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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions.
Author
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Language
English
Description
Whether you garden on a small city lot or on a large country property, Composting for a New Generation covers everything you need to know to make great compost quickly.
Composting is not just about reducing food and yard waste; it's also about improving the health of your soiland the productivity of your garden. Compost is full of nutrients and beneficial microbes that help plants thrive, but store-bought compost...
Composting is not just about reducing food and yard waste; it's also about improving the health of your soiland the productivity of your garden. Compost is full of nutrients and beneficial microbes that help plants thrive, but store-bought compost...
Author
Language
English
Description
Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm
Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea of backyard...
Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea of backyard...
Author
Language
English
Description
What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and car-dependent development?
It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations and stories, Gray shows why zoning...
It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations and stories, Gray shows why zoning...
5) Burn bright
Author
Series
Alpha and Omega series volume 6
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In her bestselling Alpha and Omega series, Patricia Briggs "spins tales of werewolves, coyote shifters, and magic and, my, does she do it well" (USATODAY.com). Now mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham face a threat like no other--one that lurks too close to home... They are the wild and the broken. The werewolves too damaged to live safely among their own kind. For their own good, they have been exiled to the outskirts of Aspen Creek,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Ghostwalker Kane Cannon's mission plunges him into a hot zone more personal than he anticipated: the hiding place of Rose Patterson--hunted fugitive, ex-lover, and a fellow GhostWalker desperate to save the life of her unborn child--Kane's child.
7) Night shift
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels--"the Mark Twain of things that live under your bed"*--comes a new novel of Midnight, Texas, the town where some secrets will never see the light of day... At Midnight's localpawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves--only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town. Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire...
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Language
English
Description
"This guide shows readers how to successfully grow edibles--including vegetables, herbs, and fruits--in urban spaces, such as a balcony or back patio. The book includes approximately 30 simple recipes, including starters, sides, mains, and desserts"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"A street thriller of kidnapping, murder, trickery, and love that will have you at the edge of your seat. After 7 years of prison, multi-millionaire drug mogul Kane Garrett is back on the streets. But instead of diving back into the drug game, he's teaching a college class, infusing business principles with his signature ruthless edge he developed in the streets. When a student--and heavy heroin dealer--named Basil catches Kane's eye, Kane takes him...
10) Blood Lands
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Series
Language
English
Description
Nobody can hear your screams from the depths of hell…
Those who survived Halálház, never imagined going back.
But this isn’t Halálház, this is Věrhăza, and nothing can prepare any of them for this.
With General Markos in control of the new prison, torture and cruelty is taken to a whole new level. But what Brexley is forced to do, will not only change her, but the course of the future.
With her abilities starting to show themselves,...
11) Street game
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"For Mack McKinley and his team of GhostWalker killing machines, urban warfare is an art form. But despite a hard-won knowledge of the San Francisco streets, Mack knows from experience that too many things can still go wrong. Danger is just another part of the game--and he's come face-to-face with a woman who can play just as tough. She's Jamie, a woman with a sapphire stare so potent it can destroy a man. Years ago she and Mack had a connection--volatile,...
Author
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
“Vertical Vegetables” is the secret to making the most of your space; when you grow upward rather than outward, you will double or triple the yield from your small-space garden.
In “Vertical Vegetables”, author Amy Andrychowicz shows you a thing or two about growing up. Gardening vertically, that is. With practical principles and the incisive background information you'll need to start, Amy shows you how to build nearly two dozen growing...
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's not easy being a half-human, half-angel nephilim with a bad rep and a worse attitude who also has to learn to be human again after 11 years in Hell and a brief stint as Lucifer (yep). But that's the least of James Stark/Sandman Slim's worries. For the old gods, the Angra Om Ya, are poised to invade. LA is descending into chaos. And the Wildfire Ripper is stalking the city. No ordinary killer, he takes Stark deep into a conspiracy that stretches...
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"Learn how to create an action plan for your backyard homestead, calculate expenses, and set accessible goals for every step in the process with easy-to-follow templates, checklists, tables, and step-by-step instructions. From testing your soil to figuring out how many crops you can plant in your backyard homestead, this is the most comprehensive guide for planning, visualizing your farming projects, and making the most efficient use of your space."...
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 8
Language
English
Description
"Sandman Slim returns in a stunning, high-octane thriller filled with the intense kick-ass action and inventive fantasy that are the hallmarks of New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. The request from Thomas Abbot, the Augur of the Sub Rosa council, couldn't come at a better time for James Stark, aka Sandman Slim. For a man who's most recently met Death and death's killer a few months of normal life is more than he can handle. He needs...
18) The tiny but mighty farm: cultivating high yields, community, and self-sufficiency from a home farm
Author
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Discover how to turn a typical suburban property into a food-growing machine in The Tiny But Mighty Farm. Feed your family and maybe even turn a profit"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Gods. Magic. A hidden world. A dark romantic mystery awaits. Previously the Bitter Ashes Series. The first time Maddy accidentally killed someone, she passed it off as a freak accident. The second time, a coincidence. But when she’s kidnapped and taken to an underground realm where corpses reanimate on their own, she can no longer ignore her dark gift. The first person she recognizes in this horrifying realm is her old social worker from the foster...
20) Silence fallen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A new hardcover in the acclaimed Mercy Thompson series--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fire Touched. Attacked and abducted in her home territory, Mercy finds herself in the clutches of the most powerful vampire in the world, taken as aweapon to use against alpha werewolf Adam and the ruler of the Tri-Cities vampires. In coyote form, Mercy escapes--only to find herself without money, without clothing, and alone in the heart of Europe......
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