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Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as the bestselling novelist now turns to shorter fiction, in a collection of six stories and a novella featuring all the storytelling magic that has delighted his fans. In stories all set in New York City, an elderly, widowed man secretly tapes concerts in Carnegie Hall, until the investment banker sitting next to him turns him in; a lawyers unadulterated joy in roller-skating in Central Park...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Tarawa was hell but Saipan is worse. For Sergeant Pete "Hardball" Talbot, recently returned from being wounded on Tarawa seven months earlier, Saipan is just another battle as the United States leaps island to island toward an invasion of the Japanese homeland. But the Japanese have learned, all too well, how to defend their islands, with carefully constructed and concealed bunkers and machine gun nests. Talbot and the dozen men of Second Squad have...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this exploration of what it means to be a Black woman pursuing higher education, Dr. Jasmine L. Harris moves beyond the "data points" to examine the day-to-day impacts of racism in education on Black women as individuals, the longer-term consequences to our personal and professional lives, and the generational costs to our entire families.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Meet the Nelson Thomas siblings of Park, Delaware: Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch, who spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade and wrestles with an explosive temper he doesn't understand. Bird, Fitch's twelve-year-old twin, who wants to be NASA's first female shuttle commander but feels like she's invisible. Cash, Fitch, and Bird live in the...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Lexi, the girl of River's teenaged dreams, all bubbly sweetness, never noticed him. Until now. Now it's up to Deanna, the super pragmatic, algorithm-fueled brains behind the new dating app Meetcute, to make sure they realize that they're not meant for each other. River might be certain he knows true love when he sees it, but Deanna knows differently, and the future of her company is riding on it. All she has to do is prove to him that what he's feeling...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A young teacher eager to change her students' lives with her books. An indigenous community with its own stories to share. And a great and dangerous serpent not to be underestimated. Set along the Amazon River, this stunningly illustrated story will spark lasting conversations about cross-cultural relationships, the importance of oral storytelling, and what it means to be a lifelong learner."--back cover.
10) Maybe
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
You are the only you there ever has been or ever will be. You are unique in all the universe. Just the odds of you being here at this exact place and this exact time are so great and so rare that it will never happen again. Written by New York Times best-selling author Kobi Yamada, this is a story for everything you will do and everything you can be. It's a story about all the possibilities ahead of you. It's for who you are right now and it's for...