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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when...
23) Guji Guji
Author
Publisher
Kane/Miller
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
When a crocodile egg rolls down the hill and into the nest with the rest of her eggs, Mother Duck pays no mind and raises the little crocodile as if he were a duck.
26) Purity
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"A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have...
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Formats
Description
At age twelve, Sophie learns that the remarkable abilities that have always caused her to stand out identify her as an elf, and after being brought to Eternalia to hone her skills, discovers that she has secrets buried in her memory for which some would kill.
28) Darkstalker
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
366 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Description
Long before the SandWing and the Dragonet Prophecy, Darkstalker, half NightWing and half IceWing, is hatched under the three moons--born into a divided heritage, he is destined to become the most powerful and dangerous dragon Pyrhhia will ever know, and it will take the combined efforts of a SeaWing named Fatham and a NightWing seer named Clearsight to come up with a way to save all the kingdoms from his anger.
Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
399 pages cm
Description
When midwife Clara Perry's life takes a nosedive, she runs away to start over again in a place where no one knows her, or about the mess she's left behind in West Virginia. Heading to tiny, remote Seagull Island in Canada, Clara is ready for anything. Well, almost. -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
237 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Recently divorced and having no family of her own, Joy Candellaro is beginning to dream of a new life with widower Daniel O'Shea and his son, Bobby, until a fateful Christmas Eve forces her to make a painful choice.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking.
35) Sunrise
Author
Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). Power of three volume 6
Warriors power of three volume 6
Warriors. Power of three volume 6
Warriors power of three volume 6
Warriors. Power of three volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
318 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
When Firestar's grandchildren, Hollyleaf, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather, finally discover who their true parents are, there are dire consequences for ThunderClan and the Warrior Code.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When Julia learns that her sister has been violently murdered, she must uncover why. Becoming involved with a dangerous stranger online, she starts losing herself ... losing control ... perhaps losing everything. Her search for answers will jeopardize her marriage, her family, and her life.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 256 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Kwame Anthony Appiah's The Lies That Bind is an incandescent exploration of the nature and history of the identities that define us. It challenges our assumptions about how identities work. We all know there are conflicts between identities, but Appiah shows how identities are created by conflict. Religion, he demonstrates, gains power because it isn't primarily about belief. Our everyday notions of race are the detritus of discarded nineteenth-century...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Gabby feels that she needs a mother to help her grow into a woman, so when things between her father and his latest girlfriend do not work out, Gabby set off for the last place she remembers seeing her own mother.
40) Fairest
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
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