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1) Entanglement
Author
Publisher
[Sheila Bitts]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Five days before Christmas, 2019, Private Detective Frederick Falloy must help the Hollywood actress, Snow, escape from being a target of Russian spies battling for power amongst themselves on the streets of Chicago. He finds a secret drop site using a map in a box labeled with a mysterious symbol. It also includes a key, but he cannot figure out what all the pieces mean until after there have been more murders.His friends become entangled in his...
Author
Series
Chicago Stars volume 7
Language
English
Description
Taking to the road between seasons, attractive Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard meets the beautiful and infuriating Blue under unusual circumstances and draws on his competitive skills to overcome her wariness of relationships
6) Worth
Author
Publisher
[Sheila Bitts]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Short Story/ Literary Fiction Collection: Worth These stories range from micro fiction to twenty-page literary short stories. Influences include Post-Post-Modernism, Realism, Imaginative Fiction, French Experimentalists, Historical Fiction, Shakespeare revisionist play scenes and other revisionism, revisionist Journalistic Fiction, revisionist Testimonial Fiction, Modernist meta-narratives, with word play like James Joyce, Absurdism, Post-Modernist...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A novel about New York's "Swans" (socialites) of the 1950s--and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley"--
Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley and her friends, the alluring socialite Swans. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman, desperately longing for true love and connection....
Author
Publisher
OUTSKIRTS Press
Pub. Date
[ 2017]
Language
English
Description
Self-reliance is what makes America tick for young Frederick Falloy, a private detective working on his first case in Chicago, 2014. It seems nothing but violence surrounds the stolen Cacaw Diamonds, which he must locate. He finds himself building a working relationship with a mentor--a veteran police officer named Phillip Grable, Homicide Division. Pushing his limits, he outsmarts his demons to find a way to win, no matter how the cards fall
Author
Series
Chicago Stars volume 5
Language
English
Description
Children's author Molly Somerville can't shake her crush on star quarterback Kevin Tucker
10) Children of God
Author
Series
Sparrow novels (Mary Doria Russell) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today.
The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his...
The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his...
Author
Publisher
[John C. Bremner with E. H. Dunham]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This book is a powerful tool for change and self-improvement. It will appeal to anyone affected by stress or anxiety, and to those who treat or counsel those individuals. StressCount enables you to take charge of your life and your health, giving you a powerful tracking and assessment tool. You will learn to measure, manage, monitor, and minimize your health risks. Integral to the book is the online self-assessment tool (accessed using a unique access...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When life throws her one setback too many, midwife and young widow Tess Hartsong takes off for Runaway Mountain. In this small town high in the Tennessee mountains, surrounded by nature, she hopes to outrun her heartbreak and find the solace she needs to heal. But instead of peace and quiet, she encounters an enigmatic artist with a craving for solitude, a fairy-tale sprite with too many secrets, a helpless infant, a passel of curious teens, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
" He's a reclusive writer whose imagination creates chilling horror novels. She's a down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows. Annie Hewitt has arrived on Peregrine Island in the middle of a snowstorm and at the end of her resources. She's broke, dispirited, but not quite ready to give up. Her red suitcases hold the puppets she uses to make her living, the romantic novels she loves, and a little bit of courage--all she has left....
Author
Series
Chicago Stars volume 9
Language
English
Description
Opera diva Olivia Shore and Chicago Stars quarterback Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens embark on a nationwide tour promoting a luxury watch brand and must find a way to get along when they are plagued by a series of dangerous encounters with an overzealous fan
Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens, backup quarterback for the Chicago Stars, is a man with a low tolerance for divas. Oliva Shore, international opera superstar, has a monumental grudge against the...
16) Thrill ride
Author
Series
Black Knights Inc volume 4
Language
English
Description
One of the best interrogators in the business, Rock Babineaux, on the run from his own government when a job goes horribly wrong, races against time to clear his name with the help of Vanessa Cordero, who believes in his innocence
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure
18) Heaven, Texas
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Come heck or high water, Gracie Snow is determined to drag the legendary ex-jock Bobby Tom Denton back home to Heaven, Texas, to begin shooting his first motion picture. But bad boy Bobby has no plans to cooperate with the prim and bossy Ohio wallflower whom he can't get off his mind or out of his life
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite her own major achievements--she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States--Anne Morrow Lindbergh is viewed merely as Charles Lindbergh's wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life's infinite possibilities for change and happiness
20) The mitten
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the traditional tale of how a boy's lost mitten becomes a refuge from the cold for an increasing number of animals
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