Search Results
Showing
1 - 20
of 1,498
query time: 0.17s
Author:
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. While her peers stressed, Cordelia planned to use the same trace-your-roots genealogy idea her older sister used years prior. And getting partnered with her longtime crush, Kodiak Jones, is icing on the cake. All she needs to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results, and get that easy A. But when Cordelia's GeneQuest results reveal that her father...
Author:
Publisher:
erospirit
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
The "Winds of Change" is a series of watercolour paintings by Daniel Elliott-a Stz'uminus Elder who is a healer and teacher in First Nations communities. The paintings depict the beauty and power of Indigenous culture and community, along with the ongoing trauma of colonization. This book includes all paintings in the series, along with Elliott's own story, and his powerful insights on the path of truth and reconciliation. Elliott began studying watercolour...
Author:
Publisher:
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
Anyone interested in UFO phenomena will be captivated by this extensive account of the history of UFO sightings and what can happen once the existence of aliens on Earth is finally revealed, an event the authors feel is sure to happen very soon. Authors Dolan and Zabel, both respected UFOlogists, detail what will happen after disclosure including how both governments and people will respond to the confirmation that we are not alone in the universe....
Author:
Publisher:
Lifetime Reference Guides Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"GOD IS IN THE GROCERY STORE" summarizes a new life science nicknamed "God's Biology." It brings 100% of the credit for all Life back to our Creator, the God of our focus nations, USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. This booklet also simply and solidly verifies the essentiality of superintelligence for creating our grown foods using atoms from the 'dust' of gardens, fields, orchards, and seas. Then the same atoms from our foods are used to build all our...
Author:
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Traces the author's covert and sometimes life-risking tour of animal farms throughout the world to expose animal cruelty and identify ways to farm compassionately while promoting human health, economics, and environmental consciousness.
Author:
Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
I. NEED. TRUTH. is an exhaustive journey through the music career of Andrew Schwab, during his time in the band he founded and fronted, Project 86. More than an autobiography, it is an emotional demonstration of the sacrifices made by modern recording artists, and the vindication which only can come from great disappointment throughout the journey. Each chapter contains a detailed look at the influences, circumstances, and situations which coalesced...
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Formats:
Description:
Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Saturday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor. And rumor has it ... that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's block, with a deadline looming, bills piling up, and...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
"Jane Jackson spent her adolescence as “Poor Janey Jakes,” the barbecue-sauce-in-her-braces punch line on America’s fifth-favorite sitcom. Now she’s trying to be taken seriously as a Hollywood studio executive by embracing a new mantra: Fake it till you make it. Except she might have faked it too far. Desperate to get her first project greenlit and riled up by pompous cinematographer and one-time crush Dan Finnegan, she claimed that she could...
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Formats:
Description:
"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it...
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny-and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement,...
Author:
Series:
Language:
English
Description:
Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the enchanting Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school--a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style hacienda, with its working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic venue for Isabel's project...and the perfect place for her to forget the past. But Isabel's...
16. Rock bottom
Author:
Series:
Sisterhood volume 35
Language:
English
Description:
"Isabelle "Izzy" Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project--an indoor/outdoor café that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation. But the Zoe that Izzy reencounters doesn't seem like her old, confident friend. This Zoe is tense and stressed, and Izzy eventually learns why. Buildings and...
Author:
Series:
Frankie Elkin volume 3
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world has forgotten, but even she couldn’t have anticipated this latest request—to locate the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks’ time....The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. Despite the media’s chronicling of her tragic circumstances—the...
18. Walden
Author:
Lexile measure:
1420L
Language:
English
Description:
At Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau reflected on simpler living in the natural world. By removing himself from the distractions of materialism, Thoreau hoped to not only improve his spiritual life but also gain a better understanding of society through solitary introspection.
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and...