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1) One by one
Author
Language
English
Description
"Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet doesn't sound like the worst problem in the world, especially with others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight of your coworkers ... each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide. When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech startup, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. Then...
Author
Series
A Dez Limerick novel volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dez travels to Portland to help his friend Riziah Swann uncover the truth after her business journalist sister was attacked and seriously injured and her apartment was ransacked.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lucas and Margo are fed up. Margo is a brilliant programmer tired of being talked over as the company's sole black employee, and while Lucas is one of many Asians at the firm, he's nearly invisible as a low-paid customer service rep. Together, they decide to steal their tech start-up's user database in an attempt at revenge. The heist takes a sudden turn when Margo dies in a car accident, and Lucas is left reeling, wondering what to do with their...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doctoring water samples to help his corrupt agribusiness employer continue illegal dumping in the Everglades, biologist Chaz Perrone attempts to murder his wife, who has figured out his scam and who survives to plot her husband's downfall.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the industrial revolution in the United States, as society changed from reliance on agriculture and trade to modern manufacture.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener -- stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial -- left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination,...
18) Outside, inside
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Something strange happened on an unremarkable day just before the season changed. beautiful book that describes the impact of COVID-19 on communities and why some essential workers could not quarantine. Everybody who was outside . . . went inside. Outside, it was quieter, wilder, and different. Inside, we laughed, we cried, and we grew. We remembered to protect the ones we love and love the ones who protect us. While the world changed outside, we...
Author
Series
Publisher
Voyageur Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Updated & revised, Softcover edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whether your goal is to raise one cow or to own a larger herd of dairy or beef cattle, the expert advice in this hands-on guidebook will tell you all you need to know. How to Raise Cattle guides readers through beef and dairy operations from beginning to end, sharing valuable information about facilities, enclosures, breeds, production systems, stocking guidelines, feeding, reproduction, nutrient management, husbandry, marketing, milk, and exit strategies....
Author
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of oil flowing from a well in the wilds of northwestern Pennsylvania shook the modern world in 1859. Refined as kerosene for lamps, a lubricant for home and industrial needs, and ultimately as a fuel for transportation in the form of gasoline, oil literally changed the world and defined global economics and politics. Western Pennsylvania's Oil Heritage profiles the history of Pennsylvania oil from its discovery and development to its...