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Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set during the Golden Age of Pirates and the shadowy aftermath of the Salem witch trials, this vivid literary debut is inspired by the captivating true story of real-life pirate Samuel Bellamy, combining high seas adventure, star-crossed longing, surprisingly timely questions about social justice and freedom, and the emotionally satisfying tale of one strong-willed young woman determined to choose her own path.1715, Eastham, Massachusetts: As the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Murphy is living a quiet life of semi-retirement with his wife, Kai, and their newly adopted baby in their home outside Fort Smith, Arkansas. Kai, part Navajo, teaches on the reservation in the Indian Nation in the Ozarks. Murphy is called back into service when William Burke, special advisor to President Arthur, shows up in Fort Smith with an assignment. New York Governor Grover Cleveland is running for president and Arthur wants Murphy to head...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...
Author
Series
The Campground Kids volume 6
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Campground Kids are ready to put their love for the outdoors to the ultimate test backcountry camping at Yellowstone National Park. Expecting a peaceful sightseeing adventure, the kids find themselves stranded in the park threatened by grizzlies and bison. To top this off, they meet a scientist conducting research whose equipment is mysteriously missing. Isaiah, Sadie, and Ethan are determined to help locate the equipment and discover who is sabotaging...
6) Argylle
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition, New edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the upcoming action blockbuster Argylle (February 2024), featuring a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill , Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame. A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West...
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Sophie Foster is back in the Lost Cities--but the Lost Cities have changed. The threat of war hangs heavy over her glittering world. And the Neverseen are wreaking havoc wherever they can.
The lines between friend and enemy have also blurred, and Sophie is unsure exactly whom she can trust. But when she's warned that the people she loves most will be the next victims, she knows she has to act.
A mysterious symbol could be the key--if only she knew...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When he is drawn into a case involving a ring of art thieves, which has links to his own mother’s paintings, Stone Barrington must draw out a familiar enemy and face down his most vindictive threat yet"--
Author
Series
Demonwars saga:the buccaneers volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press, and imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations (maps) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Pinquickle's Folly, New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore returns to his signature world of Corona, introducing a dynamic new part of the southern coast never written of before as a great starting place for readers in the DemonWars Saga: The Buccaneers. The first adventure in the Buccaneers trilogy begins in the free sea outside of the control of the usurping Xoconai empire, where the dwarven powrie pirates and merchants sail. But...
10) Escape velocity
Author
Publisher
Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Aboard the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit for their lavish 25th reunion to advance their applications to live in an exclusive Mars settlement—because only the best deserve to save themselves, four friends, settling scores and racking up points, will soon regret underestimating those they left behind on Earth.
Author
Series
Nick Flynn novel volume 4
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Former US Air Force officer Nick Flynn joined the clandestine Quartet Directorate to continue its long-standing mission: to act decisively against serious threats to the free world. And with the backing of Russia's authoritarian president, no threat is more deadly than that of Pavel Voronin and his mercenary Raven Syndicate. Twice they have almost succeeded in bringing the United States to its knees, only to be stopped at the last moment by Flynn...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice...