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Pub. Date
2007
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In the winter of 1917, with many of his regular hands off fighting in World War I, George Bliss hires young Martha Lessen to help gentle wild horses, and as she demonstrates her unique talent for dealing with damaged horses, she finds a sense of family and belonging.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Description
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
64) Ink and bone
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In this explosive psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, a young woman's mysterious gift forces her into the middle of a dangerous investigation of a little girl's disappearance. For as long as she can remember, twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery has been able to see into the future. She dreams about events before they occur and sees beyond the physical world, unconsciously using her power to make supernatural things...
65) Me before you
Author
Series
Me before you volume 1
Description
"They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose. Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life--big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel--and now...
Author
Publisher
Swallow Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Sacred chants are Ada Franklin's power and her medicine: by saying them, she can remove warts, stanch bleeding, and, especially, draw the fire from burns. At age twenty, her reputation as a faith healer defines her in her rural Pennsylvania community"--
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
70) Girls of Riyadh
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
viii, 286 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"This debut novel, banned in the author's own country, reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Saudi Arabia. Every week after Friday prayers, the anonymous narrator sends an email to the female subscribers of her online chat group. In fifty such emails over the course of a year, we witness the tragicomic reality of four university students negotiating their love lives, their professional...
Author
Series
Bride series (Catherine Coulter) volume 10
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Description
When Rosalind de la Fontaine, under the sponsorship of the Sherbrooke family, is introduced to the ton, she meets Nicholas Vail, the 7th Earl of Mountjoy, and is drawn into a centuries-old mystery that is linked to her past and to a sixteenth-century wizard.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. Back then she played the role of an alluring young girl but now she is being asked to step into the older role. With her assistant Maria prepares to play opposite a young Hollywood starlet and finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an unsettling reflection of herself.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. Long awaited, Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of 1994's Nebula-Prize finalist, bestselling Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Talents is told in the...
Author
Series
Daughters of Amana volume 1
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Description
Although she's always longed to see the outside world, Johanna Ilg believes her future is rooted in the Amana community inhabited by devout Christians. But when she learns a troubling secret, the world she thought she knew is shattered and she is forced to make difficult choices about a new life and the man she left behind. Berta Schumacher has lived a privileged life in Chicago, and when her parents decide they want a simpler life in Amana, Iowa,...
79) April shadows
Author
Series
Shadows volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 22 cm.
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