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Publisher
Lofty Sky Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The story behind Miss World contestant Anastasia Lin using her beauty and brass to stand up against an oppressive juggernaut the Chinese communist government. Drama, danger and fear follow Anastasia as she becomes the darling of the human rights community, traveling the globe to bring the world's attention to an increasing list of China's atrocities: the persecution of prisoners of conscience and live forced organ harvesting. An unlikely candidate...
Author
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Whether landscaping a new house or sprucing up an old one, readers can employ this handbook to select plants for beauty, privacy, shade, low-maintenance care, and even kid-friendliness for tree houses and hammocks. 100 color photos. Line drawings.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"It has been the home to priests and prostitutes, poets and spies. It has been the stage for an improbable flirtation between an Israeli girl and a Palestinian boy living on opposite sides of the barbed wire that separated enemy nations. It has even been the scene of an unsolved international murder. This one-time shepherd's path between Jerusalem and Bethlehem has been a dividing line for decades. Arab families called it "al Mantiqa Haram." Jewish...
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"With echoes of Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, and anti-immigrant hysteria, this remarkably intense, beautifully wrought tale combines the ingenuity of speculative fiction with the difficulties of today's harsh political realities" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
Description
"Leo Zikos should be celebrating securing a perfectly convenient fiancée, but it's left him cold. Instead it's stranger Grace Donovan's impeccable beauty that fires his blood. So he decides to pursue one last night of freedom... But that night, and the two little blue lines on the pregnancy test that follow it, blows Leo's plans apart. Now he must break with his fiancée and marry Grace. She might resist marrying a man she barely knows, but...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
From acclaimed writer and biologist Sean B. Carroll, a rollicking, awe-inspiring story of the surprising power of chance in our lives and the world Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driven...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this book find out the top ten sites to see or things to do in the Old Line State! We'll explore Maryland's popular seaside, exciting museums, beautiful state parks, and lively history.
90) On women
Author
Publisher
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of Susan Sontag's essays about women, edited by David Rieff and introduced by Merve Emre"--
Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. "The most interesting ideas are heresies," she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women...
91) Up in smoke
Author
Series
Crossing the line (Tessa Bailey) volume 2
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Connor Bannon is supposed to be dead. Dishonorably discharged from the Navy SEALs when his past exploded in his face, he's spent the last two years working as a street enforcer in Brooklyn, New York, for his cousin's crime ring. But thanks to a twist of fate, he's been given a fresh start in Chicago, going undercover to bust criminals. Just like himself. Erin "She's getting away" O'Dea knows two things. She hates authority. And--nope, that's it. She...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Freshwater fishing is a great way to cast a line when you're far away from the ocean. There are plenty of big fish to be found in lakes and rivers, and this exciting book will teach readers how to have a great time on the beautiful waterways where freshwater fish are found.
94) Cuba
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
95) Kilt trip
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ready or Scot... Globetrotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel consultant, she jet sets around the world - anywhere but Scotland. But when she's sent on assignment to help a struggling family-run tour company in the Highlands - and save her own job - Addie packs away her emotional baggage and turns on the professional charm. Rugged as the land he loves, Logan Sutherland's greatest joy is sharing the beauty of Scotland's hidden...
96) Free lunch
Author
Series
Memoir (Rex Ogle) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
97) Constantly
Author
Publisher
Koyama Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A poetic meditation rendered in beautiful pastels and black line on managing and struggling to get through the small tasks of every day. The claustrophobia of thought and the crippling of anxiety make any house haunted, any body possessed."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Every Tuesday, Yotam's grandfather takes him to a coffee shop after kindergarten, where Grandpa Amnon drinks coffee and Yotam likes to draw. One day, Yotam has a question: "Grandpa, what's on your face?" Grandpa Amnon explains that the lines on his face are wrinkles, and they are something that grownups get. He tells Yotam the stories of how he got each of his wrinkles. Some reasons for Grandpa's wrinkles are sad, like when Grandma Dina was sick....
Author
Language
English
Description
"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their villages all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
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