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English
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"When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage, she's expected to make a quick recovery, and her nurse, Sona, is excited to learn more about the vivacious artist who shares her half-Indian identity. Sona, yearning for a larger life, finds herself carried away by Mira's stories of her travels and exploits and is shocked by accounts of the many lovers the painter has left scattered throughout Europe. When Mira...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2025.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Weatherby and Jack are tapped to join Last Heir, the most powerful secret society of deception in the world, and on the night of the first gambit, the game takes a terrifying turn, pushing Jack and Weatherby to discover the truth about the game -- and themselves"-- Publisher.
Author
Publisher
The Open Field
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver's hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds readers there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days"-- Provided by publisher.
5) A quiet company of dangerous men: the forgotten British Special Operations soldiers of World War II
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024, ©2024.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf,\
Pub. Date
℗♭2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Jenny St. John was eighteen, she moved to Los Angeles from her rural midwestern hometown and scored the lead role in an independent film called The Divide. She was working with the young auteur Serge Grumet and was on her way to becoming the next indie darling. But then the movie tanked and Jenny never caught a second break. Now, two decades later, after floundering on the fringes of the entertainment industry, she's barely keeping afloat running...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two mighty empires are at war - and both will lose, with thousands of planets falling to the extinction event called the Scour. At least that's what the artificial intelligence known as Rupshe believes. But somewhere in the multiverse there exists a force - the Mother Mass - that could end the war in an instant, and Rupshe has assembled a team to find it. Essien Nkanika, a soldier trying desperately to atone for past sins; the cat-woman Moon, a conscienceless...
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain--the exchange of one's soul in return for untold riches and power--has exerted a magnetic pull upon our collective imaginations. Scholar Ed Simon takes us on a historical tour of the Faustian bargain, from the Bible to blues, and illustrates how the impulse to sacrifice our principles in exchange for power is present in all kinds of social ills, from colonialism to nuclear warfare,...
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Publisher
Pushkin Vertigo
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A brand new edition of the classic crime novel that inspired Alfred Hitchcock. Glamorous socialite Iris Carr is on her way back to England from a European summer holiday and looking forward to the comforts of home. On the train to Trieste, she strikes up a conversation with the kindly Miss Froy. At ease with her new companion, Irene dozes off, but wakes to find that Miss Froy has disappeared from the train. Worse still, all of her fellow passengers...
10) Cast out of Eden: the untold story of John Muir, indigenous peoples, and the American wilderness
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xviii, 291 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"John Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United States' vision of itself, largely through the system of national parks and wild areas his writings and public advocacy helped create. That vision, however, came at a cost: the conquest and dispossession of the tribal peoples who had inhabited and managed those same lands, in many cases for millennia. Muir argued for the preservation of wild sanctuaries...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lune loves hearing her daddy's stories--the funny ones, the sad ones, the ones with lessons about truth and love. Whether evoking an ill-fated climb up a mango tree or life after a hurricane, flying over magical mountains or the healing power of a mother's love, all of Daddy's stories begin with "lakay"--back home--and each one ushers Lune to Haiti, her father's homeland, a place she doesn't know but can see, hear, and feel when she closes her eyes....
12) Cottonwood
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
348 ,17 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1872, Cottonwood, Kansas, is a one-horse speck on the map; a community of run-down farms, dusty roads, and two-bit crooks. Self-educated saloon owner and photographer Bill Ogden looks on his adopted town with an eye to making a profit or getting out. His brains and ambition bring him to the attention of one Marc Leval, a wealthy Chicago developer with big plans for the small town. The advent of the railroad and rumors of a cattle trail turn Cottonwood...
13) Deep dark blue
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Vertigo
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling and dark page-turner about a toxic female friendship finally coming to a head, set amidst the backdrop of London's exclusive nightclub scene. But these girls have an extraordinary history between them - they're vampires. London 1979. Two women with a deep love for disco meet one fateful night on the dance floor, changing the course of both their lives forever. Nicola, a beautiful and brooding vampire for nearly two centuries, can't resist...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Forgers, Roger Moorhouse unfolds this never-before-told history Holocaust resistance, illuminating the remarkable story of Polish diplomats, Jewish activists, Japanese bureaucrats, and ordinary people the world over who systematically forged as many as 10,000 passports and saved hundreds, potentially thousands, of Jewish lives. Drawing upon first-hand accounts and survivor testimony with new research and revelations about the Lados Group,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Poppy Benjamin, Media Relations Director of Syracuse's storied NFL team, the Bobcats, fought tooth and nail for her career. Ever since her intern season fifteen years ago, it's been nothing but early mornings, late nights, barely-dodged inappropriate advances, and relationships lost with partners who didn't get it. That's why Poppy relies on the Women Against Groping Shitheads, a support network that knows her far better than her own family. In-house...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first unauthorized look at the inner workings-and ultimate breakdown-of the Disney Channel machine. For many kids growing up in the 2000s, there was no cultural touchstone more powerful than Disney Channel, the most-watched cable channel in primetime at its peak. Today, it might best be known for introducing the world to talents like Hilary Duff, Raven-Symoné, Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, and Zendaya....
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Germany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is over, the nation defeated. Revolution is afoot, the monarchy has fallen and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times. Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launches an unprecedented political project- its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic is established. The years that follow see political extremism, economic upheaval, revolutionary violence...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 361 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the legend tells us. But the real-life story of the historical Cleopatra VII is even more compelling. She was the last of seven Cleopatras who ruled Egypt...
20) The vagina business: the innovative breakthroughs that could change everything in women's health
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 408 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"We live in a society that prioritizes men's convenience over women's suffering. Nowhere is this more evident in the female technology industry. In 2020, the total value of investment in the digital health industry was $14.1 billion. Female-focused digital health companies received just 1.8% of that funding. Women continue to get short-changed when it comes to their health and sexual wellness because venture capitalists are predominantly male. And...
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