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Author
Series
Magic Tree House volume 32
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie are whisked back in time to Old Philadelphia by the magic tree house to meet the Founding Father, journalist, and famous inventor Benjamin Franklin.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a book based on the podcast series, a broadcast journalist tells the unbelievable true story of 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph, who, in 1961, set out to build an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall and was faced with many obstacles before freeing 29 people.
23) Beguiled
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a string of robberies in Charleston, South Carolina, takes a strange twist, Logan Woods, a newspaper crime reporter, investigates with hopes of writing a book, and encounters Rylee Monroe, a charming, eye-catching dog walker.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A ... candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today"--
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""An essential book for our times. How well we listen determines how we love, learn, and connect with one another, and in this moment when we need to hear and be heard more than ever, this thought-provoking and engaging book shows us how." -Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone At work, we're taught to lead the conversation. On social media, we shape our personal narratives. At parties, we talk over one...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects three stories, including "The Killer's Wife, " in which Detective McGrath encourages a relationship with a suspect's wife in order to locate six missing girls.
The House Next Door (with Susan DiLallo): Married mother of three Laura Sherman was thrilled when her new neighbor invited her on some errands. But a few quick tasks became a long lunch-and now things could go too far with a man who isn't what he seems....
The Killer's Wife (with...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion--a scramble to do the best we can and make everything up as we go along. In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our imperfections. He investigates the collapse of a multimillion-dollar bird-breeding scam run by an aging farmer known as the Pigeon King, intimately narrates...
Author
Series
Cocktails and Catering mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Bad news for Samantha Warren: The plucky Houston, Texas, reporter lost her job and her fianc�e in rapid succession. But Sam has a way of making lemonade out of the bitterest of lemons. At a meeting of the local historical homes council, she serves up the homemade bitters that she made as gifts for her wedding party. She intends to use that as her "in" to become an in-demand party mixologist. But the party's over for one of the council members, who...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today's world, creating both opportunity and peril--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth. The twenty-first century is experiencing a watershed moment defined by chaos and uncertainty, as one emergency cascades into another, underscoring the larger...
30) The library book
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Susan Orlean reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution--our libraries"--
"Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought...