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1063) Summer reading
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a woman who'd rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making for one hot-summer fling in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay's new rom-com. For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha's Vineyard at her family's tiny cottage was supposed to be about resurrecting her career as a chef, until she's tasked with chaperoning her half-brother, Tyler. The teenage brainiac is spending his summer at the local library...
1064) Half-blood blues
Author
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a German citizen. And he is black. Berlin, 1992. Falk, now...
1065) Free to be -- you and me
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Presents stories, poems, and songs designed to boost self-esteem, and show that boys and girls can choose to do or be whatever they want.
1066) Elvis Presley
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of the legendary and influential rock and roll artist, from the early years to his controversial death in 1977.
1067) Elvis Presley
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Biography of the "King of Rock 'n' Roll" including his impoverished childhood, his success as a recording artist, and his untimely death in 1977.
1068) The rose code
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Longfellow's classic poem of this historic ride is brought to life through illustrations capturing the emotions of the period when the British militia arrived in Boston Harbor, which led to the start of the American Revolution.
1072) Chain-gang all-stars
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising...
1073) October sky
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1950s, a West Virginia teen turns his gaze from a black future in the coal mines below to the black vault above as news of the Sputnik launch ignites a life-changing interest in rocket science.
1074) Glass sword
Author
Series
Red queen volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
Mare's blood is red -- the colour of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by the Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red and Silver fighters...
1076) The American West: a treasury of stories, legends, narratives, songs & ballads of western America
Author
Publisher
World Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1946]
Language
English
1077) Dolly Parton
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Dolly grew up in Tennessee in a family "as poor as dirt." She started performing at an early age, singing on local radio and television. After graduating high school, she moved to Nashville to pursue her singing dreams. Her managers wanted her to sing pop, but she followed her heart to sing and write country songs. Her heart was right--Dolly became a musical superstar, but she never forgot where she came from. She now uses her wealth to give...
1078) Bird & Diz
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Presents a rhythmic tribute to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and their creation of bebop.
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From the epic of Gilgamesh, almost two thousand years BCE, to the modern fantasies of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, authors have created fictional realms that have captivated audiences. Miller has guided a team of writers to unlock the mysteries and meanings of nearly 100 fantastical lands. The essays explore the contemporary events and circumstances that influenced each work, and examine how elements of the author's...
1080) Little monsters
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets-for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes.Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment...
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