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1) The giver
Author
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order whose motto is "Community, Identity, Stability."—all at the cost of our freedom, humanity, and perhaps our souls. "A genius [who] who spent his life decrying...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive--and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. EMMA Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe. Until One Folgate Street. The house is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass, and soaring ceilings....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet...
6) The Giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
GN 500L
Physical Desc
176 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 452 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. J is one of only twenty-six students, who think of their enigmatic school's founder as their father. His fellow peers are the only family J has ever had. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they know--and all they are allowed to know. But J is beginning to suspect that there is something out...
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Revised & updated third edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
viii, 143 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Using simple words and real-life examples, this book shows kids how to be assertive with other kids--and with adults. Kids will learn to feel better about themselves, stronger and more secure inside, and more in charge of their lives. They'll read about effective ways to deal with intense feelings and to build self-esteem and self-confidence. In addition, they'll learn strategies for building inner security to cope with powerlessness and uncertainty...
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Executive coach and psychologist Marshall Goldsmith discusses the emotional triggers that set off a reaction or a behavior in us that often works to our detriment. Do you find that at times you suddenly become defensive or enraged by an idle comment from a colleague? Or that your temper rises when another car cuts you off in traffic? Your reactions don't occur in a vacuum. They are the result of emotional and psychological triggers that often happen...
12) The power
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Power, dubbed the sequel to The Secret, is the highly anticipated follow-up revealing everything Rhonda Byrne has learned and attracted to herself since the release of The Secret in 2006. She shows how perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and have everything you want comes from one positive source of power.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxv, 436 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeply researched account from an award-winning journalist that uncovers the ways in which abusers exert control in the darkest-and most intimate-ways imaginable We fear dark alleys when in truth, home is the most dangerous place for a woman. Of the 87,000 women killed globally in 2017, more than a third (30,000) were killed by an intimate partner, and another 20,000 were killed by a family member. In the US, that rate is 2.5 women killed by their...
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 500 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the...
15) Die for you
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her parents' divorce Emma Lorde was forced to move halfway across the state of Arizona to live with her father for her senior year. She must give up her dreams of a career in archaeology. Dillon Hobbs provides a refuge from the chaos of her past and the security of a commitment that he promises will last forever. He saves her, over and over, by loving her more than she thought anyone ever would. When Emma is offered an opportunity that will...
16) Nico
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Las Vegas Mafia boss Nico Toscani is used to getting what he wants, whether it is having the City of Sin under his rule or a beautiful woman in his bed. But when he meets his match in the gorgeous, headstrong Mia Cordano, the daughter of a rival crime lord, all bets are off... Sexy computer hacker Mia struggles to break free of her ruthless father's Mafia ties...but she can't resist the powerful and seductive Nico, who will stop at nothing to possess...
Author
Series
Kingmaker chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
482 pages : illustration, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After centuries of conflict, the three kingdoms of Thalyria have finally been reunited. But now the queen has been cursed, the royal lineage has been broken, and no one knows who's behind the plot to threaten the once-fractured realm's fragile new peace. Desperate to help, Jocasta--the king's younger sister and a gifted healer--hatches a daring plan to find Circe's Garden, a fabled island where she hopes to discover an antidote. But she can't do...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
20) Kept
Author
Series
Enforcers volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Mastered and Dominated comes the third of the Enforcers novels. Kept is the searing story of a woman who finds sanctuary in surrender... He can't change who he is. A horrific childhood has made Silas the man he is today: dangerous, distrustful and demanding. He's lived in self-imposed solitude, convinced that no woman could ever accept his need for absolute control--in business and pleasure. That is, until a young violinist walks...