Emily Woo Zeller
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 444 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"'Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II--an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan relations and the Japanese experience in America."--From Edelweis.com.
162) Incendiary
Author
Series
Premonition volume 4
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
453 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cold, fine drops of rain fall softly on my cheeks as I emerge from the darkness of the ship's interior to the gray, overcast sky of the main deck. Pulling my dark pea coat tighter to my body, the wind lifts red tendrils of my hair. I walk slowly to the railing overlooking the water. I catch my first sight of the Irish coastline; its craggy landscape makes me shiver in dread. I find it difficult to imagine now how the Gancanagh had made this their...
163) Phoenix extravagant
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gyen Jebi isn't a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. One day they're jobless and desperate; the next, Jebi finds themself recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint the mystical sigils that animate the occupying government's automaton soldiers. When Jebi discovers the depths of the Razanei government's horrifying crimes--and the awful source of the magical pigments they use--they find they can no longer stay out of politics. What...
164) Ninefox gambit
Author
Series
Machineries of empire volume 1
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris's career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next. Cheris's best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao....
165) Indebted
Author
Series
The premonition volume 3
Publisher
CreatSpace
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
viii, 417 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"I hang my head in sorrow for just a moment when I know I am truly alone. I feel like I'm going to my execution, just as he had said. Then I move forward again. I hop a fence of fieldstone and cross a field dotted with Queen Anne's lace. Goose bumps rise on my arms as I pass the cluster of windmills that I have seen in a dream. The scent is sweet in the field though, not the scent of heat, like it had been when it was forced upon me in visions. I...
166) Inescapable
Author
Series
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
v, 385 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"My name is Evie Claremont and this was to be the making of me - my freshman year of college. I'd been hoping that once I'd arrived on Crestwood's campus, the nightmare that I've been having would go away. It hasn't. I may be an inexperienced seventeen-year-old, but I'm grounded ... sane. I look for rational explanations to even the strangest circumstances. Since meeting sophomore Reed Wellington, however, nothing makes any sense. Whenever he's near,...
167) Revenant gun
Author
Series
Machineries of empire volume 3
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Machineries Of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonishing conclusion! When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he's a seventeen-year-old cadet--but his body belongs to a man decades older. Hexarch Nirai Kujen orders Jedao to reconquer the fractured hexarchate on his behalf even though Jedao has no memory of ever being a soldier, let alone a general....
168) Find me
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune. When Joy's immunity gains her admittance to a hospital in rural Kansas, she sees a chance to escape...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of book club favorite The Salt House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of home.
Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the death of her mother, she lives with her father, Bent, in the middle apartment of their triple decker home-Bent's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio Originals
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A thrilling adventure based on the hit television series Star Trek: Picard.
Star Trek: No Man's Land picks up right after the action-packed season one conclusion of Star Trek: Picard. While Raffi and Seven of Nine are enjoying some much-needed R&R in Raffi's remote hideaway, their downtime is interrupted by an urgent cry for help: a distant, beleaguered planet has enlisted the Fenris Rangers to save an embattled evacuation...
Star Trek: No Man's Land picks up right after the action-packed season one conclusion of Star Trek: Picard. While Raffi and Seven of Nine are enjoying some much-needed R&R in Raffi's remote hideaway, their downtime is interrupted by an urgent cry for help: a distant, beleaguered planet has enlisted the Fenris Rangers to save an embattled evacuation...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
408 pages : color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Xiang and Anh--ages sixteen and seventeen--hunt the South China Sea for the lost treasure of the fabled pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao. 1826. The legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Xiang has grown up with stories about the Dragon Fleet and its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Dragon Queen. Desperate to set sail and explore, Xiang mainly wishes to find her father, a crew member of the Dragon Fleet. Her only...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 347 pages : map, photograph ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An exploration of China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system shares insights into how their examples are shaping the future of American parenting and education.
China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system is held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence. Chu, an American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler....
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Amy Butcher examines the shattering consequences of failing a friend when she felt he needed one most. Five weeks before their college graduation, 21-year-old Kevin Shaeffer walked Amy home in their college town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Hours after parting ways, Keving fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Emily Silverstein. Over time, Amy became obsessed, determined to discover an explanation for what Kevin had done. The tragedy deeply shook her...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
543 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over our lives.
Ev has a mysterious ability, one that she feels is more a curse than a gift. She can feel the emotions people leave behind on objects and believes that most of them need to be handled extremely carefully, and-if at all possible-destroyed....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 519 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American...
176) The memory house
Author
Series
Honey Ridge novels volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Linda Goodnight welcomes you to Honey Ridge, Tennessee, and a house that's rich with secrets and brimming with sweet possibilities Memories of motherhood and marriage are fresh for Julia Presleythough tragedy took away both years ago. Finding comfort in the routine of running the Peach Orchard Inn, she lets the historic, mysterious place fill the voids of love and family. No more pleasure of a man's gentle kiss....
177) Break the fall
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A year after being nearly paralyzed, Audrey Lee is going to the Olympics but the United States' gymnastics team is on the verge of collapse and Leo, her new coach's cute son, is another distraction.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a warrior who protects her village from shadow spirits, Anlei has never been beyond the borders of her town. All of that changes the day the viceroy and his fleet of mechanical dragons arrives. It's the protection her village is desperate for, but it will only be given in exchange for Anlei's hand in marriage. Torn between wanting to protect her village and her own freedom, Anlei is forced to make a sacrifice. The day before her wedding, she encounters...
179) Three souls
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
471, 13 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Lisa See and Amy Tan, Three Souls is a captivating debut novel about a young woman who must make amends on earth to earn her entry into the afterlife"--