Jane Marie
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class. We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) companies prey on desperate Americans struggling to make ends meet. When factories...
Author
Series
KEY News thrillers volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As medical producer for TV's highly-rated morning news program, Annabelle Murphy makes her living explaining horrific conditions. So when someone dies inside the broadcast center with symptoms similar to those of the latest scourge, she knows the spreading terror is justified.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Constance Young, the undisputed star of morning television, is found at the bottom of her swimming pool, Eliza Blake, the anchor of the KEY Evening Headlines News program becomes committed to finding out who wanted Constance dead. Eliza soon realizes that Constance more enemies than she imagined. So Eliza and three KEY News co-workers form the "Sunrise Suspense Society" to find out who did it and why.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wedding cake decorator and maid of honor in her beloved cousin's wedding, Piper Donovan must save the day when the impending nuptials are threatened by the disappearance of a bridesmaid, the discovery of a body on the wedding beach and the arrival of the lecherous, ex-drug dealer best man.
Author
Series
Jane Austen takes the South volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A comical contemporary take on the perennial Jane Austen classic, Emma, set in the American South"--
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"We are in the midst of a new space race that pairs billionaire space barons with governments in an effort to exploit the cosmos for human gain. While Elon Musk and SpaceX work to establish a human presence on Mars, Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin work toward mining operations on the moon, missions to asteroids to extract resources, and millions of people living in rotating near-Earth satellite dwellings. Despite the differences in their visions, these...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
©2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Lance, a very pretentious turkey, arrives on the farm and boasts that he is the only bird invited to a special feast, no hen is impressed, but when Beauty learns that Lance is the main course, she convinces the others to save him.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henrietta the chicken loves to read so much that she decides to write a book herself, but first no one will publish a book written by a chicken, and then, when she publishes it herself and it gets a terrible review in "The Corn Book, " Henrietta is devastated.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henrietta is a reader and a writer, unusual traits for a chicken, but when her book is published and she is invited to the Children's Book Festival, only the local librarian believes she is the author.
13) Monster brother
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Rodney is relieved to find out that his new baby brother's cries are loud enough to frighten any monster away from their bedroom.
16) The nutquacker
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Clara the duck is so impatient to discover the farm animals' secret of Christmas that she puts herself in danger and almost misses the party.
Author
Series
KEY News thrillers volume 8
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark turns up the heat with a drop-dead frightening novel about a town where teenage girls are disappearing, where an idyllic beach community is terrorized, and where one reporter must get to the truth to protect her family. Trying to mix business with pleasure, KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has brought her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story...
20) The cobbler
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.