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1) Cress
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company and who has never been allowed to cut her hair.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"As principal of a high school in a neighborhood overrun by gang violence, Jefferson Pierce is a pillar of his community. Nine years ago, Pierce was a hero of a different sort. Gifted with the power to harness electricity, he kept Freeland safe as the masked vigilante Black Lightning. After seeing the damage this inflicted upon his family, Pierce retired his Super Hero persona in order to be there for his daughters, Anissa and Jennifer, though his...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nine years after giving up his superhero alter-ego, Jefferson Pierce is just your average, everyday high school principal. But the electricity-controlling crimefighter must reluctantly come out of retirement to protect his community from a dangerous gang known as the 100.
Publisher
King Flex Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of black America back to ancient African civilization, examining attempts by the white establishment in the U.S. to conceal this knowledge as a means of undermining African American identity. Presents theories of scholars and social commentators which comprise a history in which African Americans have been systematically oppressed as a people.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Jefferson Pierce, respected educator and father of two, is also Black Lightning, superpowered protector of Freeland. And he doesn't fight alone. He is joined by his superpowered daughters, Anissa, aka Thunder, and Jennifer, aka Lightning, as well as his ex-wife, metahuman expert Lynn. Together, the Pierce family combats the ills eroding their city, including a menacing gang that calls itself The 100 and infamous gangster Tobias Whale.
Publisher
King Flex Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This installment of Hidden Colors tackles the taboo subject of systematic racism. The film explores how institutional racism effects all areas of human activity and the rules, laws and public policies that are utilized to maintain this system.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her "glamour" to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story - a story that has never been told ... until now.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As the recently discovered secret heir to the Cress Dynasty, chef Lincoln Cress isn't exactly fitting in with his new family. A girlfriend for hire would help, and private investigator Bobbie Barnett, who discovered his Cress connection, fits the bill. It's a simple deal that has nothing to do with her wavy hair, full lips or how she incites his wickedest appetites. Now Lincoln's risking everything--including the Cress family's reputation--on a proposal...
14) The rebel heir
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Desire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The rebel of the wealthy Cress dynasty, chef Cole Cress, has only one rule: never fall in love. But the heat that keeps sizzling between Cole and his delectable fellow chef, Jillian Rossi, is irresistible--dangerously so. Because Jillian comes from a different world, and the Cress family will do whatever it takes to extinguish this blaze...even if Cole gets burned." -- Page [4] cover.
15) Off course
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Blame, a new novel about the unexpected damage inflicted by romantic entanglements. It's the early 1980s: Reagan is in the White House and his trickle-down theory is gaining traction in the national psyche. Cressida Hartley, twenty-eight, a PhD candidate in economics, has moved to her parents' shabby A-frame in the Sierras, hoping to finish her dissertation about art in the marketplace. Though she came seeking solitude, she finds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Desire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Gabriel Cress is heir to his family's restaurant empire--and is expected to behave as such. Not seduce the housekeeper. But beneath Monica Darby's shy exterior is a siren who makes the jaded New Yorker burn for more. But when Gabe's meddling family and a surprise inheritance raise doubts he can't ignore, will the clock strike twelve on their budding affair?" -- Page [4] cover.
17) In your eyes
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A romance with a supernatural twist. Rebecca, a lonely housewife in New Hampshire, suddenly discovers that she shares a strange connection with Dylan, a struggling ex-con in New Mexico; they can see through one another's eyes and experience sensations felt by the other. Though they've never met, the two share a unique, unparalleled intimacy by being in each other's heads and begin a long-distance relationship unlike any other.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lauren Cress teaches writing in the international program at a small college outside of Washington, D.C. In the classroom, she is poised, smart, and kind, well-liked by her students and colleagues. But in her personal life, Lauren is troubled and isolated. Still grappling with the sudden death of her parents ten years earlier, she exists at a remove from everyone around her, frozen in time as a grieving teenager. But one day, a new student joins...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The world of the Lunar Chronicles comes alive in this thrilling continuation of Wires and Nerve. Iko an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna. Unless Cinder can reverse the mutations that were forced on them years before, Steele and his soldiers...
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