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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America's toughest cold cases and the rewards--and toll--of a life solving crime. I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don't even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I'm drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
If you've never used a sewing machine before, or if you want to refresh your skills, Sew Step by Step gives you the essentials. Taking you through the basics, including the features of a sewing machine and the qualities of different fabrics, this simple handbook will soon have you making and mending your own clothes and home furnishings
3284) A plague of giants
Author
Series
Seven Kennings volume 1
Description
An epic saga of shape-shifters, giants, invasion, and resistance. Meet Tallynd, a soldier who has lost her husband and is on the front lines fighting an invasion of giants, she will do what it takes to protect her sons. Dervan is an historian who longs for a simple, quiet life. But he's drawn into intrigue when he's hired to record the tales of a mysterious bard who may be a spy or even an assassin for a rival kingdom. Abhi, trying to create a new...
3286) Haunted waters
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The Timberline family makes a weekend getaway for a visit to a gold exhibit but it leads to a search for a stolen gold nugget and danger for the entire family.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"As Norah King surveys her family land in Iowa in 1880, she is acutely aware that it is all she has left, and she will do everything in her power to save it - even if that means marrying a man she hardly knows. Days before her wedding, Norah discovers an injured man on her property. Her sense of duty compels her to take him in and nurse him back to health. Little does she realize just how much this act of kindness will complicate her life and threaten...
Author
Series
Chicagoland vampires volume 12
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"As the Chicagoland Vampires series continues, Merit and Ethan find themselves in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, where winning may require the ultimate sacrifice... A vampire's grudges don't stay dead long... Merit is one of Chicago's most skilled vampire warriors; these days, she doesn't scare easily. But she and Master vampire Ethan have made a new and powerful enemy, and he won't give up until he owns the Windy City. With his last plan thwarted,...
3290) Dark encounter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A year after the mysterious disappearance of an eight-year-old girl, her grieving family return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to a strange, inexplicable phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appear to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. These beings will lead the family to the truth...
3291) The awakening
Author
Series
Sweep volume 5
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Betrayed by Cal and his mother's Woodbane legacy of darkness and narrowly rescued by Bree and Robbie from the fire in which Cal entrapped her, Megan finds herself strangely drawn to Hunter, the Council-sent seeker and Cal's half-brother.
Author
Series
exo volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 18
Description
When the peaceful alien-run government decides to simply withdraw from Earth, it seems that the terrorist group Sapience is going to get the "free" Earth it wanted; but Donovan Reyes, member of the security forces, and once a prisoner of Sapience, realizes that freedom comes with a price--other alien races want to strip the planet of its resources, and if anyone is going to survive, what is left of the security forces and Sapience have to work together....
3293) Pixels
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
As kids in the 1980s, Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, and Eddie "The Fire Blaster" Plant saved the world thousands of times, at 25 cents a game in the video arcades. Now, they're going to have to do it for real. In Pixels, when intergalactic aliens discover video feeds of classic arcade games and misinterpret them as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth, using the video games as the models for their assaults.
3294) A house for Mr. Biswas
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 33
Description
A House for Mr. Biswas follows the life of Mr. Mohun Biswas, a protagonist inspired by Naipaul's father, as he struggles to find his freedom and a house of his own. The son of a poor laborer in Trinidad, Mr. Biswas is forced to live as a guest in one crowded, inhospitable house after another. After his father dies, his family moves in with his mother's sister, Tara, and he is humiliated and beaten by Tara's brother-in-law Bhandat. Mr. Biswas vows,...
3296) The rider
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady, once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland...
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Formats
Description
"When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Norma--newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage--rose to her full height of five feet and told her doctor, 'I'm ninety years old. I'm hitting the road.' Packing what she needed, Norma took off on an unforgettable cross-country journey with...
3299) World's fair
Author
Pub. Date
[1985]
Appears on list
Description
"Something close to magic." The Los Angeles Times The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair . . .
3300) Medical terminology
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Henderson and Dorsey show you the easiest way to remember unfamiliar, tongue-twisting words in the medical field. They break down the words you'll encounter in your medical terminology course, and help you master definitions, pronunciations, and applications across all medical fields. --
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