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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Two 1990s Ugandan teens are kidnapped and forced into the Lord's Resistance Army where they dream of surviving their captivity and their intent to remain good people.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Spanning multiple generations and nearly 80 years, this emotional tour de force follows one American family, during the radical movement of the 1968 against Big Oil, as they are forced to reckon with the consequences of the resources that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy"--
Author
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
How would you react in a life-or-death situation?
It’s a question everyone asks themselves, but few have to face in real life. English teacher Richard Boyle certainly never thought he would find himself talking down a former student intent on harming others, but when Mark LeDrew shows up at Richard’s school with a bomb strapped to his chest, Richard immediately jumps into action. Thanks to some quick thinking, he averts a major tragedy and is...
Author
Series
A Harmony novel volume 16
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"His name is Joshua Knight. Once a respected explorer, the press now calls him the Tarnished Knight. He took the fall for a disaster in the Underworld that destroyed his career. The devastating event occurred in the newly discovered sector known as Glass House-a maze of crystal that is rumored to conceal powerful Alien antiquities. The rest of the Hollister Expedition team disappeared and are presumed dead. Whatever happened down in the tunnels scrambled...
5) Direct fire
Author
Series
The Jake Mahegan thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A powerful banker, gunned down in cold blood. A military family, senselessly slaughtered as they sleep. A four-star general, hacked and framed by virtual assassins. When Jake Mahegan receives a distress call from General Savage in North Carolina, he rushes to the commander's home-- and walks right into an ambush. Joining forces with Savage's combat JAG officer, Alexandra Russell, Mahegan follows the trail to a killer who goes by the name "Jackknife,"...
Author
Series
Bridgerton volume 8
Language
English
Description
Gregory Bridgerton has fallen head over heels for gorgeous Hermione Watson, despite the fact she is love with another, and joins forces with Hermione's best friend, Lady Lucinda Abernathy, to stop the disastrous alliance, but love has its own way of turning everything upside down.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, involving a French artist and her baby, Nick Burns, with only months left to live, enlists Jenny, a college dropout, to help him unravel the mystery, forcing them both to reckon with regret, betrayal and the lives they've left behind.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a cold November night in 1994, a farmhouse burns to the ground. Inside, a young woman is found dead--murdered. To the people in the rural community of Marbäck, it becomes a reference point: a before and after. For ten-year-old Isak Nyqvist, the fire sets in motion something he cannot control, as if a stray spark has found its way inside him, igniting his future into an inferno. The police quickly focus their attention on Edvard Christensson,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 363 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rich and riveting debut marrying centuries-old folklore to twenty-first-century queer literary fiction, City of Laughter spans four generations of Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an eighteenth century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to bring laughter to the...
Author
Series
Bridgerton volume 6
Language
English
Description
"In every life there is a turning point...A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. A fter a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, the Peacock sisters were little girls who combed each other's tangled hair. But decades of secrets have led them to separate lives--and to telling lies, to themselves and to one another. Sylvie is getting married. Again. A librarian and widow who soothes her grief by escaping into books (and shelving them perfectly), Sylvie has caught the attention of an unlikely match: Simon Rampling, a mysterious, wealthy man from Northern England....
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore....
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper. . . . Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as "the Saint." If you grew up coming here, you were "a Saint." If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were "an Ain't." Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn't rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her college best friend, Garrett, admits he's in love with her, Maggie, a lawyer searching for Mr. Right, finds her world turned upside down and must choose between the perfect guy and a friendship that's the foundation for everything she's ever wanted.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventy-two men arrive in the middle of the Sicilian countryside. They are "immigrants," "refugees" or "migrants." But in Altino, they're called the ragazzi, the "guys" that the Santa Marta Association have taken responsibility for. In this small Sicilian town, their arrival changes life for everybody. While they wait to know their fate, the ragazzi encounter all kinds of people: a strange vicar who rewrites their pasts, a woman committed to ensuring...
16) The Kid
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Moves, an imprint of Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
234 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Destiny, Colorado: 1881. Fourteen-year-old Henry Upton reckons it's his job to keep his younger brothers together on the farm now that Mama and Papa are gone. Henry writes stories as The Kid, the fastest draw in the West, to keep meddling folks away from town. The stories are a major success, but the plan doesn't work. So Henry stops writing them stories.
Herbert might lose his job as an editor at Gunslinger Magazine if he can't find out why The...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago, Sister Souljah's debut novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, became a bestselling cultural phenomenon ... with the unforgettable Winter Santiaga, daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family, who captivated her lovers, friends, and enemies with her sexy street smarts ... With her jail sentence coming to a close, Winter is ready to step back into the spotlight and reclaim her throne"--
Author
Series
Star Trek Prodigy volume 1
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
139 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While traveling through the Delta Quadrant, the Protostar crew discovers a worn transporter coil on their ship. Fortunately, there's a marketplace nearby to pick up supplies for repair Unfortunately, the crew has no chimerium left to trade. Is there something else of value they might be able to barter? And in a marketplace teeming with seedy traders, will Dal and his crew manage to stay out of trouble?
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lola feels terrible after a competitive soccer game at recess results in injuring her classmate and a mean nickname for her, but with the help of her family, super best friend, and a little "pencil power," she just might be able to turn it all around.
20) Ten
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ten teens. Three days. One killer.
It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives—an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie are looking forward to two days of boys, booze, and fun-filled luxury. But what starts out as fun turns twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine. And things only get worse from there.
With a storm raging outside, the teens are cut off from the outside world...