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Author
Publisher
Fodor's Travel
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
9th edition.
Physical Desc
543 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A travel guide to Israel, with maps, photographs, and information on hotels, restaurants, historic and religious sites, and nightlife.
2) Maureen
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she shares with her husband after his iconic walk across England ten years ago. When an unexpected message from the North disturbs her equilibrium again, it is now her turn to make a journey. But Maureen is not like Harold. By turns outspoken, then vulnerable, she struggles to form bonds with the people she meets, and the landscape she crosses has radically changed. And Maureen has no sense of what she...
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique-comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They're high culture, they're low culture, they're sports food, they're kids' food, they're...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xii, 257 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community--an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the world is brought to a standstill in the early days of a global pandemic, Etta Wilmont finds herself suddenly stranded in Kansas City. Desperate to secure a roof over her head, Etta crosses paths with Henry Logan, a lonely older man in need of a caretaker. His invitation for Etta to stay with him seems to be the solution to both their problems--and maybe the spontaneous adventure Etta's life has been missing. As Etta and Henry settle into...
7) Midnight
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"While on a dream cruise aboard a luxury liner to Antarctica, actuary Olivia Campbell is plunged into a desperate battle for survival against a killer determined to stop the ship from reaching its final destination, soon discovering she may have booked a one-way ticket to her own death"--
Series
Publisher
D. McKay
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
3rd Edition
Physical Desc
816 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whether you want to explore the Acropolis of Athens, watch the sunset in Santorini, or party in Mykonos, the local Fodor's travel experts in Greece are here to help! Fodor's Essential Greece: with the Best of the Islands guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read...
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall. But even to the balloon makers Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything--including her only way home--to...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb claimed, had been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant star. This provocative and persuasive argument opened thousands of minds to the vast possibilities of our universe and the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth. But a crucial question remained:...
Author
Publisher
Harper Horizon
Physical Desc
ix, 262 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight years after his news legend father died unexpectedly, the Emmy Award-winning journalist embarked on a three-plus-year odyssey across six continents to discover the world and, ultimately, find himself, providing a narrative of that journey and the emotional story of a young man taking charge of his life and finally grieving his larger-than-life father.
12) Be mine
Author
Series
A Frank Bascombe novel volume 4
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway....
Author
Series
Before the coffee gets cold volume 4
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new set of customers at a Tokyo café experience a trip into the past as long as they return before their coffee gets cold.
Author
Series
Magic Tree House Graphic Novel volume 5
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
The First Graphic Novel Edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
153 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack and his sister, Annie, are on a mission to save their friend Morgan le Fey. The first hint that will help them is hidden in ancient Japan. The magic tree house whisks them away...
They land in the forest of the ninjas. In the ninja master's cave, they learn the secrets of the ninja. But will samurai warriors stop them before they return to the tree house? And can they help Morgan before it's too late?
Author
Series
Magic Tree House Graphic Novel volume 4
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
The First Graphic Novel Edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
156 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Annie are whisked away in the magic tree house, they arrive on a beautiful beach. It's paradise! That is, until the pirates arrive.
The dreaded Cap'n Bones is looking for buried treasures. He thinks Jack and Annie know where it is. And he's not letting them out of his sight until they find it!
16) A tempest at sea
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
349 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlotte Holmes's brilliant mind and deductive skills are pulled into a dangerous investigation at sea in this new mystery of the bestselling Lady Sherlock series. After feigning her own death in Cornwall to escape from Moriarty's perilous attention, Charlotte Holmes goes into hiding. But then she receives a tempting offer: Find a dossier the crown is desperately seeking to recover, and she might be able to return to a normal life. Her search leads...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ascendant novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Patrick is older than J.B., formerly her professor, now a film director and cult figure. But now his success is starting to wane and J.B. is on the cusp of winning a major literary prize. Her art has been forever overseen by him; now it may overshadow his. For days they sail in the sun, nothing but dark water all around them. Then a...
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 5
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
81 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mindy is super excited to visit her grandparents in South Korea, but when the traditional meal she makes with her dad's new girlfriend has a few mishaps, she fears they are cooking up a big disaster." - ABDO
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family has financial security and he some salvation, Ulysses S. Grant, riddled with cancer, journeys back in time to the crucial moments of his life as a general and twice-elected president as he reckons with his complicated legacy.
Author
Series
The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls volume 6
Publisher
WorthyKids, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Lion's Roar, Peter and Mary travel back in time to the bustling city of Babylon, where the dangerous High Priest is plotting to push Daniel out of power. Follow along as the siblings meet Daniel, race chariots, and confront their toughest adversary yet. Can they solve the secret of the scroll before it's too late?