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Alvirah and Willy volume 9
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English
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When an aging biblical scholar is fatally shot after revealing his possession of a unique parchment believed to have been written by Jesus, Father Aiden O'Brien investigates the victim's suspicions that a close friend was responsible, a case that is complicated by circumstances implicating the man's Alzheimer's victim wife.
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Carina Press
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Devon McCade is no stranger to adversity. As a photojournalist, he's seen all manner of human struggle. And as a kid, it's what brought him to Neverwood, to his foster mother Audrey. It's what he's facing now, as he and his foster brothers work to restore the once-stately mansion amidst surprising signs from Audrey herself. But when another anguished soul arrives at Neverwood, Devon can't hide behind his camera. Nicholas Hardy is certain he saw his...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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"Narrators Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, and Jesse Vilinsky combine talents in this compelling historical fiction, which takes place during the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s."- AudioFile
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From the author of Nowhere Boy—called "a resistance novel for our times" by The New York Times—comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family
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Publisher:
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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From the author of "Nowhere Boy", comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation. But when Matthew finds a tattered...
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Publisher:
PublishDrive
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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The year is 1914 and the world is in turmoil. In Europe, the Great War is raging. In Asia, fierce insurgencies are in progress against the colonial powers of Europe. In Mexico, a bloody revolution is ripping that nation to shreds and threatening to spill over into Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Billy Battles and his wife, the former Baroness Katharina von Schreiber, have managed to live an uncommonly sedate life for almost...
10. The Lost Years
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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After the end of the Enterprise's five-year mission, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy struggle to establish new lives apart from each other and the starship. The newly-promoted Admiral Kirk is placed in charge of a specially-created Starfleet division and attempts to defuse a critical hostage situation; Mr. Spock, who, in the midst of a teaching assignment on Vulcan, finds the one thing he least expected; and Dr. McCoy, whose unerring instinct...
11. The Lost Years
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Butch Cassidy the Lost Years volume 1
Publisher:
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
On November 3, 1908, in the town of San Vicente, suspected of stealing a mining company payroll, Butch Cassidy was killed in a bloody shootout by the Bolivian Army. Or was he? In a small Texas town in 1950, a man from the Pinkerton Detective Agency interrupts an old-timer's daily game of dominos to learn the truth about Butch Cassidy-who is still alive and well and sitting right in front of So begins the novel of the West's most legendary outlaw-as...
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Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Over the centuries, the claim has repeatedly been made that Jesus Christ not only walked the earth but also spent his early and post-crucifixion years in a variety of places, including Egypt, India, Great Britain, Japan and America. Indeed, traditions maintain that Jesus, the great godman of the West, lived, learned, loved and died in such places. Popular modern literature also purports that Jesus sired children, who then became the ancestors of various...
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Kristina, the second of four children, begins by telling how a little sip of vodka sipped secretly at a party her parents were giving started her on a pathway to addiction. In that instant, alcohol became her pathway to comfort. Over the next eight years, she sinks further into addiction, moving on to cocaine and methamphetamines. In telling her story, she gives a brutally honest description of her addiction and crimes. Adding a heart-wrenching counterpart,...
Publisher:
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
I’M STILL HERE is a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I’M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Official Selection...
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Publisher:
West Warwick Public Library Association
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Voices of the Lost Year is a collection of short fiction in a variety of genres by several Rhode Island teenagers who completed a LORI grant-funded writing workshop at the West Warwick Public Library. In this collection you'll find tales from eight Rhode Island teens across a variety of genres. Join a young woman in a technologically advanced utopia who has to make a big choice, or discover the dark secret of an artist's touch. Will you accept...
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Pub. Date:
2012
Lexile measure:
800L
Language:
English
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After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.
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Pub. Date:
2011
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English
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When Spring Warren told her husband and two teenage boys that she wanted to grow 75 percent of all the food they consumed for one year, and that she wanted to do it in their yard, they told her she was crazy. She did it anyway. "The Quarter-Acre Farm" is Warren's account of deciding, despite all resistance, to take control of her family's food choices, get her hands dirty, and create a garden in her suburban yard. It's a story of bugs, worms, rot,...