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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Words from a Bear gives a thorough survey of Momaday's most prolific years as a doctorate fellow at Stanford University, his achievement of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1969, and his later works that solidified his place as the founding member of the 'Native American Renaissance' in art and literature, influencing a generation of Native American artists, scholars, and political activists.
82503) The Odds
Author
Series
Odds volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
"Kip is a quiet kid in a loud city. She's easy to miss and that's the way she likes it. Then, one day, Kip's quiet life is suddenly interrupted. Ten of her favorite characters have stepped out of their worlds and into hers. But what happens when a dragon-hunting rabbit leaves his comic strip? When an old man leaves his picture book? When a ninja leaves her TV show, a race-car driver leaves their video game, and a dinosaur turns up from Kip's nightmares?"--...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Packed with 200 bedtime stories about the lives of extraordinary women from the past and present. Painters, scientists, dancers, chefs, astronauts, jazz singers, pharaohs, boxers, writers, political leaders, from every corner of the globe! Each short biography is written in the style of a fairy tale, filling listeners with wonder and with a burning curiosity to know more about each hero.
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
An erotically charged, unsettling saga that reinvents literature's most iconic and terrifying characters. Dorian Gray, Victor Frankenstein, and timeless figures from Dracula join a core of original characters in a dark and brutal quest to save a soul, even as they grapple with their own monstrous temptations.
82506) From Prada to nada
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder sister Nora, a law student, gets a job as a legal intern...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she, along with other Parkland students, found her voice and...
82511) Babe Ruth
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A brief biography of Babe Ruth, written in graphic novel format, that describes his childhood, marriage, and success as a baseball player.
82512) Home from the hill
Pub. Date
[2007], c1959
Description
Southern drama involving a wealthy landowner's conflicts with his wife and two sons, one of which is illegitimate.
82513) Imitation of life
Pub. Date
1959.
Description
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Ichigo Kuosaki may not know this, but the world he lives in is one predicated on balance--between everyday life and the Soul Society. Soul Reapers aren't merely fighting Hollows, they are charged with the grand task of equalizing the balance between this life and the next. Naturally, if too much energy is channeled to one side, really bad things will happen--just they're happening now! Ichigo and Uryû's competition inadvertently results in generating...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
82516) Love*com: Vol. 10
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Risa got a job at a restaurant so she could be close to Ôtani's cram school. But now it looks like one of her coworkers wants to get close to her. Kohori is cute and short and majorly into Umibôzu, but Risa just wants to be friends. When circumstances conspire to make it look like she's interested in more, what will a super-stressed Ôtani do?
82517) Fables: Rose Red
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 15
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
As Mister Dark spreads his evil and takes control of more and more of New York City, Rose Red is finally pulled out of her depression and into action by a revelation from her storybook past. The Fables' only hope of defeating Mister Dark, however, is Bellflower, the world's most powerful witch, who is, fortunately, one of the survivors of Fabletown.
Author
Pub. Date
1991
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Description
As a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and trace their movements from London to Yorkshire-and from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany-an extraordinary counterpoint of passions & ideas emerges. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives...
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