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Author
Series
Skyward volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A fugitive in her home city of Chicago, Willa Fowler hits the road now. But there are new dangers awaiting her outside the city-giant, man-eating bugs, for instance!-- and maybe one or two old ones, too. Can Willa outrun her past, or will she be forced to turn and face it?" -- Back cover.
62) American war
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place"--
64) Loving
Author
Series
Bailey Flanigan volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the fourth and final chapter of the series, Bailey's planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, but doubts are wracking her mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon, or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana, and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?
65) The far field
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present."--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,|c[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Malala Yousafzai was born, people shook their heads because girls were considered bad luck. But her father looked into her eyes and knew she could do anything. In Pakistan, people said girls should not be educated. But Malala and her father were not afraid. She secretly went to school and spoke up for education in her country. And even though an enemy tried to silence her powerful voice, she would not keep quiet. Malala traveled around the world...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"1940: As the Germans advance upon Paris, young seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee everything she's ever known. She's bound for New York City with her signature gold dress, a few francs, and a dream: to make her mark on the world of fashion. Present day: Fabienne Bissette journeys to the Met's annual gala for an exhibit featuring the work of her ailing grandmother - a legend of women's fashion design. But as Fabienne begins to learn more...
68) Maya's notebook
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to the remote island of Chiloé, off coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Maya, a young American on the run, records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic...
69) Last snow
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two incompatible companions--Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President's daughter--and finding the people responsible for murdering an American senator who was supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine.
70) The unseen
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When San Antonio becomes a dumping ground for the battered bodies of young women, Texas Ranger Logan Raintree must use his powerful ability to commune with the dead and lead a brand-new group of elite paranormal investigators to solve this disturbing case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed in North America by Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Manchester 1809. When budding young criminal Mary Jebb swindles Michael Croxton's brother with a blank pound note, he chases her into the night and sets in motion a train of sinister events. Condemned to seven years of transportation to Australia, Mary sends him a 'Penny Heart'-a token of her vow of revenge. Two years later, Michael marries naive young Grace Moore. Although initially overjoyed at the union, Grace quickly realizes that her husband...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 312
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Contains three works by Edith Wharton, including "Ethan Frome," the tragic story of a New England farmer married to a hypochondriac and in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie.
77) Emma
Author
Series
Publisher
association with Morpheus Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A manga adaptation of the classic literary novel by Jane Austen about a well-meaning, but bumbling young matchmaker.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 13
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The wayward son of Israeli intelligence, Gabriel Allon is plunged into a high stakes game of murder, espionage, and corruption after a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, which threatens to destroy a prime minister's career.
79) Pride and prejudice and zombies: the classic regency romance--now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem
Author
Series
Publisher
distributed in North America by Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
As a mysterious plague falls upon the village of Meryton and zombies start rising from the dead, Elizabeth Bennett is determined to destroy the evil menace, but becomes distracted by the arrival of the dashing and arrogant Mr. Darcy.
80) Forrest Gump
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Forrest Gump is not a "smart" man. But the young Alabaman with an IQ of 75 is a thoroughly decent man, who manages to become involved in every major event in American history. And he survives them all with only honesty and niceness as his shields. Thanks to his where-there's-a-will-there's-a-way Mama, Forrest believes in himself. This sees him through being taunted by bullies, playing college football, the army, a business, and -- amazingly -- many...
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