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2142) The jigsaw jungle
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Claudia Dalton's father has disappeared. What began as a late night at work has spiraled into a missing persons case--one that's left twelve-year-old Claudia questioning everything she's ever known about her father and their family. But when she finally gets word from her dad, it turns out he isn't missing at all. He's just gone to "think things over" and visit an old friend, whatever that means. Feeling confused and helpless, Claudia starts to assemble...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from the role of concubine to become the only queen in Ottoman history In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by warriors at age twelve from her Ruthenian homeland, and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Constantinople. Suleiman became besotted with her, and forsook...
2145) The heartbreak kid
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eddie is a confirmed bachelor who is forty and owns a sporting-goods store. After watching his ex-fianc̈еe walk down the aisle, he meets Lila who is an environmental researcher. Lila seems too good to be true. Pressured by his father and best friend, Eddie pops the question and marries Lila after only 6 weeks. He almost immediately discovers that his new bride is a nightmare with more baggage than he can handle. She's immature and foolish, a monster...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 287 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher and Peter Mayle, this enchantingly warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad, where a three-month rite of passage in Naples turns into a permanent embrace of this boisterous city on the Mediterranean. It is all thanks to a surprising romance, a new passion for food, and a spirited woman who will become her mother-in-law--and teach her to laugh, to seize joy, and to love"--
"When...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
vi, 310 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat--and a riveting tale of survival in wartime Germany. Sigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents' intercontinental love affair. While visiting Paris in 1927, her American mother, Aimee, raised in a wealthy Connecticut family, falls in love with a charming, sophisticated Baltic German baron,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A piercing and luminescent catalogue of a father's grief, parsing the shapes and distances of profound loss into a way forward for a family in crisis"--
"A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away. On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stephane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stephane huddled in a tent with...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxix, 332 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back--along with sixteen captivating new voices--sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body-image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women's lives today."--Jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 184 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Almost every couple faces a "now what?" moment as their last kid moves out of the house. There's a big empty nest looming over this new and uncertain stage in their lives. David and Veronica James chose to look at this next phase of life as a beginning instead of an ending. Rather than staying put and facing the constant reminders of empty bedrooms and backseats, a plan began to develop to sell the nest and hit the highway. But could a homebody helicopter...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
ix, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Tremlett delivers the first major biography in nearly half a century of the Spanish Queen of Henry VIII--the woman who changed the face of Tudor and European history.
2152) I never
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After learning that her seemingly-happy parents are separating, and that a popular senior is interested in her, seventeen-year-old Janey King's priorities shift from track, school, friends, and family to something more.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xv, 556 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius--from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as 'a slave, ' to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln. From his youth as a 'newsboy, ' a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a free thinker, reading...
2154) Donovan's big day
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
From the moment Donovan wakes in the morning, he painstakingly prepares for his special role in the wedding ceremony of his two mothers.
2155) The foreseeable future
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Now that she's graduated, Audrey Nelson decides she doesn't want to go to college. She wants to moves to Seattle, and to save money starts working the night shift at the nursing home. Seth O'Malley works there too. When Audrey saves his ex-girlfriend's life at the beach, she becomes a viral sensation. She's enjoying life, going drinking with her supervisor and discovering sex with Seth. When an opportunity to move to Seattle arrives, is she ready...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 419 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Historian David O. Stewart restores James Madison, sometimes overshadowed by his fellow Founders, to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation. Short, plain, balding, neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, Madison cared more about achieving results than taking the credit. To reach his lifelong goal of a self-governing constitutional republic, he blended his talents with those of key partners....
2157) Antoinette's sister
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 386 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Austria 1767: Maria Carolina Charlotte-ninth daughter and sixteenth child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria-knows her position as a Hapsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her beloved country. But not yet. The Hapsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte's older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples, and will soon take her place as queen. Before Josepha can journey...
2158) Without a country
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the international bestselling author of Last Train to Istanbul comes a novel based on true events that explores the depths of pride, devotion, and persistence as four generations of a family struggle to forge their destinies. As Hitlers reign of terror begins to loom large over Germany, Gerhard and Elsa Schliemann--like other German Jews--must flee with their children in search of sanctuary. But life elsewhere in Europe offers few opportunities...
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