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Author
Publisher
Verso Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Situating non-violence at the cross-roads of the ethical and political, The Force of Non-Violence brings into focus the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence. Non-violence is very often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as an individualist ethic with an unrealistic relation to existing forms of power. This book argues for an aggressive form of non-violence that struggles with...
84) Enchanted August
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a dreary spring day in Brooklyn, Lottie and Rose spot an ad on their children's preschool bulletin board: Old, pretty cottage to rent on a small island. Springwater, blueberries, sea glass. August. Smitten, they decide to take the place and find two others to share the rent. Arriving on the island, they are transformed by the salt air and breathtaking views. And by the late-August blue moon, real life has fallen away. They open up to one another...
Author
Publisher
Yonder, Restless Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Fred and her math-teacher mom are always on the move, and Fred is getting sick of it. She's about to have yet another birthday in a new place without friends. On the eve of turning thirteen, Fred sees something strange in the living room: her mother, dressed for a party, standing in front of an enormous paper lantern--which she steps into and disappears. Fred follows her and finds herself in the Land of Impossibility--a loopily illogical place where...
Author
Series
Miles Morales Spider-man volume 5
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The battle against Ultimatum is over -- but Miles and his family will bear the scars for the rest of their lives! A day with Starling may raise Miles' spirits, but there's always another shoe about to drop...like symbiote dragons attacking Brooklyn! And that's not the worst thing unleashed by the King in Black -- Knull has taken over one of Miles' friends and is using them to go after the young Spider-Man! If Miles can come out of this ordeal unscathed,...
Author
Publisher
Fayetteville Mafia Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was "Cry Me a River," and with that a star was born. Barbra Joan Streisand had a zany personality backed by a talent that Stephen Sondheim once described as "one of the two or three best voices in the world of singing songs," adding "It's not just her voice but her intensity, her passion and control." Harold Arlen, another of her favorite composers, commented,...
Author
Publisher
[Self-published]
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
Rob Segall was birthed by a midwife on a Farm in Arkansas in 1966. After winning the Heisman Trophy as a college quarterback, Rob decided to forgo the NFL and instead focus on his first passion: the law. All bullshit aside, Rob graduated Brooklyn Law School in 1991 and four and half years later tried to kill himself. The good news is that with the love support of his high school sweetheart, Karin, an accomplished lawyer, wife and super mom, Rob launched...
Author
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It is spring and Little Red fox is excited to be reunited with his best friend, Hazel, a dormouse who will shortly wake from a long sleep. But over the winter, the fox has made another friend, Brock the badger. Little Red decides revealing the new friendship is not the surprise Hazel will want to wake to, so he delays bringing it up as they resume their games. Bu the fox needs to find a way to introduce the friends while maintaining the special friendship...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The story of a man's last wish to make a difference--and of the loved ones he leaves behind fulfilling their destinies at last" --
"Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman--the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art connoisseur--as his second wife. In two marriages, he has fathered a challenging son and three very different daughters. But as...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning. Years after the Ark was cut off from the world--a world much like our own, but in which slavery has never existed--a chance of survival within the Ark's confines is granted to a select few who can prove their worth. Among their number is Markriss Denny, whose path to future excellence is marred only by a closely guarded...
95) Pizza my heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Maya Reynolds has practically grown up in her family's Brooklyn pizza shop, Soul Slice, and is a true city girl. When her family moves to a small town in Pennsylvania to open another pizza place, everything changes. Being the new girl is hard enough. At Soul Slice 2.0, Maya is assigned delivery duty. And her first delivery is a disaster. Can you make a worse impression than tripping ... and falling face-first into a rude boy's pizza order? When that...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, I’ll Remember You is a bittersweet love story set on the home front in 1943 about two strangers who meet and fall in love in the shadow of war and the racism and anti-Semitism of the 1940s. Fiercely proud, idealistic Bobbie Feinman, a small-town Jewish girl, travels to Miami Beach and finds herself in the middle of the military buildup in 1943 America. Against her better judgment, she falls for a complex young soldier from...
Author
Publisher
Creature Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Clytemnestra is a check-in girl at The Gold Persimmon, a temple-like New York City hotel with gilded furnishings and carefully guarded secrets. Cloistered in her own reality, Cly lives by a strict set of rules until a connection with a troubled hotel guest threatens the world she's so carefully constructed. In a parallel reality, an inexplicable fog envelops the city, trapping a young, nonbinary writer named Jaime in a sex hotel with six other people....
Author
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Roger Rosenblatt is indeed "mad about the writing life." The Story I Am, a collection of new and beloved pieces drawn from his vast body of work, celebrates the art, the craft, and the soul of writing. Rosenblatt has written enthusiastically and successfully all his life, as a journalist and essayist (The New Republic, The Washington Post), a New York Times best-selling memoirist (Making Toast), and a novelist (Lapham Rising). Kirkus Reviews noted...
100) Dead red
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"New York City school teacher Raymond Donne had no idea how bad his night was going to get when he picked up the phone. Ricky Torres, his old friend from his days as a cop, needs Ray's help, and he needs it right now in the middle of the night. Ricky picks Ray up in the taxi he has been driving since returning from serving as a Marine in Iraq, but before Ricky can tell Ray what's going on the windows of the taxi explode under a hail of bullets killing...
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