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81) We Take This Man
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Dwight and Tracey Wilson are living the ideal life with their two children in a brand new home in Florida. They are both excited when Dwight is offered a promotion at work, but the downside is that the job is located in Maryland. After much discussion, Tracey decides that she does not want to leave their new house. Dwight makes the decision to accept the position and return home on weekends. Alicia Dixon has spent her life hating and not trusting...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
From New York Times The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. THE DISAPPEARING SPOON masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery--from the Big...
84) Up Country
Author
Series
Paul Brenner novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, an organization that thanked him for his many years of dedicated service by forcing him into early retirement. But when his former boss calls in a career's worth of favors, Paul finds himself investigating a murder that took place back in Vietnam thirty years before. Now, returning to a time and place that still haunts him, Paul is swept up...
Author
Publisher
Lulu.com
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
If you are planning a trip to Paris, why not check out of list of restaurants, museums, and more online. Ultimately you can check out a very nice and beautiful area in Paris to site sees. Once of the nice areas to visit in France, Paris is the great Seine River, which is a dinner cruise. On the cruise, you will enjoy a wonderful trip around Paris waters, as you sip on a glass of champagne. Enjoy cheese puffs with a glass of Paris’s finest wine also....
86) Heartburn
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Series
Language
English
Description
-- Chicago Tribune -- Heartburn is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect soufflé.
87) Huaco retrato
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Language
English
Description
La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploración memorable sobre el amor, el deseo, los celos y el racismo.
UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE 2021 POR EL MUNDO
«Con esa inteligencia tremenda y ese humor irreverente, Wiener rescata del archivo familiar una historia íntima que es también la historia infame de todo nuestro continente.»
Valeria Luiselli
Un huaco retrato es una pieza de cerámica...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Possessing a Harvard education and all of the accoutrements of a privileged life, Winn Van Meter attends the wedding of his eldest daughter, which is marked by the bride's advancing pregnancy, her sister's broken heart, and the seductive machinations of wedding party members.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
-- Nine-year-old Oskar Schell embarks on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts of an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey. With...
Author
Language
English
Description
One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York TimesIn A Walk in the Woods—A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
-- New York Times -- The Orphan Master’s Son -- Named ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by more than a dozen publications, including -- —Pulitzer Prize citation “Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Rich with a sense...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the twentieth century Through his books and his radio essays for NPR's This American Life LOVE, DISHONOR, MARRY, DIE, CHERISH, PERISH leaps cities and decades as Rakoff sings the song of an America whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. The characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A daughter of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. You see, every so often Carol descends into a death-like coma that she calls the Black Place. For two to four days her heartbeat slows way down, her breathing all but stops, and to the eyes of all she would appear dead as a doornail. Only two people know of her condition: her husband Dwight, and her former lover James Moxie--the most legendary outlaw the Trail has ever seen. Just before Carol can share her...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
-- The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He -- real In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers---The Tipping Point draws upon history, psychology,...
96) Toad
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A previously unpublished novel of the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love"--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Just as the necessary qualification for a good liar is a good memory, so the essential equipment of a would-be lie detector is a good timeline, and a decent archive." In NO ONE LEFT TO LIE TO, a New York Times bestseller, Christopher Hitchens casts an unflinching eye on the Clinton political machine and offers a searing indictment of a president who sought to hold power at any cost. With blistering wit and meticulous documentation, Hitchens masterfully...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In the past decade, from Brighton Beach to Moscow, Toronto to Hong Kong, the Russian mob has become the world's fastest-growing criminal superpower. Trafficking in prostitutes, heroin, and missiles, the mafiya poses an enormous threat to global stability and safety. Today, the mafiya controls over 80 percent of Russia's banks and has siphoned off billions of dollars in Western loans and aid, almost certainly derailing the chance for a stable democracy...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
This is the only exposé of one of the world's most secretive and feared organizations: Yale University's nearly 200-year-old secret society, Skull and Bones. Through society documents and interviews with dozens of members, Robbins explains why this old-boy product of another time still thrives today.
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