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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive. It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following a terrifying sexual assault that left deep emotional...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their immediate problems are more personal than political, with the three adult children, Mo, Edith, and Jacob, in various states of crisis, the result, each claims, of a lifetime of mistreatment by their father, Julian. The siblings have begun to suspect that Julian is hastening...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her publisher insists that she write a Hanukkah romance, Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a Jewish woman with a secret career as a Christmas romance novelist, unexpectedly finds inspiration when she encounters a childhood acquaintance at the Matzah Ball, a Jewish music celebration on the last night of Hanukkah.
For a decade Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt has hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her...
Author
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A series of paintings chronicles the journey of African Americans who, like the artist's family, left the rural South in the early twentieth century to find a better life in the industrial North.
6) Dog
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Briggs and his companion Lulu, a Belgian Malinois, haul ass down the Pacific Coast in time to catch their best friend's and handler's funeral. One of them has a week to live; the other lives like every day is his last.
Author
Series
Publisher
Appleton-Century-Crofts
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
English
Description
Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works. From the musings of intellectuals such as Thomas Paine in Common Sense to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our intellectual history through the words of the exceptional few.
Originally published as a political pamphlet in 1848, amidst the...
Author
Series
Friday night knitting club volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gathering for their weekly knitting club at a small yarn shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of friends shares such challenges as raising children, navigating the ups and downs of their careers, and pursuing uncertain relationships.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fairy tales and folklore written by the Brothers Grimm are essential classics, the ancient stories that have existed since time immemorial, that we teach to our children, and which were originally intended for adults. This edition brings together the best-known tales, including "Sleeping Beauty", "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Hansel and Gretel", "The Frog-King" and "Rumpelstiltskin".
11) The Prince
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The most famous book on politics ever written. The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago.
12) Jacob's room
Author
Language
English
Description
"Considered Woolf's first original and distinguished work, 'Jacob's Room' (1922) concerns a sensitive young man, Jacob Flanders, who finds himself unable to reconcile his love of classical culture with the chaotic reality of World War I. His story unfolds in a series of brief impressions and conversations, stream-of-consciousness narratives, internal monologues, and letters." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
A classic early example of "muck-racking" journalism, or reporting by reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt, "How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York endured at the end of the 19th century. Danish immigrant Jacob A. Riis saw first-hand the horrible conditions of the Lower East Side of Manhattan following his immigration...
14) Freelance
Publisher
Relativity Media LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ex-special forces operative Mason Pettis is stuck in a dead-end desk job when he reluctantly takes on a freelance gig to provide private security for washed-up journalist Claire Wellington as she interviews the ruthless but impeccably dressed dictator, Juan Venegas. When a military coup breaks out just as she's about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive the jungle AND each other to make it out alive!
15) Yours truly
Author
Series
Part of your world volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Briana Ortiz's life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother's running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that's probably going to the new man--doctor who's already registering eighty-friggin'-seven on Briana's 'pain in my ass' scale. But just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Jacob Maddox completely flips the game . . . by sending Briana a letter. And it's a really good...
16) Knit two
Author
Series
Friday night knitting club volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The members of the Friday Night Knitting Club help one another cope with new challenges, as Catherine searches for love after her divorce, Darwin dreams of starting a family, Lucie struggles to care for her elderly mother, and Anita must choose between her grown children and her sweetheart.
17) Knit the season
Author
Series
Friday night knitting club volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dakota Walker spends the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland--accompanied by her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine. Join them as they share a trove of happy memories about Christmases past with Dakota's mom, Georgia Walker--from Georgia's childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mom.
19) Far far away
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jeremy Johnson Johnson's strange ability to speak to the ghost of Jacob Grimm draws the interest of his classmate, Ginger Boltinghouse, the two find themselves at the center of a series of disappearances in their hometown"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"Brain surgeon Thomas Eapen's decision to shorten his visit to his mother's home in India has consequences that reverberate two decades later as he starts conversing with the dead and daughter Amina must sort through the family's past to help him."--
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