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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world. Jacqueline Millender is a reclusive billionaire/women's...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the Lost Nation. All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation she grew up on--just like her beloved Uncle Louie before...
23) Family meal
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Forced from her home in postwar Paris, aspiring young writer Delphine Auber embarks on a journey to New York’s Harlem, and then to Havana and Key West, in search of her father, whom she believes is famed luminary Ernest Hemingway.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His unexpected appearance and assiduous attention revives her and...
26) Junkyard dogs
Author
Series
Walt Longmire mystery volume 6
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An effort to remove a junkyard adjacent to a lucrative Wyoming land development project is thrown into conflict when human remains are discovered at the site, a situation that pits Sheriff Walt Longmire and his companions against increasingly volatile locals.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the night garden, you can lie on the cool grass and look up to the millions and trillions of stars...
In the night garden, blinking stars and pale moonlight might reveal a lone cat tiptoeing across a roof, intoxicating flowers unfurling in the cool air, or a mama fox escorting her sleepy cubs home. Listen closely and you might hear the wind blowing through the trees, the murmur of a slow stream, or the gentle song of crickets and bullfrogs, lulling...
28) Fools crow
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xv, 393 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1870, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Pikuni (or Blackfeet) Indians, are living in the Two Medicine Territory of Montana. The extinction of the Pikuni way of life is ominously in sight. Only the form of that end is in question.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As a little cat rushes in from a day’s adventuring, her owner asks her where she’s been and what she’s seen. Was she happy? Was she brave? Was she kind? The richly imagined answers—in Richard Jones’s gorgeous illustrations, beautifully complementing his own simple text—will surprise, delight, and melt hearts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
[New] ed. /
Physical Desc
xiv, 138 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sensitive young man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana relates the haunting memories of his proud heritage while drifting through life on his father's ranch in a search for meaning.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants—some of whom have barely spoken to each other—become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel,
33) The maniac
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas"--
34) Doll bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
35) You rule!
Author
Publisher
Handprint Books, an imprint of Chronicle Books
Language
English
Description
How far can you go?
How much do you know?
How kind are you?
These are just a few of the impossible but inevitable questions every child has asked and every parent has to ponder. In a journey filled with wit and imagination, You Rule! maps and measures those immeasurables, offering readers a rich palette of words to describe and explore ideas and feelings. Wonderfully affirmative and aspirational, this is a book of vast possibilities, a fantastic...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"One day, down by the pond, Simon meets another dog just like him. And that dog has a bone just like his, only better! How will Simon ever get him to trade, when the other pup knows all the same tricks…?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Cat Kid Comic Club volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Join Li'l Petey, Flippy, and Molly as they introduce comic making to twenty-one funny, rambunctious, and talented frogs. Can the trio help the class unleash their own creativity?"--Provided by publisher.
"Li'l Petey, Flippy, and Molly introduce twenty-one rambunctious, funny, and talented baby frogs to the art of comic making. As the story unwinds with mishaps and hilarity, readers get to see the progress, mistakes, and improvements that come with...