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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Today, women are ascendant in standup comedy, even preeminent. They make headlines, fill arenas, spawn blockbuster movies. But before Amy Schumer slayed, Tiffany Haddish killed, and Ali Wong drew roars, the very idea of a female comedian seemed, to most of America, like a punchline. And it took a special sort of woman-indeed, a parade of them-to break and remake the mold. In on the Joke is the story of a group of unforgettable women who knocked down...
Author
Publisher
Running Press Teens
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the women behind the video games we love--from the iconic games they created, the genres they invented, the studios and companies they built--and how they changed the industry forever. From classic games like Centipede and Solitaire to popular modern games like Final Fantasy, Uncharted, and Halo, this book explores the work and history of 25 influential women in the video game industry and how their contributions ultimately built and transformed...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Shuri is a lot of things. Scientist. Princess. All around cooler person than her pain-in-the-butt big brother, T'Challa. Shuri knows she could do so much more to help Wakanda, but everyone is obsessed with the prince because he's the next Black Panther. That is, until Soul Washing Day, one of the most important rituals of Wakandan society. When an argument between T'Challa and Shuri leads to one of Shuri's inventions accidentally destroying...
44) 79 Park Avenue
Author
Publisher
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Marja starts out a tough girl from the mean streets of New York. Ambitious and driven, over time she rises from street urchin to stripper, later re-inventing herself as Maryann Flood, the queen of an empire of pleasure. From her posh Park Avenue office, Maryann provides access to exciting and sensual women to sate the desires of New York's most powerful men.All is well-until Maryann runs afoul of the law and leaves her empire facing destruction. Arrested...
Author
Series
Golgotha novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"R. S. Belcher's debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets. 1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes,...
Author
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"For ambitious engineer Simon Darcy, winning Queen Victoria's competition to recover lost inventions of historical significance is a matter of pride--and redemption. After all, it was Simon's failed monorail project that left his family destitute, and winning the tournament would surely restore the Darcys' reputation. Simon sets his sights high, targeting no less than the infamous time-travel device that forever changed the world by transporting scientists,...
Author
Publisher
Wayland
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"'Selfies' are everywhere - from Kim Kardashian, queen of the selfie, to the Queen of England photobombing the Australian hockey team's selfie in 2014, you can't open a newspaper, or visit a news website, without seeing one. Recent technology, such as the selfie stick, and camera phones, have helped make the selfie a global trend, so you would be forgiven for thinking that this is a modern trend. But in fact, the first known selfies date from about...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
There is nothing quite like the smell of a scrumptious steak and ale pie cooking in the oven. There perhaps isn't anything better than the first taste of a caramel and coffee eclair. From expert baker, Paul Hollywood, comes a mouth-watering new book about pies and puddings...Paul Hollywood puts his signature twist on the traditional classics, with easy-to-follow, foolproof and tantalising recipes for meat and potato pie, chicken and leek lattice,...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A wildly inventive soul food bible from a two-time Chopped winner and the host of Snapchat's first-ever cooking show. Thousands of fans know Lazarus Lynch for his bold artistic sensibility, exciting take on soul food, and knockout fashion sense. Laz has always had Southern and Caribbean food on his mind and running through his veins; his mother is Guyanese, while his father was from Alabama and ran a popular soul food restaurant in Queens known for...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A People's Guide to New York City is the fourth in a series of People's Guide books that seek to create a 'deliberate political disruption"'of the ways we know and experience the urban environment. As told by most guidebooks, the story of New York City lingers on the stories of celebrities and artists who made their fortunes here and shared their fame with the city itself. The everyday citizens of New York are not necessarily forgotten in these guidebooks....
53) The missing cryptoqueen: the billion dollar cryptocurrency con and the woman who got away with it
Author
Publisher
Hatchette Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In 2016, on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thousands of adoring fans, Dr. Ruja Ignatova promised her followers a financial revolution. The future, she said, belonged to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. And the Oxford-educated, self-styled cryptoqueen vowed that she had invented the Bitcoin Killer. OneCoin would not only earn its investors untold fortunes; it would change the world. By March 2017, more than $4 billion had been invested in OneCoin...
Author
Series
Reign of the fallen volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Karthia is nothing like it used to be. The kingdom's borders are open for the first time in nearly three hundred years, and raising the dead has been outlawed. Odessa is determined to explore the world beyond Karthia's waters, hoping to heal a heart broken in more ways than she can count. But with Meredy joining the ocean voyage, vanquishing her sorrow will be a difficult task. Despite the daily reminder of the history they share, Odessa and Meredy...
57) Bad actress
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Alyssa Rampart-Pillage is a washed up TV queen whose career has been reduced to starring in commercials for her husband Bernie's appliance empire. When their tree-hugging daughter Topanga dies in tragic golf ball incident, Bernie goes off the spiritual deep end and tries to give away their fortune, with disastrous results. But what starts off as tragedy quickly turns into career re-invention for Alyssa. And as the body count rises, so does her star....
Publisher
Masterworks Broadway
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Frank Wildhorn composed all of the music to this more contemporary, imaginative Broadway version of Alice in Wonderland. Wonderland is about a modern-day woman who goes on a life changing journey below the streets of New York City.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An emporium of retro treasure...from shocking sculptures of the 1700s, to Kodachrome snaps of 1950s Piccadilly Circus, to biblical scenes captured by Google Earth. Rather than nostalgia or folly, the aim is enlightenment, wonder and the pleasure of weirdness." --The Guardian Based on the widely popular blog that started as a side project in a basement, Retronaut reveals strange yet enlightening photographs from the past that somehow seem to depict...