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Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
"Touching and powerful...Reid masterfully grabs hold of the heartstrings and doesn't let go. A stunning first novel." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extraordinary...
"Touching and powerful...Reid masterfully grabs hold of the heartstrings and doesn't let go. A stunning first novel." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extraordinary...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. She doesn't want to be found. Or at least, that's the story. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family that couldn't be put back together. They called it a 'walk away.' It happens all the time. Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start over. But is that what really happened to Molly Clarke?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Is following your passion the key to personal and professional success? Your average self-help book or motivational speaker would likely respond to this question with a resounding YES and proceed to offer a detailed how-to guide to finding that passion and living up to it. Unfollow Your Passion does the unconventional opposite. In the spirit of Pixar's Soul, it encourages you to consider what you lose when you get laser-focused on a single pursuit....
Author
Series
Xin kua yue volume 109
Publisher
ge zi wai mian wen hua shi ye you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
中文(繁體)
8) The idiot
Author
Language
English
Description
"A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary....
Author
Publisher
HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Dooner blends memoir and blistering social observation as she reflects on her desperate attempts to use extreme diets and culty self-help methods to cure her hunger, anxiety, and imperfections. She takes a good look at the dark side of self-help, and the never-ending self-improvement projects that can in themselves be a recipe for burnout. Instead, Dooner encourages readers to say no to the things that drain us, and carve out our own time to slow...
10) Bright star
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Pura Belpre Honor for Latino Literature
Children's New Books: April 2022 Picture Books
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Children's New Books: April 2022 Picture Books
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Description
"A nurturing voice reassures the lonely and afraid in difficult times"--
"A fawn takes her first tentative steps into the world and breathes deeply, experiencing new sights and sounds as a gentle voice encourages her along the way. She looks and listens, exploring a border landscape teeming with life, and learning how to make her voice heard in the face of a seemingly insurmountable barrier." --From dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
The internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur.
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm – what's the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression?...
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm – what's the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression?...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Isla has fled the city for small-town Missouri in the wake of a painful and exhausting year. With her chronic anxiety at a fever pitch, the last thing she expects is to meet a genuine romantic prospect. And she doesn't. But she does get a text from a man who seems to think he's her husband. Obviously, a wrong number--except when she points this out, the mystery texter sends back a picture. Of them--on their wedding day. Isla cautiously starts up...
13) Identity
Author
Publisher
HarperFlamingo
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
A novel on a woman who suffers from lack of male attention. On receiving letters from an anonymous admirer, she attributes them to various individuals and fantasizes romances with them.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In A masked battle royal, Ash joins the Masked Royal onstage for a fight against the Revengers! And in Kahuna clash, Ash visits Ula'ula Island to challenge the island kahuna, Nanu, to a grand trial. But Nanu doesn't think Ash and his Pokémon pals are ready for it. Can Ash prove his skill--and ultimately win the battle?
15) Grumpy duck
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Duck is grumpy in light of the fact that the pond is dry and when she complains to her friends, they each welcome her to play with them.
16) Aleph
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Aleph marks a return to the author's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self discovery. Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey through Europe, Africa, and Asia, he will again meet Hilal,...
Author
Series
Xin ling cheng zhang volume 77
Publisher
Tian xia za zhi chu ban
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
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