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5201) Groundglass
Author
Language
English
Description
"Could there be something humbling and revolutionary in understanding myself as a site of contamination?"
“Groundglass” takes shape atop a polluted aquifer in Minnesota, beside trains that haul fracked crude oil, as Kathryn Savage confronts the transgressions of U.S. Superfund sites and brownfields against land, groundwater, neighborhoods, and people. Drawing on her own experiences growing up on the fence lines of industry and the parallel realities...
5203) My So-Called Ruined Life
Author
Series
Tate McCoy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Having lost her parents to murder and the judicial system, Tate McCoy tries to take control of her seventeenth summer.
Author
Language
English
Description
What would you risk to save your children?
Jolie Phuong Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed after the communists took over in 1975. Identified as a potential "bad element," the family lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded new economic zone.
Desperate to ensure the family's safety and to provide a future for his children, Jolie's father arranged three separate escapes....
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Language
English
Description
Your End of Life Matters is offered at a time when people are starting to talk more about end-of-life matters. Based on the author's own experiences and those of others she's worked with, the book conveys the value of talking about last wishes long before the end is imminent.
With the primary emphasis on how to create a successful end-of-life communication of your own, this book weaves stories, text, writing prompts, humor, and exercises into...
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Rebecca Stirling's childhood: a young girl raised by the sea, by men, and by literature. Circumnavigating the world on a thirty-foot sailboat, the Stirlings spend weeks at a time on the open ocean, surviving storms and visiting uncharted islands and villages. Ushered through her young life by a father who loves adventure, women, and extremes, Rebecca befriends "working girls" in the ports they visit (as they are often the only...
5207) Shipwreck Island
Author
Series
Orphans of the tide volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ellie and Seth know more than most people do about living amongst gods. Ellie, an inventor with a tragic past, was once forced to become the human Vessel for the most wicked god of all, the Enemy; Seth, a mysterious boy with no memories, has just discovered that he's actually a god himself. So when they escape the City and all of its inhabitants who want them dead, they hope to find a new island--free of gods--to call home. Months on a homemade raft...
5208) Grave message
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English
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Jaylin is surprised when she gets a text message from a friend who died a year ago."--
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Language
English
Description
A sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family. In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family. Her father's father had taken his own life; so had her mother's. Over the weeks and months that followed, grieving and in physical pain, Patterson kept returning to...
5210) We Dream Medicine Dreams
Author
Language
English
Description
From Dene artist and bioethicist Lisa Boivin comes this healing story of hope, dreams, and the special bond between grandfather and granddaughter.
When a little girl dreams about a bear, her grandfather explains how we connect with the knowledge of our ancestors through dreams. Bear, Hawk, Caribou, and Wolf all have teachings to share to help us live a good life. But when Grampa gets sick and falls into a coma, the little girl must lean on his teachings...
5211) The Book of Lies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
In this suspenseful, gripping novel, teen twin girls raised separately meet for the first time at their mother's funeral. Quinn has been trained to never tell a lie. Piper is a practiced liar. Narrated in both voices, the story of their quest to learn truths that have been concealed from them is shadowed by a dark spell that beckons them to run at night with a pack of murdering ghost hounds. Suspense, menace, mystery, witchcraft, family secrets, mistaken...
5212) Rumble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matthew Turner knows it doesn't get better. His younger brother Luke was bullied mercilessly after one of Matt's friends outed Luke to the whole school, and when Luke called Matt -- on the brink of suicide -- Matt was too wrapped up in his new girlfriend to answer the phone. Now Luke is gone, and Matt's family is falling apart. No matter what his girlfriend Hayden says about forgiveness, there's no way Matt's letting those he blames off the hook --...
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English
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Description
In this suspenseful YA thriller from debut author Marie Hoy-Kenny, four former friends-each with their own dark secret-must team up to solve a murder.
Calista, Zoe, Holly, and Denise were inseparable best friends when they spent their summers together at sleepaway camp. But after an unexplained tragedy forced the camp to close, the girls drifted apart.Years later, reunited at their beloved camp counselor Violet's funeral, the four former best friends...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
197 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After Victor Fries and Nora Faria meet at a cemetery outside of Gotham City, their summer quickly spirals into a beautiful romance, and Victor's cold heart is able to thaw, allowing him to begin to enjoy life again after his brother's death, but when he learns of Nora's incurable illness, he is driven to try to find a scientific solution to keep from losing another person he loves."--Provided by publisher.
5215) The green mile
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (189 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
5216) The new kingdom
Author
Series
Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 7
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
407 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A novel of Ancient Egypt"--book jacket cover.
In the heart of Egypt, under the watchful eye of the Gods, a new power is rising. In the city of Lahun, Hui lives an enchanted life. The favoured son of a doting father, and ruler-in-waiting of the great city, his fate is set. But behind the beautiful facades a sinister evil is plotting. Craving power and embittered by jealousy, Hui's stepmother, the great sorceress Ipsetnofret, and Hui's own brother...
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Series
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English
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From the author of A Dangerous Duet comes the next book in her Victorian mystery series, this time following a daring female painter and the Scotland Yard detective who is investigating her brother's suspicious death. A young painter digs beneath the veneer of Victorian London's art world to learn the truth behind her brother's murder... Edwin is dead. That's what Inspector Matthew Hallam of Scotland Yard tells Annabel Rowe when she discovers him...
5218) Uneasy lies the crown
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Series
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English
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Description
"In Uneasy Lies the Crown, the thrilling new mystery in Tasha Alexander's bestselling series, Lady Emily and her husband Colin must stop a serial killer whose sights may be set on the new king, Edward VII. On her deathbed, Queen Victoria asks to speak privately with trusted agent of the Crown Colin Hargreaves, slipping him a letter with her last, parting command: Une sanz pluis. Sapere aude. "One and no more. Dare to know." The year is 1901 and the...
5219) Pax
Author
Series
Pax volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter resuced him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be - with Pax. He strikes out on...
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