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84301) Agent to the stars
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The spacefaring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: they're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone to help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents. But although Stein may have just concluded the biggest...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door--well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys.
84303) Reunited with the rancher
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning home to confront his father about the past, single dad Carson West never expects a reunion with his childhood sweetheart. Kylie Baker thought she was content working at the ranch for wounded warriors ... until Carson and his kids arrive. Now the widowed veteran's earning for everything she thought she could not have--a lasting love and a forever family.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple points of view, the lives of Frankie, Jo, Phoenix, Nick, and Bella are changed forever after one of them is sexually assulted at a party--and it looks like the perpetrator might get away with it.
Follows the intertwining lives of five teens whose world is changed forever after the events at a party. Adopted Black girl Frankie struggles to see eye-to-eye with her white mother--who would rather ignore a problem and preserve their...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
What happens when Cinderella wears the shoes she's made from recycled materials to the ball? Tap into students' sense of humor with five lively plays that take the plots, characters, and settings of traditional fairy tales and turn them on their heads! Includes character roles written at a variety of reading levels, book links, and writing activities that help students build on traditional fairy tale structures and write in different genres.
84307) Gallant
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Todo proyecta una sombra. Incluso el mundo en el que vivimos. Y como ocurre con toda sombra, hay un lugar donde esta se une con lo que la genera. Lo único que Olivia Prior conserva de su pasado es el diario de su madre. Entonces recibe una carta invitándola a regresar a Gallant, su hogar. Pero cuando llega, nadie la está esperando. Sin embargo, Olivia no está dispuesta a marcharse. No importa si su primo Matthew es desagradable con ella, o si...
84308) Car trouble: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nicky Flynn is coming of age in 1970s Brooklyn, riding into his sophomore year at St. Michaels, the last hurrah of the Diocesan school system. A budding young actor, Nicky is at once sensitive, resilient, exasperated, and keenly observant - especially when it comes to his father, Patrick. Undeniably enigmatic, and coasting on vanity, charm, and desperation, "Himself," as Nicky calls his father, is given to picking up old junker cars for cheap at...
84309) Any second
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped, abused, and brainwashed for five years, Elian is stopped in his mission to bomb a mall by Maya, who has crippling anxiety, and neither one will ever be the same again.--
Five years ago Elian was kidnapped. Physicall and emotionally abused, brainwashed, now his captor sends him into the mall-- with a bomb strapped to his chest. Across the mall is Maya, a girl whose crippling anxiety holds her prisoner in its own way. When Maya keeps Eli...
84310) Drawing from memory
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan's premier cartoonist. Drawing from memory is Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the renowned artist he is today. Shunned by his father, who didn't understand his son's artistic leanings, Allen was embraced by Noro Shinpei, Japan's leading cartoonist and the man he came to love as...
84311) A vow of compassion
Author
Series
Sister Joan mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sister Joan and Detective Mill investigate strange goings-on in a hospital in Cornwall. A woman dies of a heart attack while awaiting surgery for a hip replacement, another disappears and a nurse commits suicide.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Creative nonfiction story about Mama Mable's racially integrated, all-female band travels the country during World War II, bringing joy and healing to the home front. Includes author's note.
84313) Gap life
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite acceptance from his father's college, Cray decides to take a gap year with Rayne, who helps him find a job at a home for developmentally disabled adults, and he learns more about himself and others than any university could teach him.
84314) Nisekoi, false love: Vol. 25
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
253 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's hate at first sight when Raku Ichijo first meets Chitoge Kirisaki. Much to their chagrin, the two are forced into a false love relationship to keep the peace between their feuding gangster families. When Chitoge heads to Tenku Meadowland, Raku, Kosaki, Marika and Tsugumi all show up to look for her. Little by little, they begin to remember the past... Will they finally get to the bottom of the mysterious promise? Whose love will become real in...
84317) The butterfly effect 2
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a tragic accident claims the life of his girlfriend, Nick discovers that he has the paranormal power to change the past and save her. But when he keeps going back to alter other events, he soon realizes that his actions have dire consequences for the present and their future.
84318) En un rincón del alma
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español
Description
Cuando goza de lo que para muchas personas seria una situacion privilegiada (buen estatus economico y social, hijos mayores e independientes), Jimena, se siente mas sola que nunca. Su vida ha pasado como un destello de luz ante sus ojos, sin darle tiempo a vivir, a sentir o ser la persona que en realidad es. Es entonces cuan do toma consciencia de que es una desconocida para los suyos, que ha pasado lo mejor de su vida viviendo la vida de los que...
84319) The bloodprint
Author
Series
Khorasan archives volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
439 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A dark power called the Talisman, born of ignorance and persecution, has risen in the land. Led by a man known only as the One-Eyed Preacher, it is a cruel and terrifying movement bent on world domination-- a superstitious patriarchy that suppresses knowledge and subjugates women. And it is growing. But there are those who fight the Talisman's spread, including the Companions of Hira, a diverse group of influential women whose power derives from...
84320) What a cold needs
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Playful text and cozy illustrations explore the unavoidable stages of dealing with a cold."--
Explores the unavoidable stages of dealing with a cold and describes what one needs to battle it, including warm socks, chicken soup, cough syrup, and a comfortable bed.
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