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Jodie Harland and Bethan Keane had little in common before the plight of a homeless dog brought them together, but…
from that day on the two young girls were bound together as best friends. As different as night and day in personality and interests, their friendship grows strong through shared joys, trials, and, finally, a devastating loss faced together. 2001.
"The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World"--the creator of The Program, the most popular television show in Egypt's history--chronicles his…
transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist, and offers crucial insight into the Arab Spring, the Egyptian Revolution, and the turmoil roiling the modern Middle East. 2017.
Pursued by a Texas bounty hunter, Matthew returns to Fountain Creek, Colorado, to apologize to his brother for insulting his…
wife Annabelle and to share his Idaho homestead. Learning that his brother has left already, he answers an ad for someone to guide a widow to Idaho. But he's shocked to see the widow is Annabelle--a woman whose sordid past repulses him. Sequel to "Rekindled". Followed by "Remembered". 2007.
Carlson spins a story of growing up and growing old as four high school friends and former bandmates reconnect 30…
years after graduating. When they learn that one of them is dying, it feels like getting the band back together might be the most important thing they can do. 2013.
The young Reverend Nate Thicke has made quite the reputation for himself, but when he falls in love and gets…
married, he swears to become a one-woman man. Most of his congregation forgives him for his past sins, but some aren't quite ready to give the Reverend a second chance. 2010.
Schuyler deals with her feelings for both Oliver and Jack. Meanwhile Bliss’s reunion with Dylan is not what she hoped…
for. But soon their world unravels around them, and Schuyler and Bliss learn their destinies. Sequel to “Masquerade”. Followed by “The Van Alen Legacy”. Includes strong language. Senior High. 2009.
The RLS Angels are out for blood, and only Suze can stop them, since she’s the only one who can…
see them. The four ghostly teenagers died in a terrible car accident, for which they blame Suze’s classmate Michael, and they’ll stop at nothing until he’s joined them in the realm of the dead. As Suze desperately fends off each attempt on Michael’s life, she finds she can relate to the Angels’ fury. Because their deaths turn out not to have been accidental at all. And their killer is only too willing to strike again. Sequel to "Ninth Key". Followed by "Darkest Hour". Junior and Senior High. 2005.
After accidentally killing a dragon, Wiglaf hopes his friends at Dragon Slayers’ Academy will be able to help him prove…
himself a hero when he faces that dragon’s mother, Seetha, the Beast of the East. Sequel to “The new kid at school”. Followed by “Class trip to the Cave of Doom”. Grades 2-4. 2005.
Impoverished Elinor Hardy is employed as a dealer in Lady Bassingbrook's gambling establishment. The Duchess of Towans, eager to arrange…
a suitable match for her spoiled niece, offers to improve Elinor's life if she will help. 1988.
In January, 2015 at the Detroit Auto Show, Ford unveiled a new car and the automotive world lost its collective…
mind. This wasn't some new Explorer or Focus. Onto the stage rolled a supercar, a carbon-fiber GT powered by a mid-mounted six cylinder Ecoboost engine that churned out over 600 horsepower. It was a callback to the legendary Ford GT40 Mk IIs that stuck it to Ferrari and finished 1-2-3 at Le Mans in 1966. DeBord revisits the story of the 1960s, details the creation of the new GT, and follows the team through the racing season, from an inauspicious debut at Daytona where the cars kept breaking down, to glimmers of hope at Sebring, and the team's first victory at Laguna Seca in Monterey. Finally, DeBord joins the Ford team in Le Mans in June, 2016. This fabled 24-hour endurance race is designed to break cars and drivers, and it was at Le Mans, fifty years after the company's greatest triumph, that Ford's comeback was put to the ultimate test. 2017.
Fifty-six years after the fateful World War II sea and air conflict, underwater explorer Ballard returns in search of the…
lost ships. Describes the events of June 4, 1942, and the author's discovery of sunken remains. 1999.
Matthew Garth was orphaned in a savage wagon train ambush and adopted by Red River hero Thomas Dunson. Twenty years…
later Matt has two strapping sons of his own and is undertaking a desperate cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City, the new queen of frontier cattle towns. While the deadly dangers of storms and rustlers gather around them, an act of passion and violence from within the drive--and from within the Garth family--leaves Matt fighting for his life, close to where his father was buried by the Red River. When Matt gets back up, he must finish the drive--and fight his worst enemies and even his own blood kin before it ends in a battle of guns, tears, and justice. 2016.
Like many adopted children, the author struggled to fill a void that would not go away. She chronicles her difficult…
odyssey to discover the identity of her real parents. She discusses the critical issues that face those in her situation and provides guidance to those who embark on a similar journey. 1992.
Siggins chronicles the history of a single Saskatchewan farm from 1883 to the present. What she uncovers is a history…
fraught with corruption, greed, toil and deprivation, ending in a double murder. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1991.
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam,…
it's of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect Amarantin city and a colossal statue of a winged Amarantin. For scientist Dan Sylveste, it's more than intellectual curiosity - and he will stop at nothing to get at the truth, even if the truth costs him everything. But the Amarantin were wiped out for a reason, and that danger is closer and greater than even Sylveste imagines. Followed by "Chasm City" (DC38587). 2008, c2000.
Revolting rhymes. Humorous retellings in verse of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.…
Grades K-3. 1982. Taped with: Dirty beasts. A collection of humorous poems about amazing or nasty creatures, including a flying cow, a pig who turns the tables on a farmer, and crocodiles, lions, and anteaters who delight in devouring people. Grades K-3. 1983.
In 1953, Dr. Wilson Spriggs gave the now seventy-seven year old Marylou Ahearn a radioactive cocktail, without her consent, as…
part of a secret government study. Marylou has been plotting her revenge for fifty years, and when she accidentally discovers his whereabouts in Florida, she snaps into action, moving down the block from where a now senile Spriggs lives with his daughter's family. She begins the tricky work of insinuating herself into their lives, but has no idea what a nest of yellow jackets she is stumbling into. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2011.
Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady prepared for his Deny Flight mission over Bosnia as usual on June 2, 1995. But…
several hours later, his plane was hit by an antiaircraft missile, and his day became anything but usual. As O'Grady details his survival during the six days it took for him to be rescued, he also provides background information on his life up to and following that mission. 1995.
Recreates the powerful drama of the last Pharoahs of the ill-fated 18th dynasty with its pomp and ceremony, and its…
incestuous and murderous end. Some violence. Sequel to "A god against the gods." 1977.