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Author
Publisher
W W Norton
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A luminous, wise, and joyful insight into what really matters at the end of a long life, from the beloved author of the award-winning Somewhere Towards the End. What will you remember if you live to be 100? Diana Athill charmed readers with her prize-winning memoir Somewhere Towards the End, which transformed her into an unexpected literary star. Now, on the eve of her ninety-eighth birthday, Athill has written a sequel every bit as unsentimental,...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
70 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances, and a trip to the beach. Soon it becomes clear...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (687 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shawn Spencer pretends to be a psychic. No one really believes him, but he continues to be so helpful to the police that they keep calling him in on cases they can't solve. Shawn brings his childhood friend, Gus, into his scheme, and between their bantering they manage to solve every case they're presented with.
945) The summer children
Author
Series
Collector trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This FBI agent has come to expect almost anything--just not this. When Agent Mercedes Ramirez finds an abused young boy on her porch, covered in blood and clutching a teddy bear, she has no idea that this is just the beginning. He tells her a chilling tale: an angel killed his parents and then brought him here so Mercedes could keep him safe. His parents weren't just murdered. It was a slaughter--a rage kill like no one on the Crimes Against Children...
Publisher
Gale Research
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
947) Boat of dreams
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An old man and a seagull living on a desert island and a young boy and his cat who live in a city are connected by a piece of paper in a bottle, and perhaps much more.
948) We could fly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a mother and daughter watch a bird take flight, the young girl feels a trembling in her arms and a lightness in her feet. Her mama shares that once, long ago, their ancestors actually could fly. Every night they would slip away and soar through the skies, searching for safety, looking for the promised land. Mama feels in her bones that her daughter is meant to follow those old ways, like her grandmother before her. So Mama grabs hold of her hand,...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact, told by Zapruder's granddaughter, draws on personal records and previously sealed archive sources to trace the film's role in the media, courts, government, and arts community.--
950) Firstborn
Author
Series
Descendants of the House of Bathory volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Audra must find her archenemy, the Historian, and put an end to the centuries old Progeny/Scion war once and for all. But first she has to rescue her husband, Luka, who is being held prisoner by the Scions, all while on the run as an international fugitive and struggling to control her growing powers"--
951) The ring of water
Author
Series
Young samurai volume 5
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
August, 1613. Bruised and battered, Jack Fletcher wakes up in a roadside inn wrapped. He has lost everything, including his memory of what happened. So he sets off to find out what happened, and to retrieve his belongings - his swords, his friend Akiko's black pearl, and his father's prize possession. Jack realises The Ring of Water is the key to his survival. But with only a washed up Ronin - a masterless samurai - for help, what will Jack manage...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"On November 9, 1989, Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi officer in the twilight of his career, is deteriorating from a mysterious illness. Alarmed by the disappearance of Lara, a young waitress at his regular café with whom he is obsessed, he chases a series of clues throughout Berlin. The details of Lara's vanishing trigger flashbacks to his entanglement with Johannes Held, a physicist who, twenty-five years earlier, infiltrated an American research institute...
Author
Publisher
HABA
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 game (1 jailhouse (box bottom, 3 game boards, interlocking cardboard dividers), 1 getaway car, 15 criminal tiles, 1 Inspector Mouse, 1 die, 1 alarm bell, 44 reward stars, 4 magnifying glasses, 4 sets of mugshots, 1 rulebook) : wood, cardboard, color ; in container 22 x 22 x 5 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspector Mouse needs your help. He's put a lot of crooks behind bars, but now these criminal masterminds are planning a great escape! You'll need a good memory and great detective skills when the alarm goes off. Foil the escape attempt by figuring out which driminal was th last in the cell where the escape tunnel was dug. Who has the sharpest memory and is able to recapture the most escaped criminals?
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
373 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Most Americans today are unaware of how revered Grant was in his lifetime. Joan Waugh uncovers the reasons behind the rise and fall of his renown, underscoring as well the fluctuating memory of the Civil War itself
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
ix, 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Luigi Pirandello, tormented by schizophrenia of his wife and family members, Noël Coward's self-obsessed characters reflect his own narcissism. Alcoholism is a recurrent theme in the works of many playwrights, including Eugene O'Neill, Edward Albee, and Brian Friel. This book looks at 20 playwrights to see how their examination of the disturbed mind influenced the modern theater"--Provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In this deeply personal narrative, Brett L. Walker sets out to construct a history of his body and family health in an effort of better understanding his diagnosis with a serious immunological disorder in 2010. While succumbing to pneumonia and a plural effusion in an Intensive Care Unit, a doctor's simple question, 'Do you have a family history of illness?' launched Walker's investigation into his and his family's medical past. The final product...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
53 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
In early 1900s New York City, miserly Scroogemacher, a waistcoat factory owner, is visited by the Rabbis of Hanukkah Past, Present, and Future and learns the value of carrying on Jewish tradition. Includes glossary of Yiddish terms and historical notes.
958) La última cuentista
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Una niña llamada Petra Peña que no quería otra cosa que ser cuentista, como su abuelita. Pero el mundo de Petra está llegando a su fin. La Tierra ha sido destruida por un cometa, y solo unos pocos científicos y sus hijos --entre ellos, Petra y su familia-- han sido elegidos para viajar a un nuevo planeta. Son ellos quienes garantizarán la continuidad de la raza humana. Cientos de años después, Petra despierta en el nuevo planeta y descubre...
959) The low, low woods
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"When your memories are stolen, what would you give to remember? Follow El and Vee as they search for answers to the questions everyone else forgot. Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania, is plagued by a mysterious illness that eats away at the memories of those affected by it. El and Octavia are two best friends who find themselves the newest victims of this disease after waking up in a movie theater with no memory of the past few hours. As El and Vee dive...
960) The invisible woman
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nelly, a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
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