarah. Ramin Golafshar arrives at Chandler as a transfer student to escape the dangers of being gay in Iran,...
7035) Livia Lone
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (10 hr., 18 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; marooned in America; abused by the men who trafficked them... the only thing that kept Livia alive as a teenager was her determination to find Nason. Now a Seattle PD sex-crimes detective, Livia has never stopped looking. She does everything she can to put predators in prison-- or in the ground. When a fresh lead offers new hope of finding Nason, she'll have to relive the horrors of the...
7036) Batcat
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
91 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Batcat loves being all alone in their home on Spooky Island. Up in their tree house, they pass the time playing video games and watching TV. But when Batcat suddenly finds themself haunted by an annoying, ice cream–stealing ghost, they visit the local Island Witch for a spell to remove their ghastly guest permanently! With their Ghost-B-Gone spell in hand, Batcat travels across Spooky Island to gather ingredients—to the Cavernous Caves where...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages, 20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through...
Author
Series
Winterhouse volume 2
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Back at the Winterhouse hotel for another holiday season, Elizabeth and Freddy, who love puzzles, dig deeper into the mystery surrounding a hotel guest who left behind odd artifacts, including a magical book that evil Gracella Winters once attempted to use to gain destructive power over the entire Falls lineage.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (4 hr., 39 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
aJoin the Rebellion!Relive the excitement of of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with this action-packed retelling! The Rebel Alliance has learned of the existence of a terrifying Imperial weapon, capable of destroying entire planets: the Death Star. The fate of the galaxy rests on the courageous young woman Jyn Erso and her band of unlikely companions as they race to steal the plans to the Death Star before time runs out. Author Matt Forbeck recaptures...
7040) Black Boy
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
75th Anniversary
Language
English
Formats
Description
A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author's grandson.
When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that "if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in
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