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Publisher
Versify
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of Gerda Taro, a headstrong photojournalist with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the first woman photojournalist killed in combat"--
This novel in verse profiles Gerda Taro, a vibrant, headstrong photojournalist with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the first woman photojournalist killed in combat. Daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants, Gerta Pohorylle doesn't quite fit in with...
7182) A scatter of light
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Language
English
Description
The summer of 2013 in the Bay is a momentous one for eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West, for the working-class queer community she finds herself in, and for her artist grandmother.
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Language
English
Description
When TV producer Kit O'Neill discovers her late grandmother was Mercy Welles, an Oscar-nominated actress who disappeared just as her career was taking off, she puts her investigative skills to good use, which leads her to Martha's Vineyard-the island that holds the key to the fateful summer that changed everything forever.
7184) Bittersweet
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
"As two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood, they are not enthusiastic about the limited prospects life holds for them. Instead, Edda wants to be a doctor, Tufts wants to organize everything, Grace won't be told what to do, and Kitty wishes to be known for something other than her beauty. Together they decide...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Language
English
Description
"Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women--past and present--in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter of a French Resistancespy. Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Description
"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
7187) The selkie's daughter
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Description
A cozy, richly imagined fantasy where a young selkie girl must save her family from a vengeful king.
Brigit knows all the old fisherman songs and legends by heart: sea goddess, warriors, and people who are not quite human. But Brigit also knows the truth. It’s evident in the webbing between her fingers–webbing that must be cut. She’s the daughter of a selkie. A truth she must keep secret from everyone.
But there is another secret growing in...
7189) The murder of Mr. Ma
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Language
English
Description
In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe volume 23
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north, the other to the south; if they meet, the British...
7191) The night war
Author
Series
War volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
‘We don’t choose how we feel, but we choose how we act. Choose courage.’
From the two-time Newbery Honor-winner and a #1 New York Times bestselling author of The War That Saved My Life and The War I Finally Won comes a new middle-grade novel, in which a girl who has lost everything must decide whether to risk her life to bring others to freedom.
In 1942, much of France is occupied by the Nazis. Twelve-year-old Miri is Jewish, so she is not...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Language
English
Description
Three generations of Swagger family members, Charles, Earl and Bob Lee, tell their stories in three interconnected novellas that describe hunting for a notorious gangster in Chicago, uncovering municipal corruption in Maryland, and returning from the Vietnam War.
7193) Lucky
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Description
"Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her Uncle Drew took her to the racetrack, where she got lucky - and that roll of two-dollar bills she won has never since left her side. Jodie thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then - through a combination of hard work and serendipity - started a singing career, which catapulted her from St. Louis to New York...
7194) Always remember
Author
Series
Ravenswood novel volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Language
English
Description
"Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society-even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and children, and of walking - and dancing. When Ben Ellis comes...
7195) The last hope: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
"All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated Maggie Hope series as the intrepid spy teams up with fashion designer - and possible double agent - Coco Chanel to bring down the physicist behind Nazi Germany's nuclear program. Maggie Hope has come a long way since she was Mr. Churchill's secretary. In the face of tremendous danger, she's learned espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance....
7196) I'll tell you no lies
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Language
English
Description
Set during the Cold War in upstate New York, Shelby Blaine, the teenage daughter of an Air Force intelligence officer, becomes entangled with an escaped Soviet pilot accused of being a spy.
7197) What cannot be said
Author
Series
Sebastian St. Cyr mystery volume 19
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Language
English
Description
"July 1815: The Prince Regent's grandiose plans to celebrate Napoleon's recent defeat at Waterloo are thrown into turmoil when Lady McInnis and her daughter Emma are found brutally murdered in Richmond Park. Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy immediately turns to his friend Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, for help with the investigation. For as Devlin discovers, Lovejoy's own wife and daughter were also murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies...
7198) The Paris novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading "Go to Paris." But Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a childhood trauma, and her mother's negligent parenting style, have kept her strictly confined to her comfort zone, even in adulthood. When her boss encourages her to take time off, Stella resigns herself to honor her mother's wishes, even if a spontaneous trip to Paris is...
Author
Series
Yashahime volume 1
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Language
English
Description
"Can the three teenage daughters of demon dog half-brothers Inuyasha and Sesshomaru save their parents, themselves, and both realms from the menace of the seven mystical Rainbow Pearls? Living in the present day isn't easy for Sesshomaru's daughter Towa. She can't remember where she came from, must conceal her mysterious powers, and is either worshiped or feared by girls she just wants to befriend. But she has no way of returning her to her own time......
Author
Series
Adventures of Tintin volume Book 3
Publisher
Little Brown
Language
English
Description
Tintin searches for the killer of a sailor, travels to the Arctic in search of a fallen meteorite, and goes on a dangerous treasure hunt.
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