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1161) Rimfire bride
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Only the boldest of women would set off for the Dakota Territory without a man by her side. But schoolteacher Jana Hartmann is determined to build a new life for herself and her frail sister, Greta. True to her courageous spirit, Jana takes the only job she can find in the town of Bismarck--modeling dresses in a shop window--which has every man staring and every woman gossiping. Adding fuel to the fire, she's agreed to help raise money in the annual...
1164) Vision
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
A vision-impaired, Victorian spinster in need of primitive cataract surgery has little time for herself between needing to take care of her demanding invalid sister-in-law, and investigating her brother's mysterious nighttime activities. To escape it all, she engages in a sexual relationship with a haunted mirror in her bedroom. Julia Gfr©œrer's third graphic novel is another revitalizing and contemporary spin on the grand tradition of gothic storytelling,...
1165) The blue book of Nebo
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2018 National Eisteddfod Prose Medal and the 2019 Llyfr y Flwyddyn (Wales Book of the Year) After nuclear disaster, Rowenna and her young son, Dylan, are among the rare survivors in rural northwest Wales. Left alone in their isolated hillside cottage, after others have died or abandoned the towns and villages, they must learn new skills in order to remain alive. With no electricity or modern technology they must return to the old ways...
1166) The Oslo conspiracy
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Milo Cavalli. Half Norwegian and half Italian, he is definitely not your typical depressed Nordic noir investigator. In fact he's quite the opposite. Milo is successful and attractive and extremely rich. He goes to confession. He worries about his friends and family. And he taps into his family fortune whenever he needs to in order to crack the case he's working on. ...A scientist is found dead in a hotel room in Rome. Before she is strangled, she...
1168) Free day
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the marshy, misty countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycle from the private Catholic high school she attends on scholarship to the rocky, barren farm where her family lives. It's a journey she makes every two weeks, forty miles round trip, traveling between opposite poles of ambition and guilt, school and home. Galla's loving, overwhelmed, incompetent mother doesn't want her to go to school; she wants...
1169) Peluda
Author
Publisher
Button Poetry
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
One of the most original performance poets of her generation, Melissa Lozada-Oliva has captivated crowds across the country and online with her vivid narratives. Humorous and biting, personal and communal, self-deprecating and unapologetically self-loving, peluda (meaning "hairy" or "hairy beast") is the poet at her best. The book explores the relationship between femininity and body hair as well as the intersections of family, class, the immigrant...
1170) The Wright kind of love
Author
Publisher
Urban
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Tobias Wright has always gotten everything he's wanted, including Niecey, the love of his life. A chance meeting at one of the lounge bars that he owns was all it took for him to fall head over heels in love with her. Fast forward two years later, Toby and Niecey are happily engaged and ready to become man and wife. That is, until her ex-boyfriend, Will, pops back into the picture, causing trust issues between her and Tobias. The only man who could...
Publisher
Eastern Star/Discotek Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It is the year 2074. In a world threatened by aliens... an unlikely hero emerges! Ken Izumi may look like an ordinary 10-year-old boy, but he secretly possesses weapons, armor, and accessories that transform him into the superheroic Chargeman Ken. Ken protects his mom, dad, little sister Caron, robot pal Barican, and the rest of mankind from the diabolical Juralians, shape-shifting alien invaders bent on terrorizing the earth with flesh-eating butterflies,...
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On January 21, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S. presidential race--immigration, health care, environmental protections, LGBTQ rights, racial justice, freedom of religion, and workers' rights, among others. In the mere 66 days between the...
1173) Theophanies
Author
Publisher
Alice James Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Moving between the scriptures of the Qur'an and the Bible, these poems explore the complexities and spectacles of gender, faith, and family by unraveling the age-old idea that seeing is believing. Navigating both scripture and culture, the poems in Theophanies work to spin miracles from the mundanities of desire and violence. Through art and music, Pakistani history, and scriptural stories, these poems struggle to envision a true self and speak back...
Author
Publisher
Good2Go Publishing
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
"A young woman discovers a deep and dark secret about her family while try to pick up the pieces after the death of her parents; this secret will change her life. Nathaniel, a notorious kingpin in Delaware finds out about a secret affair between his wife and best friend. In order to get answers from the woman he has trusted all his life, he goes into a violent rage and kills her unintentionally before their daughters, Summer and her sister. Big Nate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best-known female intellectuals. For the sixteen centuries following her murder by a mob of Christians Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her great skill in mathematics and philosophy redefined the intellectual...
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When the Savior becomes the "Dark Swan," the lines between good and evil blur as Emma begins to relish the intoxicating taste of absolute power. Terrified she'll succumb, Emma and Hook visit Camelot to find the one person who may be able to aid them: Merlin. Unfortunately, King Arthur proves treacherous, and when he joins forces with a vengeful Zelena, Emma and Hook's hopes are shattered.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A modern exploration of addiction that offers nine foundational building blocks every person at any stage of sobriety can use, from the bestselling author of We Are the Luckiest and founder of the international recovery community The Luckiest Club. When Laura McKowen was two years sober, she received an email from a woman whose sister was struggling with alcohol addiction. Laura had barely climbed out from the dark place the woman's sister was in,...
1178) Almas de acero
Author
Series
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Dominic Lomazzi tiene una obsesión: encontrar a su hermana pequeña. Desde que Charlene desapareció siendo una adolescente ha dedicado su vida a buscarla. Por ella se hizo Carabinieri, por ella ingresó en la Interpol, por ella se infiltró durante cinco años en una de las organizaciones criminales de tráfico de mujeres más peligrosa de todas, los Diamond Hearts, donde conoció las mayores atrocidades de las que es capaz un ser humano, antes...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time Skylar Finch was the lead singer of a hugely successful American pop-rock band. But fame made her miserable. When years of living a lie suddenly ended in tragedy, Skylar fell off the map. Eighteen months later she's sleeping in a tent in a cemetery in Glasgow, making just enough money to eat by busking on the streets. She manages to avoid recognition, but not the attention of one of Glasgow's ambitious A&R executives. Killian O'Dea...
Author
Series
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.