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Author
Series
Dragon girls volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Quinn's jade dragon powers are uniquely suited to help her find the last remaining item that the shadow sprites have stolen from the tree queen: the heartstring violin. The sprites are growing stronger by the hour, but Quinn isn't worried. She is ready to fight back--with the other treasure dragons at her side"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Vamp is a hot new Valentino mystery by Loren D. Estleman, the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Renowned film detective Valentino is on a quest to help restore The Comet, an extinct drive-in movie theater, and his trail leads him to Leo Kalishnikov, who requests a favor first--rid him of a blackmailer from his shady past, and he'll gladly hand over the money that...
3) Dragonfruit
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. But as with all things that offer hope when hope has gone, the tale comes with a warning. Every wish demands a price. Hanalei of Tamarind is the cherished daughter of an old island family. But when her father steals a seadragon egg meant for an ailing princess, she is forced into a life of exile. In the years that...
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome Cícero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has long been unable to read. As young men, he and Cícero fell in love, only to have Raimundo's father brutally beat his son when he discovered their affair. Even after Raimundo succeeds in making a...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers--and hearts--in ruins. Archaeologist Dr. Socorro "Corrie" Mejía has a bone to pick. Literally. It's been Corrie's life goal to lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle in search of the long-lost remains of her ancestor, Chimalli, an ancient warrior of the Aztec empire. But when she is invited to join an all-expenses-paid dig to do just that, Corrie...
Author
Publisher
Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl borads her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath and her "postcolonial novel" (If only she could work out just what that means). Though she is ambivalent towards academia and its trappings, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectation and judgements of her very tight-knit Malaysian-Australian family....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eight friends created the exclusive Masquerade Murder Society while in college. The murders they solved were fictional—until their final masquerade, when one of the group disappeared. Twelve years later, the remaining members are invited to a reunion in the Scottish Highlands . . . Twelve years ago, eight friends ran an exclusive group at university: The Masquerade Murder Society. The mysteries they solved may have been grisly, and brilliantly...
Author
Series
Golden Court series volume 1
Publisher
Voyager
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Twins Calla and Briar have spent their entire lives hiding from the powerful sorceress who destroyed their kingdom...and from the humans who don't know they are Wolves. Each twin has their own purpose in life: Briar's is to marry the prince of an ally pack and save the Golden Court. Calla's purpose is to remain a secret, her twin's shadow . . . the backup plan. No one knows who Calla truly is except for her childhood friend--and sister's betrothed--the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A sentient AI determines that all humans must be eliminated as the root of climate change and leaves a woman named Sen as a "witness" to record her observations on the end of humanity as the world begins to rewild.
A groundbreaking debut that follows the story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel--only for it to fall in love with the novel's subject, Sen, the last human on Earth. Faced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"February 1891: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of Chinese art objects, timed to coincide with the arrival of a new Chinese cultural attaché, Lord Peng. Prudence and Geoffrey are invited to attend the opening ceremonies. But among the throng of dignitaries making their way through the galleries is one decidedly unwelcome and unexpected visitor--an assassin who stabs the attaché to death, then flees through Central...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Based on extensive scholarship, an innovative biography of the central text of Islam Over a billion copies of the Qur`an exist, yet it remains an enigma. Its classical Arabic language resists simple translation, and its non-linear style of abstract musings defies categorization. Moreover, those who champion its sanctity and compete to claim its mantle offer widely diverging interpretations of its core message at times with explosive results. Building...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America. While the WASP elite has, in the last half century, indeed drifted from American centrality to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
V. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance... Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure..." And Tennessee Williams said, "The only real writer the South ever turned out, was Carson." She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Her dream was to become a concert pianist, though she'd been writing since she was sixteen and the influence of music was evident throughout...
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In a perfectionistic parenting culture that tells you that you are never enough no matter how much you do for your kids, this unique approach empowers you with a simple parenting technique to gain confidence, remain grounded, and connect positively with your children. Dr. Alison Escalante is a board-certified pediatrician with more than two decades of experience who has spent the last ten years exploring ways to equip parents to meet their children's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never envisioned spending the last weeks of summer drifting around Passamaquoddy Bay searching for pirate's treasure -- and a dead body. Sally Coates believes her husband was murdered off the coast, and begs Ellie, a trusted childhood friend, to locate his remains. It's...
16) Womb city
Author
Publisher
Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An electric, locked-room suspense thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands, where icy temperatures and a terrible blizzard prevent any ideas of escape--from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction. One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day--and she's never coming back to Scotland. Or so she thinks....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life-the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago-is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry,...
Author
Publisher
Polity
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It all happened in a flash. February 1993 was the month in which the fate of German Writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He reveals how, in a matter of weeks, the glittering Weimar literacy scene gave way to long, dark winter and how the net drew ever closer for Thomas Mann. Bertolt Brecht, Else Lasker-Schüler,...
Series
Delicious in dungeon volume 13
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's eat or be eaten...literally! Though the party succeeded in breaking Marcille free from the dungeon's influence, the winged lion remains at large. Should the demon escape to the surface, its all-powerful manifestation will surely grow to feast upon the world--and the desires of all who live in it! Laios has one last all-or-nothing plan up his sleeve to sate the beast and save his sister, but will his own deepest desires unleash an even greater...
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