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209302) Steal the stars
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Dakota "Dak" Prentiss guards the biggest secret in the world. They call it "Moss." It's your standard grey alien from innumerable abduction stories. It still sits at the controls of the spaceship it crash-landed eleven years ago. A secret military base was built around the crash site to study both Moss and the dangerous technology it brought to Earth. The day Matt Salem joins Dak's security team, her whole world changes. It's love at first sight-which...
209304) A crash of fate
Author
Publisher
Disney + Lucas Film Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Izzy and Jules were childhood friends, climbing the spires of Batuu, inventing silly games, and dreaming of adventures they would share one day. Then, Izzy's family left abruptly, without even a chance to say goodbye. Izzy's life became one of constant motion, traveling from one world to the next, until her parents were killed and she became a low-level smuggler to make ends meet. Jules remained on Batuu, eventually becoming a farmer like his father,...
209305) Zoning, how the other communities do it: an appraisal of seventeen northern Virginia ordinances
Author
Publisher
The Commission
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
English
209306) Beneath the haunting sea
Author
Series
Beneath the haunting sea series volume 1
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Talia was born to a life of certainty and luxury, destined to become Empress of half the world. But when an ambitious rival seizes power, she and her mother are banished to a nowhere province on the far edge of the Northern Sea. It is here, in the drafty halls of the Ruen-Dahr, that Talia discovers family secrets, a melancholy boy with a troubling vision of her future, and a relic that holds the power of an ancient Star. On these...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls). Accompanying each description is a kid-friendly drawing by illustrator Steve Adams that visually reinforces the concept."--Amazon.com.
209310) Jada Sly, artist & spy
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Jada Sly, artist and spy with a flair for all things French, is on a mission to find her missing mom, who she believes was also a spy"--
209311) Emily the Strange: piece of mind
Author
Series
Emily the Strange graphic novellas volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Emily the Strange visits modern-day Seasidetown and attempts to avoid a "thought thief," save her psychic cousin, thwart her ancestral enemy, and finally claim her unusual inheritance.
209312) A Palm Beach scandal
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From Susannah Marren, author of A Palm Beach Wife, comes her next book set in the exclusive, glamorous world of Palm Beach. Marren follows two sisters as one offers the ultimate selfless act to the other, proving the very meaning of family in this novel of artifice and intrigue. Veronica and Simon Cutler and their dazzling adult daughters, Elodie and Aubrey, strike an enviable pose, the ultimate Palm Beach family. In a town where social aspirations,...
209313) Photoshop CC for dummies
Author
Series
Publisher
For Dummies
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"This book helps you gain an understanding of Photoshop CC and take charge of the tools, menu commands, and shortcuts that will help you perfect your photos and designs."--Page 4 of cover.
209314) First, best and only
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When she was just seventeen, Marni Lange loved Brian Webster with a consuming passion. Then a tragic accident tore them apart. Brian's broken body mended, but he never forgave himself for the accident that killed Marni's brother.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"In Walking in the City with Jane, award-winning author Susan Hughes tells the fictionalized story of Jane Jacobs through a celebration of city life and grassroots activism. Even as a young girl, Jane was an independent thinker with an extraordinary imagination and sense of wonder. She was known to challenge her teacher and was often found playing with her imaginary friends, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Cedric the warrior. Always curious...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport--fairness, competition, and mythology--came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped the game: the Koufax and Drysdale million-dollar holdout, the encroachment of television on newspaper coverage, the changing perception of ballplayers from mythic figures...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. According to the Catholic view, modern concepts like these, unleashed by the French Revolution, had been a disaster. Yet by the 1960s, those positions were reversed. How did this happen? Why, and when, did the world's largest religious organization become modern? James Chappel finds an answer in the shattering experiences of the 1930s. Faced...
209320) The lower quarter
Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna's past that she would like kept secret. But missing from the crime scene is a valuable artwork painted in 1926 by a renowned Belgian artist that might bring it all back. An aquaintance, Clay Fontenot, who has enabled a wide variety of personal violations in his life, some of which he has enjoyed, is the scion of a powerful...
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