author
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Though the Pony Express has enjoyed a lot of traction over the years, among the authors that have attempted to encapsulate it, none have ever ridden it themselves. While most scholars would look for answers inside a library, Will Grant looks for his between the ears of a horse. Inspired by the likes of Mark Twain, Sir Richard Burton, and Horace Greeley, all of whom traveled throughout the developing West, Will Grant returned to his roots: he would...
22) Club Zoe
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Zoe is the most popular girl at school and at The Club. She gets a lot of attention from boys and she is always asked to dances. Now, she has her eye on an older boy, Steve, the basketball coach at The Club, but it seems like no matter how hard she tries, Zoe can't get Steve to ask her out. When The Club throws a big dance, Zoe knows that it's her last chance. But can she learn to value herself beyond what boys think of her?
23) Anna O: a novel
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Formats
Description
"The world will know her name. The average person spends 33 years of their life asleep. But, in this mysterious shadow world, how can we ever know who we really become? In 2019, Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future ahead of her. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn’t woken up since. Her deep sleep is known by neurologists as ‘resignation syndrome’, a rare functional...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A Crocodile in the Family is a heartwarming story about a family of birds who find a lone egg and take it home to care for it themselves. The egg eventually hatches and it isn't a baby bird inside--it's a baby crocodile! They raise their new baby crocodile as one of their own, while their community asks them why they keep him? It turns out the bird family's reason is simple..."--Jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"This picture book biography follows a brilliant South Indian mathematician whose love of numbers spurred him to ask big questions and make incredible discoveries. The book's back matter includes an author's note, a glossary of Ramanujan's world, and mathematical content about number patterns and magic squares"--
"A memorable, inspiring introduction to a groundbreaking figure in STEM history. Growing up in southern India during British rule, Srinivasa...
Author
Series
Description
"Paris, 1889. Luz Alana set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love. In the City of Lights, she intends to expand the rum business her family built over three generations, but buyers and shippers alike can't imagine doing business with a woman...never mind a woman of color. This, paired with being denied access to her inheritance unless...
27) of Fire and Ash
Author
Series
Fireborn epic volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Description
She rides a fireborn, a steed of fire and ash, trained for destruction. Ceridwen tal Desmond dreams of ruling like her father over the nation of Soldonia, where warriors ride to battle on magical steedssoaring on storm winds, vanishing in shadow, quaking the earth, and summoning the sea. After a tragic accident claims her twin brother, she is exiled and sworn to atonement by spending her lifeor deathfor her people. But when...
Author
Series
Description
"If you want to teach your children the magic of kindness, this cute picture book is the right choice for you. It will clearly show your little ones how easy and joyful it is to be kind. Spending a time on grandparents' farm little Nick meets new friends - funny animals that don't behave nicely. Having faced a great challenge our little hero manages to teach his new friends the power of kindness, caring and compassion."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013],[2014]
Description
"Join Winken, Blinken, and Nod on their fantastical journey to a land beyond sleep in this expanded version of the classic children's tale. The imaginative rhyme and whimsical illustrations will get your little one ready for bedtime--and a night full of fun, sweet dreams."--Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Mutiny on the Bounty volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Recounts the events which took place on the high seas during 1789 in which there was a mutiny on the English ship Bounty and the resulting trial of the participants upon returning to England.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Teaching Your Child to Read is a guide book for parents looking to get their children, ages 3 to 6, interested in reading. It explains how to help children cultivate reading ability step by step, as well as answers the questions of Why should I? and How do I? when it comes to specific exercises."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Addy has never been good at sports. She's so clumsy, she's earned the name Hurricane Addy. But this year, all of that is going to change. Addy wants to join the swim team at the Club. She's surprised to learn how much exercise and training it takes to become a strong swimmer. Does Addy have what it takes to be the athlete she always dreamed of becoming?
Author
Series
Universe after volume 1
Description
Think big guns, smugglers, epic space battles, and a telekinetic girl with all the gifts. Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her trail is the Pax--a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the pulse....
35) The Quickie
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Formats
Description
"When she sees her husband with another woman, Lauren Stillwell's heart nearly stops beating. Their marriage is perfect, she has a great job, she loves her life. But his betrayal turns her into someone she never imagined she could be - a woman lusting for revenge." "It was supposed to be a quickie, a way to even the score. But Lauren's night of passion takes a shocking turn when she witnesses an unexpected, unbelievable, deadly crime. Her horrifying...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways. But the city is changing. As it does, it pushes her to the margins where she chances upon a series of apparent strangers - from a homeless man squatting in an abandoned hotel, to a shut-in hermit afraid to leave...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We display them on our bookshelves or store them in our attics. We give them as gifts. We write our names in them. We take them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double life.; The Secret Life of Books is about everything that isn't just the words. It's about how books transform us as individuals. It's about how books - and readers...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In early 1940 Chaim Herszman was locked in to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. Hungry, fearless and determined, he goes on scavenging missions outside the wire limits, until he is forced to kill a Nazi guard. That moment changes the course of his life, and sets him on an unbelievable adventure across enemy lines. Chaim avoids grenade and rifle fire on the Russian border, shelters with a German family in the Rhineland, falls in love in occupied France,...
40) Pat-a-cake
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Join in with Elephant and Giraffe as they play pat-a-cake in this delicious, rhyming book."