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15641) A light of her own
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Holland, 1633. Judith Leyster is a painter, dodging the law and whispers of murder in hopes of becoming the first woman admitted to the prestigious Haarlem artist's guild. Maria is a Catholic in a country where the faith is banned, hoping to absolve her sins by recovering a lost saint's relic. Both women's destinies will be shaped by their ambitions, running counter to the city's most powerful men, whose own plans spell disaster. A vivid portrait...
15642) Miss Porter is out of order!
Author
Series
My weirder-est school volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (1 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A.J. and his friends are getting a substitute. Miss Porter isn't your average teacher, though. She's a personal digital assistant that literally knows everything. She can tell a million hundred weird jokes and get pizza delivered by drone in seconds. But what happens when Miss Porter's system is no longer set to fun? Will anyone be able to shut her down before she takes over Ella Mentry?
15643) Welcome to Camp Pikachu
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
107 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During their first week at Camp Pikachu, Marco and his friends on Team Treecko find the perfect secret base: a tree house straight out of Fortree City. They proudly post their team flag out front. But during a game of capture the flag, someone vandalizes their base. Who did it?"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished by exile from their home state of Virginia. The resulting landmark decision of Loving v. Virginia ended bans on interracial marriage and remains a signature case-- the first to use the words "white supremacy" to describe such racism. Drawing...
15645) Play the game
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the game of life, sometimes other people hold all the controls. Or so it seems to VZ. Four months have passed since his best friend Ed was killed by a white man in a Brooklyn parking lot. When Singer, the man who killed Ed, is found dead in the same spot where Ed was murdered, all signs point to Jack, VZ's other best friend, as the prime suspect. VZ's determined to complete the video game Ed never finished and figure out who actually killed Singer....
15647) #lovemutts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
206 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a selection of previously published cartoons that offer a humorous look at the antics of Earl and Mooch, a cat and a dog.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The forest is abuzz with magic and excitement it's time for Jesus' birthday again! The invitations for His birthday party float on in to all but one forest creature. Living far off in a hollow in the forest's furthest tree, Little Raccoon has never quite fit in with the other forest animals. Feeling left out and alone, she watches as the rest of the friends share in the fun of decorating for Christmas. It's not until Little Raccoon gets help from...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Harriet is still grabbling with her mother's death when an unwanted property sale causes her to join forces with her new neighbor to stop Belle Grove Plantation from turning into a wedding venue.
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they have transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people's museums. Mother and daughter duo Claudia and Layla Hartwell plan to turn the...
15650) Stay true: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations (black and white ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation...
15651) Winter wonders
Author
Series
Cupcake cousins volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cousins Willow and Delia must save the day when a blizzard threatens to ruin Cat and Mr. Henry's wedding in the third book in the illustrated Cupcake Cousins series"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Charts Stephen Miller's rise to power in the Trump administration, drawing from more than one hundred interviews with his family, friends, adversaries, and government officials, as well as years of reporting from the U.S. border.
Stephen Miller has crafted Donald Trump's speeches, designed immigration policies that ban Muslims and separate families-- but has remained an enigma. Guerrero charts Miller's rise to power, drawing from interviews with...
15653) La siesta perfecta
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Hace mucho calor en la jungla y cuando llega una suave brisa, el jaguar quiere dormir una siesta. Entonces ve a un coatí y le pregunta: -¿Podrías hacerme un favor? ¿Podrías despertarme exactamente en 10 minutos? La responsabilidad de despertar al jaguar provoca un efecto en cadena en la jungla, una lucha contra el reloj... y el sueño."--Casadellibro.
It is very hot in the jungle and suddenly a nice breeze arrives. The jaguar wants to take...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
226 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Trans teen Barney and his best friend Norma team up with the demons to stop the tyranny of the angels."--Provided by publisher.
The battle between angels and demons rages on, and Courtney finds themselves restored to former glory in the realm of the angels with a new bring about a new Divine Order and create a fourteenth plane of existence to keep the demons at bay. On the seventh plane, known to us as Earth, Norma Khan and Barney Guttman have allied...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Sam Walsh returns home after three years in the custody of his kidnapper, his older sister Beth and childhood friend Josh must deal with their survivors' guilt, their memories of what really happened the day Sam disappeared, and with the fact that Sam is not the boy they remember, but a troubled teen struggling to re-adapt to normal life.
Author
Series
Quinnelope volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
249 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Quinnelope wakes up one morning to learn that all of the cookies in her town have gone missing...What is a cookie-obsessed queen supposed to do? Solve the mystery of the cookie catastrophe, of course!...Can Quinnelope bring the Cookie King and his cookies back to Pleasant Towne, or will she be doomed to eat crummy cakes forever?"--
15657) Happily Ever Island
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Disney superfan and hopeless romantic Madison gets the chance to test run Disney's newest fully-immersive vacation destination that allows guests to become their favorite Disney character for a week, the eighteen-year-old college freshman jumps at the opportunity and begs her best friend Lanie to come along. Madison decides to go as the iconic princess herself, Cinderella, with Lanie as bow-wielding Merida. It's not Lanie's idea of fun, but...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the throes of the Revolutionary War, Peggy Schuyler finds herself a central figure amid Loyalists and Patriots, spies and traitors, friends and family. Among those friends, she develops a relationship with Alexander Hamilton, who becomes romantically involved with her sister, Eliza.
15659) The rock
Author
Series
Sisters of the porcelain doll volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
414 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The one thing she wants is the thing most out of reach -- a place to call home. After a whiskey still explosion destroys her home and nearly her life, Rebecca Packwood and her father must leave Missouri and her dear friends behind. Crossing the Oregon Trail, she sets out to discover her family's secret history and to forge a home and community out of the raw farm land of Eagle Creek, Oregon Country, never suspecting a ruthless enemy is seeking to...
15660) Here so far away
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Feisty and fearless George Warren (given name: Frances, but no one calls her that) has never let life get too serious. Her plans for senior year include partying with her friends and then getting the heck out of town after graduation. But family has been facing hard times since her father, a police sergeant, got injured. If he can't return to work, it will put George's college plans in jeopardy. When she meets Francis, an older guy who shares her...
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