Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 2
Formats
Description
A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
3) The giver
Author
Series
Appears on list
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 736 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. "Men, not walls, make a city," as Thucydides so memorably said. They would rebuild their...
5) Rogue lawyer
Author
Description
"Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer...He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy...Sebastian defends people other lawyers won't go near: a drug-addled, tattooed kid rumored to be in a satanic cult, who is accused of molesting and murdering two little girls; a vicious crime lord on death row; a homeowner arrested for shooting at a SWAT team...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 5
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
48 p. ;
Description
Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly but at dance camp struggles to learn tap.
Author
Publisher
NNK Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
"Annie and the Swiss Cheese Scarf" is a story about overcoming hurdles to learn something new, even when it's challenging. Learning new skills often takes time and a lot of practice. But if you keep trying and don't give up, like Annie, you will feel so proud once you finally figure it out.
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Description
An early look at the impact of mass media in the public arena, featuring the story of a cynical and manipulative journalist. When a man is trapped alive in a mine collapse, an amoral, down-on-his-luck reporter takes over and prolongs the rescue effort in order to make a name for himself.
Author
Series
Dead Sea squirrels volume 3
Formats
Description
Michael learns that--like the Thessalonians in the Bible--he will prosper if he works hard when Pearl the 2,000-year-old squirrel helps him study for his math test.
11) Baal
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (972 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles that other doctors give up on.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
307 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
When pirate cats threaten Mouse Island, Professor von Volt sends Geronimo Stilton and his friends back through time to ancient Greece, Atlantis, and Stonehenge to try and find out how ancient civilizations were able to find peace and avoid war--only to find that the key to peace was under their whiskers the whole time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Description
Tilda withdraws when her world turns upside down, but, after watching a ladybug struggle and then fly free, she decides to move forward and embrace the changes.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Looking to earn some easy cash, Jessica Farris agrees to be a test subject in a psychological study about ethics and morality. But as the study moves from the exam room to the real world, the line between what is real and what is one of Dr. Shields's experiments blurs. Dr. Shields seems to know what Jess is thinking ... and what she's hiding. Jessica's behaviour will not only be monitored, but manipulated. Caught in a web of attraction, deceit and...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title