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61) The list
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Winner of a Jewish National Book Award for his previous book, Walking Israel, NBC Special Correspondent Martin Fletcher uses meticulous research and his own family's history in this stunning novel. Dramatizing explosive events in London and Palestine in the years directly following World War II, The List follows the lives of Edith and Georg, Austrian refugees who are expecting their first baby in a world unfriendly to Jews. Anti-Semitism sweeps across...
62) Cub
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Author and artist Cindy Copeland comes of age, discovers new talents, and finds her voice as a cub reporter at her local newspaper during the Watergate era"--
Twelve-year-old Cindy has just dipped a toe into seventh-grade dramawith its complicated friendships, bullies, and cute boyswhen she earns an internship as a cub reporter at a local newspaper in the early 1970s. A (rare) young female reporter takes Cindy under her wing, and Cindy soon learns...
Author
Series
War war war volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco. While Amine tries to cultivate his family farm's rocky terrain, Mathilde feels her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, the lack of money, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. Left increasingly alone to raise her two children in a world whose rules...
Author
Series
War war war volume 1
Description
"Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco. While Amine tries to cultivate his family farm's rocky terrain, Mathilde feels her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, the lack of money, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. Left increasingly alone to raise her two children in a world whose rules...
65) Real friends
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 290L
Physical Desc
207 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since they were little. But one day, Adrienne starts hanging out with Jen, the most popular girl in class and the leader of a circle of friends called The Group. Everyone in The Group wants to be Jen's #1, and some girls would do anything to stay on top ... even if it means bullying others. Now every day is like a roller coaster for Shannon. Will she and Adrienne stay friends? Can she stand up for herself?...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First ediiton.
Physical Desc
84 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Juana's life in Bogòt, Colombia, is just about perfect. Every now and then a big problema comes along--like having to learn English or Juana's mami getting remarried--but things eventually settle down, and life goes back to feeling pretty perfect again. But then Mami springs two new sorpresas on Juana. One: Juana will be spending her school break going to skating camp instead of relaxing (even though she doesn't know how to skate!). Two: Mami is...
Author
Publisher
Fig Tree Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 357 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"My Mothers Son is a literary novel written as the memoir of a radio raconteur that uses the inconceivable events of his familys life and the world in which he lived as a foil to deal with major issues that affect Americans today--disease, war, politics, immigration and business. It has been purposefully set in earlier times so as to provide some distance from the current talking heads climate that instantly categorizes and analyzes events from a...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Iris Smyles's Dating Tips for the Unemployed is an urban odyssey, a wistful, wise, and wry look back at a young woman trying to find her home in the world. 'Iris,' the narrator and heroine, guides the reader through twenty-four episodes from her life, pausing now and then for meditations on love, sex, work, loneliness, insomnia, arctic exploration, cannibalism, the Higgs boson, Greek mythology, memory, costumes parties, time travel, Rocky I, II,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book that weaves together Charlotte Nebres's life story as a young ballerina with the classic holiday tale of the Nutcracker"--
71) Hyacinth girls
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Callie is accused of bullying at school, but Rebecca knows the gentle girl she's raised must be innocent. After Callie is exonerated, she begins to receive threatening notes from the girl who accused her, and as these notes become desperate, Rebecca feels compelled to intervene. As she tries to save this unbalanced girl, Rebecca remembers her own intense betrayals and best friendships as a teenager, when her failure to understand...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"'I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words.' In a world created outside of time, Li and the son who died talk about their lives. Deeply intimate and moving, this story cycle of grief captures the love and humor in a relationship which goes on now in a mother's heart, between a mother and child, even as it captures the pain of Li's...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiii, 192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized recreation of the author's experiences as a student at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature describes the school's descent into a dangerously Socialist Realist aesthetic that almost caused him to abandon writing altogether.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Willie Nelson, country music's quintessential musician, displays all the wit and warmth of his homespun style of storytelling in an inspiring holiday novel based on his classic Christmas song, "Pretty Paper." More than fifty years ago, Willie Nelson's beloved Christmas song "Pretty Paper" first hit the airwaves. And for all these years, Willie has wondered about the real-life Texas street vendor, selling wrappings and ribbons, who inspired his song....
76) Terry's crew
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 390L
Physical Desc
189 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inquisitive young artist Terry strives to make space for himself as the new kid at Rock City Academy, a place where he can finally hone his talents. Terry learns the consequences of dreaming big and the value of real friends along the way." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 548 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.
78) Divorcing
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 265 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the 20th century, now back in print for the first time since 1969. Sophie Blind is starting a new life. She has left her husband Ezra and taken her three children to Paris. She has lovers there and another in New York. She is lecturing and writing. And she is compulsively reviewing her own history, having resumed the 'lifelong struggle' of 'coming into...
79) Just pretend
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tori makes up stories all of the time, so she has never lived in just one world. Those stories might just save her when her world seems to crumble" -- Provided by publisher.