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Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Asako has finally settled into life sharing a house with Miyako, her landlord and former leader of the popular idol group Elm. Now fully unpacked, Asako is ready for the next step in making her dream home a reality—buying her first-ever potted plant! But their carefree days are interrupted when Miyako’s unexpected feelings for her tenant begin to strain their relationship, and the shocking news of Elm’s comeback stirs up her past trauma…Will...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeong-Ju, in a leap of faith, opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, and, welcoming new friends and visitors to her circle, builds an inviting space for hurt and lost souls to rest, heal and learn how to write their own stories.
6783) Will & Grace: Season 4
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Will & Grace is set in New York City and focuses on the relationship between Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a Jewish woman who owns an interior design firm. Also featured are their friends Karen Walker, a rich socialite, and Jack McFarland, a struggling gay actor/singer/dancer who has numerous other brief careers.
6784) Greenwich Park
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A sophisticated female-led thriller about a woman whose life starts to unravel as a result of her friendship with an unpredictable single mother, Greenwich Park explores the terrible consequences of guilt, the complexity of female friendships, and the fallibility of the memories we cherish"--
6785) We got the beat
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Jordan Elliott is a fat, nerdy lesbian, and the first junior to be named editor in chief of the school newspaper. Okay, that last part hasn't happened yet, but it will. It's positive thinking that has gotten Jordan this far. Ever since Mackenzie West, her friend-turned-enemy, humiliated her at the start of freshman year, Jordan has thrown herself into journalism and kept her eyes trained on the future. So it's a total blow when Jordan discovers that...
6786) Holiday country
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious...
6787) The favourite
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Early eighteenth-century England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her friend Lady Sarah tends to her ill health. When a new servant Abigail arrives, Sarah takes her under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become time-consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps in to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their growing friendship gives her a chance to fulfill her...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single mother, Willie has reluctantly put family first without being...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life.
Author
Publisher
Herald Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"White settlers saw land for the taking. They failed to consider the perspective of the people already here. In 'The Land Is Not Empty', author Sarah Augustine unpacks the harm of the Doctrine of Discovery - a set of laws rooted in the fifteenth century that gave Christian governments the moral and legal right to seize lands they "discovered" despite those lands already being populated by indigenous peoples. Legitimized by the church and justified...
6791) Don't let them bury my story: the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in her own words
Author
Publisher
Mocha Media Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Viola Ford Fletcher's memoir Don't Let Them Bury My Story vividly recounts the lasting impact of the Tulsa Massacre on her life. As the oldest survivor and last living witness of the tragic events that unfolded in 1921, she shares her testimony with poignant clarity. From the terror of her childhood as a seven-year-old fleeing the burning streets of Greenwood to her current role as a 109-year-old family matriarch seeking justice for the affected families,...
6792) Mare of Easttown
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet plays Mare Sheehan, a small-town Pennsylvania detective who investigates a local murder as life crumbles around her. From creator and writer Brad Ingelsby, with all episodes directed by Craig Zobel, the seven-part limited series is an exploration into the dark side of a close community and an authentic examination of how family and past tragedies can define our present.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the blink of an eye, a modern-day girl named Asahi is whisked away from her warm and happy home and stranded in a strange and mysterious world where she meets a water dragon god! Asahi is in constant danger from people trying to use her to get the water dragon god's power for themselves. She doesn't want anyone to get hurt because of her, so she, the water dragon god and Subaru pay a visit to the emperor. However, in exchange for his protection,...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Océti Sakówin camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota and the armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur...
6795) High profile
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin/Berkley Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A controversial talk-show host is found dead in a public park with three bullets in his chest. Then the body of his female assistant is discovered in a dumpster. Jesse Stone must find the killer, fast, because the victims are linked by something more than murder.
6796) Honey lemon soda: 3
Author
Series
Honey lemon soda volume 3
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Uka's high school life has really taken off...but seeing Kai rush to his ex-girlfriend's did brings her crashing down to earth! After all, why wouldn't he? Serina is beautiful, strong, and popular-the total opposite of Uka-so it's only fitting that he'd come to her rescue. Still, if Uka's learned anything from Kai, it's to give everything her best shot-such as volunteering to lead the class's upcoming culture festival preparations! The only problem...
6797) Find your happy
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A little sloth explores all different kinds of emotions and learns how cope with unpleasant feelings and seek out a happy place.
6798) Creed III
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian a fighter who has nothing to lose.
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This Skin Was Once Mine: When her father dies under mysterious circumstances, Jillian Finch finds herself grieving the man she idolized while struggling to feel comfortable in the childhood home she was sent away from nearly twenty years ago. Then Jillian discovers a dark secret that will threaten to undo everything she has ever known about her father. -- Seedling: A young man's father calls him early in the morning to say that his mother has passed...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's an open secret that voters in smaller, less populous states have more electoral power than their urban counterparts, so why are these same voters the most eager to leave behind democratic principles? In this book, political scientists Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why, with all of this extra influence, these same voters fail to see real benefits, for instance suffering worse health and education outcomes than larger states, and why...
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