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Author
Series
Not a detective mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As a kid, Charlotte Illes' uncanny sleuthing abilities made her a minor celebrity. But in high school, she hung up her detective's hat and stashed away the signature blue landline in her "office"--aka garage--convinced that finding her adult purpose would be as easy as tracking down missing pudding cups or locating stolen diamonds. Now twenty-five, Charlotte has a nagging fear that she hit her peak in middle school. She's living with her mom, scrolling...
62) 19 love songs
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 830L
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories that celebrate various kinds of love. Includes sixteen prose stories, two stories in verse, and one story in comic book format.
A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and a story in verse celebrating love.
Levithan has created a mixtape of stories, verses, and illustrations featuring characters from his novels, as well as new characters. All of them are discovering the ways in which their hearts can sing. -- adapted from jacket...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 392 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this sapphic romance set 1814"--
It is the year 1814 and life for a young lady of good breeding has many difficulties. There are balls to attend, fashions to follow, marriages to consider and, of course, the tiny complication of existing in a world swarming with fairy spirits, interfering deities, and actual straight-up sorcerers. Miss Maelys Mitchelmore finds her entry...
Author
Series
This dark descent volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 830L
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horse race to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who both have their own motives for helping her.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thomas Fisher was raised on the South Side of Chicago and even as a kid understood how close death could feel -- he came from a family of pioneering doctors who believed in staying in the community, but on those streets he saw just how vulnerable Black bodies could be. Determined to follow his family's legacy, Fisher studied public health at Dartmouth and Harvard, then returned to the University of Chicago Medical School. As soon as he graduated,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Description
Most of us are well aware that there is something fundamentally broken about the way we vote, but not why. In One Person, No Vote, the author chronicles a timely, comprehensive, and powerful indictment of the history of brutal race-based vote suppression, and its many modern iterations- from voter ID requirements and voter purges to election fraud, and stolen elections. She also traces the related history of the rollbacks to African American participation...
68) Patsy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A Jamaican woman leaves her daughter behind to immigrate to New York, where the happier life she expected is difficult to find as an undocumented worker.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old nurodivergent and nonbinary Lark pretends that they are the creator of a viral thread that their ex-best friend, Kasim, accidentally posted onto their Twitter account, declaring his unrequited love, but living a lie takes its toll on Lark, forcing them to deal with their own messy emotions.
Lark Winters wants to be a writer, and for now that means posting on their social media accountsanything to build their platform. When former...
71) The best at it
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
"Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school is making him feel increasingly anxious, so his favorite person in the whole world, his grandfather Bhai, gives him some well-meaning advice: Find one thing you're really good at. And become the BEST at it. Those four little words sear themselves into Rahul's brain. While he's not quite sure what that special thing is, he is convinced that once he finds...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the director of fashion and culture at Refinery29 comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal and cultural essays featuring eye-opening explorations of hot-button topics for modern women, including the uptick in internet feminism versus ongoing impossible beauty standards in media, the battle against anorexia, shifting ideals about sexuality, and much more"--
Gabrielle Korn starts her professional life with all the right credentials....
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015].
Lexile measure
1160L
Physical Desc
xvi, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gripping tale of police brutality, investigating the cover-up of a deadly NOLA cops' shooting of six unarmed civilians, published on the tenth anniversary of Katrina. Six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, New Orleans Police Department officers opened fire on residents crossing the Danziger Bridge. When the shooting stopped, a mentally challenged man and a seventeen-year-old boy were dead, riddled with gunshot wounds. A mother's...
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For every teacher it's different, but you know who they are for you-the students who are "hard to teach." Maybe they're reading far below grade level. Maybe they're English learners. Maybe they have diagnosed learning disabilities or behavioral issues. Maybe they're underachieving for reasons that are unknown. They have been overlooked or underserved or frustrated, and they're not learning as they should. Until now. Until you. How to Reach the Hard...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM
Language
English
Description
A Tale of "O" explores the consequences of being different. It focuses on a group of people in which some are "the many," who are referred to as the X's, and some are "the few," the O's. Look at the factors that create O's and X's in groups and the impact. The animated A Tale of "O" clarifies and explores the personal and societal dynamics of being different. A parable about what happens to any new or different kind of person in a group and how the...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 244 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traveling more than 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of China, the authors of this narrative explore the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe. Closely observing daily life in these remote regions, they document the many lifestyles and adventures of the Chinese natives they visit an old Catholic fisherman at a church...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with...