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Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, and Korea. While in Paris Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives with her Chinese father and has not seen her American mother since she abandoned the family when Stephanie was six years old. Separated for long periods of time, their final reunion...
62) The archer
Author
Language
English
Description
In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, and the boy who comes searching for him. The boy has many questions, and in answering them Tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life. Paulo Coelho's story suggests that living without a connection between action and soul cannot fulfil, that a life constricted by fear of rejection...
Author
Series
Heaven official's blessing novels volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedicated study and noble deeds allowed him to ascend to godhood. But those who rise may also fall, and fall he does--cast from the heavens and banished to the world below. Eight hundred years after his mortal life, Xie Lian has ascended to godhood for the third time, angering most of the gods in the process. To repay his debts,...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Thomas's problems are more serious than those of a typical young Victorian gentleman. His elder brother may be sabotaging the family's bank. His childhood friend has died under mysterious circumstances. Far worse, leaves are sprouting on Thomas's skin. Perhaps it is all the fault of the long-rumored "Peculiarities" lurking in London's grey fog? Proper society scoffs at the notion of magic, even as it seeps into their buildings, transfiguring the rich...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Something deadly and mysterious stalks the members of an isolated polar expedition in this haunting and spellbinding historical horror novel. In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship, Jonathan may live as his true self-and true gender-and have the adventures he has always been denied. When disaster strikes in...
Author
Series
Prince of Tennis volume 14
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Kunimitsu Tezuka and Sadharu Inui battle in the intra-squad games for a spot in the starting lineup. Meanwhile, Coach Banda of Yamabuki Junior High offers team captain Kunmitsu a chance to play overseas as an exchange student.
Author
Series
Prince of Tennis volume 15
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Ryoma Echizen, a student at Seishun Academy, is a tennis prodigy who has won four consecutive U.S. Junior tournaments. This first ever 7th Grade starter has qualified for the District Preliminaries. Despite a few mishaps, Seishun wins the District Prelims and City Tournament and finally earns a ticket to the Kanto Tournament.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The lushly descriptive and tragic Burmese Days, a devastating indictment of British colonial rule, is based on Orwell{u2019}s own experience while serving in the Indian Imperial Police. His beloved satirical classic, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, features a young idealist whose attempt to rebel against middle-class respectability{u2014}by working in a bookshop and trying to be a writer{u2014}goes terribly and comically awry. The hero of Coming Up for...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.9 - AR Pts: 71
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nicholas, his mother, and his sister Kate have been left penniless by the death of Mr. Nickleby. In their poverty and desperation they seek help from Nicholas's uncle, the difficult and oppressive Ralph Nickleby who is a usurer. Nicholas's independent attitudes immediately bother his uncle and he is sent to Dotheboys Hall to teach. There he witnesses the mistreatment of orphans by the evil-hearted Wackford Squeers. Nicholas and the orphan boy, Smike,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just as Zack Dylan is on the verge of winning it all on the popular TV show Fifteen Minutes, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster. Meanwhile, a former Fifteen Minutes winner is searching for meaning amidst her own private losses. Can she warn Zack about the real price of fame? Or will Zack lose everything he loves for his fifteen minutes of glory?
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the next round of games, Seishun's Takeshi Momoshiro encounters Kiyosumi in the No. 3 singles and Ryoma battles Jin in the No. 2 singles. However, Ryoma has his work cut out for him because, for some mysterious reason, Jin can't possibly lose.
74) Mothtown
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Including illustrations from bestselling illustrator and political cartoonist, Chris Riddell, Mothtown is the unsettling and eerie new novel by Caroline Hardaker, perfect for fans of Midsommar and Rivers Solomon's Sorrowland. As a child, David could tell something was wrong. The kids in school spread rumours of missing people, nests of bones and bodies appearing in the mountains. His sister refused to share what she knew, and his parents turned off...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At the age of forty, Desa Rae Jenkins may be classified as over the hill, but with voluptuous curves in all the right places, she attracts Roc Dawson, one of the sexiest men alive, who happens to be almost half her age. He excites her like no other man has, but from Roc's playa-hating uncle Ronnie to the baby mama drama that comes to her doorstep, Desa Rae is forced to make a decision that could set her free from the man she's fallen in love with....
Author
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lincoln Smith, a young Texan living at the beginning of the twentieth century, thinks of himself as the last true cowboy. He longs for the days of the Old West, when men like his father, a famous Texas Ranger, lived by the chivalric code. Lincoln finds himself hopelessly out of time and place in the fast-changing United States of the new century. When he gets his heart broken by a sweetheart who doesn't appreciate his anachronistic tendencies, he...
77) The river
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Gabriel is mysteriously drawn to a ribbon of frothy water carving its way through steep canyons high in the Colorado Rockies. From deep within, Gabriel's passion for the river is undeniable. The rushing waters beckon him to experience freedom, but something holds him back.
Author
Series
Odd Thomas prequels volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
With Halloween approaching, fry cook Odd Thomas begins to feel like something evil is lurking in Pico Mundo, California, and, with the help of his girlfriend and the ghost of Elvis Presley, he sets out to uncover the truth.
Series
Cat on the hero's lap volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded - physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she's in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened and fifteen years Anton's senior, Edith is slow to trust. But...
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