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Author
Series
Cloak Society volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Alex Knight, a twelve-year-old in training to be a supervillain in the elite Cloak Society, becomes friends with a young superhero and begins to question where his loyalty lies.
Author
Series
Cloak Society volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After leaving the Cloak Society and teaming up with the Junior Rangers of Justice, Alex Knight must learn to work with the superheroes who were once his sworn enemies"--
Author
Series
Cloak Society volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Masquerading as a new group of superheroes, the evil Cloak Society has taken over Sterling City--and ex-villain Alex Knight must bring them to justice once and for all.
Author
Series
Young elites volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Adelina Amouteru's heart has suffered at the hands of both family and friends, turning her down the bitter path of revenge. Now known and feared as the White Wolf, she and her sister flee Kenettra to find other Young Elites in the hopes of building her own army of allies. Her goal: to strike down the Inquisition Axis, the white-cloaked soldiers who nearly killed her. But Adelina is no heroine. Her powers, fed only by fear and hate, have started to...
Author
Series
The Inspector Cutter volume 1
Language
English
Description
"London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O'Donnell's Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar...
6) Black sun
Author
Series
Between earth and sky volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"A god will return when the earth and sky converge under the black sun in the holy city of Tova... The winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cambridge, October 1933. Inside the old All Hallows Church on All Hallows' Eve, Doctor Adelaide Hartest bears witness to the final moments of a dying stranger. Despite the dagger plunged into the stranger's chest, the death is ruled a suicide, compounded by a formal confession before death. The victim, it is revealed, is known to Scotland Yard, and Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands is sent all the way from London to investigate. Thrown into a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by providing a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for halting the liberal assault on Constitution-based values. That book was about standing at the precipice of progressivism's threat to our freedom and now, over a decade later, we're fully over that precipice and paying the price. In American Marxism, Levin explains how the core...
Author
Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The author of Saint Everywhere is answering the call from fans for more reports from her quest to learn from some quietly extraordinary women-and a man or two-who have changed the world. Mary Lea Carroll travels to shrines and hometowns to learn about such amazing people as Saint Marie of Quebec, who founded the first girls' school in the New World; philanthropist-turned-saint Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia; Saint Brigid, a patron saint of Ireland;...
Author
Publisher
Servant Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A society characterized by loss of respect for life, violence, exotic religious cults, sexual promiscuity ... and even pedophilia. Sound familiar? This was the world of the early Church Fathers. In this ... book, Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio brings out the colorful personalities of these dynamic Christian leaders and makes their rich teaching accessible, enjoyable, and relevant to the challenges we face every day"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 706
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"The Spartans: A Very Short Introduction separates myth from reality to reveal the best-and the worst-of the Spartans. Famous throughout history for their doomed stand at Thermopylae, and immortalized as the epitome of martial prowess, today the Spartans both fascinate and appal us. Looking beyond the popular image of musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, this VSI reveals key aspects of Spartan society. This includes their civic structure,...
12) Homens elegantes
Author
Publisher
Rocco
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Português
Description
The year is 1760, and Brazilian soldier Érico is sent to London with the mission to investigate a contraband network of erotic books for Brazil. Accustomed to a life of restrictions imposed by the Portuguese crown and the Brazilian colony, he is dazzled by the luxuries and excesses of European high society. Then he crosses paths with a plot that could ruin both Portugal and Brazil: an espionage network led by the Count of Bolsonaro, the man who will...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work: studying magnificent, monumentally enduring poems and how they are made. This anthology respects poetry's mysteries in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable. Pinsky's...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony--before even Lizzie Borden--there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation's debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Its scaffolding-cloaked spires reach up to the heavens, dominating the Barcelona skyline and drawing in millions of visitors every year. What seduces our attention is perhaps a combination: not only its almost megalomaniac ambition and architectural extravagance but the sheer longevity of its construction. Its creator, Antoni Gaudi, 'God's Architect', saw the first stone laid on 19 March 1882 and yet it is unlikely to be completed until 2026 at the...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Sebastian Junger, Philip Gourevitch, and Dexter Filkins, Graeme Smith's brilliant book is a raw, uncensored account of the war in Afghanistan from a young reporter who for several years was the only Western journalist brave enough to live full-time in the perilous southern region. The Dogs Are Eating Them Now is a highly personal narrative of the West's war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Written by a fearless and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"The surprising story of the fitful development of the right to privacy-and its battle against the public's right to know--across American history. There is no hotter topic than the desire to constrain tech companies like Facebook from exploiting our personal data, or to keep Alexa from spying on you. Privacy has also provoked constitutional crisis (presidential tax returns) while Justice Clarence Thomas seeks to remove the protection of journalists...
Author
Publisher
Routledge/ Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"J. L. Moreno, M.D., is recognized as the originator of sociometry and psychodrama, and was a prodigious creator of methods and theories of creativity, society, and human behavior. The methods and techniques he authored have been widely adopted; the theories and philosophy upon which the methods are founded have not, as they are frequently couched in language which is not easily understood. Moreno's ideas about group psychotherapy have pretty well...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Uncovers the secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster, William Colby. Told by Colby's son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows, and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nation's most cloaked actions.
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Take a guided tour through history and discover the most precious, iconic, and celebrated objects ever created. Revered, admired, and protected - every country and culture has certain artefacts that are prized above all others. Cultural Treasures of the World brings together more than 200 of these objects, exploring the fascinating and unique stories behind each of them. From the Bust of Nefertiti to the Benin Bronzes, and the Altamira cave paintings...