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Publisher:
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
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"Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez-a biracial Jewish girl-finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents' desire for her to pursue a more stable career. When she discovers a forgotten Jewish cemetery behind her aunt's cottage, she meets the ghost of a kindhearted boy named Benjamin, who died over a century ago. As Ilana restores Benjamin's grave, he introduces...
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Series:
(Victoria E.).Counterfeit lady novel volume 27
Publisher:
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must shine a light on the truth and catch the fiend who killed a young reporter in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. Louisa Rodgers is working as a magazine reporter and is hoping midwife Sarah Malloy can help her. New Century Magazine, like Colliers and McClure's, is branching out into investigative articles on pressing social issues. Louisa explains...
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Series:
Stoney Ridge Seasons volume 4
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
Billy Lapp intends to leave Stoney Ridge by Christmas, but crossing paths with a newly engaged Bess Riehl may change his mind.
5. Rose Hill
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Publisher:
Heyday
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
A Jewish Mexican American author chronicles his family's tumultuous, decades-long spars over religion, class, and culture in this candid, inspiring memoir. The son of a Mexican Catholic father with aristocratic roots and a mother of Eastern European Jewish descent, Carlos E. Cortés grew up wedged between cultures. He grew up "straddling borders, balancing loves and loyalties, and trying to fit into a world that wasn't quite ready." His request for...
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Publisher:
Liveright Publishing Corporation, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
The German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is world-renowned for her work on totalitarianism, the human condition, and the banality of evil. Not many people know that she also wrote poems--yet the language of poetry, especially that of Goethe and Schiller, was a banister for Arendt's thinking throughout much of her adult life. Between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote seventy-four poems, many of them acting as signposts in her biography,...
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Publisher:
Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
Spanish
Description:
Ellen Murphy pasó su niñez en una casa idÃlica junto al mar. Una casa rodeada de jardines llenos de flores y una cerca blanca. Una casa de la que huyó a los dieciocho. Una casa llena de secretos. Cuando a la madre de Ellen, una exmonja, le diagnositcan cáncer terminal, Ellen regresa de mala gana a su casa para cuidar de ella y descubre una pista del único secreto que la habÃa atormentado durante toda su vida: la identidad de su padre. Pero...
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with the rise of the Third Reich. After World War II, Arendt became one of the most prominent-and controversial-public intellectuals of her time, publishing...
Publisher:
Cinedigm Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
Cupid & Cate: "Cate has a vintage cloths store. She attends her nasty dad's birthday party/family gathering where she meets Harry. She's dating Philip but he's dull - contrary to Harry"--Imdb.com.
Grace & Glorie: "A former New York City executive (Diane Lane) moves to the country with her husband (Neal McDonough) and befriends an illiterate elderly farm woman (Gena Rowlands)"--Imdb.com.
After the Glory: "World War II has ended and many soldiers...
13. Swell
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
"Thirty years after From Rockaway ("A great first novel" --Harper's Bazaar), Jill Eisenstadt returns with a darkly funny new work of fiction that exposes a city and a family at their most vulnerable. When Sue Glassman's family needs a new home, Sue relents, after years of resisting, and agrees to convert to Judaism. In return, Sue's father-in-law, Sy, buys the family--Sue, Dan, and their two daughters--a capacious but ramshackle beachfront house...
14. The Alhambra
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Lexile measure:
1320L
Language:
English
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Compiled during a three-month stay in Granada, Spain, Tales of the Alhambra assembles descriptions, myths, and narratives of historical events. After completing a literary project in Madrid, author Washington Irving traveled to Granada, Spain. Immediately taken by its beauty and extravagance, Irving requested a travel guide and began filling notebooks and journals with his observations and description of the magnificent setting. Beginning with an...
15. A Poor Wise Man
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Language:
English
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A Poor Wise Man mixes romantic fiction with political analysis. This engrossing story begins, "The city turned its dreariest aspect toward the railway on blackened walls, irregular and ill-paved streets, gloomy warehouses, and over all a gray, smoke-laden atmosphere which gave it mystery and often beauty. Sometimes the softened towers of the great steel bridges rose above the river mist like fairy towers suspended between Heaven and earth. And again...
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English
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I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own ... ' Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M.R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings...
17. Shine House
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Publisher:
Dean Rasmussen
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
An abandoned lighthouse. A haunted psychic. Shine House has secrets, and too many shadows. Emmie's spring break just started. Her idyllic getaway by the ocean is everything she dreamed of. Solitude. Friends. Sunshine. A chance to get away from her psychic past. But things take a chilling turn when she's confronted by the ghost of a murdered girl. As the restless spirit haunts her every step, Emmie soon realizes that delving into the past is attracting...
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Publisher:
Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
Meridian once echoed with the high and lonesome sound of early country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers. With the right ears, that lonely wail may still be heard from the spirits that haunt this historic east Mississippi community. Now, for the first time, Meridian ghost expert and local author, Alan Brown, surveys the city's many sites of ghostly activity and recounts chilling tales of spirits past. From the Gypsy Queen's grave at the Rose Hill Cemetery...
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Publisher:
M.L. Bullock
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Step through time and take a peek at frightening Halloween encounters in medieval Germany, rural England and modern-day Mississippi. There's something for everyone in this witch's brew of ghost stories and monster encounters.. Goblins, curses, and things that go bump in the night! Yes, it's time for Halloween! Light the jack-o-lantern, pour a mug of hot chocolate, and prepare to be scared. Enjoy M.L. Bullock's Halloween Screams, a Halloween short...
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Publisher:
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
The fascinating life of Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost, before, during, and after the Civil War. The most famous Civil War name in Northern Virginia-other than General Lee-belongs to Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost. His early life characterized by abuse of childhood bullies, a less-than-outstanding academic career, and even a brief incarceration, Mosby stands out among nearly one thousand generals who served in the war....