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61) Speak
Author
Language
English
Description
"'Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say.' From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers. Historian David Hsiung maintains that in order to understand the origins of such stereotypes, we must look critically at their underlying concepts, especially those of isolation and community.
Hsiung focuses on the mountainous area of upper East Tennessee, tracing this area's development from
...Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Something is wrong. We all know it. American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn't just wrong; they're evil. We're the richest country in history, but we've never been more pessimistic. What's causing the despair? In Them, bestselling author and U.S. senator Ben Sasse argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, our crisis isn't really about politics....
Publisher
Radius
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"In a lonesome house in the countryside in the heat of mid-summer, nine-year-old twin brothers await their mother's return from the hospital. When she comes home with her face obscured by bandages, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edtion.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they're safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. Safe from everything. The trade-off? They're alone. Thus, when they receive a package clearly meant for someone else--a package containing a substance critical for a stranger's survival--Cleo...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alma and her family live close to the land: they raise chickens and sheep, they make maple syrup. Every day Alma's husband leaves for his job at a nearby college while she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night, she abruptly leaves it all behind - speeding through the darkness, away from their Vermont homestead, bound for New York. In a series...
Author
Language
English
Description
Raised in seclusion by fundamentalist grandparents who claim she is an evil product of her mother's sinful mistake, teenager Elle Edwards finally learns the truth about her conception and struggles with profound feelings of insecurity while pursuing a relationship with a vacationing boy.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An electrifying novel tracks a woman's journey from the horrors of Charles Taylor's Liberia to abject poverty and self-exile on a Greek island, where she must grapple with a haunted past and find a way back into human society.
70) Social bullying
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book examines why social bullying occurs and provides effective strategies to confront it.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 97 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality--or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what...
73) Rain Boy
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Wherever Rain Boy goes, rain follows, and when he is invited to Sun Kidd's birthday party the other children complain that his presence is ruining their fun; now Sun Kidd is hiding in her room because she is upset by her friends' behavior, and an apparently an endless storm has descended on the world--until they all discover that something wonderful happens when rain and sun finally get together.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gothic story of four siblings who, after the death of their father, are torn from a peaceful life and subjected to abuse resulting from a dark, family secret. Abandoned by their mother and forced to endure unimaginable treatment living in the attic of their grandparents' mansion, the children form their own family unit. But as the oldest boy and girl come of age, they are entrapped by their family's sordid past as they try to survive and escape...
75) Fireworks
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
76) Home games
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ben is a shy, quiet kid. His life isn't perfect, but he feels at home in his New York City apartment. Then his dad takes a job in London, and everything changes. His parents separate, and Ben's mom moves them back to her hometown of Austin, Texas. Ben's simple life is suddenly complicated. He misses his apartment, his best friend, Jake, and his dad. Then he meets Mabley, who becomes a bright spot to Ben's day. But when his mom starts...
77) Mrs. Bridge
Author
Series
Bridge series (Evan S. Connell) volume 1
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s Kansas City, India Bridge, tries to cope with her dissastisfaction with an easy, though empty, life.
78) The leaning girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Alaxis Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
176 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
" Mary Von Rathen is with her family in Alaxis when during a ride on the Star Express the world shakes. Afterwards Mary is leaning. Doctors can not help her and she is sent to a private school in Sodrovni. Mary is not happy at the private school and she escapes. She joins the Robertson Circus and stays with them for some time. Until she hears from Stanislas Sainclair that Alex Wappendorf might be able to help her. Wappendorf is working on a rocket...
79) Sibel
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
A mute woman living in a Turkish countryside and shunned by the villagers crosses paths with an injured fugitive and secretly nurses him back to health.
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In an unnamed British city, the virus is spreading, and like everyone else, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness retreats inside. She isolates herself in her immense studio, Burntcoat, with Halit, the lover she barely knows. As life outside changes irreparably, inside Burntcoat, Edith and Halit find themselves changed as well: by the histories and responsibilities each carries and bears, by the fears and dangers of the world outside, and by the...
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