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Author
Publisher
Left of the Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"OUT OF STEP is a tribute to the potent underground music of Washington D.C. It archives my own collection of interviews and gig reviews from the last thrity years, including some origianl DIY layouts. It highlights bands and punk pioneers have shaped the sensibilities and styles of the East Coast. Plus, it probes history, politics, art, and much more. Featuring in-depth interviews with Alec Makaye, Bobby Sullivan, Brian Baker, Chris Thomson, Jason...
Author
Series
Greenwild volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering secrets, and now she has vanished. Daisy knows it's up to her to find Ma-- but someone is hunting her across London. Someone determined to stop her from discovering the truth. So when Daisy flees to safety through a mysterious hidden doorway, she can barely believe her eyes--she has stepped out of the city and into another world. This is the Greenwild. Bursting...
10) Dinosaur's day
Author
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
A day in the life of a Triceratops! Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction.
12) Spidertouch
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When he was a boy, Razvan trained as a translator for the hated Keda, the mute enslavers of his city, Val Kedi ...Now a man, Razvan has etched out a quiet life for himself as an interpreter for the Keda court. He does not enjoy his work, but keeps his head down to protect his son, held hostage in the Keda's mines...Now the city is under siege by a new army...At the same time, a mysterious rebellion force has reached out to Razvan with a plan to utilize...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Oliver "Spaghetti-O" Jones's dad is about to be jailed for a crime he didn't commit, and Oliver believes the only way to save him is with the help of his favorite lucha-libre wrestler turned action star, Tito the Bonecrusher. Together with his best friend, Brianna (a.k.a. "Brain"), and their new ally Paul "Popcorn" Robards, Oliver devises a madcap plan to spring his dad from a Florida correctional facility. Heartwarming and hilarious, this book looks...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
During the fire season in Australia, a wombat allows its underground shelter to become a place of refuge for other vulnerable animals in need. Discusses Australia's devastating 2019-2020 fire season, in which many animals lost their lives or their habitats.
15) The Blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain identify a link between a suicide and a prostitute's drowning death in a floating hospital that has dark ties to a private anatomy school and the opium dens of the waterfront.
Summoned to the riverside by the desperate note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves onboard the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood. On shore a young woman, a known prostitute, is...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, who comes from a family of wealthy Jewish intellectuals. They embark on a clandestine love affair, terrified they will be discovered, but then, in an astonishing twist of fate, the mother of one marries the father...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Set in Barcelona in the years leading up to the financial crash of 2008, these poignant interlinked stories follow ordinary people whose lives will be changed forever. Like Robert Altman's film Short Cuts, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three interconnected stories that are bound by time and place, and by the way characters weave in and out of them. A crime that remains unreported in one story has light shed on it in another. Exploring addiction,...
Author
Series
Keena Ford volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Keena and her second-grade class go on a field trip to the United States Capitol where they meet a congressman and Keena makes a big impression, which she documents in her new journal.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Wicked funny and hella gay, it's time for Taylor Parker to come out about a lot of things. Taylor Parker has always been a funny girl -- but when she is accepted as a finalist for a diverse writers' internship at Saturday Night Live, it turns her life upside down. If she wants a shot at winning in a little more than a month, Taylor will have to come out about both of her secrets: She wants to be a comedian...and she's a lesbian. With a mom who gave...
20) Beloved poison
Author
Series
Jem Flockhart novels volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After uncovering six tiny coffins at St. Saviour's Infirmary, apprentice apothecary Jem Flockhart seeks answers, following a trail that leads from the dissecting room to Newgate prison and the gallows.
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