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16981) Finding Orion
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
Author
Series
Killer Affairs of the State volume 2
Publisher
Archaia
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Caught and put to work as an on-call assassin for the French government, Killer has to adjust to working with a handler, his new partner Nicolas, a former special forces operative, and living life as a civilian. A network of city-wide corruption awaits, getting Killer even more involved in the midst of an escalating crisis, when he just wants to get back to his nihilistic lifestyle. But, as feelings for a coworker arise in his day job, will Killer...
16983) Silver sparrow
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage
"A love story . . . Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones's skill for wry understatement never wavers."
-O: The Oprah Magazine
"Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it. Tayari Jones has written a novel filled with characters I'll never forget. This is a book I'll read more than once."
-Judy Blume
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow,...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Featuring all three series along with the Christmas Special, Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones are Andy and Lance, two friends who find common ground as part of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club. Their dream is to find a buried treasure that will change their lives. But while they search for the past, they must also deal with the present. Series One finds Andy trying to keep his head above water with his partner Becky, while Lance tries to win back his...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2022
Description
The sun-soaked, smash-hit whodunnit returns to BBC One for more murder mysteries with a light touch and a warm heart. DI Neville Parker has more crimes to solve on the blissful island of Saint Marie, while also dealing with the emotional complications of working at close quarters with DS Florence Cassell. With the help of recruits Naomi and Darlene, the team faces some of their toughest cases ever. From a mysterious kidnapping gone awry to a skydiver...
16986) The Wiggles: Let's eat!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Here's a serving of music that's deliciously delightful! The Wiggles have cooked up a feast of fun with some very special guests! Here's just a taste: Aussie legends Mental as Anything join with the Wiggles and sing Let's Cook; Ireland's Tom McGlynn heads out to sea with the fab four of fun with Squid Jiggin Ground; and Mic Conway joins the gang for Alabama Jubilee and That's What You Call Digestion.
16987) It's kind of a funny story
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
16988) Taxi driver
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From a New York Times reporter and memoirist Sopan Deb comes a heartwarming and charmingly funny debut novel about a box in the attic that leads one Bengali-American family down a path toward rediscovering family love, even when splintered. Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his 60s, he finds himself iced out of his traditional Bengali community after an uncouth divorce from his wife, Chaitali; he hasn't spoken to his eldest daughter...
16990) A place in the wind
Author
Series
Jimmy Vega mystery volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Detective Jimmy Vega has his hands full when the disappearance of a teenage girl in upstate New York sets off a powder keg of accusations, bigotry and fear--with deadly results.
A blond, blue-eyed high school girl walks out of an English class she tutors for immigrants and vanishes. Suspicion falls on the men she was teaching, many of whom are undocumented. As news spreads beyond Lake Holly, New York, it fans the flames of cultural tensions. County...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A highly personal memoir of exile and homeland by bestselling author Isabel Allende
In My Invented Country Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country, a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and indomitable spirit, and the politics, religion, myth and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today.
The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle, Salvador Allende...
Author
Series
Phantom stallion volume Book 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"When 13-year-old Samantha returns home to her family's cattle ranch in Nevada, she's worried. She moved away two years ago to recover from a bad fall off her beloved mustang, Blackie, and she's still not sure she can get back in the saddle. Her new colt doesn't seem to like her, the other ranchers treat her like the boss's spoiled daughter, and Blackie has been missing since that fateful day. But that's just the beginning. When Sam suddenly finds...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, into an unwelcoming world. One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repairman and sharing a room with other refugees. In an unnamed city wedged between ocean and lush mountainous forest, Ron can almost imagine a stable life for himself. Especially when he makes the first friend he has had...
16994) All day is a long time
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"For fans of Denis Johnson and Ocean Vuong: A captivating, searing, and ultimately redemptive debut novel about coming of age on Florida's drug-riddled Gulf Coast and the enigmatic connection between memory and self"--
"David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs...
16995) Foster
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas'...
16998) Cuyahoga: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Big Son is a spirit of the times--the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself. The feats of this proto-superhero have earned him wonder and whiskey toasts but very little in the way of fortune. And without money, Big cannot become an honest husband to his beloved Cloe (who may or may not want to be his wife, honestly). In pursuit of a steady wage, our hero...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
While some journeys end, others are just beginning. Season Fourteen of Heartland finds horses healing Amy as much as Amy heals horses. While Amy struggles with a life-changing challenge, the entire town of Hudson will have to deal with an unexpected disaster that threatens to derail Lou's first term as mayor. But, the family will pull through together and be stronger as a result. Family is courage, and times change.
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