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2502) Not that kind of girl
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Lena Dunham tells stories about wonderful nights with terrible boys and terrible days with wonderful friends, about ambition and the two existential crises that she had before the age of twenty. About fashion and its many discontents. About publicly sharing her body, and having to prove one's self in a meeting full of fifty-year-old men, and the health fears (tinnitus, lamp dust, infertility) that keep her up at night.
2504) Torchwood: Asylum
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When PC Andy Davidson arrests a young girl for shoplifting, he thinks it's going to be a routine case. That is, until he sees that she is carrying a gun. The girl is soaking wet, covered in mud, and the weapon is like nothing he's ever seen before. He knows that this is a case for Torchwood. The team discovers that the girl is called Freda, but can find out nothing else. Yet when she speaks, it's a strange mix of English and Icelandic, but with a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
Thumbelina: The adventures of a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb and her many animal friends.
The emperor and the nightingale: Despite being neglected by the emperor for a jewel-studded bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song.
2507) Downeast
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Nestled in Maine's far northeast corner, Washington County sits an hour's drive from the heart of famed and bustling Acadia National Park. Yet it's a world away. For Willow, Vivian, Mckenna, Audrey, and Josie--five teenage girls caught between tradition and transformation in this remote region--it is home. This book follows their journeys of heartbreak and hope in uncertain times, creating a portrait of rural America with women at its center.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Sixth-grader Merci Suarez doesn't have a big house or take fancy vacations like the other kids at Seaward Pines Academy. She's a scholarship student who lives with her extended family in three little houses they call Las Casitas. But everything feels different this year -- and not just at school, where queen bee Edna Santos has set her sights on Merci's school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Michael Clark. At home, Merci's beloved grandfather, Lolo, has...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
Follow Marie and Peter as they plant a garden, visit the museums, picnic at the beach, celebrate the holidays and other events of the season. A perfect place to start exploring new languages for children of all ages as it introduces common words, phrases and concepts to the beginning language learner through delightful songs and story.
2510) Curveball
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Unabridged edition.
Language
English
Description
Meet Peter Friedman, high school freshman. Talented photographer. Former baseball star. When a freakish injury ends his pitching career, Peter has some major things to figure out. Is there life after sports? Why has his grandfather suddenly given him thousands of dollars worth of camera equipment? And is it his imagination, or is the super-hot star of the girls' swim team flirting with him, right in front of the amazing new girl in his photography...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Philippa Fisher is just an average eleven-and-a-half-year-old girl. She's a bit shy and not the most popular girl at school. But all that changes one day when a new girl named Daisy arrives at school and reluctantly confesses that she is Philippa's very own fairy godsister. Unfortunately for Philippa, Daisy is one fairy who is not too fond of humans, and so she isn't pleased about having to help Philippa. Will Philippa and Daisy be able to solve the...
2512) The family lawyer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The family lawyer: Criminal defense attorney Matthew Hovanes is at the height of his career with a good marriage and popular athlete daughter Hannah, and smart computer whiz son Daniel. But their lives are shattered when a local girl commits suicide after being anonymously bullied-and Hannah is accused of cyber-stalking her. Convinced of Hannah's innocence, Matthew is determined to save his daughter from prison. But as he delves into the case, he...
2513) Mischling
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It's the fall of 1944 when twelve-year-old twins Pearl and Stasha Zamorski are sent to Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, the sisters take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. Catching the eye of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's infamous "Angel of Death," and becoming part of an experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo,...
2514) Girls of Flight City
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
1941. A talented flier, Jessie Lovelace yearns for a career in aviation. When the civilian flight school in her small Texas town begins to clandestinely train British pilots for the RAF, she fights to become an instructor. But the task isn't without its perils of near-misses and death. Faced with the weight of her responsibilities, she finds solace with a British officer who knows firsthand the heavy price paid in war, until he returns to the battles...
2515) No Vacancy
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn’t eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman’s dream, but at least it’s an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door, and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motel’s housekeeper, and her Uncle Mordy, who comes to help out for the summer. She spends her free time helping Kate’s grandmother make her famous grape pies and begins to face...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Description
Seven-year-old Alicia and her parents are enjoying the annual festival celebrating Mexico's independence. There are mariachis strolling across the festival grounds, folkloric dancers twirling in their colorful costumes and brightly colored booths lining the plaza. But the hot day has made Alicia thirsty. Her mother suggests aguas frescas and points to a booth lined with jars of brightly colored fruit juice: there's watermelon, strawberry, mango and...
2520) The wards of Faerie
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When the world was young, and its name was Faerie, the power of magic ruled and the Elfstones warded the race of Elves and their lands, keeping evil at bay. But when an Elven girl fell hopelessly in love with a Darkling boy of the Void, he carried away more than her heart.
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