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1) Bloodlines
Author
Series
Bloodlines (Richelle Mead) volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California. But at their new school, the drama is only just beginning.
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
As former Alchemist Marcus Finch pushes Alchemist Sydney Sage to rebel against the people who raised her, Sydney finds that breaking free is harder than she thought. There is an old and mysterious magic rooted deeply within her. And as she searches for an evil magic user targeting powerful young witches, she realizes that her only hope is to embrace her magical blood--or else she might be next.
Author
Series
Bloodlines (Richelle Mead) volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
At a boarding school in glamorous Palm Springs, California, alchemist Sydney must protect the vampires-in-hiding from the threat of other humans, a task made harder by forbidden romances, unexpected spirit bonds, and the threat of Strigoi moving ever closer.
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"...ESPN senior writer Ryan McGee enlists the help of his father and brothers to tell the story of a life lived in black and white. McGee traces his father's 36-year career, from a small college game in 1973 in Greensboro, North Carolina, with a few hundred fans to the 2009 BCS Championship Game with 27 million... Sidelines and Bloodlines isn't just about college football, officiating, or even funny stories from the road. It is about fathers and...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Trevino, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that...
Author
Series
Bloodlines (Richelle Mead) volume 6
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
With their romance exposed, Sydney and Adrian face the wrath of the Alchemists and the Moroi alike as Sydney hunts down a former nemesis and Adrian discovers a secret about spirit magic.
Author
Publisher
John Blake Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
THE RIVETING TRUE STORY OF HOW THE FBI BROUGHT DOWN THE FEARSOME MIGUEL TREVIÑO, LEADER OF LOS ZETAS, MEXICO'S MOST VIOLENT DRUG CARTEL.
Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house
...Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Features two discs with ten episodes of the animated program Young Justice. Young Justice, the junior versions of the popular Justice League legion of heroes, battle villains with their super powers in hopes of proving that they are worthy of the Justice League. Featured characters include Robin, Superboy, Kid Flash, Wondergirl, Batgirl, and Aqualad.
Author
Language
English
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"A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party,"--NoveList.
13) Infidel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, the author's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could be timelier or more significant. In this memoir she tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A collection of ten stories follows characters in far-flung regions of the world as they portray ordinary people struggling against extraordinary events.
In this collection of stories, Newman brings us to far-flung regions of the world with an uncanny, authentic grasp of cultures. Despite the distance between them, the characters are unified in their portrayal of ordinary citizens of the world, struggling against extraordinary events with a mixture...
Author
Publisher
Exile Editions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Perplexing and absorbing, these stories lift the veil of reality to expose the realms of what lies beyond with creatures that shed their skin and roam the night, vampires in Mexico City that struggle with disenchantment, an apocalypse with giant penguins, legends of magic scorpions, and tales of a ceiba tree surrounded by human skulls.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Marina Benjamin grew up in London feeling estranged from her family's exotic Middle Eastern ways. She refused to speak the Arabic her mother and grandmother spoke at home. She rejected the peculiar food they ate in favor of hamburgers and beer. But having her own child a few years ago, she realized her loss in denying links to the past and begins to delve into her family's story as Jews of Iraq.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of how the movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter--spread across the nation and then across the world and the journey that led one of its co-founders, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, to this moment. Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in an over-policed United States where incarceration of Black people runs rampant. Surrounded by police brutality, she gathered the tools and lessons that would lead her on to found one of the most...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of his work-more than twenty books in total-Charles Wright has built zone of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth centuryy (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Oblivion Banjo, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright's poetry: zlanguage, landscape, and the idea of God.y No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is...
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