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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this brash and unputdownable collection, we meet a sex bot trying to outlast her return policy, a skeptical lesbian grappling with her wife's mysterious pregnancy, and a post-Earth colonist struggling to maintain her faith in humanity as she travels to "Planet B." Whether they exist in the grounded realism of a college dance studio or the speculative world of Deep Space, these women push against social norms and family expectations to reclaim...
Author
Series
Report / Office of Inspector General U.S. Department of the Interior volume no. 17-0962
Publisher
Office of Investigations, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, in a time of great change, two women--separated by societal status and culture but bound by their expected roles as the daughters of famed statesmen--forged a lifelong friendship. Portia Washington's father Booker T. Washington was formerly enslaved and spent his life championing the empowerment of Black Americans through his school, known popularly as Tuskegee Institute, as well as his political connections....
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 117-465
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Grab your hard hats and get ready to bow wow build with Rubble & Crew! First, join the construction team as they build a beaver a new home. Then, the crew switches to cleanup mode when construction on Cafe Carl's new popcorn restaurant pops out of control, and PAW Patrol's Marshall stops by to inspect Builder Cove₂s first-ever fire station! Plus, Mix and Rubble are starstruck when they meet their favorite TV renovation star, Hank Hammer, and there's...
Publisher
Brandywine River Museum of Art
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Horace Pippin's response to the question of what made him a great painter: 'I paint it the way I see it.' This exciting new publication will look closely at Pippin (1888-1946) as an artist who was embraced by the art world, yet remained independent, creating and upholding a unique aesthetic sensibility while also candidly, if subtly, expressing his opinions on a wide range of social issues. A self-taught master of form, colour and composition, Pippin...
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Series
Publisher
Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Join Chase, Marshall, Skye, and the rest of the heroic PAW Patrol pups as they prepare for Adventure Bay's big Mother's Day celebration. Follow them as they deliver gifts to their animal friends and make one very special rescue. Children ages 2 to 5 will love this delightful Little Golden Book that celebrates the mothers, guardians, and caretakers in our lives--and all the wonderful, caring things they do. It's perfect for Mother's Day--or any day.--...
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Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Cycling emerged as a sport in the late 1870s, and from the beginning, Black Americans rode alongside and raced against white competitors. Robert J. Turpin sheds light on the contributions of Black cyclists from the sport's early days through the cementing of Jim Crow laws during the Progressive Era. As Turpin shows, Black cyclists used the bicycle not only as a vehicle but as a means of social mobility--a mobility that attracted white ire. Prominent...
11) The deepest lake
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this atmospheric thriller set at a luxury memoir-writing workshop on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, a grieving mother goes undercover to investigate her daughter's mysterious death. Rose, the mother of 20-something aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter's death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen? When the official investigation...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI The release of generative AI-from LLMs like ChatGPT to image generators like DALL-E-marks a new era. We have invented technologies that boost our physical capabilities and others that automate complex tasks, but never, until now, have we created a technology that can...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court's supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.
"You will not read a more important legal work this election year." —Bob Woodward, Washington Post reporter and author of fifteen #1 New York Times bestselling...
"You will not read a more important legal work this election year." —Bob Woodward, Washington Post reporter and author of fifteen #1 New York Times bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Alex Porter is excited for the first day of school--until his new red backpack goes missing. Can Chase, Skye, and the rest of Adventure Bay's PAW patrol save the school day? Children ages 3 to 7 will enjoy this hardcover storybook that introduces kids to buses, classrooms, classmates, and teachers--and includes more than 50 stickers. Get on the case with Nickelodeon's PAW Patrol! Chase, Marshall, Rubble, Skye, and the rest of the puppy heroes are...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Widescreen DVD.
Language
English
Description
Paw patrol: The movie: When their rival, Humdinger, becomes Mayor of nearby Adventure City and starts wreaking havoc, Ryder and the heroic pups kick into high gear to face the most challenging mission of their careers. Along the way, the team finds help from a new ally, the savvy dachshund Liberty, and together they fight to save the citizens of Adventure City! Can the pups save the city before it's too late? After all, no city is too big, no pup...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
"Theo Pincher is good at most things: drawing, tying shoelaces, working the remote control. But he just can't lie--and in the Pincher family, what matters most is being able to lie and pinch things that belong to others. Then his parents decide to visit the diamond exhibition. "Promise you won't pinch the gold diamond?" says Theo. "I promise," says his mother, one hand behind her back. "We'll just take a little look," says Theo's dad. "No touching."...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use-long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws-is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power-the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' anti-drug...
20) Daisy Kenyon
Series
Fox film noir volume 23
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Daisy Kenyon is a lovelorn commercial artist caught in a romantic triangle with two men-- one she loves but cannot have and one whose love she cannot return. While in an emotionally draining love affair with married attorney Dan O'Mara, who refuses to leave his wife, she meets returning Army sergeant Peter Lapham-- a decent and gentle man who instantly falls in love with her. Although she carries a torch for Dan, she knows Peter will give her the...
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