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Publisher:
K.Y. Thompson
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Story time just got wacky, crazy, and a whole lot more. OH NO! They're here!, is a funny story, paired with a little lesson, that explores a child's imagination. OH NO! They're here! Already? Can you make them go away? Just maybe at the end, you will want them to stay. What are they and why are they here? Well, there is only one way to find out. Snuggle with your little ones and make the discovery together!
3. Jane Eyre
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Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
This is a story of a woman of passion and intelligence who refuses to be satisfied with her "place" in society, and asserts her identity and aspirations with defiance and dignity.
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
Author:
Lexile measure:
990L
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
5. Little women
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Lexile measure:
1230L
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
6. Sanctuary
Author:
Pub. Date:
2015
Lexile measure:
650L
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
After the sudden death of her aunt, Cecilia Cross is forced to return to the old mansion on a remote island off the coast of Maine, ironically named Sanctuary, the place where her father and sister died, and from which her mother was committed to an insane asylum soon after--and it is also a place of dark secrets, haunted by the ghosts of its original owners, and inhabited by her vicious uncle.
Author:
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date:
©2022
Language:
English
Description:
"A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies...
Author:
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies and...
Author:
Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Do the crime, do the time. While I'm waiting for that to happen, I sit here and think. It's choice that got me here; first the choices of others and the choices they gave me, and then the choices I made. My name is Selwyn Bergner and I am going to tell you about three other people and their choices, including my own. Oh, and there is also my older brother, Bernie. He is in a rather special category, and tells his story in his own words, as I have...
10. Dead Man Hand
Author:
Publisher:
ePublishing Works!
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Ghosts With Six-Shooters in Dead Man Hand, a Murder Mystery from T. L. Simmons -Red Dollar, New Mexico- Alice, Twila, Granny, Jack, Trucker, and Miss Molly are smack dab in the middle of another murder investigation, this time in a haunted hotel in Red Dollar, New Mexico. The villain is armed with Black Magic, and there's no escape for anyone during the ice storm. Alice keeps telling herself this is Twila's gig, and she's only here to back up her...
11. Gentle Hills
Author:
Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
Description:
These one hundred forty-one poems are the voice of a woman who loved God, life, her children, and the beautiful small town of Logan, Ohio, where she was born and lived. Here are short, lovely poems that will warm your heart, bring a smile to your face, and a nod of appreciation for a point well made. The author saw magic and grace in the events of a seemingly ordinary life. These poems express her appreciation for the extraordinary in every small...
Author:
Series:
Looking-Glass Curse volume 1
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Dive through the looking-glass into a Wonderland that's lush, exhilarating . . . and deadly. Five steps to getting over a nasty break-up: 1. Inherit a mini-castle from your reclusive grand-aunt. 2. Fall through a mirror into a decadent upside-down world. 3. Get to know the smoking-hot locals. Prickly Hatter. Playful Chess. And the passionate White Knight . . . Wait, what was I talking about? Oh, right. 4. Discover you possess powers that could win...
14. Harley Rushes In
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Publisher:
BelleBooks Inc
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
Local Tour Guide Breaks Jewelry Theft Ring and Helps Crack Murder Case, read the large headline. The leading sentence in the article said so much less than had really happened: Harley Jean Davidson, 27, tour guide for Memphis Tour Tyme, had a narrow escape from jewelry thieves Friday night that ended with an arrest on charges of grand larceny, attempted murder, and two counts of murder. Ms. Davidson was instrumental in capturing the suspect . . ....
Author:
Publisher:
Jerry J. Jensen
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Introduction E-books: The Lovechild of Silicon Valley and the Age-Old Library The written word, oh, the written word. Our forefathers used to chisel symbols on cave walls, recounting stories of heroic hunts and cosmic wonders. After a few millennia, mankind began scribbling stories on papyrus and parchment. And now what? We live in the exciting age of the e-book. Who would have guessed? Let us now face the elephant in the room (or, more accurately,...
Author:
Publisher:
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
High-school senior Gina Corcoran lived a fairly normal life with her mother, grandmother, and brother. Once, every year or so, she would even get to leave her home in San Antonio, Texas, and spend a few weeks in the summer with her great-aunt Anna, at a small farmhouse just outside of Binghamton, New York. There she would be told stories of her family, of how they came from the Italian island of Sicily to Americafirst to New York, and then, when her...
18. A Siren's Tail
Author:
Publisher:
Eliza March
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
A Siren's Tail: Luna de la Mar Salon & Spa (As the Chair Turns Book 2) Delia Belaquoit was like any one of us-working hard, living her life, chasing her dreams, and achieving some modicum of success along the way. Great job, wonderful friends, singing in a band. She thought she'd hit the jackpot until everything she once believed in began to unravel... Delia here... Hi, again! Magic does exist and people in Boca aren't what they seem. Shh! No one...