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Author
Series
Fat Angie volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, has moved away; her only friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up a vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue dedication planned for her sister, who died in Iraq, is almost too much to bear, and it doesn't help that her mother has placed a symbolic empty urn on their mantel. At the ceremony, a soldier hands Angie...
Author
Publisher
Archway Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Tired of staring at the four walls of a chapter that has ended, Gigi follows the voice of her soul, which cries for change and broken patterns and procedures. After realizing that routine limits, stifles, and imprisons her, she embarks on a journey to discover her soul's desire. She carries with her a bag filled with things she assumes will give her strength, power, and determination; she has no idea that these are the very things that hinder her....
543) Road trip!
Author
Series
Annie's Attic mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Annie's Attic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The members of the Hook and Needle Club have made many exciting and adventurous road trips together through the years, but the opportunity to travel to Texas for a needlecraft convention is more than Annie Dawson and her friends can pass up. For Annie, it's a trip back to her old stomping grounds from her days when she and her late husband, Wayne, ran an automobile dealership. It's been more than three years since Wayne's death and since Annie moved...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lightning Shell marks the dramatic conclusion to the People of Cahokia sub-series by bestselling authors W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. Spotted Wrist's squadrons are about to launch an assault on Evening Star Town. Meanwhile, the new Keeper's loyal squadrons have taken control of central Cahokia. Blue Heron's enemies have declared her dead, a supposed victim of the fire that consumed her palace. She's alive and in the end it will be her wits,...
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This is a riotous romp taking the reader from the turbulent frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of Mrs China Iron, Martín Fierro's abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a covered wagon with her new-found friend, soon to become lover, a Scottish woman named Liz. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their...
546) A summer of firsts
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Goodbye Quilt¿́¿Susan Wiggs Linda Davis is driving her daughter, Molly, across the country to start college. As her only child readies for this big change, Linda is torn between excitement for Molly and heartache for herself. Who will she be when she is no longer needed in her role as mom? On the trip, Linda pieces together the scraps that make up Molly's young life¿́¿the hem of a christening gown, a snippet from a costume. In the stitching...
547) Sod shamur
Author
Series
Clifton chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Modan
Pub. Date
2013
Language
עברית
Description
Best Kept Secret opens a moment after the end of The Sins of the Father, with the resolution of the trial and the triumphant marriage of Harry Clifton and Elizabeth Barrington, finally uniting their family. Harry, now a bestselling novelist, Emma, their son Sebastian, and orphaned Jessica make a new life for themselves, but all is not as happy and secure as it could be. Emma's brother, Giles, is engaged to a woman who may be more interested in Barrington's...
Series
Publisher
Weston Woods Studios
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
The true story of Victorian artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who built life-sized models of dinosaurs in the hope of educating the world about these awe-inspiring ancient animals and what they were like.
Author
Publisher
Six Foot Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
The story of four unaccompanied migrant children coming together along the arduous journey north through Mexico to the United States border, A Journey to Hope is an ode to the power of hope and connection to the uncertainty and fear.
La historia de cuatro niños migrantes no acompañados que se unen a lo largo del arduo viaje hacia el norte a través de México hasta la frontera de los Estados Unidos, Una jornada hacia la esperanza es una oda al...
Author
Publisher
Almuzara
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Description
"In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When her long-time agent and friend Robert Lescher died in 2012, the manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher's unpublished first novel was discovered packed tidily away in one of Lescher's signature red boxes. Following on the success of Serve It Forth and written when she was in her early 30s, the novel employs Fisher's characteristic sharp-eyed wit to sketch themes so outre; they may have seemed too challenging for a proper woman of her time to attempt. Set...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
The Titanic is meant to be unsinkable, but as it begins it maiden voyage, there's plenty of danger waiting for four of its young passengers. The lives of these four passengers will be forever linked with the fate of Titanic. And the farther they get from shore, the more the danger looms.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
The worst has happened, and the Titanic is slowly sinking. Now, everyone onboard is worried about their lives, and Paddy, Sophie, Juliana, and Alfie desperately wonder if there's any hope of saving those they love.
558) The blue mustang
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Young Button Starbuck and his brothers had a mighty shock when their father had been killed in his own home, but Button vowed to wreak his revenge - to trace Buchannan and kill him. Button was a boy who had never aimed a gun in anger nor been more than a day's ride from his home in his life. That was about to change. On his travels, Button has to learn to think for himself and he finds a friend - a blue mustang with the cunning and heart of a fighter."--Back...
Author
Series
Westward to home volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An arranged marriage to save the family from ruin? Delia Blackstone knows what her mother is up to -- she intends to marry her off to an older man who is all fortune and no future. And Delia's having none of it. When a mysterious visitor appears on the family doorstep and offers an opportunity for Delia to travel from Pennsylvania to Colorado, Delia knows it is time for her to strike out on her own and discover a new life. Along the way she encounters...
560) Panama
Publisher
Weston Woods Studios
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Little Bear and Little Tiger, who leave their comfortable home to go in search of Panama, the land of their dreams, and end up in the most beautiful place in the world.