Devlin
Author
Publisher
Tor.com
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening. When a disease affects how reality is perceived, it's hard to be certain of anything. Spence is one of the "cured" living at the Ironside rehabilitation facility. Haunted by guilt, he refuses to face the changed world until a new inmate challenges him to...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take up the issue and bring it to the Supreme Court. After the Brown v. Board...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A look inside the homes of New York's artists, designers, writers, and social influencers. Twenty-four homes and stories of real New Yorkers who live in small spaces with art, books, collections, treasures, and fabulous, sometimes funky furniture--each space expressing the resident's unique personality. Bright, captivating photographs throughout pair dynamically with Polly Devlin's in-depth interviews with the homeowners. Her critiques of their spaces...
Author
Publisher
Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This book offers readers a concise yet in-depth look at the influenza virus and the illness it causes, with both a historical perspective and a contemporary discussion of treatment, prevention, and controversies"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal. . . an illness far more insidious than cancer that poisons their home"--
The three Babcock sisters and their mother spend a lot of time at a Mexican clinic across the border from their San Diego home. There the mother...
10) Old Black Witch!
Author
Language
English
Description
At first Nicky's and his mother's efforts to turn an old New England house into a tearoom are hampered by an old black witch who haunts the place; then, they find out she can cook.
11) Hattie the bad
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A little girl tries to be good but soon discovers that being bad is ever so much more fun.
14) Cranberry summer
Author
Publisher
Four Winds Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Through their hard work at the Fourth of July celebration, Maggie and Mr. Whiskers are able to provide a home for a lost donkey. Includes a recipe for cranberry punch.
15) Geostorm
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong. The system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything.
16) Cranberry Easter
Author
Publisher
Four Winds Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Events at Easter time convince Seth, owner of Cranberryport's general store, that he is needed in town and should change his plans to retire and leave. Includes a recipe for cranberry cobbler.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare people for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring the world back from the brink of extinction.