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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, "a wonderfully cinematic story" (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region.
It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn't rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land.
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It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn't rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land.
...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
While rivers make up just a fraction of the water on Earth, they provide the majority of what we use every day. Rivers run over and through our world, and sometimes we don't even know they are there. But do we fully understand or even appreciate all that rivers can do? All over the world, cities large and small were built near rivers because of what they can provide: drinking water, transportation, power sources. But over the centuries as cities grew,...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks and the Normans brought an end to Byzantine hegemony. By 1081, Byzantium's very existence was threatened....
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When Lily is offered a ticket out of the career and life she hates, she takes it. Even if it means signing a contract to marry the attractive but aloof Sebastian Miller for five years. Her job is simple: play the happy housewife and she will get awarded a million dollars of her inheritance. That money is more than enough for her to start a life on her own and away from her controlling parents. But four years in, she's more than ready to be done with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
For centuries, I've traveled the realms, fighting wars, providing peace, causing havoc, and everything in between. I've also sown my wild oats across those realms, taking pleasure when and where it's offered. It's a work hard, play harder lifestyle but I'm just the demigod to do it.
Zora is the god of Life but before that she was a mortal held captive, growing up without love or affection. Raised in the pits of Hell, she was a pawn in a sinister...
Author
Publisher
Two Rivers Distribution
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
If you're thinking of cutting your midlevel managers in the new world of work, think again.
"Middle manager." The term evokes a bygone industrial era in which managers functioned like cogs in a vast bureaucratic machine. In recent decades, midlevel managers became a favorite target for the chopping block-underappreciated, often considered a superfluous layer of the organization.
Not only does this outdated perspective need to change, but the future...
Author
Publisher
Two Rivers Distribution
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This collection of mix and match crochet patterns allows you to make bespoke dolls that represent the special people in your life so that everyone feels represented and included.
Representation matters when it comes to dolls for children-every child should be able to see themselves reflected in a doll and research has shown that this can have a positive impact on a child's self-esteem. This collection of amigurumi crochet patterns for dolls with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A year after arriving in Benedict, Beth Rivers is feeling very at home in Alaska, even as outsiders are starting to return to enjoy the brief summer perfection. Beth feels like she's finally let go of most of her demons. She's even found her father, EddyRivers--or, rather, he found her--and she's trying to find the middle ground between anger and forgiveness. One sunny July day, Beth boards a tourist ship to see the glaciers, the main reason visitors...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
As the newly anointed king of the Underworld, I've worked hard to clean up the mess left behind by my predecessor. The realm is in relative peace at the moment, my main focus now on deciding the fate of recently departed souls. It's a tediously boring task, and honestly, one I despise doing. But just when I think I can't stand another moment of the monotony, one soul changes it all.
Nyssa McKnight earned her ticket to Hell. She made her choices and...
11) Dear Medusa
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school-whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who hashad sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the...
13) THE NIGHT ISLAND
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious informant disappears, Talia March, searching for a list of people like her and her friends, is forced to team up with Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man chasing the same list, when they are both targeted by a killer.
14) I'm a Fish
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
The series introduces viewers to a variety of sea creatures from rivers, seas, and oceans around the world, including fish, sea mammals, crustaceans, sharks, and more!
15) Simply the best
Author
Series
Chicago Stars volume 10
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Brett, the hottest sports agent in the business, and Rory, the sister of his superstar client, meet and have a disastrous one-night stand, resulting in murder, they find things getting messy, dangerous, heartbreaking and sexy as they struggle with themselves, each other and love.
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
A gorgeously illustrated book all about the Arctic and Antarctic, for young animal and conservation enthusiasts. Enter the world of the Arctic and Antarctic for an incredible journey around Earth's icy poles. Polar bears, penguins, and ice glide across the pages of this colourful book, which combines gorgeous illustrations and photos to help young enthusiasts learn all about the Arctic and Antarctic. From icy rivers to Antarctic volcanoes, they'll...
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