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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
This compelling account gathers together themes and stories from every part of the globe to show how myths share many common patterns, and how through them the human imagination is expressed in all its diversity. A treasury of images drawn from all cultures--both iconic and little known-- helps explain what is important about these myths, their symbols, and the stories they tell.
123) Mist over the Water
Author
Series
Aelf Fen novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
When her cousin Morcar is attacked while fishing for eels near Ely Abbey, Lassair is sent to the Norman occupied island to nurse him. As the secret hidden within the walls of the abbey claims more victims, Lassair is forced to face a challenge that she fears is far beyond her.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Nothing is more important to Paula Deen than her family, and nothing makes that big family happier than sitting down to a meal together. In "Paula Deen's The Deen Family Cookbook," Paula and the Deens, Hiers, Groovers, and Orts share their recipes and memories. With more than 140 recipes and dozens of beautiful color photographs, there's something here for everyone.
126) Edge of dark water
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Trying to escape her worthless life leads to unexpected and disastrous consequences when Sue Ellen steals money and a raft and embarks on a journey to dig up her best friend's body, burn it, and sprinkle the ashes in Hollywood.
127) Cryer's Cross
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.
128) Copper magic
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"The year is 1906, and twelve-year-old Violet Blake unearths an ancient talisman--a copper hand--beside the stream where her mother used to harvest medicine. Violet's touch warms the copper hand and it begins to reveal glimpses of another time. Violet iscertain that the copper hand is magic--and if anyone is in need of its powers, it's Violet. Her mother and adored baby brother are gone, perhaps never to return. Her heartbroken father can't seem to...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post. His four rivals are so far behind him that, in racing terms, they are "nowhere." Watching Eclipse is the man who wants to buy him. An adventurer and rogue who has made his money through gambling, Dennis O'Kelly is also companion to the madam of a notorious London brothel. While O'Kelly is destined to remain an outcast to the racing establishment, his horse will...
130) Blank confession
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A new and enigmatic student named Shayne appears at high school one day, befriends the smallest boy in the school, and takes on a notorious drug dealer before turning himself in to the police for killing someone.
132) People's Pops: 65 recipes for ice pops, shave ice, and boozy pops from Brooklyn's coolest pop shop
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"A collection of 65 seasonal ice pops and shave ice recipes"--
133) From This Moment on
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
The world may know Shania Twain as many things: a music legend, a mother, and recently, a fixture in the news for her painful, public divorce and subsequent marriage to a cherished friend. But in this extraordinary autobiography, Shania reveals that she is so much more. She is Eilleen Twain, one of five children born into poverty in rural Canada, where her family often didn't have enough food to send her to school with lunch. She's the teenage girl...
135) Dragons of Silk
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 10
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Four generations of Chinese and Chinese-American girls, beginning in 1835, are tied together by the tradition of raising silkworms and the legacy of the legendary Weaving Maid.
136) Gary and Ray
Author
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Gary the gorilla is lonely because he has no friends and there are no other gorillas around, but then he meets a friendly bird called Ray.
137) The incrementalists
Author
Series
Incrementalists volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"The Incrementalists--a secret society of two hundred people with an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, and communicate with one another across nations, races, and time. They have an epic history, an almost magical memory, and a very modest mission: to make the world better, just a little bit at a time. Their ongoing argument about how to do this is older than most of their individual memories....
138) It's a Firefly Night
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On a warm summer night, a young girl and her daddy catch fireflies, put them in a jar to admire for a brief time, and then release them back into the moonlight. Includes facts about fireflies.
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Four years ago, Gabriel Ash was working with the British government investigating hijackings in Somalia. But when his wife and sons disappeared, presumably taken--and probably killed--by pirates, his life fell apart. He has sudden reason to hope when a senior policeman suggests that his sons might still be alive--until that policeman is murdered. Still, there seems to be some link to a local operation, and Ash, no longer a government agent, is determined...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, "the butcher of Zamosc." Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser, Ben Solomon, is convinced he is right. Solomon persuades...
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