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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Michelin star chefs, Wall Street bankers, overwhelmed teachers and other laborers across the American economy, a designer and journalist reveals we are obsessed with our work and makes the urgent case for us to emotionally extricate ourselves from our jobs to reclaim our lives.
23) Un bicho raro
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
Description
A newly hatched bird doesn't know who he is and questions the animals that he encounters. Tired and hungry, he returns to where he started and suddenly sees a mountain of eggs falling from the sky. Creatures who look just like him come out of the eggs and now he doesn't feel so different after all.
Author
Series
The hypnotists volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jackson Opus and his family have been forced into hiding because his identity as a powerful young hypnotist has been leaked out--but his enemy Dr. Mako is still out to find him to use his mesmerizing skills for evil purposes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"For crooked politicians, military brass from third-world nations, and white-collar criminals looking to avoid either prison or a deadlier form of payback, there's Exit Strategy. With just one call, Exit Strategy helps these wealthy-but-wanted types disappear completely. They can fake your death, give you a new name and face, and launder whatever ill-gotten funds you need to establish a new life on the other side of the world. When Jordan Parrish,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read following Kelp as he solves a problem in his own unique way based on the DreamWorks Animation Not Quite Narwhal animated show! Kelp's special Unicorn Spark helps him live with his family in the sea and visit his friends in Unicorn Land. But when Kelp's Unicorn Spark makes a mess, he learns how to fix it on his own.
27) Once
Author
Series
Eve trilogy (Anna Carey) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Eve abandons the safety she has found in Califia, a haven for women, when she receives word that Caleb, the boy she loves, is in trouble, but out in the wild Eve gets captured and is brought to the city gates, where she learns a secret about her own past and must confront a harsh reality in her future.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the large print edition. A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times Time Marie Claire Elle Buzzfeed Huffington Post Good Housekeeping The Week Goodreads New York Post Publishers Weekly and many more "Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love, loss, and dark family secrets." - Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and...
Author
Series
Pride wars volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the distant future, when a new species rules the earth, thirteen-year-old Prince Leo struggles to hide a dangerous and forbidden power he cannot control while trying to unlock the mysteries of his origns"--
31) Dear child
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A woman held captive finally escapes-but can she ever really get away? Gone Girl meets Room in this page-turning, #1 internationally bestselling thriller from one of Germany's hottest new talents "Chilling, original and mesmerizing." -David Baldacci Publishers Weekly Top 10 Mysteries & Thrillers of Fall 2020. A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning...
32) Companion piece
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted-author of the brilliant Seasonal Quartet series-a major new novel that promises to capture the present moment with Ali Smith's genius and bold spirit. "A story is never an answer. A story is always a question." Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future?...
Author
Series
Mirror sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As identical twins, their mother insists that everything about them be identical: their clothes, their toys, their friends...the number of letters in their names, Haylee Blossom Fitzgerald and Kaylee Blossom Fitzgerald. If one gets a hug, the other must, too. If one gets punished, the other must be, too. Homeschooled at an early age, when the girls attend a real high school they find little ways to highlight the differences between them. But when...
34) Supernaturally
Author
Series
Paranormalcy trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Evie thinks she has left the International Paranormal Containment Agency, and her own paranormal activities, behind her when she is recruited to help at the Agency, where she discovers more about the dark faerie prophecy that threatens her future.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The World We Found deftly explores issues of race, class, privilege, and power and asks us to consider uncomfortable moral questions in this probing, ambitious, emotionally wrenching novel of two families-one black, one white.
During a terrible heat wave in 1991-the worst in a decade-ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without...
37) Purity
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A huge-canvased novel about identity, the internet, sexual politics, and love from the author of Freedom and The Corrections"--
Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Falling hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on, Andy Africa, an unusually smart fifteen-year-old in Kontagora, Nigeria, is forced to reckon with his identity and desires and determine how to live on the so-called Cursed Continent.
40) Fiona and Jane
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades"--
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