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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At twenty-six, Dahlia Lighthouse has a lot to learn when it comes to the real world. Raised in a secluded island mansion deep in the woods and kept isolated by her true crime-obsessed parents, she spent the last several years living on her own, but unable to move beyond her past-especially the disappearance of her twin brother Andy when they were sixteen. With her father's death, Dahlia returns to the house she has avoided for years. But the rest...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers. We stay curious and ask the right questions. We don't see power as finite and hoard it. We know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don't avoid difficult conversations...
7) Naked lunch
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
vii, 289 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume-that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
"The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has...
10) Be a bridge
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages ; color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Upbeat rhyming verse and colorful illustrations of a diverse group of students invite readers to "be a bridge" by taking actions that foster inclusivity, respect, and connection"--
11) Change
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything.
Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination, and violence in his working-class hometown—so he sets out for school in Amiens, and, later, university in Paris. He sheds the provincial “Eddy” for an elegant new name, determined to...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Liam was the littlest leprechaun in the Enchanted Forest. Too little to measure. Too little to run. And too little to lift and carry important treasure. but he's not too little to make a friend.
14) Home for a while
Author
Publisher
Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Calvin has lived in many houses that never felt like home, but Maggie, his new foster mother, helps him deal with his emotions when he misbehaves, and still offers hugs.--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
50th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 185 pages, 18 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home from a foreign war, he was a man being torn apart, a man...
17) Off the wall
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Missing the city life, a young girl starts to feel a sense of belonging in her new town when she discovers vibrant graffiti splashed throughout the neighborhoods, proving street art can be found everywhere--as well as a sense of home.
18) Tokyo ever after
Author
Series
Tokyo Ever After volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
286 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, and cursed with unusual size and strength, twelve-year-old Yanka the bear has never felt she belonged in the small village where she grew up; the Snow Forest seems to call to her and when she wakes up one day with her legs transformed into bear legs she flees the village, and embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover clues to her mysterious origin and identity.