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Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Description
"Deemed too intimate to publish during Simone de Beauvoir's life, Inseparable offers fresh insight into the groundbreaking feminist's own coming-of-age; her transformative, tragic friendship with her childhood friend Zaza Lacoin; and how her youthful relationships shaped her philosophy. Sandra Smith's vibrant translation of the novel will be long cherished by de Beauvoir devotees and first-time readers alike"--
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Endeavour and his colleagues are entering a new decade and era of change. Opening on New Year's Eve 1969, normal order has been resumed and the team reunited at Castle Gate CID, with Chief Superintendent Bright back in charge. However, the events of the past year have left their mark. Old friendships will be challenged, and new relationships will blossom
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
My bloody valentine: A tragic accident in a mine on St. Valentine's day took the lives of 5 miners. The only survivor, Harry Warden, was confined to a mental institution after the ordeal. Twenty years later, young lovers T.J. and Sarah and friend Axel are among the townspeople attending a Valentine's party. A box of Valentine candy arrives, containing an ominous message and a blood-soaked heart.
April fool's day: A practical joker invites her college...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"A revealing, poignant, and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award winner. Harvey Fierstein's stellar career has taken him from Broadway to Hollywood and back. He's received accolades and awards for acting-Hairspray, Fiddler, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day-and writing: La Cage Aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy (for which he also won a Tony for acting) and Kinky Boots. But while he is widely known as one...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
n the deep woods of the Maine borderlands, the legend of huntsman Pete Landry is still told around cottage campfires to scare children, a tragic story of love, lust, and madness. During the early summer of 1967, inseparable teenage beauties Sissy Morgan and Zaza Mulligan wander among the vacation cottages in the community of Boundary, drinking and smoking and swearing, attracting the attention of boys and men. First one, and then the other, goes missing,...
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
"The Quin Zaza collides with a luxury airliner, leaving her grounded. The crew can barely afford to keep her aloft in the best of times, so, needless to say, they have no way to pay for repairs. Just when it looks like their draking days may be over, the crew hears of a 'ship eater' dragon that's been biting back at the humans who dare to sail the skies. The eye-popping bounty on its head makes this monstrosity perhaps the crew's last hope to get...
13) From the hip
Pub. Date
2006, c1987
Description
Robin "Stormy" Weathers is a brash young lawyer with a reputation for breaking the rules and some wild ways of practicing criminal defense. But when Stormy takes on the case of a brilliant professor accused of a brutal murder, he finds himself questioning his client's innocence as well as his own abilities as an attorney.
14) Now & Forever
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
From the moment they meet, despite their clashing cultures, John and Angela form an unbreakable bond. One fateful night, John rescues Angela from a wicked act of betrayal. Soon Angela flees town setting in motion a chain of life changing events.
15) Baby geniuses
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Baby geniuses form a super commando rescue squad to squash the evil Dr. Kinder's plot to dominate the world.
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
Tells the stories of the airship Quin Zaza and its colorful crew of misfits who hunt the fantastical giants that rule the skies of their world: dragons.
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
The daily routine aboard an airborne draking vessel springs to vivid life in this exquisitely crafted tale in the tradition of the lush, transporting fantasy of Hayao Miyazaki. Part travelogue, part imaginary cookbook, and part otherworldly slice of life, Drifting Dragons tells the stories of the Quin Zaza and the colorful band of misfits that makes up her crew.
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
Tells the stories of the airship Quin Zaza and its colorful crew of misfits who hunt the fantastical giants that rule the skies of their world: dragons.
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
After departing Quon to continue her journey through the skies to the next port, the airship Quin Zaza encounters a herd of small dragons -- an aerial treasure trove for a ship low on food stores! The crew scrambles to the hunt, but amidst the chaos, Takita falls overboard. Barely surviving the dizzying fall, Takita opens her eyes to see a baby dragon...and a huge, hungry cat...
20) Baby geniuses
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Baby geniuses form a super commando rescue squad to squash the evil Dr. Kinder's plot to dominate the world.