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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"It's a hot summer on Maine's Sanpere Island, and Faith Fairchild is surprisingly unencumbered. Her husband, Tom, is sharing office space on the other side of the island; their son, Ben, has remained at college for the summer as a professor's research assistant; and their daughter, Amy, is working in the kitchen at the old Laughing Gull Lodge, now a revamped conference center. Faith is looking forward to some projects of her own. Her friend Sophie...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
440, 16 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kate Blunt will do anything for her son, Jasper, who has cystic fibrosis... except get him a dog. The daily medical routine that keeps Jasper alive is complicated enough, though her decision runs contrary to her work as the veterinarian in charge of a Cape Cod animal shelter. Then a scarred, mistreated wreck of a dog turns up. Whistler is too old, too ugly for anyone to adopt. But the dog forms an instantaneous bond with Jasper. He never makes...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Alex Taylor opens her eyes, she is hooked up to an IV, is bound to an operating table, and her legs are raised in stirrups. A man in the room claiming to be a doctor calmly and methodically tells her how he's about to attack her. Before Alex can even scream for help, she succumbs to another dose of anesthesia, rendering her unable to defend herself. When she wakes up, she immediately reports the attack and rape. The police are skeptical of...
44) Ordinary girls
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Plum and her older sister Ginny find their relationship tested by family finances, personality differences, and the secrets they are keeping from each other.
45) Drip, drop
Author
Series
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pip Squeak the mouse is kept awake all night by the drips from his leaky roof.
46) Sid and Sam
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st Trophy ed.
Lexile measure
120L
Physical Desc
27 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sid sings a long song that drives Sam crazy.
47) Inspector Hopper
Author
Series
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Hopper and his perpetually hungry assistant McBugg solve three mysteries for their insect friends.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation's "greatest invention." Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined amidst the brutal persecution of Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, Quakers, African slaves, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses. American leaders drove religious...
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Language
English
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"On July 5, 2016, as James Comey announced that he had cleared Hillary Clinton, his FBI was furtively meeting with the author of the fictitious anti-Trump 'dossier' funded by Clinton and the Democrats. The document, together with many other unfounded accusations, would be exploited in a malicious attempt to frame Trump for unidentified crimes he did not commit. This was the beginning of the Russia hoax..." -- Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that cannot last. A year after the death of a young boy at...
51) The silence
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the darkness of a underground cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed. Swarming from their prison, they multiply and thrive. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death. Deaf for many years, Ali knows how to live in silence. Now, it is her family's only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others, to find a remote haven where they can...
52) Splish splash
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
250L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Different animals ask to join a fish in a tub until the tub is full.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xx, 340 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression,...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In his controversial bestseller Darwin's Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe challenged Darwin's theory of evolution, arguing that science itself has proven that intelligent design is a better explanation for the origin of life. In Darwin Devolves, Behe advances his argument, presenting new research that offers a startling reconsideration of how Darwin's mechanism works, weakening the theory's validity even more. A system of natural selection acting...
55) Restless rancher
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One minute down-on-his-luck rancher Austin Hubbard slept soundly, the next, a sassy spitfire dumped a pitcher of water on his head and woke him up--in more ways than one. Hired to help him rebuild his ranch, Sonya Tucker ends up helping him put the tattered pieces of his life back together. The capable, all-business accountant is on a mission to get the ranch up and running, but can he convince the temptingly beautiful woman to take a chance on him?...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
November 21, 2010. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter was posted atop a building in violent Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when an enemy grenade skittered toward him and fellow Marine Nick Eufrazio. Without hesitation, Carpenter jumped on the grenade, saving Eufrazio but sacrificing himself. Severely wounded, it took dozens of surgeries and almost three years to reconstruct his body-- yet his spirit was unbroken. This is Carpenter's story...
Author
Language
English
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Description
What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that described the horrific way he committed his crimes: bind, torture,...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The Hemingway Sisters of Cold River, Missouri are local legends. Raised by a mother obsessed with Ernest Hemingway, they were named after the author's four wives--Hadley, Pfeiffer, Martha, and Mary. The sisters couldn't be more different--or more alike. Now they're back in town, reunited to repair their fractured relationships. Hadley is the poised, polished wife of a senator. Pfeiffer is a successful New York book editor. Martha has skyrocketed to...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis despite cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When she said her marriage vows, Leonard was determined to be the best wife she could be. When her first son was born with a severe disability, she promised herself to always be the mother he needed. When she began her jewelry business, Leonard committed to giving it her all. The competing demands took their toll. Leonard realized that she could no longer be everything to everyone--without losing herself. She began loving bravely--accepting that God...