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112661) Umberland
Author
Series
Everland volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bella, Gwen, and the Lost Boys have escaped to Alnwick Castle, but it is not the safe haven they hoped it would be for the "cure" for the Horologia virus has mutated into something even worse--so the Duchess Alyssa and Maddox Hadder set out searching for the virus's origin, an extinct poisonous apple, supposedly from a tree at the center of a labyrinth hidden deep within Germany and guarded by monsters.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world." Pasternak...
112663) Amber House
Author
Series
Amber House trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her grandmother's death Sarah Parsons, nearly sixteen, delights in exploring her family's centuries-old Maryland estate with new friend Jackson, but soon she is having vivid visions of her ancestors, one of whom may be a threat to Sarah's autistic brother, Sam.
112664) Hamilton: an American biography
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 193 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the events and values that enabled Hamilton to rise from his youth as a dispossessed orphan to Revolutionary War hero and Founding Father, a life uniquely shaped by America and who, in turn, contributed to the creation of the American regime of liberty and self-government. He was one of key leaders in the American Revolution, a chief architect...
112665) The circus of stolen dreams
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After Andrea's brother, Francis, disappeared, everything changed. Her world turned upside down, and there was nothing she could do to right it. So when she discovers a magical dream world called Reverie in the woods near her home, Andrea jumps at the chance to escape her pain and go inside. But the cost of admission is high: Andrea must give up a memory in order to enter. And she knows exactly which memory she'd like to give up. Once inside, Andrea...
112666) Fort Solitude
Author
Series
Secret Hero Society volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
175 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Clark Kent and his friends, Bruce and Diana, are invited to Camp Evergreen, their initial fun with new and old friends is thrown into chaos by disappearing campers and rumors of monster sightings.
112668) Crashland: a Twinmaker novel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Clair and Jesse have barely been reunited when the world is plunged into its biggest crisis since the Water Wars. The d-mat network is broken. The world has ground to a halt. People are trapped, injured, dying. It's the end of the world as Clair knows it -- and it's partly her fault. Now she's been enlisted to track down her friend Q, the rogue AI who repeatedly saved her life -- and who is the key to fixing the system. Targeted by dupes, abandoned...
112669) Starry night
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As fifteen-year-old Wren and her three lifelong best friends celebrate the opening of a major exhibit curated by her father at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wren finds first love with her brother's new friend, Nolan, and the relationship transforms her and her life--not always in good ways.
112670) The way the light bends
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
393 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Virtual twins Linc and Holly were once extremely close. But while artistic, creative Linc is her parents' biological daughter, it's smart, popular Holly, adopted from Ghana as a baby, who checks all the boxes of their family's high standards for success. Linc is desperate to pursue photography and longs to be accepted for who she is, despite her surgeon mother's constant disapproval and her growing distance from Holly. So when Linc comes up with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvi, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores how the differing experiences and viewpoints of two Presidents shaped slavery and race relations in America for more than a century.
"The acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan returns with a controversial exploration of how Abraham Lincoln's and John Quincy Adams' experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints, providing perceptive insights into these two great presidents and a revealing perspective on race relations in modern...
112672) 5-minute Pete the Cat stories
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
192 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pete the cat and the bad banana. Pete the Cat bites into a bad banana and vows never to eat bananas again, even though he generally likes the fruit.
Go, Pete, go! A groovy Pete the Cat adaptation of "The Tortoise and the Hare" finds a bike-riding Pete accepting a challenge from Turtle, who has a new racing car with cool gadgets.
Sir Pete the brave. When a dragon kidnaps Lady Callie, Sir Pete the Brave must come to her rescue.
Rock on, mom and dad!...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
183, 2 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xix, 149 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia. Like a young Edith Piaf, wandering the streets singing for alms, and like Oliver Twist, living by his wits, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up watchful and hungry, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, her...
112675) Double exposure
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Alyx Atlas starts school in a new state with a new identity--as a girl--but a bully on the basketball court threatens to reveal that Alyx is an intersex person, which could disqualify Alyx and the team from playing in the state championship game.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the championship baseball game gets rained out, ballplayer Braden curls up on the couch and cries. Just another one of his overreactions. Braden always lets small disappointments ruin his day, so his mom and teacher give him a lesson on "flexible thinking." Will this help Braden feel better when disappointment comes his way?" -- Publisher.
112677) Wagon train adventure
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A story about heroic struggles and bravery for survival on the pioneer trail.
112678) The Avant-Guards: Volume one
Author
Series
Avant-Guards volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a transfer student to the Georgia O'Keeffe College for Arts and Subtle Dramatics, former sports star Charlie is struggling to find her classes, her dorm, and her place amongst a student body full of artists who seem to know exactly where they're going. When the school's barely-a-basketball-team unexpectedly attempts to recruit her, Charlie's adamant that she's left that life behind...until she's won over by the charming team captain, Liv, and...
112679) The watcher in the shadows
Author
Series
Inquisitor's apprentice volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century New York, as thirteen-year-old Sacha Kessler, the Inquisitor's apprentice, faces enemies old and new that threaten him and his family, he changes his mind about learning magic.
112680) Time after time
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from his point of view, continues the love story of Bennett, a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco, and Anna, sixteen, of 1995 Evanston, Illinois, as they try to make their relationship work despite his fear that it is not meant to be.
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