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3602) Wolf boy: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
On a frosty winters day, Francis-the sweet, generous, responsible eldest child of the Harrelson family-dies in a car accident on an ice-covered highway, and Wolf Boy is born. The earth doesnt rumble, no angels descend, and the sun doesnt weep. Nothing, in short, to signify the deep change that each member of the Harrelson household will undergo. Parents Gene and Helen turn away from each other and look inward, losing themselves in private fantasies....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Middle grade star author Chris Rylander brings his signature sense of humor, a compelling and original baseball story, and tons of heart to the story of the Hurricanes of Weakerville.
All his life, Alex Weakerman has had one passion: baseball. Specifically, the Hurricanes of Weakerville, Iowa-the scrappy independent-league team owned by his Grandpa Ira.
Even as team and the town have fallen on tough times, there's no place Alex would rather be than...
3606) The other Shepards
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Teenage Holland and her younger sister Geneva, having always lived under the shadow of siblings who died before they were born, struggle to establish separate identities and escape from the oppressive weight of their parents' continuing grief.
3607) Looking for Alaska
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The story is told through the eyes of teenager Miles 'Pudge' Halter, as he enrolls in boarding school to try to gain a deeper perspective on life. He falls in love with Alaska Young and finds a group of loyal friends. But after an unexpected tragedy, Miles and his friends attempt to make sense of what they've been through
3608) Joan is okay: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Joan is a thirtysomething ICU physician at a busy New York City hospital, the daughter of Chinese parents who moved to America to secure the American dream for Joan and her brother, Fang, then returned to China. Joan's whole life has been about study and work. She logs excessive hours at the hospital, exhibits little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, and her medical colleagues sometimes resent her, misreading dedication to work as ambition....
3609) Trusting Molly
Author
Series
Silverstone novels volume 3
Formats
Description
When Mark "Smoke" Chamberlin ventures into the Nigerian jungle with his team of government assassins, his mission is clear: get in, kill the target, and make it out alive. With his extensive military experience, Smoke has no problem heading into dangerous territory. When it comes to love, though, he's always been a little wary. But then he meets the beautiful, intrepid Molly Smith. Schoolteacher Molly has been trying to outrun a lifetime of bad luck,...
3611) The goddess test
Author
Series
Goddess test novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.
3612) Bad memory
Author
Series
Jessica Shaw novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Quiet towns keep big secrets. Private investigator Jessica Shaw is leading a quiet life in a Californian desert community, where she spends her days working low-level cases. But when a former resident asks Jessica to help her sister, Rue Hunter—a convicted murderer whose execution is days away—Jessica can’t resist the offer. Rue doesn't remember what happened the night two high school students were killed thirty years ago, but everybody in town...
3614) Veronica
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
The long-awaited novel from the acclaimed author of "Bad Behavior" is a dark fairy tale set in Paris and Manhattan in the 1980s--a story about beauty, narcissism and appetite, transience, aging and mortality.
3615) Everything all at once
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Publisher Annotation: When Lottie's beloved Aunt Helen dies of cancer, it upends her careful, quiet life. Aunt Helen wasn?t a typical aunt. She was the world-famous author of the bestselling Alvin Hatter series. She knew a thing or two about the magic of writing, and how words have the power to make you see things differently. In her will, Aunt Helen leaves Lottie a series of letters?each containing mysterious instructions. As Lottie sets about following...
3616) Laurel everywhere
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
After the death of her mother and siblings, fifteen-year-old Laurel Summers' father struggles with grief and depression, leaving her it to her friends to help her cope with her pain and loss.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the [dollar sign] 230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe...
Author
Pub. Date
mayo de 2021.
Description
En una sociedad vacía y marcada por las diferencias de clase, casi todos aceptan sin oposición la pérdida de libertades y las prohibiciones. Nadie se hace preguntas. Tras la Gran Pandemia, ya son muy pocos quienes se atreven a recordar que un mundo mejor fue posible. Julia Romero es una joven periodista que se niega a aceptar la versión oficial de que su padre, un reportero que abandonó repentinamente el oficio años atrás, se ha suicidado....
3619) The Great Death
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth century, sisters Millie, aged thirteen, and Maura, ten, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
A Finalist for the Costa Biography Award
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by
The Times (London) • New Statesman (London) • Daily Express (London) • Commonweal magazine
In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been her "soul place," she said-a holiday home for her and her family, but also a refuge-until the...