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"In this collection, betrayal, murder, revenge, greed, and the powers of and connection to spirituality are explored. In "The Horse Chestnut Tree," Benn tells a story of betrayal and murder during the American Revolutionary period. In the speculative work "Glass," an atomic supercollider and the breakdown of the time-space continuum that involves the works of one "Steven Koenig," a Stephen King-like author, change the lives of two cousins devoured...
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Allegra Biscotti collection volume 1
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English
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Emma Rose is SO not a diva. She doesn't want her turn on the catwalk-she'd rather be behind the scenes creating fabulous outfits! So when a famous fashionista discovers Emma's designs and offers her the opportunity of a lifetime-a feature in Madison magazine (squeal!)-Emma sort of, well, panics. She has only one option: to create a secret identity. And so Allegra Biscotti is born. Allegra is worldly, sophisticated, and bold-everything Emma is not....
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English
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In Loren Long's touching interpretation of "Twas the night before Christmas," readers are invited to visit the homes of four families-- each on Christmas Eve. What do these four homes share? The excitement and anticipation of the most splendid night of the year. In this reimagined tale, the author and illustrator reminds us that no matter where we live, all children share the same wish for Christmas magic.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, the writers--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and discover. The result is a collection of deeply personal...
6) Clayhanger
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Books for Libraries Press
Pub. Date
[1975]
Physical Desc
698 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2011]
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231 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Emma Rose is SO not famous. So how did she score inside information on the most talked-about party of the year? Because Emma is secretly the hottest new fashion designer-Allegra Biscotti-and hired to whip up a Sweet Sixteen dress for the guest of honor. Wait-- fashion emergency! How can she create a fiercely fashionable dress and keep her secret? There's only one solution: Emma must go undercover-as her own intern! But when Emma feels the pressure...
9) Owed
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Series
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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
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x, 79 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett's first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School, as an "arresting debut" that was "abounding in tenderness and rich with character," with a "virtuosic kind of code switching." Bennett's new collection, Owed, is a book with celebration at its center. Its primary concern is how we might mend the relationship between ourselves and the people, spaces, and objects we have been taught to think of as insignificant,...
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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xxvii, 258 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"Why is it difficult for so many women to fully identify with the word "feminist"? How do our personal histories and identities affect our relationship to feminism? Why is intersectionality so important? Can a feminist movement that doesn't take other identities like race, religion, or socioeconomic class into account even be considered feminism? How can we make feminism more inclusive? In Can We All Be Feminists?, seventeen established and emerging...
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HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
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viii, 325 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Draws on the latest ideas in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and Eastern traditions to explain how to move beyond negative emotional patterns and achieve lasting emotional freedom.
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Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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DVD.
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2 DVD (approximately 5 hours.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. Jean Harlow is a red-headed secretary who hooks the company's married boss, while carrying on with chauffeur Charles Boyer. A young soldier is...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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x, 125 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"A third collection that reveals an acclaimed poet further extending his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthood Across three sequences, Joshua Bennett's new book recalls and reimagines social worlds almost but not entirely lost, all while gesturing toward the ones we are building even now, in the midst of a state of emergency,...
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2017]
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ix, 400 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"Nine mall Santas must find the imposter among them. An elderly lady seeks peace from her murderously loud neighbors at Christmastime. A young woman receives a mysterious invitation to Christmas dinner with a stranger. Niccolò Machiavelli sets out to save an Italian city. Sherlock Holmes's one-time nemesis Irene Adler finds herself in an unexpected tangle in Paris while on a routine espionage assignment. Jane Austen searches for the Dowager Duchess...
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Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2012]
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viii, 200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"From Project Runway finalist and fashion designer Laura Bennett comes a sophisticated collection of craft projects that are anything but homespun. In Handmade Chic, Laura shares simple strategies for creating 40 small luxuries and high-fashion accessories, from a smart leather iPad portfolio to a feather-embellished evening bag. With sections organized in skill-building order and based on type of accessory small leather goods, agendas and notepads,...
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
599 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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This captivating collection -- which features eighteen bestselling and award-winning Soho Crime authors -- contains laughs aplenty, hardboiled holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season. Nine mall Santas must find the imposter among them. A young woman receives a mysterious invitation to Christmas dinner with a stranger. Niccoló Machiavelli sets out to save an Italian city. Jane Austen searches for the Dowager Duchess of...
17) Batwoman
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Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]-
Physical Desc
volumes : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"Someone is selling cutting-edge weaponry on the black market, and their aim is to kill as many people--from as many nations--as possible. With help from her intrepid assistant, Julia Pennyworth, and their high-tech mobile command center, the yacht Sequoia, Batwoman quickly tracks the weapons to their source: a small, lawless island known as Coryana, home to pirates, outlaws ... and a year of Batwoman's life. Back before she joined the Bat-Family,...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 722 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best-known literary figures, Keeping on keeping on contains Alan Bennett's diaries from 2005 to 2015--with everything from his much celebrated essays to his irreverent comic pieces and reviews--reflecting on a decade that saw four major theater premieres and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. A chronicle of one of the most important...
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xxxv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Kendo is the first book in English to provide an in-depth historical, cultural, and political account of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship, from its beginnings in military training and arcane medieval schools to its widespread practice today as a global sport. Alexander Bennett shows how kendo evolved through a recurring process of 'inventing tradition', which served the changing ideologies and needs of Japanese warriors and governments over...
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 239 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? In this collection of essays, black women writers shine a light on how important it is that we all -- regardless of gender, race, religion, or ability -- have the opportunity to find ourselves in literature. Whether it's learning about the complexities of femalehood from Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, finding a new type of love in The Color Purple,...
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