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1) Unravel me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Juliette has escaped to Omega Point, the headquarters of the rebel resistance and a safe haven for people with abilities like hers. She is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, but Warner, her former captor, won't let her go without a fight."--
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rock breaks scissors is based on a simple principle: people are unable to act randomly. Instead they display unconscious patterns that the savvy person can outguess. The principle applies to friends playing rock, paper, scissors for a bar tab as well as to the crowds that create markets for homes and stocks. With a gift for distilling psychology and behavioral economics into accessible advice, Poundstone proves that outguessing is easy, fun, and...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The gloriously simple practice of choosing one thing to do, when to do it, and getting it done. Every day, a billion knowledge workers wake up, gravitate towards a pixelated screen and process information for eight hours or more, facing an endless and bewildering array of work and life choices. We're confronted with countless always-on options; untimely, unsolicited notifications; and a constant competition for our attention. This depletes our faculty...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring... Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can't help feeling something's missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more rewarding job? A relationship? Before she can work it...
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Featuring 10 categories ranging from outer space and animals to world festivals and inventions, a latest entry in the popular series shares fun facts about a wide range of topics, presented in a thought-provoking format.
10) Killer choice
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gary Foster's pregnant wife is sick. He needs $200,000 to save her. A mysterious man offers to give him the money with just one catch: Gary has to murder someone to get it. End one life to save Beth's. As he's swept up in a nightmare of escalating violence, Gary must question his own morality-- and determine just how far he's willing to go to save the woman he loves.
Author
Language
English
Description
When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it explain why there seems to be so much irrationality in the world, including, let's be honest, in each of us? These are the goals of Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's "new favorite book of all time"). Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, fallacies, and illusions. But this, Pinker...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Becky Vollmer's You Are Not Stuck is a blend of straight talk, humor, and clear steps for action to help change-seekers reset their priorities, drown out the naysaying voices in their heads, and make bold choices. We all feel stuck sometimes: in our jobs, our relationships, our habits, or when the life we're living simply doesn't add up to the one we want. We feel stuck when it seems like we don't have options, or when we don't trust or allow ourselves...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most"--
"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's...
17) Blob
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
Meet Blob. Blob can be any animal or any thing. But what happens when a blob just wants to be...a blob?
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting to achieve greater success Business leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to abandon a new app or product that just isn't working. Governments, caught in a hopeless conflict, believe that the next tactic will finally be the one that wins the war. And in our own lives, we persist in relationships or careers that no longer serve...
Author
Series
Crossfire novels (Sylvia Day) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction .... my every desire .... mine. My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We'd never work. It was too hard, too painful ... except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate...
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