Meek, James

Summary: "Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman is fleeing an odious arranged marriage, a Scottish proctor is returning home to Avignon and a handsome young ploughman in search of adventure is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. Coming in their direction from across the Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books 2020

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Meek, James

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012

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Halter, Marek.

Summary: The story of Sarah-and of history itself-begins in the cradle of civilization: the Sumerian city-state of Ur, a land of desert heat, towering gardens, and immense wealth. The daughter of a powerful lord,Sarah is raised in great luxury, but balks at the arranged marriage her father has plannned for her. The groom is handsome and a nobleman, but on their wedding day, Sarah panics and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004

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Mones, Nicole.

Summary: Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own and from the classical piano pieces he was trained to play to the toe-tapping swing of the big band era. Song Yuhua is refined, educated and bonded since age eighteen to Shanghai's most powerful crime boss in payment for her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014

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Arudpragasam, Anuk

Summary: "A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of Random House 2021

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Mink, Meesha.

Summary: "From one of the most daring voices in urban fiction comes a sexy new novel about a modern-day Foxy Brown who goes undercover in a dangerous quest for revenge. Naeema "Queen" Cole takes care of herself. From the death of her parents when she was just eleven years old to when she found herself pregnant and alone at sixteen, Naeema has had to make her own way in the world. She gave up her son...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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Peek, Tom

Summary: "Mauna A Novel of Hawai'i is a gripping tale of clashing passions—science and spirituality, vengeance and compassion, fear and courage—set atop Hawaiʻi’s 14,000-foot Mauna Kea, realm of revered goddesses and star-wise explorers. A young vagabond running from America’s turmoil is forced to confront his own grief and rage on an embattled holy mountain in the Pacific. There he encounters a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: All Night Books, an imprint of Easton Studio Press 2023

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Arudpragasam, Anuk

Summary: "Very seldom in a reading life does a novel alter your sense not only of literature but of the world. This extraordinary debut is of that class." --Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You In the last months of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dinesh's world has contracted to an evacuee camp, where he measures his days by shells that fall like clockwork. Alienated from language, home, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016

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McGrory, Anik.

Summary: Sure that he is the smallest creature on earth, a young elephant leaves home and journeys over woodlands, rivers, and plains searching for someone even smaller than he is.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2005

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Molk, Laurel

Summary: Izzy's unsuccessful knitting projects turn out to be the perfect sweaters for all the dogs in the dog park.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022

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Halter, Marek.

Summary: Lilah, the sister of Ezra, the high priest destined to lead the Jews back to Jerusalem, gives up her plans to marry a Persian warrior for her faith, but when her brother orders all Jewish men to abandon their foreign-born wives, Lilah rebels.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

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Mone, Gregory

Summary: After their daring escape from Atlantis, Lewis, Hanna, and their resourceful Atlantean friend, Kaya, find themselves pulled between two worlds. Trapped on the surface under the watchful eyes of government officials, the three adventurers receive an urgent call to return their stolen warship to Atlantis, or risk starting an all-out war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Mone, Gregory

Summary: Lewis, Hanna, and Kaya, their resourceful Atlantean friend, embark on an all-new journey through Atlantis, from the sunken underwater world of Evenor to the tunnels below Ridge City. Bonus content includes science and robotics concepts in the story, and a scientist's take on the curious biology of mermaids.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022

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Contents: Paris after dark / Jordan Summers -- Coven of mercy / Deborah Cooke -- Le cirque de la Nuit / Karen MacInerney -- Perdition / Caitlin Kittredge -- Deliver us from evil / Dina James -- Blood and thyme / Camile Bacon-Smith -- Into the mist for ever / Rosemary Laurey -- Blood feud / Patti O'Shea -- Love bites / Angie Fox -- Flotsam / Caitlin R. Kiernan -- The murder king's woman / Jamie Leigh...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2009

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Koopmans, Loek.

Summary: Three old ladies make a pancake that leaps out of the pan and rolls away into the forest, where it passes a succession of animals who each try to catch it.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 1993

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Moerk, Christian.

Summary: In Dublin, Niall, a young mailman, discovers the diary of Fiona Walsh, a recent murder victim, in the dead-letter bin at the post office. Upon reading the diary, Niall immerses himself in the enchanting mystery of traveling Irish storyteller Jim, who entered Fiona and her sister's life, wooing them with his tragic narratives. As Niall reads, though, he connects Jim to a string of murders...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009

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Ganek, Danielle.

Summary: In the aftermath of an emerging artist's untimely death on the night of his first opening, gallery receptionist and aspiring artist Mia McMurray witnesses a fierce competition for possession of the late artist's most-coveted painting.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007

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Ganek, Danielle.

Summary: Forced to set aside their differences when they jointly inherit a rundown cottage in the Hamptons, practical-minded Cassie and her dreamer half-sister Peck struggle to decide what to do with the house, which comes with a resident artist plagued by bad luck.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010

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Mone, Gregory

Summary: Kaya, raised in the undersea, high-tech world of Atlantis, has always been fascinated by the legends about life above the water. Despite the government's insistence that they're only stories, she can't help but dream about the Sun People, and when a group of officials known as Erasers move to bury those legends for good, Kaya sets out to the surface to uncover the truth once and for all.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Molk, Laurel

Summary: Based in a classic nursery rhyme, four mice brothers attempt to catch animals, only to lose track of their sister, Flo, in the process.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, Published by the Penguin Group 2015

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