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"They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands. Young men fleeing conscription in a king's army. Married couples starting out. Bachelors from towns with few women. The poor in tenements with air so stifling...
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Legendary Alston Boys adventure volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"In this third Legendary Alston Boys adventure from Edgar Award nominated author Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed have to team up with the Ellison twins to take down a corporation obsessed with the weirdness of Logan County and that's turning its residents into Money-Zombies. Otto and Sheed are back in yet another legendary adventure that just might take all their deduction skills, and a good bit of help from friends and family, to solve. With the Rorrim...
43) Farmhouse #2
Publisher
Asylum Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sam begins his job as an orderly at "Farmhouse", a barn that's been converted into an art studio for the insane. Here he's given the task of overseeing Orson, an eclectic paranoid schizophrenic who likes to paint abstracts and talk to god. Next to Orson sits Helen, a sexy, educated temptress who's been shunned by her an affluent family. She's obviously trouble for Sam who sees women like her as a conquest. Sam befriends Jerome, another orderly, who...
44) NCIS: Season 16
Publisher
CBS Studios / Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The team's ongoing mission to keep America safe kicks off with a worldwide search for their own Director Vance. Escalating threats turn into personal missions as Bishop defies orders to reopen a cold case, a naval hospital endures an active shooter lockdown, and Gibbs is confronted by an ex-agent who issues a grave warning. At the end of the day, only one thing is certain: the team that fights together survives together.
46) Tower Lord
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Raven's shadow volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"In Blood Song, Anthony Ryan introduced readers to "a fascinating world of conflicting religions and the wars fought in the name of those faiths" (Library Journal). Now Ryan's epic tale continues as Vaelin Al Sorna discovers that there is no escape from the call of destiny -- "The blood-song rose with an unexpected tune, a warm hum mingling recognition with an impression of safety. He had a sense it was welcoming him home." Vaelin Al Sorna, warrior...
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"[This book] tells the...story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals--some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten, like James Wilson and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. [The author] brings to life their struggles over our supreme law from its origins in revolutionary America to the era of Obama and Trump. Sweeping from settings as diverse as Gold Rush California to the halls of Congress, and...
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Dynamite
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Patricia Briggs' trilogy of adventures of coyote shapeshifter Mercy Thompson, in Moon Called, Blood Bound, and Iron Kissed, topped the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Mercy's first comic adventure continues in this all-new story created by the author! Trapped in the middle of a dangerous war between rival packs of werewolves, Mercy is warned to leave town. But Mercy doesn't take orders and she's not going anywhere, no matter what!
49) Tebori Tebori V3
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Though young Yoshi immersed himself in tebori, the traditional art of Japanese tattooing, in order to escape his violent past, circumstances oblige him toreluctantlyenter the underground world of Japans mafia, the yakuza. Haunted by a legendary creature warning of impending doom, and after discovering his girlfriend is in reality an undercover cop, Yoshi finds himself on the run, unsure of whom to trust and where to hide
50) The beginning or the end: how Hollywood--and America--learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
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"Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called 'the most important story' he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon. Over at Paramount, Hal B. Wallis was ramping up his own film version. His screenwriter: the novelist Ayn Rand, who saw in physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer the model...
51) The burning maze
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Trials of Apollo volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
With the help of some demigod friends, Lester (Formerly Apollo) managed to survive his first two trials, one at Camp Half-Blood, and one in Indianapolis, where Meg received the Dark Prophecy. The words she uttered while seated on the Throne of Memory revealed that an evil triumvirate of Roman emperors plans to attack Camp Jupiter. While Leo flies ahead on Festus to warn the Roman camp, Lester and Meg must go through the Labyrinth to find the third...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over her long writing career, and she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian and Edwardian literature to contemporary children's stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and...
53) Coaraptor #1
Publisher
Antarctic Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
It's the Very Big vs. the Very Bad-both very ugly-in the Old West!
The American West, early 19th century. Under the orders of the wealthy, greedy Mr. Josihk, both the local Native Americans and the herds of bison are being driven to extinction. Then Gomda, a warrior of the Kaiowa tribe. appears with a warning: Josihk's over-hunting of bison has awakened a living force of nature: the kaiju Coaraptor! Armed only with an iron spear, can one man...
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"THE LIGHTNING THIEF: Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen and Percy Jackson is the prime suspect. He and his friends have ten days to find and return it and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. To succeed, Percy has come to terms with the father who abandoned him, solve the riddle of the Oracle that warns of betrayal by a friend, and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves. THE LOST HERO: Jason, Piper, and Leo find themselves...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school students, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have...
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James de Vere has always insisted on being perfectly pragmatic and rational in all things. It seemed the only way to deal with his overdramatic, greedy family. When he falls ill and no doctor in London can diagnose him, he returns home to Grace Hill in search of a physician who can--or to set his affairs in order. Arriving at the doctor's home, he's surprised to encounter the doctor's daughter Laura, a young woman he last saw when he was warning her...
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Kidnapped and bound by three Ittoryu warriors, Rin is unable to warn her bodyguard Manji, the immortal swordsman, that he's heading into a trap. To make matters worse, the Itto-ryu possess a large dose of kessen-satsu, the only poison known to damage Manji's blood and severely cripple his regenerative abilities. And is Mugai-ryu assassin Giichi following Manji in order to help rescue Rin ... or will he just stick around long enough to finish off any...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"A provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for our democracy and international affairs of state. In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutions were in a state of decay as the United States was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian...
Publisher
Humanoids
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
This spine-chilling and multi-layered horror story contains more than one monster lurking in the shadows! PUBLICATION IN 3 VOLUMES - COMPLETED WORK. Sarah and David, a young married couple from New York City, arrive to settle near Salamanca, a small Pennsylvania forest village whose unwelcoming inhabitants appear to be protecting a secret and troubled past. Prey to her own childhood demons, as well as chronic anxiety attacks, Sarah discovers that...
Publisher
Humanoids
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
This spine-chilling and multi-layered horror story contains more than one monster lurking in the shadows! PUBLICATION IN 3 VOLUMES - COMPLETED WORK. Sarah and David, a young married couple from New York City, arrive to settle near Salamanca, a small Pennsylvania forest village whose unwelcoming inhabitants appear to be protecting a secret and troubled past. Prey to her own childhood demons, as well as chronic anxiety attacks, Sarah discovers that...