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62) The darkest road
Author
Series
Fionavar tapestry volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five men and women from our world face a battle with an evil beyond imagining in the deeply moving conclusion to Guy Gavriel Kay’s acclaimed Fionavar Tapestry. As the Unraveller’s armies assemble, those resisting him must call upon the most ancient of powers, knowing that if this realm of gods and magic is conquered by evil, the ripples of destruction will be felt across all worlds. But despite the sacrifices made and courage shown, all may...
64) Hero at Large
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
“(Evanovich) is funny and ceaselessly inventive."" —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewNew York Times bestseller Janet Evanovich, author of Metro Girl, The Grand Finale, and the sensational Stephanie Plum novels. Evanovich’s many fans will flock to this zany tale of a single-mom skating coach and the handsome “house husband” hunk she brings home…after breaking his arm and his toe!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Best-selling writer Jimmy Buffett weaves an irresistible new tale---filled with colorful characters, wry humor, and the pursuit of a very clever pig. When Southern belle Ellie McBride moves her twins from Vertigo, Tennessee to New York City, they wouldn't dream of leaving behind the family pig Rumpy. But the posh hotel where Ellie has found work (and living space) has "No Pets" writ large on its portal. So hiding Rumpy from the hotel staff---especially...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their every act is a performance, every platform a stage. But when the local drama school turns the story into...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The bestselling status (and subsequent blockbuster film adaptations) of "Bridget Jones's Diary" and "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is proof of the enduring strength of this category. Although the novel is invented, Robinson is a successful Hollywood producer whose credits include "Braveheart" and "Last Orders."
Author
Publisher
Editorial Libervox
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Mechi es empleada del Centro de Gestión y Participación de Parque Chacabuco, y debe mantener y actualizar el archivo de chicos perdidos y desaparecidos en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Un trabajo monótono al que, para peor, lleva adelante en una oficina ubicada debajo de la autopista, es decir, envuelta en un ruido incesante. Hasta que algo pasa: Vanadis, una chica desaparecida a los catorce años por la que, debido a su belleza y a su extraño nombre,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group US
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
More than 100 years ago, inventor Nikola Tesla created a device for transferring electricity without wires. It was supposed to be his greatest triumph—but his invention spawned a nightmare. And the nightmare has returned… When unusual surges of electricity are tracked emanating from the former Yugoslavia, Special Agent John Taft uncovers a conspiracy of terror led by a fanatical Serbian nationalist—and powered by a machine capable of causing...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Neil Garvin is a seventeen year old living in a small town outside Las Vegas. Abandoned by his mother when he was three, he blames his abusive father - the local sheriff - for driving her away. Neil is good-looking, popular, the quarterback of the high school football team & as cruel to his peers as his father is to him. He plans to get out of town on his "million dollar arm," until the night he accidentally commits a terrible crime & his father,...
Author
Publisher
Tonya McQuade
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Time Capsule: My Teenage Self" provides a captivating look into the teenage mind, with thoughts on life, love, family, school, friends, identity, decision making, and more - all in poetic form! These are poems the author wrote while in junior high and high school back in the 1980's - at the time frequently sharing them with friends who could relate to the same questions, concerns, joys, successes, and struggles the poems addressed. Since then, she...
72) Sin Killer
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
It is 1830, and the Berrybender family -- rich, aristocratic, English, and fiercely out of place -- is on its way up the Missouri River to see the American West as it begins to open up. Lord and Lady Berrybender have abandoned their palatial home in England to explore the frontier and to broaden the horizons of their children, who include Tasmin, a budding young woman of grit, beauty, and determination, her vivacious and difficult sister, and her...
73) The Rum Diary
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Begun in 1959 by a then twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum DiaryThe Rum DiaryFear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hell's Angels.
Author
Publisher
Lulu.com
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature. It was probably composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus...
76) Nothing To Fear
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Did you know that pollutants and estrogen from contraceptives are causing male fish in America to develop female sex organs? Or that ethanol, the liberals’ favorite fuel, is destroying the world’s rainforests? We hear about AIDS in Africa, but the number one killer of children in Africa is malaria, and guess who banned the pesticide that used to have malaria under control? Iain Murray’s exposé reveals how environmental blowhards actually do...
Author
Series
Paddy Meehan novels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A brilliant new thriller featuring Paddy Meehan, one of the most praised heroines since Temperance Brennan, from "a rising star in the world of crime fiction" (Laura Miller, Salon). Paddy Meehan is no stranger to murder--as a reporter she lives at crime scenes--but nothing has prepared her for this visit from the police. Her former boyfriend and fellow journalist Terry Patterson has been found hooded and shot through the head. Paddy knows she will...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
-- With a NOVEL LEARNING SERIES(TM) Student Guide · Questions about the text after every few chapters check your comprehension · Quizzes throughout help you prepare for standardized tests with SAT- and ACT-style questions using vocabulary and grammar from the book · Sample writing prompts and essays at the end guide you through the elements of an above-average, average, and below-average essay-and explain why!
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