Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Her mother has just passed away, her brother is newly married, and now that the Great War is over, she has been asked to give up managing the estate she helped to run when the men all joined the army. It is suggested to her that she become a governess. But first, she will act as caretaker to Mrs. Fog, an old family friend who is convalescing at a seaside resort. Constance is soon swept up in the social whirl...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a 'do-nothing' because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out to do nothing. Morimoto, aka Rental Person, provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. Sitting with a client undergoing surgery, accompanying...
97083) Pangolina
Author
Publisher
Minedition
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Captured by cruel hunters because her scales are believed to have curative powers, Pangolina is saved by a small girl and her mother who buy her and set her free.
97084) Chains: seeds of America
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A guide to growing beautiful gardens in drought-prone areas utilizing minimal water for maximum results."--Provided by publisher.
With climate change, water rationing, and drought on the rise, conserving water is more important than ever - but that doesn't mean your gardening options are limited to cacti and rocks. The Water-Saving Garden provides gardeners and homeowners with a diverse array of techniques and plentiful inspiration for creating...
97086) The three little guinea pigs
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of The Three Little Pigs featuring three guinea pig sisters who must outwit a clever fox.
97087) White lies
Author
Series
Kell Sabin series volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
97088) Ruby lost and found
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai's friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby's...
97089) Battle of the boss-monster
Author
Series
Notebook of doom volume 13
Publisher
Branches, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the year since Alexander and his father moved to Stermont, he and his friends in the Super Secret Monster Patrol of Stermont Elementary have defeated all kinds of monsters, but now they face their greatest challenge, the boss-monster who has kidnappedfellow monster fighter Ms. Vanderpants and stolen the Notebook of Doom--and they have to do it before Alexander turns eight and stops being able to see monsters.
97091) Cold clay
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The second book in the Shady Hollow series, in which some long-buried secrets come to light, throwing suspicion on a beloved local denizen. It's autumn in Shady Hollow, and residents are looking forward to harvest feasts. But then a rabbit discovers a grisly crop: the bones of a moose. Soon, the owner of Joe's Mug is dragged out of the coffee shop and questioned by the police about the night his wife walked out of his life--and Shady Hollow--forever....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This treasure trove for book lovers explores fifteen classic novels with memorable maternal figures, and examines how our cultural notions of motherhood have been shaped by literature. Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from-and, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie's...
Publisher
AARL
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Use this book to study for your Technical license exam. Every page presents information you need to pass the exam and become an effective operator. Organized topically to help you understand amateur radio rules, regulations, and best practices, The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual covers all the topics you need to be prepared for the test.
97094) The Company
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of...
97095) Pardon My Frenchie
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
20240604
Language
English
Description
"Ashanti Wright is ecstatic over the success of her dog boarding business, Barkingham Palace. In fact, it has become so successful that Ashanti has plans to expand her empire with a doggie bake shop. There's just one problem, the building she's had her eye on has just been sold to the surly grandson of one of her favorite customers. Thaddeus Sims is not a dog person. He's barely a person's person. But when his grandmother is transferred to a senior...
97097) Eat smarter family cookbook: 100 delicious recipes to transform your health, happiness, & connection
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A companion cookbook to the nationally best-selling Eat Smarter includes 100 delicious, nutrient-dense recipes for the whole family to help increase metabolism and raise energy levels including Sweet Potato Protein Pancakes, Supreme Salmon Burgers and Avocado Fries.
97098) The big book of girl stuff
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Presents a guide consisting of facts, advice, humor, and examples of things that are important to girls, including such topics as friendship, shopping, food, cliques, family, slang, jokes, secrets, and social emergencies.
97099) The other half
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's-catered with cocaine and Veuve Clicquot. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers and whose father knows who. Or is it 'whom'? Detective Caius...
97100) The ice cream vanishes
Author
Publisher
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Squirrel introduces themself at the start as an expert in making snacks disappear by eating or hiding them. What Squirrel really wants to do, though, is use magic to make the food vanish entirely. When a stray ice cream cone is discovered, Squirrel seeks out the help of friend Bear. But what's this? After being left out in the sun, the ice cream is gone! Drunk with power, Squirrel locates an empty ice cream truck and holds a magic show for a plethora...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request