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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Language
English
Description
Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap, and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and start a family in Sinjar. The village has seemed to stand apart from time, protected by the mountains and...
62) Girl decoded
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling-to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another. Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim woman in charge in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and male. Growing up in Egypt and Kuwait, el Kaliouby was raised by a strict father...
Author
Series
Echoes of the fall volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
FANTASY. In the bleak northern crown of the world, war is coming Maniye's father is the Wolf clan's chieftain, but she's an outcast. Her mother was queen of the Tiger and these tribes have been enemies for generations. Maniye also hides a deadly secret. All can shift into their clan's animal form, but Maniye can take on tiger and wolf shapes. She refuses to disown half her soul so escapes, rescuing a prisoner of the Wolf clan in the process. The killer...
64) Monstress Vol 4
Publisher
Image Comics Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Maika and Corvin make their way through a warped and lethal land in search of Kippa, who is faced with her own terrible monsters. But when Maika comes face-to-face with a stranger from her deep past, startling truths are uncovered, and at the center of it all lurks a dangerous conspiracy that threatens the Known World. Maika is finally close to getting all the answers she ever wanted, but at what price? With war on the horizon a war no one wants to...
Author
Publisher
[Diversion Books]
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder. But they had no idea that the odd recluse living in the adjacent cabin was anything more than a disheveled man who brought young Jamie painted rocks as gifts....
Author
Series
Saigami volume 1
Publisher
Rockport
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The girl known as Ayumi is a troubled European teenager who feels lost, like a stranger in her world. Her father left when she was little, while her mother's work means she is never around. A love of manga and books keeps her happy, while honest-to-goodness friends seem to be something only other people have. But this is not the case in the fantasy land known as Aesztrea. In this strange new world, there are dragons, creatures, and warriors who can...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Weaving together cutting-edge social science with riveting stories that take us from the frontlines of the Volkswagen scandal to backstage at the Oscars, and from deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico to the top of Mount Everest, Chris Clearfield and Andr©Łs Tilcsik explain how the increasing complexity of our systems creates conditions ripe for failure and why our brains and teams can't keep up. They highlight the paradox of progress: Though modern...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. At the start of the century, England was hardly involved in the wider world and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Almuzara
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición en español.
Language
Español
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Description
"In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa...
Publisher
Saturday AM
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A troubled girl's life changes when she ends up in a fantasy world with dragons, curious characters, and her own emerging ability to control flames.The girl known as Ayumi is a troubled European teenager who feels lost, like a stranger in her world. Her father left when she was little, while her mother's work means she is never around. A love of manga and books keeps her happy, while honest-to-goodness friends seem to be something only other people...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First English language edition.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the Prix Ulysse for best debut novel in France Winner in Croatia and the Balkan region of the Kocicevo Pero Award, the Josip and Ivan Kozarac Award, and the Kiklop Award for the best work of fiction. When the Croatian War of Independence breaks out in her hometown of Vukovar in the summer of 1991 she is nine years old, nestled within the embrace of family with her father, her mother, and older brother. She is sent to a seaside vacation...
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
"A meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude. Winner of the Prix Médicis for nonfiction, The Consolations of the Forest is a Thoreau-esque quest to find solace, taken to the extreme. No stranger to inhospitable places, Sylvain Tesson exiles himself to a wooden cabin on Siberia's Lake Baikal, a full day's hike from any 'neighbor,' with his thoughts, his books, a couple of dogs, and many bottles of vodka...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Final destination: While boarding for a cross-country flight with friends, Alex has a premonition of the plane crashing. When he causes a ruckus and gets kicked off the flight, he and his friends watch in horror as the plane crashes, but Alex and his friends learn that they were fated to die on board the airplane, a fate that hunts them down one-by-one. Final destination 2: A teen with mild precognitive powers prevents a gruesome highway accident...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Description
"Fishes that walk, fishes that breathe air, fishes that look like - and are - monsters from the deep. These and many more strange creatures swim through The Rise of Fishes, John A. Long's richly illustrated tour of the past 500 million years. Long has updated his classic work with illustrations of recent fossil discoveries and new interpretations based on genetic analyses. He reveals how fishes evolved from ancient, jawless animals, explains why fishes...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson -- think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meets Indiana Jones -- and his search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the 'Wild East' during the age of empires, kings, and spies. For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833...
77) Dove collection
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Prairie Fever: While escorting a group of women suffering from "Prairie Fever," a troubled sheriff (Kevin Sorbo) stumbles upon yet another female. But this one isn't sick, she's on the run. Together the pair advocates for the voiceless women while they battle their own demons and the baddies who stand in their way.
Seven Alone: Spring, 1842. America's unclaimed and unexplored land drew thousands of settlers to the West, including the Sager family....
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
We know that the key to getting ahead and launching our ideas is building and sustaining a high-quality and diverse network. But the days of handing out hundreds of business cards at conferences and hoping for the best are over. Our networks need to be both strategic and authentic, made up of real relationships that bring real value. The HBR Guide to Smarter Networking will give you the tools and the confidence you need to make valuable connections,...
Publisher
Aspen Comics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Just when you thought the magic was over... The journey continues as the second volume to Michael Turners smash action adventure fantasy series, SOULFIRE, begins! With the return of magic to a world unprepared for such an inexplicable event, Malikai, Grace, and the rest of the gang struggle to recover from their Battle for the Light against Rainier. Malikai and Sonia attempt to rekindle the romance they began in the magical realm of the Everlands,...
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