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Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays.Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless bullying. He could not fathom what the future held for him. Now, in this intimate and heartfelt...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through true stories of excess, drama, and hope. In What Really Happens in Vegas, full of surprises for both newcomers and Las Vegas regulars, James Patterson and Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Seal transport readers from the thrill of adrenaline-fueled vice to the glitter of A-list celebrity and entertainment." --Goodreads.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : colour illlustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 2008, Moko the dolphin was well known at Mahia Beach on New Zealand's North Island. People loved to come and watch the playful dolphin fetch beach balls, steal boogie boards, and interact with the swimmers and beachgoers. In March of that year, two pygmy sperm whales got trapped between a sandbar and the beach and couldn't get them back to the ocean. Several concerned people were unable to help the whales-until Moko came along. Dive in and learn...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Physical Desc
xv, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Nurse Hadley shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients' final moments, offering powerful lessons on facing death, recovering from loss, and how to live your life in this deeply personal memoir. Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in popular culture, even in the medical field. Our understanding of death is riddled with misconceptions: memories flashing...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Description
"From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice -- sharp, witty, as compassionate as it...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation...
10) Praisesong for the kitchen ghosts: stories and recipes from five generations of black country cooks
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 243 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen; There were an abundance of ancestors stirring, measuring, and braising with her. These...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join a sea turtle named Yoshi on her amazing 23,000 mile swim--farther than any animal!--to the beach where she first hatched, to lay her own eggs. Here is an exciting, beautiful, and true story--written by another record-breaking swimmer and illustrated by an award-winning artist--that shows the wonder of the underwater world and the special genius to find home that is inside every sea turtle.
