Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two brothers and their wives meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, hes not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high-profile doctor to the stars, Marc can't hide from the truth forever. It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week...
3) Bruises
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While living in Holland, Michael meets Judith, who is frightened, bullied, and beaten by her mother and blames herself for the abuse she is enduring.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When mean Mrs. Sheep insults Greta the goat's knitting, Greta quickly knits a wolf that swallows Mrs. Sheep whole, but how will she get rid of the wolf?
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Thomas receives encouragement from many sources, including candid talks with Jesus, to help him tolerate the strict family life dictated by his deeply-religious father.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2022.
Language
English
Description
Kayleigh, a content moderator for a social media platform, spends her days reviewing offensive and violent posts, but when her colleagues begin breaking down, she wonders if the job may be too much for them as she convinces herself she's in control and totally fine.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hendrik Groen is 83 years old and he has decided that it is time to make something of his life. He may be rich in years, but he refuses to give in to all the trappings of old age just yet. Hendrik's hilarious and touching diary documents his life as an OAP living in a care home. When he recruits some similarly young-at-heart friends to join his 'Old But Not Dead Club', Hendrik proves that love can blossom, rules can be broken and fun is within reach,...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back with laughter while chatting with one of his councilmen at a New Year's reception, he immediately suspects the worst. Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert is convinced Sylvia is cheating on him—with the respectable councilman dedicated to the environment who wants to spoil the capital's skyline with wind turbines, no less. The New Year's reception marks the...
Author
Series
Secret diary of Hendrik Groen volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Everyone's favorite curmudgeon is back, wreaking havoc and turning a twinkly eye on the brighter side of life. At 85 years old, Hendrik may be slower and a little more wobbly, but nothing, it seems, can dampen his youthful appetite for mischief or dull his sharp insights into the state of our world. When rumors surface that the retirement home where he lives is set for demolition, it is up to Hendrik and his eccentric friends in the Old But Not Dead...
11) Styx
Author
Publisher
Simon451, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A police officer returns from the dead as a zombie in an alternate-world Ostend, Belgium to track down the elusive serial killer who shot him.
13) Red
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Torn between her fear of the bully on the school playground and her sympathy for her classmate, a girl must make a difficult choice"--
14) A heart of stone
Author
Language
English
Description
When family disaster strikes on her twelfth birthday, it shatters Ellen's carefree life. Twenty-five years later, she returns and plunges into the past as she confronts the literal and figurative ghosts of her childhood.
15) Little Fox
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Little Fox knows all about it! His father (in classic picture book fashion) warns him of the danger everywhere. But Little Fox still frolics with butterflies, scavenges for food, and searches for new friends. Then one day he takes a tumble, bumps his head, and starts dreaming of things that reflect both the beauty he's seen and the scary things he's heard"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The seemingly idyllic family life of Netherlands mathematics professor-turned-politician Siem Sigerius is threatened by his violence-shadowed previous marriage, his older son and an unexpected deception.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2006, c2004
Language
English
Description
Re Jana and her fishing family have fled their overflowing marshes to find work with thousands of others in the desert territory of the Rrattika: "the people who wander." One of the wanderers, a mad man named Noach, is building a huge ship in the middle of the desert. Re Janaś father, a shipwright, reluctantly joins the community of workers who have made their homes at the base of the ark. Re Jana, a healer and masseuse, charms Ham, one of Noachś...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A successful fashion magazine columnist investigates the mysterious disappearances of Agatha Christie, Barbara Follett, and Virginia Woolf before endeavoring to figure out what happened to a friend who went missing during their teen years.