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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A selection of stories, poems, essays, articles, and reviews by the American humorist reveals the range of her wit and satire. When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, Dorothy Parker is still the champion, after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American popular literature in the 1920s and 1930s. This collection...
2523) We keep the dead close
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death...
2524) Stories for spring
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
And then it's spring: A young boy and his dog decide they have had enough of winter, so they resolve to plant a garden. Join them as they savor the anticipation of new growth.
First the egg: Which came first? The chicken or the egg? A book about transformations ... from egg to chicken, seed to flower, and caterpillar to butterfly. An entirely fresh and memorable presentation on the concepts of growth and creativity.
My garden: A girl dreams of creating...
2525) We're not broken
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
With a reporter's eye and an insider₂s perspective, Eric Garcia shows what it's like to be autistic across America.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In middle age, the author came across the journal she had kept during her adolescence. She set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of 'mystical' experiences. A staunch atheist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her lifelong search. Part memoir, part philosophical and spiritual inquiry, it brings an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's uninhibited...
2527) The Daydream Cabin
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Substitute counselor for wayward teens isn't how public-school teacher Jayden Bennett planned to spend her summer vacation. However reluctant, she's hiking up her jeans and heading for remote Piney Wood Academy in north Texas. Two months. Seven days a week. Few amenities. And three troubled girls daring Jayden to make a difference. She understands what she's up against. She has her own burdens to bear. Jayden's not in it alone. The devoted elderly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
A larger-than-life hero with a towering personality, Robin Olds was a graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army. In World War II, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of twenty-two--a double ace with twelve aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man became a legend. He motivated a dejected group of pilots by placing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit, he has purchased hundreds of women, and asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he...
2531) Tonie character: Sulley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Mike and Sulley are two monsters working together to scare kids at the largest scream-processing factory. When a little girl, Boo, follows Sulley back into the monster world, he finds his career in jeopardy and his life turned upside down. This Tonie teaches kids about building friendships, teamwork, and not judging a book by its cover."--Tonie website.
"The Toniebox comes to life when paired with our whimsical collection of Tonies: hand-painted...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1841 and Grayson Sherbrooke, a popular author of gothic paranormal mysteries, lives on the coast of Northern England with his four-year-old-son, Pip. He's asked by a neighboring little girl, P.C., to come to Wolffe Hall because something terrible is threatening her and her mother. She describes the house shaking with terrifying tremors and a huge black hole she calls the Abyss appearing in the entrance hall. She also knows the menace involves...
2533) Sherlock Holmes theatre
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In the Napoleon of crime, Professor Moriarity plots with would-be blackmailers to have Holmes killed. And the normally love-proof Holmes falls for an exceptional woman. The play was co-authored by the American matinee idol William Gillette, who played the title sleuth. A smash hit from the beginning, the play remained in Gillette's repertoire until he retired more than thirty years after its premiere.
What is the secret of the shocking death of poor...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Tip, a young Gillikin boy, runs away from his cruel guardian, the wicked witch Mombi. He meets up with the Scarecrow, now ruler of the Emerald City, the Tin Woodman, many new friends, and an army of girls who want to overthrow the Scarecrow. Before it's over, Tip finds out that he is part of a dark secret from Oz's past"--Container.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this course, the author seeks to answer two questions: What makes these works masterpieces? Why highlight these works? Professor Lependorf highlights relevant details of the lives of the great composers and aids in developing a knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of Western music.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Listeners who love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV holiday specials, holiday episodes of their favorite sitcoms, and especially holiday anthologies are going to fall in love with stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers and edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. There are twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
One night, while Dalia slept safely wrapped in her mother's cool silken sheets, her hair grew and grew. By the time the rooster crowed, her hair had "grown straight up to the sky, tall and thick as a Cuban royal palm tree." Her mother was amazed, and wondered what her daughter would do with her wondrous hair. As Dalia looked at the flowers blooming in the garden, an idea sprouted inside her. She decorated her hair with leaves from the forest and...
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Battle for Wakanda. There's a crisis in Wakanda. The sacred Mound is being attacked by an evil cult, and Wakandans are growing angry with their new king, TChalla, aka the Super Hero Black Panther. So it's bad timing when Black Panther is called away by the Avengers. There is strong evidence that Black Panther has stolen a highly classified weapon! With help from some familiar faces in S.H.I.E.L.D. and some new ones like the Dora Milaje, Black Panther...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Lila and Lena, two bright young girls who have grown up in the tough, rough streets of post-war Naples. Striving to make a better life for themselves, they work hard at school but Lila is stopped in her tracks when forced to give up her education and work for the family shoe-making business. It's not long before their worlds are pushed apart, and Lila ends up marrying a local businessman and son of the murdered local loan shark,...
2540) Bear Island
Author
Series
Edition
VOX edition.
Language
English
Description
Louise and her family are sad over the loss of their beloved dog, Charlie. "Life will not be the same," Louise says, as she visits a little island that Charlie loved. But on a visit to the island after Charlie's death, something strange happens: She meets a bear. At first, she's afraid, but soon she realizes that the bear is sad, too. As Louise visits more often, she realizes that getting over loss takes time. And just when she starts to feel better,...
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