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1401) The little Italian hotel
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After her husband asks for a divorce on their anniversary, acclaimed radio host Ginny Splinter impulsively invites four heartbroken listeners to join her on her holiday to Italy and, with her newfound friends, embarks on a vacation of healing and second chances.
1402) The silence: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
117 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something...
1403) Birder, she wrote
Author
Series
A Meg Lanslow mystery volume 33
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meg is relaxing in the hammock, taste-testing Michael's latest batch of Arnold Palmers and watching the hummingbirds at their feeders when her hopes for a relaxing early summer morning are dashed. First her father recruits her to help him install a new batch of bees in the hive in her backyard. Then Mayor Shiffley recruits her to placate the NIMBYs (Not in my backyard), as she calls them - a group of newcomers to Caerphilly who have built McMansions...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When eighty-five-year-old Miriam Caravasios slips through the ice to her death, Delphine, a frightened and insecure young woman who adored her grandmother, falls under scrutiny when it is revealed that Miriam's will cut off her children, leaving her almost everything and emboldening her to find the truth.
1405) The Tea Dragon Society
Author
Series
The Tea Dragon Society volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After discovering a lost Tea Dragon in the marketplace, apprentice blacksmith Greta learns about the dying art form of Tea Dragon caretaking from the kind tea shop owners.
1406) The war of the worlds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naïve locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag - only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black...
1407) The door of no return
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a...
1408) Ambush
Author
Publisher
LucasBooks
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
96 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jedi Master Yoda is on a secret diplomatic mission when his ship is ambushed by Count Dooku. The diminutive Jedi Master and three clone troopers must then face off against Dooku's dreaded assassin Ventress and her massive droid army"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Jason Bourne volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Jason Bourne tackles a global media conspiracy in the latest electrifying entry in Robert Ludlum's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Jason Bourne has faced many killers before, but none as dangerous or as cruelly inventive as the assassin who calls himself Lennon. Bourne thought he had Lennon cornered in Iceland, only to have the killer escape in a fiery explosion. Now Lennon's trail leads Bourne to New York and then to Washington - and the body...
1410) Small things like these
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things...
1412) Tick tock
Author
Series
Sisterhood volume 34
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The women of the Sisterhood have developed a motto: Whatever it takes. Regardless of how dangerous an adversary may be, or how overwhelming the odds against them seem, the group’s devotion to each other and to their cause has helped them achieve the seemingly impossible. But there’s a price to pay for success. In the course of both their official careers and their top-secret missions, the Sisterhood—and their menfolk—have acquired enemies....
1413) Yotsuba&!: Vol. 8
Author
Series
Yotsuba&! volume 8
Publisher
Yen
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
214 p. : chielfy ill ; 19 cm.
Language
English
1414) Yotsuba&!: Vol. 6
Author
Series
Yotsuba&! volume 6
Publisher
Yen
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
194 p. : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Naruto volume 9
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2006, c1999
Edition
Shonen jump graphic novel ed.
Physical Desc
181 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve years ago, a giant fox demon with nine tails attacked the ninja village of Konohagakure. Defeated by the Hokage, the village champion, the mighty demon's soul was sealed into the body of an innocent orphan child, Naruto Uzumaki. Now Naruto is a 12-year-old ninja in-training, struggling to be the best with his classmates Sasuke and Sakura.
Author
Series
Naruto volume 18
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Shonen jump manga ed.
Physical Desc
187 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
1418) Soccer superstar
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
65 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Javier Moreno has just transferred to Howard Middle School, but his skill as a striker is already well known and the Bisons are expecting that he will turn their season around; but soon the fame goes to his head, and he starts hogging the ball and showing off--and it is up to his friend Aimee to remind him that soccer is a team sport.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the year 1973, NASA launches Apollo 18, a space mission which has been tasked with stopping a secret Soviet space station which has been spying on America.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt's secrets in this sweeping debut, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis' centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed...