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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York City apartment building, as tensions between the building's super and his grown-up daughter spark a crisis that will, by day's end, have changed everything"--
Author
Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). Vision of shadows volume 6
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 6
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 6
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 6
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"As StarClan warns of an oncoming storm, the five warrior Clans by the lake must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to make a permanent home among them for SkyClan"--
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Offering a groundbreaking path to productive and respectful conversations, Learning to Disagree from highly regarded thought leader and law professor John Inazu equips you to have authentic dialogue and build rich relationships in a divided society . . . without compromising your convictions"--
"Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible? If so, you're not alone,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Liv Travers never knew real friendship until she met fellow mums Beth and Binnie. The three women become inseparable as they muddle through early parenthood together. Then along comes Ange... Ambitious, wealthy and somehow able to do it all. Under Ange's guiding presence, the group finds new vigour and fresh aspirations - bigger houses, better schools, dinners at exclusive restaurants. But Liv can't keep up and is increasingly edged out. When the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus,"...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's most prestigious private school on a scholarship. But amid the wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn't always fit in. Then one devastating photo changes everything. Finch snaps a picture of Lyla...
11) Blackfish City
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear...
12) Dead of night
Author
Series
Survivors (Erin Hunter). Gathering darkness volume 2
Survivors. Gathering darkness volume 2
Survivors the gathering darkness volume 2
Survivors. Gathering darkness volume 2
Survivors the gathering darkness volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Determined to find out the truth about Whisper's death, Wild Pack leader Storm searches for a traitor in the pack.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An acclaimed expert on violence and seasoned peacebuilder explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process. It's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry. It's also easy to forget that war shouldn't happen-and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only...
14) Sometimes a wall
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A day at the playground starts out with a chalk wall to draw on, a water wall to splash in, a climbing wall to clamber up, and a wall of kids playing an all-in-good-fun game. But it isn't long before one child is excluded, as another child leads the rest in building a castle wall that comes between them and the child they are leaving out. There are other unkindnesses, and of course, hurt feelings. But when the bully bellows "MINE," declaring the...
Author
Series
Age of madness volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, finds her judgment, fortune, and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way. For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to end as soon as possible. But grievances must be nursed, power seized, and allies gathered first, while Rikke must master the power of the Long Eye......
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Joining the Black Dagger Brotherhood's training center program to learn how to fight and think for herself, Paradise, the blooded daughter of the king's First Advisor, is tested in ways she never imagined when she falls in love with a common civilian and an act of violence threatens to destroy the entire program.
17) Shadow rites
Author
Series
Jane Yellowrock novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane is keeping the peace between visiting groups of witches and vamps in the city, but then trouble comes knocking on her doorstep. When her house is magically attacked, the wild chase to find her assailants unearths a mystery that has literally been buried deep. A missing master vampire, presumed long deceased, is found chained in a pit--undead, raving mad, and in the company of two human bodies. Now it's up to Jane to find out who kept the vampire...
18) Cornelius' curse
Author
Series
SkyTalons volume 1
Publisher
Sophie Torro Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Life is perfect... at least for a pigeon. Living amongst the hustle and bustle of a busy city, Cornelius' life is pretty much as expected. But, everything suddenly changes when hidden secrets are revealed to the young bird. Cornelius' world is turned upside-down with action, adventure, and too many mysteries to count - everything he tried to avoid in life. Learning he is one of three legendary SkyTalons - birds tasked to ensure peace within the five...
19) A pack divided
Author
Series
Survivors (Erin Hunter). Gathering darkness volume 1
Survivors. Gathering darkness volume 1
Survivors the gathering darkness volume 1
Survivors. Gathering darkness volume 1
Survivors the gathering darkness volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For the first time Storm can remember, she has a place in a Pack, and the world that was devastated by the Big Growl is finally at peace. But tensions are rising among the dogs of the Wild Pack--and the greatest danger they face may come from within.
Author
Series
Age of madness volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times best-selling author of "A Little Hatred" comes a stunning fantasy novel that finds the world in an unstoppable revolution where heroes have nothing left to lose as darkness and destruction overtake everything.
Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the...
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