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Amen, L.A.
by Cherie Bennett Jeff GottesfeldWhen Natalie Shelton and her family move from Minnesota to Beverly Hills, more changes than their zip code. Natalie's mom accepts a position as pastor with the Church of Beverly Hills--and Natalie's along for the ride. Before she can blink, she's living in a mansion once owned by Ricardo Montalban, going to school with hot young Hollywood stars, and partying in the park with kids who know no limits. It's an amazing new life--but if she doesn't watch out, Natalie could find herself seriously messed up. Natalie has values . . . but how long can she hold on to them?From the Trade Paperback edition.
Amenaza Antártica - Libro Uno: Terror
by Alexandre TorresVivimos cada vez más conectados a flujos de informaciones, pero nos falta el tiempo y la habilidad necesarios para la reflexión crítica en la construcción de nuevos conocimientos. Guiados por las emociones, nos dejamos llevar como parte de la gran manada, tal como hormigas guiadas por las feromonas de sus pares. A medida que nos conectamos unos a otros, nos estaríamos transformando en una especie de zombi? Esta es la pregunta que abruma a un grupo de seis trabajadores de invierno de la Antártida en la base americana de McMurdo Sound. Empleados aislados en un continente desierto en esa estación, bajo condiciones climáticas extremas y sometidos a la oscuridad de la larga noche antártica. Un incendio misterioso es el detonante para una serie de crisis que pondrán en riesgos sus vidas, sus mentes y sus propias almas. Jennifer Summers es una psicóloga especializada en la gestión de recursos humanos y también una descendiente de nativos americanos que intenta comprender su propia herencia. Victor Gonzales es un ex policía que ahora trabaja como asistente administrativo en McMurdo. Ambos lidian con las heridas del pasado mientas intentan establecer una relación que oscila entre el amor y la amistad. Victor es un hombre racional, materialista y pasional; Jennifer es una mujer empática, espiritual y emocionalmente reprimida. Puntos de vista opuestos intentando comprender la naturaleza de una terrible amenaza. Esta es una historia de terror, suspenso, misterio, ocultismo y ficción científica. Es una novela con una historia independiente, pero también es parte de una trilogía.
Amenaza bajo el mar (Dirk Pitt #13)
by Clive CusslerEn 1859, se produce el naufragio de un barco británico que transporta condenados a Australia. Dos de los supervivientes consiguen llegar a una isla desierta donde descubren una mina de diamantes. Este hecho dará lugar a la fundación de un imperio familiar dirigido por Arthur Dorsett y sus tres hijas. Una de éstas, Maeve, se ha apartado de su familia y alterna su profesión de bióloga con trabajos como guía científica de cruceros por la Antártida. Durante uno de estos viajes, un grupo de turistas muere repentinamente por causas misteriosas y la propia Maeve, junto a unos pocos, es rescatada por Dirk Pitt. A partir de entonces, las investigaciones de Pitt pondrán al descubierto una monstruosa trama de ambición y codicia cuyo epicentro se halla, precisamente, en las minas de diamantesde la familia Dorsett...
Amenazas del cielo y el mar
by Jennifer Ellision Anabel González RodríguezBreena Perdit ha vivido sus 16 años de vida en una taberna, desconocedora del pasado de su padre y felizmente libre de las habilidades como Elemental que la condenarían a una vida de servidumbre en el ejército del rey de Egria. Hasta el día en que tres soldados Elementales reconocen a su padre como un traidor a la corona y lo encarcelan, junto a los secretos de su última misión como asesino del rey. Secretos que podrían ayudar al rey a ganar una guerra. Secretos que se niega a revelar. Desesperada por escapar antes de que los caprichos de un rey injusto causen su muerte y la de su padre, Bree hace un trato con él: la información por sus vidas. Es un buen trato. Y confía en, con el tiempo, liberarlos a ambos. Pero eso era antes de descubrir que ella es el arma que el rey había estado esperando durante tanto tiempo. Ahora, el tiempo se acaba. Para salvar la vida de su padre y comprender la suya propia, Bree debe resolver el misterio del pasado de su padre antes de que el rey acabe con su vida y la use para derrotar a una nación.
Amendment of Life: A Mystery (Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan)
by Catherine AirdDCI Sloan and his inept constable must navigate a twisted trail of clues after a body is found in a hedge maze in this mystery by the award-winning author.“Catherine Aird's breezy Amendment of Life provides an intricate puzzle worthy of the always entertaining Inspector Sloan.” —Publishers WeeklyFor decades, Catherine Aird’s crime novels featuring C.D. Sloan have been beloved by fans and lauded by critics for their adroit plotting, playful wit, and literate charm. With Amendment of Life, Aird delivers the lively and engrossing novel that readers have come to rely upon.Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Calleshire CID is used to the occasional oddity in his relatively quiet part of the English countryside. But lately things have taken a strange turn. First, in the center of a yew maze that is the showpiece of the Tudor-era house, Aumerle Court, a body is spotted by Miss Daphne Pedlinge, the elderly chatelaine of the Court. By the time the groundskeeper actually makes it to the center, he, too, spies the body, and it is indeed dead.Meanwhile, a few miles away, a slaughtered rabbit is left on the Bishop’s doorstep in nearby Calleford, an omen as portentous as the body in the maze. Now Inspector Sloan, with the somewhat trying personage of Constable Crosby in tow, must uncover what precisely is going on as they launch an investigation with more twists and turns than the maze itself.“Aird's contemporary British cozies display excellent, engaging dialogue as well as plots handled with deft, no-nonsense trajectory. . . . Nicely crafted and very winning.” —Booklist
Amends for Murder
by M. D. LakeMEET PEGGY O'NEILL, A CAMPUS COP WITH A PH.D. IN MURDER An outraged call from the distinguished Professor Warren sent rookie campus cop Peggy O'Neill hurrying over to the frat houses to get the stereos turned down. But someone had already solved the professor's hearing problem - by smashing in his skull with a hammer. The city cops want to blame a computer thief. But Peggy isn't so easily convinced. Her own investigation uncovers a murderous mix of faculty orgies, poetry readings, and some very devoted female teaching assistants. Now Peggy's getting close enough to the truth to face her own "final exam". ...
AmeriKKKan JustUS
by DeLena SlaytonAmeriKKKan JustUS is the story of a young African-American man&’s journey through the court system. Evocative and deeply personal, this novel gives a first-person account of racism in the justice system.Author DaLena Slayton is a new voice in Black American fiction, and she creates a powerful portrait of a young man finding his way in a sometimes hostile society.The world is black and white, but Rilei tends to live in a gray area until life forces him to open his eyes. From his sheltered childhood to his rude awakening to reality, Rilei is forced to learn how to be a survivor in the ghetto streets of Akron, Ohio.Being a survivor also means that he'll have to learn how to accept that the world doesn't come in different shades of gray, and that he is on the wrong side of black and white. When he enters the criminal justice system, he finds it rigged against him from the beginning. Can Rilei tell his story and change the fate society has written for him? On the wrong side of the color line, is American justice possible, or is it just us? Buy AmeriKKKan JustUS to learn Rilei's story, American criminal justice through the eyes of one black man
America
by E. R. Frank"Where would you like to be five years from now?" Dr. B. asks."Nowhere," America answers.By age fifteen, America has already been nowhere. Been nobody. Separated from his foster mother, Mrs. Harper. A runaway living for weeks in a mall, then for months in Central Park. A patient at Applegate, the residential treatment facility north of New York City. And now at Ridgeway, a hospital.America is a boy, he thinks to himself, who gets lost easy and is not worth the trouble of finding.But Dr. B. takes the trouble. With abiding care, he nudges America's story from him. An against-the-odds story about America's shattered past with his mother and brothers. About Browning, a man in Mrs. Harper's house who saves America, then betrays him. About a bighearted, hardheaded girl named Liza, and Ty and Fish and Wick and Marshall and Ernie and Tom and Dr. B. himself who care more than America does about whether he lives or dies.
America (Jake Grafton #9)
by Stephen CoontsDispatched on a trial run, NASA's SuperAegis satellite has been created as the foundation of an international antimissile defense system. But moments after dispatch, it vanishes.
America 2040
by Evan InnesIt stretches out beyond the planets to the vastness of infinite space. The time has come for America's best and brightest men and women to again become pioneers, to carry freedom's precious message to a new wilderness more dangerous, more lawless, and more exciting than any traveled before. It will determine America's destiny. Locked in a final deadly struggle with the Soviets, the free world trembles on the brink of nuclear holocaust. But whatever the Earth's fate, the spirit Of America must not be allowed to die. The dauntless courage of those who first challenged the uncharted regions of the Old West now returns to blaze a new trail into the unknown. Led by Captain Duncan Rodrick, a man of strength and daring, the most advanced spaceship ever designed prepares for an incredible journey across the universe. But on board the ship itself is an enemy willing to die to destroy them all, a woman whose beauty may ignite a lethal fire of passion, and a stowaway whose bravery embodies the intrepid spirit of America's past. Their mission will determine the fate of a nation.
America America
by Ethan CaninIt is the early 1970s; Nixon is in the White House and Corey Sifter, the young son of working-class parents, is befriended by the powerful Metarey family, whose patriarch is a kingmaker in the world of New York state politics. Corey becomes a yard-boy on the Metarey's grand estate, and soon, through the family's generosity, a student at a private boarding school. Before long, he is a confidant of the Metareys and an aide to the great New York Senator Henry Bonwiller as he runs for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. But as the Bonwiller presidential campaign gains momentum a crime is committed, and Corey is forced to reconcile his part in a complex tangle of morality, politics, gratitude, love and loyalty. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and during one of the most turbulent eras of twentieth-century US politics,America Americapossesses the mastery of pace and voice of classic American fiction. Canin has written a magnificent novel about ambition and family, politics and crime, sex and love, small-town life and big-time power - and, ultimately, how vanity, greatness and tragedy combine to change history and fate.
America City: From The Arthur C. Clarke Winner And Bestselling Author Of The Eden Trilogy
by Chris BeckettAmerica, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods, and hurricanes force entire populations to simply abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between north and south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders against homeless fellow-Americans from the south. Against this backdrop, an ambitious young British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, meets a new client, the charismatic Senator Slaymaker, a politician whose sole mission is to keep America together, reconfiguring the entire country in order to meet the challenge of the new climate realities as a single, united nation. When he runs for President, Holly becomes his right hand woman, doing battle on the whisperstream, where stories are everything and truth counts for little. But can they bring America together—or have they set the country on a new, but equally devastating, path?
America Dhruvathara Abraham Lincoln
by Vangara Ranga Bhaskar RaoThis is the abridged life story of Abraham Lincoln - The famous American political leader.
America Fantastica: A Novel
by Tim O'Brien“Tim O'Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most. His new novel’s ironic depiction of a post-Iraq war, mid-COVID, and mid-Trump world is piercing and razor-sharp.” —HARUKI MURAKAMIAn American Master returns: the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks “a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit” (Kirkus, starred review)Named one of Fall 2023's most anticipated books: New York Times, Associated Press, Esquire, Kirkus, Goodreads, LitHub, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and moreAt 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California.“How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.”“You’re robbing me?”He revealed a Temptation .38 Special.The teller, a diminutive redhead named Angie Bing, collected eighty-one thousand dollars.Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag.“I’m sorry about this,” he said, “but I’ll have to ask you to take a ride with me.”So begins the adventure of Boyd Halverson—star journalist turned notorious online disinformation troll turned JCPenney manager—and his irrepressible hostage, Angie Bing. Haunted by his past and weary of his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with him: settle a score with the man who destroyed his life. By Monday the pair reach Mexico; by winter, they are in a lakefront mansion in Minnesota. On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers, ex-cons, an heiress, a billionaire shipping tycoon, a three-tour veteran of Iraq, and the ghosts of Boyd’s past. Everyone, it seems, except the police.In the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, America Fantastica delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. And at the heart of the novel, amid a teeming cast of characters, readers will delight in the tug-of-war between two memorable and iconic human beings—the exuberant savior-of-souls Angie Bing and the penitent but compulsive liar Boyd Halverson. Just as Tim O’Brien’s modern classic, The Things They Carried, so brilliantly reflected the unromantic truth of war, America Fantastica puts a mirror to a nation and a time that has become dangerously unmoored from truth and greedy for delusion.
America Gives Thanks
by Bob McKinnonIn this stand-alone companion to America&’s Dreaming, New York Times bestselling author Bob McKinnon and celebrated illustrator Thai My Phuong craft a beautiful, sweeping story about the importance of speaking up for what really matters.Have you ever wondered why people complain so much?America is very excited for their class&’s upcoming field trip to Washington, DC. But when the other kids start complaining about how not excited they are, America is confused. Their teacher, Mr. Downs, uses this as a learning opportunity: sometimes complaining—when done right—can actually be useful.As the class walks through historic halls like the Supreme Court and around the National Mall where they visit celebrated monuments like the Lincoln Memorial, historical figures come alive for America (that portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is definitely winking). Each figure offers tales on how complaining can lead to long-lasting change and hope for a better world. For that, America is so thankful.
America Imagined
by Axel K�rner Nicola Miller Adam I. P. SmithThis is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model.
America Is Her Name
by Luis J. RodriguezSet in the Pilsen barrio of Chicago, this children's picture book gives a heartwarming message of hope. The heroine, America, is a primary school student who is unhappy in school until a poet visits the class and inspires the students to express themselves creatively -- in Spanish or English. America Is Her Name emphasizes the power of individual creativity in overcoming a difficult environment and establishing self-worth and identity through the young girl America's desire and determination to be a writer. This story deals realistically with the problems in urban neighborhoods and has an upbeat theme: you can succeed in spite of the odds against you. Carlos Vazquez's inspired four-color illustrations give a vivid sense of the barrio, as well as the beauty and strength of the young girl America. Luis J. Rodriguez grew up in Watts and East L.A. His bestselling memoir about gang life, Always Running (now available in paperback in both English and Spanish from Touchstone Books), won the Carl Sandburg Award. His Poems Across the Pavement (Tia Chucha Press) won the Poetry Center Book Award from San Francisco State University, and his poetry collection, The Concrete River was awarded the 1991 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Poetry. Mr. Rodriguez has worked extensively with gang members to guide them in positive directions, and he is frequently featured as a keynote speaker or guest poet at national conferences and cultural centers. Rodriguez explores the Chicano experience with an unrelenting, socially conscious eye that moved Larry Weintraub of the Chicago Sun-Times to call him a poet "we need to hear." Illustrator Carlos Vazquez was born in Mexico, studied physics and art, and now teaches in adult education programs in New York City. This book is also available in a Spanish language edition as La llaman America translated by Tino Villanueva.
America Is Not the Heart: A Novel
by Elaine Castillo<P>How many lives fit in a lifetime? <P>When Hero De Vera arrives in America--haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents--she's already on her third. <P> Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her past. <P>His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. <P>But their daughter--the first American-born daughter in the family--can't resist asking Hero about her damaged hands. <P>An increasingly relevant story told with startling lucidity, humor, and an uncanny ear for the intimacies and shorthand of family ritual, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful debut about three generations of women in one family struggling to balance the promise of the American dream and the unshakeable grip of history. <P>With exuberance, grit, and sly tenderness, here is a family saga; an origin story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people who leave one home to grasp at another.
America Is in the Heart: A Personal Journey (American Autobiography Ser.)
by Carlos BulosanA 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine CastilloPoet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the U.S. pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel America is in the Heart begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish American War of the late 1890s. Carlos's experiences with other Filipino migrant laborers, who endured intense racial abuse in the fields, orchards, towns, cities and canneries of California and the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s, reexamine the ideals of the American dream. Bulosan was one of the most important 20th century social critics with his deeply moving account of what it was like to be criminalized in the U.S. as a Filipino migrant drawn to the ideals of what America symbolized and committed to social justice for all marginalized groups.Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month with these four Penguin Classics: America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (9780143134039) East Goes West by Younghill Kang (9780143134305) The Hanging on Union Square by H. T. Tsiang (9780143134022) No-No Boy by John Okada (9780143134015)
America Libre (Class H Trilogy #1)
by Raul Ramos y SanchezAfter years of anti-immigrant backlash, anger seethes in the nation's Latino communities. The crowded streets bristle with restless youth, idled by a deep recession. When undercover detectives in San Antonio accidentally kill a young Latina bystander during a botched drug bust, riots erupt across the Southwest. As the inner-city violence escalates, Anglo vigilantes strike back with shooting rampages. Exploiting the turmoil, a congressional demagogue succeeds in passing legislation that transforms the nation's Hispanic enclaves into walled-off Quarantine Zones. Citizens tagged Class H--those who are Hispanic, are married to a Hispanic, or have at least one grandparent of Hispanic origin--are forced into detention centers. Amid the chaos in his L.A. barrio, Manolo Suarez is out of work and struggling to support his growing family. But under the spell of a beautiful Latina radical, the former U.S. Army Ranger and decorated war veteran now finds himself questioning his loyalty to his wife--and to his country.
America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s
by Alistair CookeThe definitive survey of Alistair Cooke&’s brilliant career as a newspapermanFew journalists have covered the American scene as thoroughly as Alistair Cooke did. In addition to presenting the Sunday-night Letter from America broadcasts for the BBC, Cooke was the Guardian&’s chief US correspondent for more than a quarter century, filing daily dispatches about the former colonies for his British readers.Selected and introduced by Professor Ronald A. Wells, the pieces in America Observed showcase the full range of Cooke&’s omnivorous interests and impressive reportorial skills. From baseball to Billy Graham, Harry S. Truman to Chappaquiddick, he depicts the defining characters and events of the American century with elegance and insight. &“The Untravelled Road&” is a poignant and perceptive snapshot of the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama. &“The Legend of Gary Cooper&” eloquently summarizes the unlikely career of America&’s leading man, and &“A Woman of Integrity&” delivers the news of Marilyn Monroe&’s death with empathy and honesty. &“The Ghastly Sixties&” is a concise, candid, and ultimately inspirational chronicle of that turbulent decade.Remarkably prescient and endlessly entertaining, the journalism collected here is some of the twentieth century&’s finest.
America Pacifica: A Novel
by Anna NorthEighteen-year-old Darcy lives on the island of America Pacifica--one of the last places on earth that is still habitable, after North America has succumbed to a second ice age. Education, food, and basic means of survival are the province of a chosen few, while the majority of the island residents must struggle to stay alive. The rich live in "Manhattanville" mansions made from the last pieces of wood and stone, while the poor cower in the shantytown slums of "Hell City" and "Little Los Angeles," places built out of heaped up trash that is slowly crumbling into the sea. The island is ruled by a mysterious dictator named Tyson, whose regime is plagued by charges of corruption and conspiracy.But to Darcy, America Pacifica is simply home--the only one she's ever known. In spite of their poverty she lives contentedly with her mother, who works as a pearl diver. It's only when her mother doesn't come home one night that Darcy begins to learn about her past as a former "Mainlander," and her mother's role in the flight from frozen California to America Pacifica. Darcy embarks on a quest to find her mother, navigating the dark underbelly of the island, learning along the way the disturbing truth of Pacifica's early history, the far-reaching influence of its egomaniacal leader, and the possible plot to murder some of the island's first inhabitants--including her mother.
America Pacifica: A Novel
by Anna NorthHundreds of miles off the frozen coast of what was once California is America Pacifica, where those who fled the dawn of the new ice age have tried to recreate their former home . . .America Pacifica is an island hundreds of miles off the coast of California - the only warm place left in a world in the grip of a new ice age. Darcy Pern is seventeen; her mother has gone missing, and the novel details her quest to find out the truth about her disappearance - a quest which soon becomes an investigation of the disturbing origins of America Pacifica itself, and its sinister and reclusive leader, a man known only as Tyson.America Pacifica invites comparison with the work of Margaret Atwood and China Mieville, but also with Cormac McCarthy's The Road, for its post-apocalyptic scenario and the touching relationship between Darcy and her mother, and the Stieg Larsson trilogy for its implacable central character who is determined to uncover the truth.
America Reads: Classic Edition (Classics in World Literature)
by Kerry M. Wood Helen Mcdonnell John Pfordresher Mary Alice Fite Paul LankfordClassics in World Literature has eight chronological units presenting a survey of major authors and literary works from the time of the earliest surviving writings until the present day.
America Reads: Discoveries in Literature (Classic Edition)
by L. Jane Christensen Edmund J. Farrell"Discoveries in Literature" has six units containing short stories, poetry, plays, nonfiction, and folk literature. A seventh unit is made up of a novel, Kavik, the Wolf Dog, and the eighth unit is the story of Ulysses, a famous Greek hero, and his adventures with gods and goddesses.