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"Writing in a fervently literary style that flirts openly with the traditions of Salinger, Plath, and Fitzgerald, Hernández is a diamond-sharp satirist and a bracingly fresh chronicler of the heartbreak of trying to grow up. Honest and absurd, funny and tragic, wild and lovely, this novel describes modern coming-of-age with poetic precision."*
The Devil Wears Prada meets The Bell Jar in this story of a wide-eyed Ivy League grad who discovers that...
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Na©¿ve and idealistic, quintessential millennial Ethan St. James is ready to graduate from Yale and take over the operations of fashion magazine Regine, far from his working-class home in Texas. But the fashion industry chews him up and spits him out, leaving Ethan¿́¿s dreams in shambles. (Original), 384pp.
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Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 3
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English
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"Two fiery deaths have young lawyer Daniel Pitt and his scientist friend Miriam fford Croft racing to solve a forensic crisis in an explosive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Triple Jeopardy. When a desperate woman comes to Daniel seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science...
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English
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"In this rollicking account of fashion photography's golden age, bestselling author Michael Gross brings to life the wild genius, ego, passion, and antics of the men (and a few women) behind the camera... From the postwar covers of Vogue to the triumph of the digital image, the fashion photographer sold not only clothes but ideals of beauty and visions of perfect lives... Focus probes the lives, hang-ups, and artistic triumphs of more than a dozen...
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Serge Storms novels volume 12
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English
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That's right: Serge and Coleman do spring break!
It's been a long time coming, but they're at the party now-and you'll never look at a Frisbee the same way again.
One spring break location obviously isn't enough for Serge, so he must hit them all, traveling through various historic locales, spewing nuggets of history at anyone who won't run away and dispensing his own signature brand of Sunshine State justice.
Along the way he and his sidekick,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist. The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger...
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Libby Clark novels volume 2
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English
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"30th May, 1944. Libby Clark is roused from sleep by a colleague in distress. Marvin's cousin Frannie has been charged with treason, and he hopes that Libby can find a way to help prove her innocence. Libby, a chemist at a secret World War II facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, agrees to help her friend and pursue the truth. Libby's investigations soon uncover treachery. But the evil at Oak Ridge seems to run deeper, and in Libby's determination to...
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 20
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English
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"Claire Malloy, for as long as she can remember, has been the local bookseller and owner of the Book Depot and the widowed mother of teenage Caron, who frequently speaks in ALL CAPS. But her life has changed dramatically in recent years. Claire has married her longtime beau, Deputy Police Chief Peter Rosen. Still the owner of the Book Depot, Claire has passed the day-to-day running of it on to her very efficient employees. With Caron inching ever...
10) Innocence
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Columbia Tristar
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
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English
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Innocence is little more than a solid, old-fashioned romance.
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English
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History has been kind to Robert E. Lee, but immediately after the Civil War many northerners believed Lee should be hanged for treason and war crimes. In June of 1865 Robert E. Lee was indicted for treason by a Norfolk, Virginia grand jury. Reeves tells the story of the forgotten legal and moral case that was made against the Confederate general after the Civil War. The actual indictment went missing for 72 years, and has both literally and figuratively...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Glamorous Margot Jones is the fashion editor at glossy magazine Haute. Pregnant with her first child, Margot's carefully curated life is the object of other women's envy--who wouldn't want her successful career, loving husband, beautiful house, and stylish wardrobe? Maggie, a freelance journalist, certainly knows she doesn't measure up. But when she gets the temp job covering Margot's maternity leave, Maggie seizes the chance to live a flashier life--even...
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Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May are back on the case in this whip-smart and wildly twisting mystery, in which a killer in London's parks is proving to be a most elusive quarry. Helen Forester's day starts like any other: Around seven in the morning, she takes her West Highland terrier for a walk in her street's private garden. But by 7:20 she is dead, strangled yet peacefully laid out on the path, her dog nowhere to be found. The only other...
14) Sons and lovers
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English
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Tells the story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing into manhood in a British working-class community near the Nottingham coalfields. His mother Gertrude, unhappily married to Paul's hard-drinking father, devotes all her energies to her son. They develop a powerful and passionate relationship, but eventually tensions arise when Paul falls in love with a girl and seeks to escape his family ties. Torn between his desire for independence and his abiding...
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Dynamite
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The Blood Red Queen of Hearts continues her quest to win the love of the Mad-god Chaos by sacrificing innocents. Cassie Hack and Vampirella have teamed up to put a stop to it by any means necessary. Including a good, old fashioned baseball bat beating.
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Eniale and Dewielas friendship has been peppered with bouts of intense squabbling and bickering-usually at the expense of innocent bystanders. Enis latest "get rich quick" scheme and Dewis "get souls quick" con seem destined to blow up as spectacularly as the many that have come before. But when the dust settles, the angel and the demon always emerge-fab, fashionable, and the best of friends!!
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Pegasus
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols at Fort Buchanan, blaming a band of Chiricahuas led by the infamous warrior Cochise. Though Ward had no proof that Cochise had kidnapped his son, Lt. George Bascom organized a patrol and met with the Apache leader, who, not suspecting anything was amiss, had brought along his wife, his brother,...
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Cherry Lake Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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To sends Fiona, Amy, and Marcus to ancient China where a kind Chinese dragon is an innocent part of the new emperors power grab. The monster hunters arrive in Changan as peasants, where they experience hard labor while building the Great Wall of China. But how will the team find the dragon? And will they find it before the emperor does? Readers will join the team as they explore Emperor Qins tomb full of terracotta soldiers and get acquainted with...
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2023.
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English
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"The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and Buzzfeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale in the first two decades of the 21st century helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society. If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer's remarkable life.