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39021) What She Found in the Woods
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
For readers of psychological thriller books and wilderness survival stories, a gripping thriller about Magda who's desperate to get over a scandal at her New York private school. Fans of We Were Liars and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder will find themselves swept up in What She Found in the Woods!
This is Magda's last chance. Recovering from a scandal at her elite New York City private school that threw life into a tailspin, she is shipped off to live...
39022) A Curse of Gold
Author
Series
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Curses and queens. Pirates and kings. Gods and magic. The final saga of a princess cursed by Midas's touch, a vengeful Greek god, and a dazzling kingdom in the balance. After barely surviving thieving, bloodthirsty pirates and a harrowing quest at sea to retrieve her stolen treasure, Kora finds readjusting to palace life just as deadly. Her people openly turn against her, threatening to overthrow her as heir to the throne due to fear of her magical...
39023) The Sound of Falling Leaves
Author
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After aspiring opera singer Tessa loses her voice in a fire, she needs both a place to heal and a way to keep music in her life. She retreats to her aunt's apple orchard in rural North Carolina to collect folk ballads. But amid the autumn splendor of this isolated Appalachian community, she uncovers an unnerving connection between a murder case and a long-ago disappearance. Tessa gets a glimpse into an almost-forgotten world, encounters a corrupt,...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
A history of the 1940 U.S. presidential election, when bitterly divided Americans debated the fate of the nation and the world. In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency -- Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie -- found themselves on the defensive against American isolationists and...
39025) Misleading Miss Verity
Author
Series
Regency brides daughters of Aynsley volume 3
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Verity Hatherleigh has a mind of her own -- but her actions do not impress her viscount papa. When she gets into one scrape too many, he sends her off to the wilds of Scotland to rethink her headstrong ways. Anthony Jardine relished his role as curate, but his new duties as laird of Dungally aren't always to his liking. Though he thought his new inheritance would be a blessing, somehow he's finding nothing but trouble on these estates. And the intelligent,...
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Series
Publisher
Nomad Press / Bookmasters
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to be an immigrant today? Has the immigrant experience changed since the last century? Immigration Nation: The American Identity in the Twenty-First Century invites middle and high schoolers to explore the history of immigration in the United States, along with immigration law and statistics through the perspectives of immigrants, citizens, policy makers, and border agents. For more than a century, an immigrant from France has stood...
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Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Though the Declaration of Independence stated that "all men are created equal," married women and girls in the early days of the United States had few rights. For better or worse, their lives were controlled by their husbands and fathers. Married women could not own property, and few girls were educated beyond reading and simple math. Women could not work as doctors, lawyers, or in the ministry. Not one woman could vote, but that would change with...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking World War II narrative wrapped in a riveting detective story, The Devil's Diary investigates the disappearance of a private diary penned by one of Adolf Hitler's top aides--Alfred Rosenberg, his "chief philosopher"--and mines its long-hidden pages to deliver a fresh, eye-opening account of the Nazi rise to power and the genesis of the Holocaust An influential figure in Adolf Hitler's early inner circle from the start, Alfred Rosenberg...
Author
Publisher
Casemate Publishers (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A thought-provoking analysis of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- and what might have happened if conventional weapons were used instead. It has always been a difficult concept to stomach -- that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, causing such horrific suffering and destruction, also brought about peace. Attitudes toward the event have changed through the years, from grateful relief that World War II was ended to widespread...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The only biography of a key member of Hitler's inner circle, described by his own son as "a slime-hole of a Hitler fanatic"The life of the Bavarian Hans Frank, one of the 10 war criminals hanged at Nuremburg in 1946, who converted to Catholicism before he died, has not received the full attention the world has given to other Nazi leaders. In many ways he warrants it more. His life symbolzses the hubristic and visionary ambition Germany had to an alarming...
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Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The state of Florida has a rich history of African Americans who have contributed to the advancement and growth of today. From slaves to millionaires, African Americans from all walks of life resided in cabins, homes, and stately mansions. The lives of millionaires, educators, businessmen, community leaders, and innovators in Florida's history are explored in each residence. Mary McLeod Bethune, A.L. Lewis, and D.A. Dorsey are a few of the prominent...
39032) The Library of Lost Things
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fangirl meets Jane Austen in this deeply heartfelt love story about hiding the worst parts of ourselves, and the people who love us anyway. "How could I open that door and let him see the messiest part of me?" From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother's hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary....
Author
Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A Nova Scotia woman shares her experience of walking the province's coastline for charity and what she learned along the way. Early on a May morning, a young Nova Scotia woman straps on a small backpack and leaves the Halifax Common to start her journey along the coastal roads of Nova Scotia. Planning to cover almost a marathon a day, she will walk the perimeter of the entire province in just under three months to raise awareness for the Heart and...
39034) Pretending
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It made me cry and laugh and rageA really important, timely book. Sheer brilliance." -- Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List "Thoughtful, smart and painfully true." --Cosmopolitan UK He said he was looking for a "partner in crime," which everyone knows is shorthand for "a woman who isn't real." April is kind, pretty and relatively normal--yet she can't seem to get past date five. Every time she thinks she's found someone...
Author
Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning poet and author of Summer Feet offers delightful rhyming picture book that helps children embrace diversity. If ever you go travelling On EveryBody Street You'll see EveryBody's Different Than EveryOne you meet Sheree Fitch's playful words lead you into this beautiful children's book and invite you to celebrate our gifts, our weaknesses, our differences, and our sameness. Fitch displays her wit and mastery of words in quick, rollicking...
39036) #LoveMUTTS: A MUTTS Treasury
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In MUTTS, Patrick McDonnell strikes a delicate balance between lighthearted fun and responsible social commentary through the exploits of Earl the dog and Mooch the cat. Earl and Mooch, along with supporting sidekicks Shtinky Puddin', Sourpuss, Guard Dog, and Crabby, humorously approach a range of subjects--from napping and daydreaming to summer vacations and Christmas anticipations -- in addition to tackling important issues like responsible pet...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
At the crossroads of art and science, Beautiful Brain presents Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal's contributions to neuroscience through his groundbreaking artistic brain imagery.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) was the father of modern neuroscience and an exceptional artist. He devoted his life to the anatomy of the brain, the body's most complex and mysterious organ. His superhuman feats of visualization, based on fanatically precise...
39038) The Killing Edge
Author
Series
Harrison Investigation volume 9
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A model's death may be linked a decade-old tragedy in this "captivating novel of paranormal romantic suspense" from the New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).
Chloe Marin was lucky. She was just a teenager when a party at a Florida beachside mansion turned into a bloodbath. According to authorities, the killers were later found dead in the swamp. Chloe's not so sure.
Ten years later, as a psychologist consulting with the cops,...
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Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A history and anthropological analysis of one of Papua New Guinea's worst Ponzi schemes in the late 1990s. In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The most notorious scheme, U-Vistract, attracted many thousands of investors, enticing them with promises of one percent interest to be paid monthly. Its founder, Noah Musingku, was a charismatic leader who promoted the...
39040) Asylum
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With zombies in vogue and his books coming back onto the market after decades out of print, maybe old Willie Seabrook, the lost king of the weird, can finally get the recognition and infamy he earned. - Benjamin Welton, Vice.com This dramatic memoir recounts an eight-month stay at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s. William Seabrook, a renowned journalist and explorer, voluntarily committed himself to an asylum for treatment of acute...
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