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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz is at the peak of his acclaimed powers with this major new novel. The city changed my life and showed me that the world is deeply mysterious. I need to tell you about her and some terrible things and wonderful things and amazing things that happened. and how I am still haunted by them. Including one night when I died and woke and lived again. Here is the riveting, soul-stirring story of Jonah Kirk,...
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Language
English
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
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Series
Publisher
NYLA
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
The Iron Covenant Book 1
No day is ordinary in a world where Technology and Magic compete for supremacy...But no matter which force is winning, in the apocalypse, a sword will always work.
Hugh d'Ambray, Preceptor of the Iron Dogs, Warlord of the Builder of Towers, served only one man. Now his immortal, nearly omnipotent master has cast him aside. Hugh is a shadow of the warrior he was, but when he learns that the Iron Dogs, soldiers...
No day is ordinary in a world where Technology and Magic compete for supremacy...But no matter which force is winning, in the apocalypse, a sword will always work.
Hugh d'Ambray, Preceptor of the Iron Dogs, Warlord of the Builder of Towers, served only one man. Now his immortal, nearly omnipotent master has cast him aside. Hugh is a shadow of the warrior he was, but when he learns that the Iron Dogs, soldiers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
62 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ramona is very serious about beach volleyball, and she is frustrated with her summer league team--but when she learns that a plastics company is going to build a factory in their park, she realizes that it will take the whole team to try and save their court.
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English
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"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched...
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Series
A Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch novel volume 3
Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch volume 2
Harry Bosch volume 22
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Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch volume 2
Harry Bosch volume 22
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the...
7) PRIDE
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri is forced to find common ground with Darius, while struggling with her four wild sisters, a handsome boy vying for her attention, and college applications.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1981
Language
English
Description
Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Controversial for its honest depiction of work, desire, and urban life, Sister Carrie has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique over a century after its publication. Despite poor reviews upon publication, the novel is now considered a landmark of American literature. Tired of the countryside, Carrie Meeber moves to Chicago to live with her older...
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Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twenty-five-year-old Matise Jackon tells her best friend, Jordan Heart, the kind of woman she thinks he should be with, she is describing herself. She has secretly been in love with Jordan for years, and the two of them are so in sync that it scares her at times.
10) Memphis
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Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
c2020
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his name surfaces on a list of the most notorious kingpins of all times, will Ethan's past land him in a jail cell or a casket? Can he escape the fate of so many kingpins before him?
Type Kingpins of Memphis in any search engine and you'll see images of Craig Pettis and his alleged crew, and that's how Ethan Wade Carruthers prayed it remained. Though he had never met the youthful-faced man covered in diamonds, he knew the information he found...
11) The safe house
Author
Series
Black market volume 2
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kiki Swinson's novels sizzle with brutally unpredictable characters, breakneck plotting-and a uniquely gritty portrait of Southern life. Now she breaks all the rules as a young woman with two targets on her back tries to keep those she loves-and herself-alive . . .
Run for cover
It was supposed to be easy money. A few exchanges for cash, one big payoff, and then life would be better than ever with bills all paid and money in her pocket. But the...
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Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xii, 290 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The authors call for a twenty-first century localism, one attuned to the needs of all citizens, including those in rural America. New norms of growth, governance, and finance will emerge fostering a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable and inclusive society.
13) Influence
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Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When famed attorney Bradley Hudson learns of his youngest son Langston's arrest for drug trafficking, he immediately assembles a team of lawyers and investigators, including members of his own family, to build a defense. With his reputation for being a shark in the courtroom, Bradley is confident he will get justice for his son--until he realizes he will be going up against an old foe, Assistant District Attorney James Brown. Is the ADA allowing...
14) Black buck
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Physical Desc
xi, 388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Sorry to Bother You and Wolf of Wall Street: a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"--
15) The black market
Author
Series
Black market volume 1
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kiki Swinson's bestselling novels burn with extraordinary characters, triple-down twists-and a raw portrait of Southern life only she can deliver. Now she turns up the heat as a young woman cashes in on a sure thing-only to find some addictions are always killer...
Break the rules
At first, Misty Heiress just wants to help. With her cousin Jillian in constant pain, and the doctor refusing to prescribe, Misty steals opioids from the Virginia Beach...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
First Vintage Classics Edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 136 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A faithful translation of the classic written at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century follows the narrator's withdrawal from his life as an official to the underground, where he makes passionate and obsessive observations on social utopianism and the irrational nature of humankind.
17) Wrath
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the history of New York City's underworld, there have been a host of criminal figures whose exploits have gone on to inspire. One of them is Jonas Rafferty, known among friends and enemies alike as Wrath, whose life changes when he crosses paths with rogue homicide detective Louis "Lou" Ceavers and offered a bargain that will change the course of his life.
From the neighborhood bullies to the stepfather who uses him and his siblings as punching...
18) Collusion
Author
Series
Parker Crime volume 2
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In D.C.'s cutthroat political arena, revenge is the ultimate nuclear option...
Framed for a high-profile murder, Abrianna Parker finds herself hurtling down a conspiracy rabbit hole in a desperate attempt to clear her name. Her only way out is to go after the most powerful man in the country. But the powers that be play dirty-and expose her billionaire adoptive father, Cargill Parker, and his criminal activity.
With charges of collusion swirling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ke'yoko and Ka'yah are identical twins with two totally different personalities. As young girls they formed a bond that could not be broken. It isn't until they become grown women that their loyalty is tested by secrets, deception, and lies"--Page 4 of cover.
20) No loyalty
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
DANGEROUS LIAISONS
DE'NESHA DIAMOND
She's watching. She's planning. She's past done waiting. Klaudya Ramsey is out for revenge on her own mother. Nichelle seduced Klaudya's wealthy, disloyal husband, had her innocent daughter jailed-and stole her life. Now Klaudya plays on her mom's insatiable greed and her husband's gullibility to take them down hard. But a secret Klaudya never saw coming could turn her vengeful dream into an inescapable nightmare...