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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nothing Personal is the stunning story of Warren Hament, a bright young man who stumbles into a career in finance in the early 1980s. His rapid rise exposes the inner workings of the amoral, crude, and brutal world of top-tier investment banking as only a true insider could know them. Introduced to the elite bastions of wealth and privilege, and with his beautiful and ambitious girlfriend pushing him, he gets a major boost when first his patrician...
82) All's well
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"ALL'S WELL is about Miranda Fitch whose life is a waking nightmare after an accident ruins her acting career, and leaves her with chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers and alcohol. On the verge of losing her job as a college theater director, Miranda lives out her broken dreams through an upcoming production of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, when the unimaginable happens. She suddenly recovers,...
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In the eighteenth century, on discovering her husband has been murdered, an Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament that reaches across centuries to the young Doireann Ni Ghriofa, whose fascination with it is later rekindled when she narrowly avoids fatal tragedy in her own life and becomes obsessed with learning everything she can about the poem Peter Levi has famously called "the greatest poem written in...
84) Chicken soup to inspire a woman's soul: stories celebrating the wisdom, fun and freedom of midlife
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xviii, 350 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
85) The road home
Author
Series
The broken road trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chicago celebrity Charles James is believed to be dead, killed in a fiery plane crash. But thanks to a twist of fate, he's very much alive and ready for a second chance. He knows that the last time he was truly happy was when he was married to his ex-wife Monica, before their relationship was destroyed by his ambition and greed. Charles intends to finish his trek from Amarillo to Santa Monica, despite learning that his ex-wife is now planning to marry...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
vii, 247 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story--and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own--guiding us to release the weights that hold us back so we may live and share our story in truth. We've all dropped anchor in places that suited us for a time: a city, a perspective, a lie we mistook as truth. This book is an invitation to a kind of life...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This is a story for anyone who has ever wanted something, but was afraid of risking too much to get it. It's a story to inspire you to embrace the chances that come into your life. You never know when a chance, once taken, might be the one to change everything.
88) Shining Night
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
158 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lena’s favorite music artist, Mallory Winston, sends her a gift box filled with photos and memories of their time on tour together, she finds out that new friends from the children’s hospital they visited need help, including a little girl she became very fond of. The hospital is closing and the little girl’s parents can’t afford the ongoing care she needs. How will Lena and her besties help the friends from the hospital face their challenges?--Amazon...
89) Eat pray love
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Extended cut.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A happily married woman who is trying to get pregnant realizes that her life needs to go in a new direction. After a very painful divorce, she risks everything and embarks on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery.
90) Hello stranger
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 382 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following the migrating monarchs across the United States to Mexico, Luz Avila arrives in San Antonio to find her aunt and meets her mother, who she had always believed dead. Now Luz must face her mother's reappearance in her life and get her grandmother's ashes to Mexico for the Day of the Dead.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lot about science ... And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler--and...
94) Memory piece
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Hannah is finally about to have everything she ever wanted. With a high-paying job, a Manhattan apartment, and a boyfriend about to propose, all she and Ethan have to do is make it through the last couple of weeks of grad school. But when, on a romantic weekend trip to Sonoma, Hannah is spontaneously offered a marketing job at a family-run winery and doesn't immediately refuse, their meticulously planned forever threatens to come crashing down. And...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After a diving accident, thirty-seven-year-old Ramie Phillips is waking up, trying to understand a voice in the distance: "Wake up!" It's her mother. "You're going to be late for school again. I'm not writing a note this time." Transported back in time to the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Ramie's experience is the the fantasy of every woman who's ever thought, "If I could go back in time, knowing what I know now, I'd do things so differently."
97) Hannibal and me: what history's greatest military strategist can teach us about success and failure
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
325 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The lives of Hannibal and his Roman enemies are the stuff of legend. But these classic stories contain truths with relevance today: The seeds of our successes lie in our failures, and within our successes are the kernels of our failure. Knowing how to recognize these paradoxes will help us to be more effective at work, at school, at home, and with others. A big new idea book that springs from ancient history, Hannibal and Me explores these exciting...
99) Hello stars
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discovering that the life in the spotlight she always desired is harder than anticipated, Lena struggles to enjoy everyday activities with her younger sisters and trusts in faith and family to see her through.
100) Ghost
Author
Series
Track volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--