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Author
Publisher
Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, whose poem Explaining My Depression to My Mother has become a cultural phenomenon with over 5,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Benaim's wit, empathy, and gift for language produce a work of endless wonder.
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Gabriel's angel: "All Gabriel Bradley wants is solitude. But when a very pregnant--and very beautiful--woman ends up at his remote cabin during a blizzard, desperate, alone, and on the run, the modern-day Scrooge can't bring himself to turn her away. Despite her intrusion, Laura brings Gabriel the gifts of passion, hope, and life--he just needs to find the courage to reach for them"--Page [4] of cover.
Home for Christmas: "After years spent abroad,...
Author
Publisher
Dey St, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and the legendary band that changed rock music." --
"Beginning in 1978, Van Halen's rise was one of the most thrilling the rock world had ever seen--their mythos an epic party with a sweaty, sexy, finger-tapping guitar solo as an encore. During this infamous run of success, debauchery,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Lila is trying to find her way in the world--to figure out her thing. Her talented sister, Parisa, and athletic best friend, Melanie, both seem to have found theirs... and Lila can't help feeling left behind. But just when she thinks she might have it in her school's new band program, the floor falls out from beneath Lila. The program may have its funding cut! Lila visits her local bank in an attempt to secure a loan for the band program. While she's...
50) The gift
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jenna is given another shot at life when she receives a donor heart from a girl called Callie. Eternally grateful to Callie and her family, Jenna gets closer to them, but she soon discovers that Callie's perfect family is hiding some very dark secrets....
"When Jenna falls terminally ill, her world comes to a screeching halt--until she is given another shot at life when she receives a donor heart from a young woman named Callie. Eternally grateful...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Long defamed as a vicious pirate, Captain James Cook (a.k.a Hook) was in fact a dazzling wordsmith who left behind a vibrant, wildly entertaining, and entirely truthful memoir. His chronicle offers a counter narrative to the works of J.M. Barrie, a "dour Scotsman" whose spurious accounts got it all wrong. ... Cook's story begins in London, where he lives with his widowed mother. At thirteen, he runs away from home, but is kidnapped and pressed into...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Description
Provocador e inteligente, La otra chica negra es un debut electrizante sobre la tensión que se crea cuando dos jóvenes negras se encuentran cara a cara en el mundo editorial neoyorkino, predominantemente blanco. La joven asistente editorial Nella Rogers está cansada de ser la única empleada negra en Wagner Books. Harta del aislamiento y las pequeñas ofensas, no puede evitar entusiasmarse cuando una nueva compañera negra, nacida y criada en Harlem,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The great story of New York City in the past half-century has been its near collapse and miraculous rebirth. A battered town left for dead, one that almost a million people abandoned and where those who remained had to live behind triple deadbolt locks, was reinvigorated by the twinned energies of starving artists and financial white knights. Over the next generation, the city was utterly transformed. It again became the capital of wealth and innovation,...
Author
Publisher
Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The United States of America and Bangistan, a forgotten, former Soviet satellite dictatorship crushed between the borders of Russia and China, are engaged in a war of words. This verbal conflict begins when the brother of Great Leader Hakim Akim learns about Twitter from a sado-masochistic call girl in a Zurich bordello. As Yogi sets up an account for Hakim - @bestdespot - he stumbles across President Ronald Rump's threat: "Bangistan! Bangistan!...