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7521) Poison potion
Author
Series
Star friends volume 6
Publisher
Little Tiger Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Do you believe in magic? Lottie and her friends do! When they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of adventure unfolds. The Star Friends still don't know who is using the woodland plants to create dark magic potions. Could it be the grumpy new school secretary? Meanwhile, Lottie's friend Essie is being mean at school, and none of the adults want to go to work! The girls must combine their powers to unmask the potion-maker - and defeat them once and...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Celebrated Southern author George Singleton delivers a new collection of short fiction, brilliant and absurd, for fans of George Saunders and Tom Franklin A restaurant owner runs into trouble when his wife starts a well-intentioned, poorly named rooster rescue. A boy navigates his parents' split between a stretched phone cord and a flooded septic tank. A drunk sequestered in the middle of nowhere wakes up to find a tractor parked in his driveway....
7525) The archive of feelings
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Given a second chance with an old love, a coolly detached archivist questions the life he could have had, and whether it's not too late to live it. A poignant, ingeniously constructed new novel from "one of Europe's most exciting writers" (New York Times Book Review). Forty years ago-almost a lifetime-he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living in his late mother's house with the obsolete archive of the newspaper...
7526) Your utopia
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Bora Chung's inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and dark humor reaches its peak in these tales of loss and discovery, dystopia and idealism, death and immortality. In a thrilling translation by the acclaimed Anton Hur, readers will experience a variety of possible fates for humanity, from total demise via a disease whose only symptom is casual cannibalism to a world in which even dreams can be monitored and used to convict people of crimes. ...
7528) How to build a boat
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Jamie O'Neill loves the color red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age thirteen, there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother, Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind these things are intimately linked. And at his new school, where all else is disorientating...
7529) The devil's daughter
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Most nights PI Jack Coffey can be found hanging out in smoky Greenwich Village jazz clubs with well-known mobsters, jazzmen, and hoods. So, when an uptown financier calls him in for a job, it seems like he's headed for tonier climes. But it turns out the view from Louis Garrett's lavish penthouse overlooks the same vice-ridden Manhattan streets, which explains why he's so desperate to find his missing teenage daughter, Lucy. When Jack's search for...
7530) Opulence and ashes
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Spring, 1890. The long New York winter is over, the buds are blossoming, and romance is in the air. But not all's right in Gilded-Age Manhattan. Genevieve, a society journalist, and her fiancé, Daniel, are working with photographer Dagmar Hansen on an investigation into the House of Refuge, a children's workhouse, inspired by Daniel's near incarceration when he was young. Genevieve is also working on her own piece for the Globe about the Sunflower...
7531) The guise of another
Author
Series
Max Rupert novels volume 2
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After being subpoenaed by a grand jury under suspicion of corruption, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert attempts to salvage his career and reputation investigating the false identity of recent car accident victim.
Author
Series
Henry Heckelbeck volume 14
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
To avert disaster, Henry must find a way to stop his super slime from swallowing everything in its path.
Henry is determined to make the gooiest, stickiest, slimiest slime. It's going to have glitter and cool colors...just as soon as he can stop it from swallowing everything in its path! Henry's slime might have gotten a little bit out of hand. Can he find a way to tame it, or will his super slime become a super disaster?
Author
Publisher
Studio Fun International
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn early concepts like shapes and colors with Elmo and his friends on Sesame Street. The simple rhyming text and five cloth lift-the-flaps in this sturdy board book will provide lots of entertainment. Babies will love the surprise mirror at the end, too!
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"No other investigation across his entire FBI career would ever match the level of intensity, excitement, suspense, and drama of operation "Paesan Blues"-this book is the inside look at that undercover investigation centered on an Italian mafioso and hisassociates in Miami and Italy"--
7536) What is mine: a thriller
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Hope Chen and her husband are raising her nine-year-old nephew, Luca, in the wake of his troubled mother's death. Luca finally has a safe home in a neighborhood where kids play in the streets and nobody locks their doors. Then one day, Luca and his dog disappear without a trace. Guilt-ridden, fearing the worst but praying for the best, Hope finds her imagination running wild. Meanwhile, a woman with dangerous secrets to keep buried will do anything...
7538) Happy and Honey
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Honey the cat is determined to play with Happy the dog, even though he is trying to sleep.
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls and women have largely remained invisible. When portrayed in popular culture, women on the spectrum often appear simply as copies of their male counterparts -- talented and socially awkward. Yet autistic...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"We live in a period of leadership in crisis. At home, we sense that unqualified and irresponsible individuals are being elevated to positions of power, while across the globe, strong men leaders consolidate their hold on governance. How have we arrived at this point? And how can we correct our course? For the past decade, Moshik Temkin has challenged his students at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government to grapple with the nature of leadership...
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