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Author
Series
Crazy rich Asians volume 1
Language
English
Description
Overview: Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"By the early 1950s Walt Disney's great achievements in animation were behind him, and he was increasingly bored by the two-dimensional film medium. He wanted to work in three, to build an entirely new sort of amusement park, one that relied more on cinematic techniques than on thrill rides, one from which all tawdriness had been purged. He achieved it, but just barely: he ran out of money, had to borrow against his life insurance, fell out with his...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Architecture has always had a powerful and intimate relationship with society and the lives of those who build and live with it. It has often been used to try and improve society. But can architecture change our lives for the better? Tom Wilkinson uses ten buildings from across the globe to tell stories of architecture from the beginning of civilization to the present day.
44) Reddit
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Examining how the social media website Reddit has affected the world of social media"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 325 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how ever-present, modern artificial lights have changed the way humans experience darkness and bemoans the fact that the primal dark sky can no longer influence science and art.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Can working parents in America--or anywhere--ever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
158 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lena is just figuring out how to manage her new fame at home when she finds out she's hitting the road on a two-week bus tour to further promote the film. Traveling across the country with the cast--with the surprise addition of her whole family joining them--Lena experiences adventures and challenges she never expected, while learning to step outside of her comfort zone and follow the path God has for her life. She learns that saying yes to God...
49) Gilded youth: a history of growing up in the royal family: from the Plantagenets to the Cambridges
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This look at growing up in the British royal family over the centuries looks beyond their often carefully depicted lives to show the more complex truth behind their eccentric upbringings.
51) Our table
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Violet longs for the time when her family was connected: before life, distractions, and technology pulled them all away from each other. They used to gather at the table, with food and love, to make memories, share their lives, and revel in time spent together. But now her family has been drifting apart, and with nobody to gather around it, the table grows smaller and smaller. Can Violet remind her family of the warmth of time spent together, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There is no question that the artwork of the tattoo has blossomed over the last twenty thirty years. Indeed, no longer shunned by many members of society, tattoo art is wearable, dynamic, trend-setting and likely to prompt second looks by all who see it"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages'after all, everything's been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children.
Who were they? What futures did they lose? This brilliantly constructed novel lets an alternative reel of time...
55) On animals
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals"--
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
ix, 363 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On October 28, 1986, just one day after winning one of the most thrilling World Series in history, the New York Mets were feted by more than two million fans with a parade through the city. In news accounts of event, there was a small aside, as this one in the New York Times "Notable in his absence was the pitcher Dwight Gooden, who Mets officials later said had overslept." No, the Mets' twenty-one-year-old phenom had not slept too late. He had not...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 435 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In an entirely new, global perspective on the Revolutionary period, Kathleen DuVal reveals personal stories such as that of Irish trader Oliver Pollock, Scottish plantation owners James and Isabella Bruce, and Creek leader Alexander McGillivray for whom the American Revolution was more complicated than the issue of colonial independence. These individuals, their communities, and nations weighed their options, deciding based on personal interests...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 348 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. On May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier's violence was extreme, but what seemed even more frightening was that they committed their crime under...