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1161) 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...
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,...
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...
1164) 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...
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...
1166) 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...
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,...
1171) 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
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"A massive collection of the best of the best recipes from Sandra's Semi-Homemade Cooking This new compilation is filled to the brim with 1,000 of her most popular recipes including 200 brand new recipes from Sandra's personal recipe box and never-before-seen full-color photos taken at Sandra's new home, Lilly Pond, in Bedford Falls, NY. Sandra Lee's Best of Semi-Homemade Cooking serves up delicious recipes from 20 in depth, unique chapters like Sandra's...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When the women behind the popular blog Three Many Cooks gather in the busiest room in the house, there are never too many cooks in the kitchen. Now acclaimed cookbook author Pam Anderson and her daughters, Maggy Keet and Sharon Damelio, blend compelling reflections and well-loved recipes into one funny, candid, and irresistible book. Together, Pam, Maggy, and Sharon reveal the challenging give-and-take between mothers and daughters, the passionate...
Author
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.
1176) Kiss me, mi amor
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It turns out that a fake relationship is the perfect recipe for a love that sizzles hotter than Santa Barbara's spiciest salsa--when it's between enemies.... Enrique Montez, smooth-talking heir to the Taco King empire, is man enough to admit that he made a critical error when he underestimated Carolina Flores. The agricultural hotshot should have been an easy conquest--who would turn down the chance to partner with California's largest fast-food...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A fictional retelling of the life of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who redefined the role of a princess in Victorian England"--
"Based on the true story of the free-spirited daughter of Queen Victoria. As a young woman, Princess Louise is considered the most beautiful and talented daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She is also strong-willed and resists following the queen's rigid rules...
1178) Vanessa Bell
Publisher
Philip Wilson Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
This accompanying publication showcases the oil paintings, photographs, ceramics, fabrics, decorative screens and works on paper of Vanessa Bell in a stunning display of her vibrant and wide-ranging talent. Long overshadowed by the complexity of her family life and romantic entanglements, the editors assess Bell in the context of her relationship with sister, Virginia Woolf, and as muse and confidant to Roger Fry and Duncan Grant, but ultimately present...
Publisher
Ripley Publishing, a Jim Pattison Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From displays of the human form--both beautiful and grotesque--to tricks of illusion, and wonders from the far-off world, the sideshow has captivated audiences since its popularity arose in the Victorian Era. It was those featured on the side stages of circuses, fairground midways, and halls of exhibition that still captivate our curiosities today. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Presents Sideshow and Other Carnival Curiosities brings those performers...