Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Coming of age in Prague in the 1930s, Lena Kulkova is inspired by the left-wing activists who resist the rise of fascism. She meets Otto, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, and follows him to Paris to work for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. As the war in Spain ends and a far greater war engulfs the continent, Lena gets stuck in Paris with no news from her Jewish family, including her beloved baby sister, left behind in Nazi-occupied...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie Mack and her crack team private investigators have been asked to take on a seemingly impossible task-to identify and thwart an attack on the upcoming Detroit Auto Show. With a $100K incentive and the help of a dozen freelancers, Charlie and her team slowly begin to unravel a twisted plot that runs through several countries and even more bank accounts. But finding out who's behind the deadly plot only solves half the problem, because Charlie...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the renowned authority on domestic violence, a startlingly original inquiry into the aftermath of wars and their impact on the least visible victims: women
In 2007, the International Rescue Committee, which brings relief to countries in the wake of war, wanted to understand what really happened to women in war zones. Answers came through the point and click of a digital camera. On behalf of the IRC, Ann Jones spent two years traveling through...
Author
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Cooley has lost it all after her father is convicted of embezzlement. Drenched in shame without a dime to her name, she's driven from the Upper East Side and into the arms of an abusive man.When a friend from the past-real estate billionaire, Noah Van Der Wells-runs into her years later, she's nothing but a shell of her former self. Destitute, desolate, and suffocating in fear.Noah is not the man he used to be either, and he owes it all...
Author
Language
English
Description
A snapshot of modern romance gone bad, complete with its complexities and contradictions, It Was Over When... compiles the best user-submitted stories of lost love from its companion website (www.itwasoverwhen.com), to create a greatest hits collection of cringe-inducing love schadenfreude. The moment you realize you've got a bad romance can be funny, sad, and sometimes both-but it is nearly always resonant, therapeutic, and universal. This is a spot-on...
Author
Language
English
Description
From one of the world's top virologists, the definitive guide to understanding-and navigating-COVID-19.
Three years on, COVID is clearly here to stay. So what do we do now? Drawing on his expertise as one of the world's top virologists, Dr. Paul Offit helps weary readers address that crucial question in this brief, definitive guide.
As a member of the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee and a former member of the Advisory Committee for Immunization...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Today is the day you choose . . . which game you want to win, which prize you want to collect, which priorities you want to set. It's a thrill to win at checkers or Clue or Trivial Pursuit. You sweep aside the other players and you 'own' the board. It's also a thrill to win a promotion at work ... the new house you wanted ... that sports car you've always eyed. But just like the game cards, the tokens, and the timer, those prizes are temporary. When...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to “The Daily Telegraph” have once again provided their refreshing and witty take on events.
Now in its thirteenth year, this new edition of the bestselling series is a review of the year made up of the wry and astute observations of the unpublished Telegraph letter writers.
Readers of the “Telegraph...
Author
Language
English
Description
"911 CALL HOME"
"URGENT CALL ME"
"Josiah has been hurt, call ASAP"
It's every parent's nightmare. As worship leader Ricardo Sanchez's flight touched down and he turned on his cell phone, he was bombarded with desperate texts and phone messages from his wife. There had been an accident, and his son's life was hanging in the balance.
How do you find the endurance to keep going when the pain seems overbearing? How do you run to win when you feel...
Author
Language
English
Description
Experience God's Unstoppable Breakthrough and Blessings!
You may be facing an issue that seems like an insurmountable mountain in your life. Or, your circumstances may be so difficult you feel surrounded by walls with no way out. You ask God to knock down those walls, just as He did for Joshua at Jericho. But they're still standing. Sometimes, God removes the obstacles from our lives immediately and dramatically. But what can we do when the mountain...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Does God know the future? Or is the future unknowable to even God? Open theists believe the search for biblical answers will spark a new Revolution. Are they right? Arguing that God interacts with his creatures spontaneously, the controversial new movement known as "open theism" has called classic church theology up for reexamination. Confronting this view, classic theists maintain that God has complete foreknowledge and that open-theist arguments...
17) When I Couldn't Get Over It, I Learned to Start Acting Differently: A story about managing Sadness
Author
Language
English
Description
Kyle is a fourth-grader who sometimes feels blue and out of sorts. He's not sure why, but he can never bounce back when he gets into a funk. When things go wrong at school or home, he can't shake it off and just move on. With the help of a kind teacher, Kyle learns how to recognize and manage his sadness by reframing his attitude and learning how to Start Acting Differently.
Author
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Read this before you throw away your perfectly good marriage, When we first fall in-love, life seems better in every way. Conversations with our beloved are effortless and intoxicating, and we share our deepest secrets. The "amazing" sex is spontaneous and frequent, and we wonder who we ever lived without our true love. Eventually, we come down from the clouds-often with a thud. While the equilibrium is natural and necessary, the descent is often...
20) Zero gravity
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Zero Gravity is the fifth collection of comic pieces by Woody Allen, a hilarious prose stylist whose enduring appeal readers have savored since his classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, Side Effects, and Mere Anarchy. This new work combines pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker along with eleven written exclusively for this book, each a comic inspiration. Whether he's writing about horses that paint, cars that think, the sex lives of celebrities,...