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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xv, 447 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she met her husband, the Haymarket "martyr" Albert Parsons-Lucy was a fearless advocate of First Amendment rights, a champion of the working classes, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act divided the nation and set it on the path to civil war.
113043) Dragon healer
Author
Series
Beasts of Olympus volume 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Demon must heal Ares's smelly dragon in time for battle. Can he heal this sick beast before Olympus chokes on the stink?
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Former FBI director James Comey's special assistant chronicles the bureau's investigation into Russian election interference and possible collusion by the president himself. Here, he takes readers deep inside key moments of this historic operation.
113045) Ruin of stars
Author
Series
Mask of shadows duology volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
404 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Opal, Sal now has the power, prestige, and ability to exact revenge, but must first identify the murderers while ignoring the fact that Elise is a virtual prisoner and the queen may have ulterior motives.
113046) Bright Island
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Thankful Curtis must leave Bright Island, Maine, for the first time in 1937, she has trouble adjusting to life on the mainland, new people, and "proper schooling," and yearns for her days of farming with her father and sailing.
113047) Centaur rising
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur's born, and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Scientists like to proclaim that science knows no borders. Scientific researchers follow the evidence where it leads, their conclusions free of prejudice or ideology. But is that really the case? In Freedom's Laboratory, Audra J. Wolfe shows how these ideas were tested to their limits in the high-stakes propaganda battles of the Cold War. Wolfe examines the role that scientists, in concert with administrators and policymakers, played in American cultural...
113049) The hunchback of Notre Dame
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
69 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic version of the story, Quasimodo, the reviled bell-ringer of Notre Dame, becomes a hero when he rescues the gypsy girl Esmeralda from an unjust sentence of death.
113050) Jane Austen in style
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
113052) The king of birds
Author
Series
Gamayun tales volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
63 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a merchant nurses the King of Birds back to health after he is injured in a great war, he is offered a great reward. Together they travel far across the land to the domains of the King's three sisters to claim the merchant's prize."--
Author
Series
Trish Trash volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
55 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Patricia "Trish Trash" Nupindju is a talented young hoverderby player on Mars 200 years in the future. Trish wants desperately to go pro because it seems like the only way to escape a future of poverty and hard labor on her family's moisture farm in Candor Chasma. But even if she could make the team, she's too young to get a contract, and her family is going broke faster than her escape velocity.
113054) The invisible man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel based on the H.G. Wells classic, in which a quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone.
113055) The May Queen murders
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her beloved cousin goes missing after a May Day celebration, sixteen-year-old Ivy discovers that both her cousin and her hometown in the Missouri Ozarks are as full of secrets as the woods that surround them.
113056) Don't cosplay with my heart
Author
Language
English
Description
Edan Kupferman's life is coming apart: her father is being "sequestered" because the company he works for in Hollywood is in legal trouble, her best friend is in Japan for the summer, and the boy she has a crush on is just plain confusing, so she escapes into the world of comics, and her favorite character, Gargantua-- but when Kirk, a boy from her high school, gets her into the sold out ComicCon it starts to look like she might, with a little help,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, this "is Almond's effort to make sense of our historical moment, to connect certain dots that go unconnected amid the deluge of hot takes and think pieces. Almond looks to literary voices--from Melville to Orwell, from Bradbury to Baldwin--to help explain the roots of [what he sees as] our moral erosion as a people"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations, maps, black and white photographs ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word 'Missing,' printed in a bold, high-impact font, are two sepia-toned photographs of a man dressed in a bow tie and tux." Most people would keep walking. Maybe they'd pay a bit closer attention to the local news that evening. Mikita Brottman spent ten years sifting through the details of the missing man's life and disappearance, and his purported suicide by jumping...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 117 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Projects in this book include: DIY flavored edible paper and ink, Self-folding paper models, Light-up paper projects, Paper windmill and paper machines, 3D designs with paper, and Origami and other fold and cut designs.
113060) Beyond the red
Author
Series
Beyond the red trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
351 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alien queen Kora has a problem as vast as the endless crimson deserts. She's the first female ruler of her territory in generations, but her people are rioting and call for her violent younger twin brother to take the throne. Despite assassination attempts, a mounting uprising of nomadic human rebels, and pressure to find a mate to help her rule, she's determined to protect her people from her brother's would-be tyrannical rule. Eros is a rebel soldier...
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