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21) NBA 2K24
Publisher
2K
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Experience the past, present, and future of hoops culture in NBA 2K24. Enjoy loads of action and limitless personalized MyPLAYER options in MyCAREER. Bild your perfect lineup in MyTEAM. Feel more responsive game play and polished visuals while playing with your favorite NBA and WNBA teams in PLAY NOW. Recreate some of Kobe's most dominant and captivating performances during his rise to global superstardom. Revisit his early career triumphs as a young...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From a brilliant young investigative journalist, an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life, tracing a multi-million-dollar drug ring that ended in a chain of betrayals and a murder. When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a murder, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After traveling from her home planet to Ouris and sneaking into the imperial ball to steal from the galactic elite, expert thief Cass is framed for the unexpected death of the emperor, and must work together with a mysterious rebel to uncover the true plot and clear her name.
24) Mandíbula
Author
Series
Candaya narrativa volume 49
Publisher
Editorial Candaya
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
An adolescent fanatic of horror and creepypastas (horror stories circulating on the internet) wakes up manacled in a cabin in the middle of the forest. Her kidnapper is not a stranger, but her language and literature teacher, a young woman whom she and her friends have tormented for months at an elite Opus Dei school. But soon the reasons for this kidnapping will be revealed to be much darker than the bullying of a teacher: a disturbing youthful love,...
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Vers, the newest recruit to the Kree Starforce, must learn the ways of the elite warrior team and win the respect of her fellow members Korvath, Att-Lass, Bron-Char, and Minn-Evra. Under the tutelage of her commander, Vers will learn the ways of Starforce whether she likes it or not. Will Vers prove her worth to the team, and to herself, or will the pressure to succeed be her ultimate downfall?
Author
Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the "young urban professionals" who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987. By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies-the elite, uber educated faction of the Baby Boom generation-had become something of a cultural punchline. This was understandable:...
Author
Publisher
James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Udoka Clendon is a first-year university student and a product of basketball systems that have produced professional players. He's been pushed relentlessly by the obsessive mentorship of his older brother, which has been tolerated by his hard-working single mother. For years his brother has taken him to tournaments and pushed him to succeed on the outdoor courts of the west end. Burdened by expectations and self-doubt, Udoka tries to reignite his...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Bode Donovan, a young convict seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence by joining a prison release firefighting program in Northern California, where he and other inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires across the region. It₂s a high-risk, high-reward assignment, and the heat is turned up when Bode is assigned to the program in his rural hometown, where he was once a golden all-American...
Author
Series
Dragon Prince volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Every Moonshadow elf child knows the scary stories of the Bloodmoon Huntress, the evil sorceress who steals your blood on the night of the Harvest Moon. Everyone also knows those legends aren't true. But for young Rayla, whose parents recently left her behind to fulfill their duty as members of the elite Dragonguard, this autumn is scarier than most. Her guardians, Runaan and Ethari, are still getting the hang of the whole parenting thing, and no...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Maggie Nichols' official memoir is an inspirational tell-all about the abuse she suffered under the USA national gymnastic team and how she managed to redefine herself in the face of adversity. In 2015, Maggie risked everything when she revealed to her coach how USAG doctor Larry Nassar had been sexually abusing the athletes under his care. What ensued was an investigation that would capture the nation, involving multiple faculty members of the gymnastics...
Author
Publisher
Wonderbooks
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
Español
Description
"Ha llegado la hora de cambiar el cuento de hadas. Liz Lighty siempre ha sido demasiado negra, demasiado pobre y demasiado diferente para Campbell, el pueblo en el que vive, donde todas las chicas están obsesionadas con ser la reina del baile. Sin embargo, Liz tiene un plan para salir de allí: entrar en la banda de música de la prestigiosa Universidad de Pennington y conseguir una beca para estudiar Medicina. Pero su plan no sale bien y a Liz solo...
32) The complete book of pickleball: the ultimate training guide for passionate players of all levels
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Easy to learn and fun to play, pickleball is also a surprisingly athletic sport. In this user-friendly book, fitness superstars, the Brungardt brothers, focus their expertise on the needs of pickleball players of all levels, applying the same innovative training methods they've used with NBA MVPs, Cy Young Award-winners, and Olympic and tennis champions, to make picklers more athletic and injury-resistant. To safely reach your pickleball potential,...
33) I am Rome
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The runaway international bestseller - part sweeping historical epic, part legal thriller - following the trial that shaped the life of the young Julius Caesar and gave root to an immortal legacy. Every legend has a beginning. Rome, 77 B.C. Senator Dolabella, known for using violence against anyone who opposes him, is going on trial for corruption and has already hired the best lawyers and even bought the jury. No man dares accept the role of prosecutor...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series, comes a soaring account of London's desperate fight for survival during the Blitz"--
Great Britain, summer 1940. The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Adolf Hitler's powerful armies control Europe. England stands alone against this juggernaut, the whole world knowing it is only a matter of time before Nazi Germany unleashes...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this inspiring, poignant, and delicious memoir, the founder of France's largest nonprofessional culinary institute traces her journey from the American midwest to Paris, and shares how, through painstaking work, she triumphed over French elitism. When Jane Bertch was eighteen, her mother took her on a graduation trip to Paris. Thrilled to use her high school French, Jane found her halting attempts greeted with withering condescension by every...
36) School of woke: how critical race theory infiltrated American schools and why we must reclaim them
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Kenny Xu takes readers through a far-reaching, on-the-ground investigation of how Critical Race Theory infiltrated our public schools and transformed them into activism factories-with disastrous results. Awareness of the rise of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in public schools and how it has shaped our education system took the U.S. by storm over the last couple of years. When the COVID-19 pandemic sent children home to continue their education online,...
Author
Series
The Leeward Islands volume Book 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Rose Barrington is the island misfit. Orphaned at a young age, Hannah struggles to provide for her future, while her guardian, a weak-hearted island drunk, bleeds Hannah of her father's inheritance. Caught between the classes of elite planters and white beggars, Hannah yearns to find a place to belong. University life has never been Bradlee Granville's forte. His only hope to graduate is to impress his professors by documenting his travels....
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