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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his science fiction and fantasy stories from the last five years--sixteen of his best--plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, [this book] also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne"--...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. Then Mary knows that she must defy...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
From pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago, take a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and schoolteachers, heiresses and hobos. They're making their own way in often-hostile lands, using every weapon in their arsenals, facing down murderers and marriage proposals. And they all have a story...
4) Punky
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Punky, a little girl who loves hugs and dancing, is a child with downsyndrome who ives in the moment. She has a helpful nature and when she sees something is wrong or someone has a problem, she does what she can to fix it. In this animated episode, Punky spends time with her dad while mom is at a film and learns about being getting wild.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The little-known story of Mary Boleyn who was mistress to King Henry VIII before he married her older sister, Anne. Two great families jockey for position and use their daughters as pawns in a deadly game. Set during one of the most notorious periods in British regal history. A story of a rival relationship between the two sisters.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Anna is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley's former students, works hard to earn a degree from Oxford and becomes an investment banker; Carole's mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Provocador e inteligente, La otra chica negra es un debut electrizante sobre la tensión que se crea cuando dos jóvenes negras se encuentran cara a cara en el mundo editorial neoyorkino, predominantemente blanco. La joven asistente editorial Nella Rogers está cansada de ser la única empleada negra en Wagner Books. Harta del aislamiento y las pequeñas ofensas, no puede evitar entusiasmarse cuando una nueva compañera negra, nacida y criada en...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary tale of sex, passion and royal intrigue. This is the little-known story of Mary Boleyn who was mistress to King Henry VIII before he married her older sister, Anne. Inspired by Philippa Gregory’s novel of the same name, this film is about great families jockeying for position and using their daughters as pawns in a deadly game. Set during one of the most notorious periods in British regal history, it is a powerful narrative and...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust. Then the notes begin to appear...
Author
Series
Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory) volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Mary and Anne Boleyn are sisters unlike in every way. Born into an ambitious family, they're brought to court as girls and dangled like jewels to capture the favor of the king, Henry VIII, married to Katherine of Aragon, who has not produced a male heir. After Mary bears him a healthy bastard son and Henry's interest in her wanes, the Boleyns offer Anne in Mary's stead. This is the story of two sisters who compete for the love of a king. One will...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After the devastating death of her mother, Una Richardson becomes a ladies’ companion for Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie, garnering the wrath of Elspeth’s cold and bitter daughter, which leads to the discovery that there were two companions before her, never to be seen again.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 6
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
Twenty-four Native American legends and tales from across the United States capture a wide range of belief systems and wisdom from the Cherokee, Cheyenne, Hopi, Lenape, Maidu, Seminole, Seneca, and other tribes. The beautifully retold tales, each with an informative introduction, range from creation stories and animal fables to stirring accounts of bravery and sacrifice.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2010
Language
English
Description
Sex parties, drugs, eating disorders, suicide...It seems everywhere you turn there's another report of teenage girls gone bad. This program follows one mother's investigation into the lives of young women and the mixed messages that girls receive about conforming to specific behavioral or beauty ideals. "Media feeds girls a constant diet of provocative images and then calls them sluts or skanks when they achieve that look," says Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown,...
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