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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When a famous, reclusive painter asks them to sell a never-before-seen portrait, an art history professor and an eccentric young art authenticator find their task complicated when they attempt to locate the two women in the portrait, who seem to have disappeared.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The electrifying debut thriller that asks the question: To save the one you love, is there any price you wouldn't pay? His wife is sick. He needs $200,000 to save her. A mysterious man offers to give him the money with just one catch: He has to murder someone to get it. Gary Foster's life is finally heading in the right direction. After years of trying, his wife, Beth, is pregnant, and he recently opened a business with his brother. But one...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
175 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Would you rather choose THIS: Join a Viking festrival, or THAT: Join a voodoo festival? Welcome to This or That?, a wacky book of choices where every answer brings you one step closer to discovering the hidden YOU. This fourth all-new book in the series features 10 awesome categories: outer space, amazing animals, festivals from around the world, amazing inventions, music, silly stats, and more! Discover amazing stuff about the real-world and yourself,...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 308 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Business leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to abandon a new app or product that just isn’t working. Governments, caught in a hopeless conflict, believe that the next tactic will finally be the one that wins the war. And in our own lives, we persist in relationships or careers that no longer serve us. Why? According to Annie Duke, in the face of tough decisions, we’re terrible quitters. And that is significantly holding...
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home. In disbelief that she has a house but isn't a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand. She turns everyone down...until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch. But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat"--
Author
Description
When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes...
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Formats
Description
"Rock breaks scissors is based on a simple principle: people are unable to act randomly. Instead they display unconscious patterns that the savvy person can outguess. The principle applies to friends playing rock, paper, scissors for a bar tab as well as to the crowds that create markets for homes and stocks. With a gift for distilling psychology and behavioral economics into accessible advice, Poundstone proves that outguessing is easy, fun, and...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Description
A boy wants all of the pets in a pet store but he and his sister can choose only one. End notes discuss Dr. Seuss's pets, his creative process, and the discovery of the manuscript and illustrations for "What Pet Should I Get?"
Publisher
Distributed by Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lee Ferguson is released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence. Looking to lead a simple life, he takes a job at the local grocery store in the small town where he was raised. After saving Katie from an assault, his life becomes anything but simple. A scheming coworker and a mysterious stranger cause Lee to suddenly become confronted with the choices he made long ago. Now, he must decide how far he is willing to go to seek redemption.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ideals Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
Willow has looked forward to seeing the Over-the-Top Circus and enjoying treats there, but on the big day she is distracted by al sorts of treats and fun and by the time she arrives at the circus, it is over and she has no money left. Includes tips for parents.
16) Ignite me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 3
Description
With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn't know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won't keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world ... but that's not all he wants with...
17) Looking for Jane
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; cm
Description
Offers advice for overcoming an unhealthy will to please others and learning to make wise choices, counseling readers to learn to say no when appropriate so that they can say yes to God and find the right course for themselves.
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