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Author
Series
Epic Zero volume 3
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
158 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elliott's confidence is shattered after making a huge mistake during a do-or-die mission, but a planet-eating monster, a collapsing multiverse, and a quest to replace the Orb of Oblivion force him to put his retirement plans on hold.
Author
Series
Unofficial Fortnite Graphic Novel volume 1
Publisher
Sky Pony Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
If it were easy, it wouldn't be Fortnite.
When 98% of the world's population disappears in the blink of an eye, the isolated survivors, 4 teenagers named Cody, Sarah, Eric, and Kiki, each cower in the ruins of their homeland, pounded by strange storms and hunted by ravenous monsters. One by one, they discover a hopeful sign of life, a distress call, which beckons them toward a place called Homebase.
In their pursuit of this safe haven, they find...
3) New Year
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
People all over the world celebrate the New Year. It's a holiday that celebrates new beginnings and the hope for a successful year ahead. People love gathering at parties to greet the New Year with fireworks, music, and more. Learn the many ways people count down the final moments of the old year and celebrate the birth of a brand new year.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages illustrations 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope...
Author
Series
Publisher
IDW, a division of Idea and Design Works LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Back home at last, the Baldur's Gate heroes are hoping for a warm welcome, but this isn't the city they left behind. Insidious forces are at work, compromising their loved ones and penetrating the highest halls of power. No one can be trusted! With so much in jeopardy, Minsc, Book, Krydle, and the others find themselves pulled in different directions, but their only hope is to rely on one another.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this landmark work of natural history, a journalist tells the epic story of the Mississippi River and the centuries of efforts to control it, which have damaged its once-vibrant ecosystems, carrying readers along the river’s last remaining backchannels and exploring how scientists hope to restore what has been lost.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, they hope to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to fit in. She expected to find liberals and social justice activists...
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the new year in 1948, Amil and his family have started over in Bombay and are once again trying to rebuild their lives in independent India.
Both Muslim and Hindu, twelve-year-old Amil is not sure what home means anymore. The memory of the long and difficult journey from his family's hometown in what is now Pakistan lives with him. And despite having an apartment in Bombay to live in and a school to attend, life still feels lonely...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Chiaverini's beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Creek Quilts novel since 2019's The Christmas Boutique. Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter's retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen her best friend,...
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A fascinating journey through the history of Cambridge Springs and Edinboro, Pennsylvania with postcard images and anecdotes from the locals who experienced it.The penny postcard became popular during the years that mineral water therapy changed the quiet, rural town of Cambridge Springs into a popular resort town. Hotels and spas filled the area, and several daily trains brought guests to this world-class resort town. Hotels such as the Riverside,...
Author
Series
The Amish quiltmaker volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Filled with her trademark humor and relatable characters, award-winning author Jennifer Beckstrand's blends quilting, matchmaking, and a close-knit Colorado community in her newest Amish Quiltmaker novel, as independent-minded quilter Esther Kiem sets her sights on an unusual match between the shyest Yoder sister and a professional baseball player... Perfect for fans of Charlotte Hubbard, Wanda Brunstetter, and Linda Byler. Though Mary Yoder longs...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Harper paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth. Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila, choose to bring a daughter into the world, a little girl they name Elida-meaning non-birth...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It can be hard to find the words to describe the icky feelings that seem to come from nowhere and sap all your joy and energy. You can tell that your brain just isn't pulling off the same tasks as others, and you're constantly bouncing between feeling nothing and feeling the weight of everything. It's hard enough to admit that you're struggling, but how do you even begin to navigate getting help when it feels like there's an enormous gap between you,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First Harper Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 525 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three...
17) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, continue to think of poverty--along with issues like welfare, unemployment, and food stamps--as solely a Black problem. Why is this so? What are the historical causes? And what are the political consequences that...