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1. The burning of the world: the Great Chicago Fire and the war for a city's soul

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Author:
Berg, Scott W.
Publisher:
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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"The enthralling story of the Great Chicago Fire and the power struggle over the city's reconstruction in the wake of the tragedy In October of 1871, Chicagoans knew they were due for the "big one"--a massive, uncontrollable fire that would decimate the city. There hadn't been a meaningful rain since July, and several big blazes had nearly outstripped the fire department's scant resources. On October 8, when Kate Leary's barn caught fire, so began...

2. The burning of the world: a memoir of 1914

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Author:
Zombory-Moldován, Béla, 1885-1967
Series:
New York Review Books classics
Publisher:
New York Review Books
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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"Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of World War I , an NYRB Classics Original. The budding young Hungarian artist Bela Zombory-Moldovan was abroad on vacation when World War I broke out in August 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing on Russian lines--or perhaps on his own lines--and facing relentless rifle and artillery fire. Badly wounded, he returned to normal life, which now struck him as unspeakably...

3. Between burning worlds

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Author:
Brody, Jessica
Series:
System divine volume 2
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HL: High-Low 750L
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English
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"Laterre is on the brink of war. The Third Estate are rioting against the injustices of a corrupt system. The Patriarche makes brutal attempts to quash the unrest, while a new militant faction launches a series of deadly attacks. Marcellus is now a traitor to his planet, Chatine is a prisoner on Bastille, and Alouette is a fugitive. But when Laterre is threatened by the emergence of a deadly new weapon, these three renegades must risk everything,...

4. Woman's World

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Woman's World
Publisher:
A360 Media, LLC
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English
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A great week made easy! Woman's World is written for the traditional, family-oriented working woman. Each issue delivers a feel-good mix of heart-warming human interest stories, practical everyday solutions for work and home, and mouth-watering recipes.

5. The burning question: we can't burn half the world's oil, coal, and gas. so how do we quit?

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Author:
Berners-Lee, Mike
Publisher:
Greystone Books
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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6. A world of curiosities

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Author:
Penny, Louise
Series:
Three Pines mystery volume 18
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Chief Inspector Gamache novel volume 18
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English
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...

7. The burning room: a novel

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Author:
Connelly, Michael, 1956-
Series:
Harry Bosch volume 17
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English
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4.5 stars
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"In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other clues are virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and his new partner, Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving a murder that turns out to be highly charged and politically sensitive. Beginning with the...

8. Part of your world

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Author:
Jimenez, Abby
Series:
Part of Your World
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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"People expect big things from Alexis Montgomery. She's a thirty-seven-year-old doctor from a wealthy and prestigious family full of world-renowned surgeons. Only, Alexis is tired of living up to her family's dreams for her. Now she's about to take her bravest step yet: start living her life for herself. Daniel Grant is a twenty-eight-year-old small-town carpenter with a heart of gold and a legacy of his own. He may not have gone to college, but he's...

9. Guinness world records

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Publisher:
Guinness World Records, Ltd
Pub. Date:
c2000-
Lexile measure:
IG: Illustrated Guide 1300L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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032 GUI 2019
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032 GUI 2020
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032 GUI 2021

10. Autonomy: the quest to build the driverless car--and how it will reshape our world

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Author:
Burns, Lawrence D.
Publisher:
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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"We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. In the near future, most of us will not own automobiles, but will travel instead in self-driving cars summoned at the touch of an app. We will be liberated from driving, so that the time we spend in cars can be put to more productive use. We will prevent more than 90 percent of car crashes, provide freedom of mobility to the elderly and disabled and decrease our dependence on fossil fuels. Autonomy...

11. Echo burning

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Author:
Child, Lee
Series:
Jack Reacher novel volume 5
Jack Reacher
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English
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Jack Reacher, the vagabond freelance lawman who never hesitates to stick his nose into private business, takes his lively act to Texas, embroiling himself in what starts as a messy domestic dispute before turning far more ominous. The rugged former army cop comes to the aid of Carmen Greer, who picks him up on the side of the road one morning outside Lubbock, then asks him to kill her abusive husband. Sloop Greer is getting out of prison in a few...

12. Burn

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Author:
Patterson, James, 1947-
Series:
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 7
Michael Bennett
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Back home in New York, Detective Michael Bennett investigates a burnt body left where a strange party had been held in a condemned building.

13. I want burning: the ecstatic world of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla

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Publisher:
Sounds True
Pub. Date:
p2001
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English
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Presents over 50 Sufi poems translated and read by Coleman Barks.

14. The burning maze

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Author:
Riordan, Rick
Series:
Trials of Apollo volume 3
Lexile measure:
710L
Language:
English
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4.4 stars
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The Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth as the ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos, and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor--and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles--somewhere in the American Southwest.

15. Pearl Harbor is burning!: a story of World War II

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Author:
Kudlinski, Kathleen V.
Series:
Once Upon America
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490L
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English
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When his family moves to Hawaii in 1941, Frank feels out of place until he makes friends with a Japanese American boy--the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

16. News of the world: a novel

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Author:
Jiles, Paulette, 1943-
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English
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...

17. The World book encyclopedia

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Publisher:
Field Enterprises Educational Corp
Pub. Date:
[1917]-
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English
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A 22- volume, highly illustrated, A-Z general encyclopedia for all ages, featuring sections on how to use World Book, other research aids, pronunciation key, a student guide to better writing, speaking, and research skills, and comprehensive index -- Provided by publisher.

18. Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption

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Author:
Hillenbrand, Laura
Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
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On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.

19. A slow fire burning

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Author:
Hawkins, Paula
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English
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When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim's home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are, for different...

20. The burning bridge

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Author:
Flanagan, John (John Anthony)
Series:
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 2
Ranger's Apprentice
Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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Will is forced to overcome his fear of Wargals, the foot soldiers of rebel warlord Morgarath, as Araluen's army prepares to battle Morgarath's forces.
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