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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (35 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
How exactly do we define "urban" during the Renaissance? How did three, early modern institutions - craft guilds, confraternities, and public drinking establishments - help to define the urban experience? Find out in Professor McNabb's fascinating lecture on the urban experiences of rich and poor alike.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soon after receiving an anonymous message stating that she has twenty-four hours to play a game by the sender's rules or he will kill her sister, sixteen-year-old Crystal Donovan realizes that cooperating will destroy her friends' lives and she must figure out a way to beat the kidnapper at his own game before she loses everything.
Author
Series
Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It was supposed to be easy money. A few exchanges for cash, one big payoff, and then life would be better than ever with bills all paid and money in her pocket. But the plan fell apart and now she's made an enemy. He's a drug cartel leader out to destroy any competition--and get payback by any means necessary . . ."--
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Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Frankincense (Frankie) Wood tries to pull off the Christmas of her dreams as she juggles trying to keep in touch with her best friend, family dynamics at the family's Holiday shop, and recovering from world's worst first kiss.
Francie was born in a stable-- the deluxe model with the light-up star on the roof, one of the many Christmas items for sale at her family's Hollydale Holiday Shop. Their empire was founded by Francie's grandpa,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
For over a year the Bronx has been plagued by unexplained disappearances. Raquel does her best to ignore it: after all, the police only look for the white kids. Then her crush Charlize's cousin goes...
12) Concrete rose
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
Author
Series
Notorious novels (Kiki Swinson) volume Prequel
Language
English
Formats
Description
To make her dreams of becoming a great lawyer come true, Yoshi, brilliant, calculating and reckless, infiltrates the privileged circle of the school's wealthiest students until she gets too close to a secret she isn't willing to keep, which could cost her more than her life.
15) The night fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
While interning at one of Manhattan's most prestigious law firms run by brilliant twin brothers who are also her parents' friends, Yoshi Lomax discovers a secret society fueled by limitless desires and, armed with secrets too deadly to keep, must leverage her skills and unpredictable maneuvers to take them down.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...
18) The black market
Author
Series
Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Misty Heiress steals drugs from a pharmacy, just trying to help her cousin in constant pain, but the plan snowballs into dealing opioids and Misty and her cousin Jillian are in real trouble.
19) Belle chasse
Author
Series
Sentinels of New Orleans volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A conclusion to the urban fantasy series set in post-Katrina New Orleans finds former wizard sentinel DJ Jaco struggling to keep the elven leader, Quin Randolph, focused on peace while rival princes battle for power in the leaderless Faerie world.
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