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81) Our Cursed Love
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Remy Kobata has always wished she was destined to be with her best friend, Cam Yasuda. From being neighbors from birth to mixing up magical prank potions together to their "just friends" homecoming date during their senior year of high school, nothing's a secret between Remy and Cam--except for how much she is in love with him.
Remy is trying to work up the courage to confess her feelings during their winter break trip to Japan when she gets selected...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting...
84) Contagion
Author
Series
Dark Matter volume 1
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
409 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A deadly, mysterious epidemic is sweeping the country, and young kidnap victim Callie is one of the few who survived infection, only to be sacrificed by her captors at a secret lab working with antimatter; her older brother Kai is desperate to find out what happened to her--his best hope lies with Shay, the girl who last saw Callie alive, and together they will seek answers, even if it means evading soldiers and crossing the quarantine zone.
85) The snow hare
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lena has lived a long, quiet life on her farm in Wales, alongside her husband and child. But as her end approaches, buried memories begin to return. Of her childhood in Poland, and her passion for science. Of the early days of her marriage, reluctant wife to an army officer. Of the birth of her daughter, whose arrival changed everything. Memories less welcome return, too. Her Polish village, transformed overnight by the Soviets, and the war that...
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"All of Us Together in the End is a lyrical, elegiac affirmation of the awesome, strange, otherworldly ways our loved ones remain alive to us, even when they are out of reach, by a writer the New York Times calls "irresistible" and "utterly convincing." Vollmer's family memoir, shimmering with wonder and enchantment, begins with the death of his mother from early-onset Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Soon after, unexplained phenomena (specifically flashing...
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When children start to go missing in the local woods, eighteen-year-old Wendy Darling must face her fears and a past she cannot remember to rescue them in this novel based on Peter Pan.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
While doing research for her documentary about her cousin Natasha--who disappeared in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillato--twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta Ramirez is transported to Zafa, an island where Dominican myths and legends come to life and where her cousin is being held captive in a sinister magical prison, and Pilar must defeat the Dominican bogeyman if she hopes to free Natasha and return home to Chicago. Includes...
90) Miss Irwin
Author
Language
English
Description
Miss Irwin is a luminous and heartwarming story about the importance of capturing the light of precious memories before all is forgotten. With gentleness and compassion, it portrays a close relationship between a grandmother and her grandson. Caldecott Medalist Allen Say's evocative text and radiant paintings are a poignant meditation on love and memory.
Memory loss changes the lives of everyone it touches. Miss Irwin is a multigenerational story...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight. She's a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job and an unhealthy codependent relationship with her brother. Edie also has a disturbing secret: a growing obsession with the families of...
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon Element hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The book extension of the growing writer’s movement and challenge to write 1,000 words a day helps readers and writers discover how to uncover their creative desires and stay motivated and offers advice from over 50 well-known writers.
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Foster is on the run--but at least she's not alone. Her closest friends from the Lost Cities have gone with her to join the Black Swan. they still have doubts about he shadowy organization, but the only way to find answers is to start working with them. As they settle into their new lives, they uncover secrets far bigger than anything they'd imagined. But their enemies are far from done, unleashing a terrifying plague that threatens the safety...
94) Memorial Day
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
SSgt. Kyle Vogel leaves a handwritten letter on the seat of his car, grabs a pistol, and steps into a Minnesota forest. Flash back a few months as Vogel lies wounded in a hospital near Anbar Province, Iraq. The night before he's due to return to combat, his doctor, Lt. Kelly Tripp, presses him on why he's so obsessed with collecting battle souvenirs. Kyle proceeds to tell her what happened on Memorial Day, 1993, when, as a 13-year old boy, he discovered...
95) The Memory Book
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a rare genetic disorder steals away her memories and then her health, teenaged Sammie records notes in a journal to her future self, documenting moments great and small.
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Launchpad tablet : digital ; 20 x 13 cm + 1 power charging cord.
Language
English
Description
"Kids will play their way through different puzzles and games designed to expand their minds. Learn the U.S. states and their capitals; Develop logical thinking skills; Strengthen memory and matching skills; Expand vocabulary and world knowledge."--
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth. Venturing through literature, film, monuments, memorials, museums, and landscapes...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxi, 346 : illustrations (maps) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian. Keith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on WWII, saw monuments around the world taken down in political protest and began to wonder whatmonuments built to commemorate WWII say about us today. Focusing on these monuments, Prisoners of History looks at World War II and the way it still tangibly exists within our midst. He looks at all...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A luminous, wise, and joyful insight into what really matters at the end of a long life, from the beloved author of the award-winning Somewhere Towards the End. What will you remember if you live to be 100? Diana Athill charmed readers with her prize-winning memoir Somewhere Towards the End, which transformed her into an unexpected literary star. Now, on the eve of her ninety-eighth birthday, Athill has written a sequel every bit as unsentimental,...
100) We Could Fly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
As a mother and daughter watch a bird take flight, the young girl feels a trembling in her arms and a lightness in her feet. Her mama shares that once, long ago, their ancestors could actually fly. Every night they would slip away and soar through the skies, searching for safety, looking for the promised land.
Mama feels in her bones that her daughter is meant to follow those old ways, like her grandmother before her. So Mama grabs hold of her hand,...