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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
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"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the critically acclaimed The Illness Lesson ("astoundingly original"--NYTBR), comes a a page-turning and psychologically penetrating tale about the rules that govern women's bodies and lives. In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now pregnant again, comes to an isolated house-cum-hospital in the Berkshires, run by a husband-and-wife...
23) Matterhorn
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn't dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind-back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the same trail? Ilya-his close friend, his rival in love....
24) Ghost station
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of space-borne madness.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 518 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The defining moment of Hubert Humphrey's life occurred on the evening of August 29, 1968, as he rose to accept the nomination as Democratic candidate for president at the International Amphitheater in Chicago. As Humphrey recited what he hoped would be healing verses from St. Francis--"where there is hate, let me sow love"--a contingent of National Guardsman began firing tear gas at thousands of demonstrators outside. "The whole world is watching,"...
26) Bless your heart
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and Southern charm with a bite, Bless Your Heart is a gasp-worthy delight from start to finish from debut author Lindy Ryan. Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill. It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with...normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. That's how Ducey Evans has...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 444 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on 150 interviews and extensive archival research, this definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time, who gave women a permanent place on the air, reveals the woman behind the legacy-one who broke all the rules to tell viewers what they deserved to know.
28) Day one
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can't seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by tragedy, they find their futures may be defined by more than just their good intentions. Stonesmere is an English seaside suburb, defined by poignant traditions passed from generation to generation. Marty is a golden girl here, albeit one who quietly chafes against the legacy of her father's accomplishments and the care of her saintly mother - an outsider...
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling, fact-filled history of Niagara Falls, following its evolution from the age of dinosaurs to its future disintegration"--
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture. "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today-by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know...
34) Super Scientists: the lives of Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking
Author
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book features the life stories of four trailblazing scientists who revolutionized the fields of physics, astronomy, biology, and cosmology. Each narrative demonstrates the challenges they faced as they defied scientific assumptions and discovered new truths about he world we live in. Inside you'll learn about Galileo Galilei's inventions, Charles Darwin's journeys, Albert Einstein's brilliant personality, and Stephen Hawking's courage.
35) Kinning
Author
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 416 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Traveling the world via aircanoe, siblings Tink and Bee-Lung spread spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus to build bonds between people, while Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga are unwittingly manipulated by their mother who pits Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against each other.
Author
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Get excited about potty training with Hopkins the frog! This charming yet simple story addresses common potty training concerns in a positive and playful way. Whimsical illustrations keep you giggling as you read together.
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