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841) The favourite
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Early eighteenth-century England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her friend Lady Sarah tends to her ill health. When a new servant Abigail arrives, Sarah takes her under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become time-consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps in to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their growing friendship gives her a chance to fulfill her...
842) Forget me Nat
Author
Series
Nat enough volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the first time in her life, Natalie feels confident. Her talents are being recognized, she has supportive friends, and she's spending a ton of time with her crush, Derek! But when Derek tells Natalie that he just wants to be friends, Natalie's self-confidence quickly changes to self-doubt. As she tries to recover from her broken heart, Natalie casts aside her talents and even her friends. With no one to turn to, Natalie will have to pull herself...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When 'Willie' Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary, Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1920s, photographer Nellie Burns leaves Chicago to find adventure and a career in the West. She lands in Ketchum, Idaho. Out one night photographing moonshadows on snow, she discovers and photographs a dead body. When the body disappears and her negatives are stolen, she joins the chase to solve the mystery and find her negatives. But the Basque sheriff does not welcome her help, and the Chinese resients in town suspect Nellie herself...
845) Romancing the throne
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"For the first time ever, the Weston sisters are at the same boarding school. After an administration scandal at Libby's all-girls school threatens her chances at a top university, she decides to join Charlotte at posh and picturesque Sussex Park. Social-climbing Charlotte considers it her sisterly duty to bring Libby into her circle: Britain's young elites, glamorous teens who vacation in Hong Kong and the South of France and are just as comfortable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Mary Anne should never have thrown away that chain letter she got in the mail. Ever since she did, bad things have been happening to everyone in the Baby-sitters Club. With Halloween coming up, Mary Anne's even more worried -- what kind of spooky thing will happen next? Then Mary Anne finds a new note in her mailbox: Wear this bad-luck charm, it says. OR ELSE. Mary Anne has to follow the note's instructions. But who sent the charm? And why did they...
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.
848) Listen to this
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Told from two perspectives, Lily and Will deal with the tumult of seventh grade including secrets, rumors, shifting friendships, overbearing parents, and a first dance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"These stories are an extra peek at Auggie, a boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie's oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie's new friend at school"--
Author
Publisher
Summit University Press Español
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
En Español: "Todos buscamos a esa persona especial. Pero nuestras expectativas sobre el amor y las relaciones a menudo se basan en el concepto del amor romántico que hemos visto en las películas de Hollywood. Empezamos a creer que si nuestro matrimonio o relación no es extraordinariamente feliz y no satisface perfectamente todas nuestras necesidades, algo debe andar muy mal. En [esta libro], la escritora describe la muy necesaria perspectiva...
851) Kiss number 8
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball games with her dad. She goofs off with her best friend Cat, and has thus far managed to avoid getting kissed by Adam, the boy next door. It's everything she hoped high school would be... until all of a sudden, it's not. Her dad is hiding something big--so big it could tear her family apart. And that's just the beginning of her problems: Mads is starting...
Author
Series
Walking Dead collections (hardcover) volume 4
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Police officer Rick Grimes and a few human survivors battle hordes of decomposing zombies and a rival group of survivors.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Con ingenio y humor, María Amparo Escandón sigue a la familia Alvarado mientras esta lucha con evacuaciones inminentes, secretos, engaños y traiciones, y con la decisión más difícil que deben tomar hasta el momento: permanecer unidos o quemarlo todo. L.A. está seco como un desierto, Oscar, el patriarca de la familia Alvarado, está obsesionado con el clima y solo quiere un poco de lluvia. En realidad, alberga un secreto que lo distrae de todo...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
A collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. The author describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In a spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth.
"Una poderosa colección de poesía y prosa breve para impulsar la transformación personal...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Valeria Winters has an easier time finding trouble than making friends. A fantasy-obsessed nerd with the legendary confidence--and temper--of a Valkyrie, Val promises her mom that things will be different at her new school. "No more fighting!" As if by fate, she meets the Table Titans right away--Alan, Andrew, and Darius, who run the school's tabletop gaming club. Finally, Val has found her own adventuring party! And even better . . . a place where...
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