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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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World War I - Influenza Pandemic
World War I - Women's Experience
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In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle, returns.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
Author
Series
Lucy Stone mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas in Tinker's Cove, Maine, and Lucy Stone is excited about her acting debut in the town's production of A Christmas Carol. But a real life Scrooge has everyone feeling frosty, and with a murderer on the loose, Lucy will have to unwrap her sleuthing skills faster than she can say, "Bah! Humbug!" Lucy normally loves planning for the holidays, but this year, Tinker's Cove has fallen on hard times. With so many residents struggling to make...
Author
Series
Delia's shadow volume 2
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Delia Martin has been gifted (or some would say cursed) with the ability to peer across to the other side. Since childhood, her constant companions have been ghosts. She used her powers and the help of those ghosts to defeat a twisted serial killer terrorizing her beloved San Francisco. Now it's 1917--the threshold of a modern age--and Delia lives a peaceful life with Police Captain Gabe Ryan. That peace shatters when a strange young girl starts...
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Language
English
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Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Translated Books from Latin and South America
Translated Novellas
Translated Books from Latin and South America
Translated Novellas
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"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling...
8) Scar tissue
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A new collection by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality while reaffirming humanity's attempt to capture the natural world and its residents.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing.
Author
Language
English
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Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent? Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich - and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods, Pujol became Germany's most valued agent; it took four tries before the British believed he was really on the Allies'...
Author
Series
Yu-gi-oh! original series volume 1
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Contains several "Shonen Jump" adventures, including a showdown between Yugi and the Egyptian mystic Shadi, which decides the life or death of Yugi's best friends.
13) Remembered
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"It is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning. The last place Spring wants to be is in the run-down, colored section of a hospital surrounded by the groans of sick people and the ghost of her dead sister. But as her son Edward lays dying, she has no other choice. There are whispers that Edward drove a streetcar into a shop window. Some people think it was an accident, others claim that it was his fault, the police are certain that he was part of a darker...
14) Hammerhead Six: the story of the first special forces "A" Camp in Afghanistan's violent Pech Valley
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"In 2003, the Special Forces soldiers entered an area later called "the most dangerous place in Afghanistan." Here, where the line between civilians and armed zealots was indistinct, they illustrated the Afghan proverb: "I destroy my enemy by making him my friend." Fry recounts how they were seen as welcome guests rather than invaders. Soon after their deployment ended, the Pech Valley reverted to turmoil. Their success was never replicated. Hammerhead...
Author
Publisher
Travelers' Tales, an imprint of Solas House, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home. Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories that span the globe and half a lifetime. With intimacy and depth, over quicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up...
Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
"Chasing Ghosts describes how, near the end of his life, the daughter of a veteran of World War II comes to terms with her father, emotionally wounded by his military service through the stories he tells her about his childhood, about his military service in the Navy in the late 1930s, and about his wartime experiences and through her research undertaken to understand her father's life in the context of history. Told through the voice of a daughter...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
More than twenty-five years after the appearance of his first Selected Poems, we at last have a magnificent new gathering of Mark Strand's work, one that spans and celebrates his entire remarkable career to date. From Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964) through the wonderful middle work that includes The Continuous Life (1990), and crowned by the Pulitzer Prizewinning Blizzard of One (1998) and his most recent collection, Man and Camel (2006),...
18) Toil & trouble
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky. 'Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Bigfoot. Canola oil, because there's no such thing as a canola. Note that 'witches' and 'witchcraft' are absent from this list. When really they should be right there...
Author
Series
Publisher
Falcon Guides
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
HORROR & GHOST STORIES. 20 tales bursting at the seams with ghosts, graveyards, and things that go bump in the night Nothing goes better with gooey s'mores and a glowing campfire than a good ghost story. This collection of scary classics and frightening folktales will send shivers up anyone's spine. "Campfire Stories" includes original and classic stories of adventure, ghosts, and all the things you worry about when you hear something go bump in the...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An odyssey wrapped in a love story, set in a near-future of artificial people The Sisters Sputnik are a time-traveling trio of storytellers-for-hire who are much in demand throughout the multiverse of 2,052 alternate worlds. Each world was created by the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Earth Standard Time, home of the Sisters' leader, aging comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi, her 20-something apprentice Unicorn Girl, and their pop culture-loving...
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