(0)Cassandra Campbell
161) The ways we hide
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Language
English
Description
"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee being called...
Author
Language
English
Description
A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables ... before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak, and unimaginable greatness. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. Her beloved...
163) Echoes and empires
Author
Series
Echoes and empires volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Snarky seventeen-year-old Josslyn Drake gets infected by a dangerous piece of forbidden magic and teams up with wanted criminal Jericho Nox to remove the spell corrupting her soul.
Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: it is rare, illegal, and always deadly. Then she is caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the Queen's Gala and infected by a dangerous piece of magic--one that allows her to step into the memories of an infamously evil...
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A collection of fifty memoirs explains how the book "Eat Pray Love" influenced readers to embark on their own personal journeys, from embracing motherhood and finding love overseas to grappling with belief and finding the perfect pizza.
165) African Town
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.
In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands...
In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands...
166) Cleopatra Confesses
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
It is the first century BC Cleopatra, the third of the pharaoh's six children, is the one that her father has chosen to be the next queen of Egypt. But when King Ptolemy is forced into exile, Cleopatra is left alone to fend for herself in a palace rife with intrigue and murder. Smart, courageous, ambitious, and sensuously beautiful, she possesses the charm to cause two of history's most famous leaders to fall in love with her. But as her cruel
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Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Bond’s smart, sexy series featuring Carlotta Wren continues!
Former socialite Carlotta Wren works at Neiman Marcus by day and helps her brother move bodies from crime scenes by night. In the latest installment in this delightful series, Carlotta finds herself in the midst of a bizarre new mystery.
From the Compact Disc edition.
Former socialite Carlotta Wren works at Neiman Marcus by day and helps her brother move bodies from crime scenes by night. In the latest installment in this delightful series, Carlotta finds herself in the midst of a bizarre new mystery.
From the Compact Disc edition.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking health guide for women of all ages that shows women’s inherent moodiness is a strength, not a weakness, and medication is not always the answer
Women are leaders, breadwinners, and caregivers. We’re leaning in so much we’re about to fall over. To take the edge off, many women pop a pill, eat something sugary, have a drink, or spend mindless time online. These activities quickly become patterns...
Women are leaders, breadwinners, and caregivers. We’re leaning in so much we’re about to fall over. To take the edge off, many women pop a pill, eat something sugary, have a drink, or spend mindless time online. These activities quickly become patterns...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
We all have treasured possessions-a favorite pair of shoes, a much-beloved chair, an ever-expanding record collection. But sometimes, this emotional attachment to our belongings can spiral out of control and culminate into a condition called compulsive hoarding. From hobbyists and collectors to pack rats and compulsive shoppers-it is close to impossible for hoarders to relinquish their precious objects, even if it means that stuff takes over their...
