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Knit the season [playaway]
Kate Jacobs
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Spanning the season from Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve, Knit the Season follows the now college-aged Dakota Walker as she takes a much-needed break to visit her Gran in Scotland for the holidays. Dakota is at a crossroads in her life, as everything seems to be changing all at once. While she is working hard to build her future career, the members ...
2007; ; isbn:9781441701251 More Information |
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Buried in the bitter waters [playaway] : the hidden history of racial cleansing in America
Elliot Jaspin
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Jaspin exposes a shocking history of racial cleansing in the United States, and one that, alarmingly, continues to effect the geography of race in America to this day
2007; ; isbn:9781602528246 More Information |
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The golden rule of schmoozing [playaway] : the authentic practice of treating others well
written by Aye Jaye
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Learn how to schmooze your boss, co-workers and customers, endear yourself using "chatch" and "schmick", schmooze for love, make your first impression a positive, lasting one, and to develop happier, healthier interpersonal relationships
2007; ; isbn:9781605146904 More Information |
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A free life [playaway] : a novel
Ha Jin
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2007; ; isbn:9781605145754 More Information |
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Mudbound [playaway]
Hillary Jordan
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Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat
2008; ; isbn:9781436132671 |
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Shade [playaway] : a novel Neil Jordan
Jordan, Neil, 1951-
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2004; ; isbn:9781602527157 More Information |
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Dubliners [playaway]
James Joyce
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Short stories depicting life in Dublin in the early 20th century
2007; ; isbn:1598958518 More Information |
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A disorder peculiar to the country [playaway] : a novel
Ken Kalfus
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Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11 -- and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. In this ...
2008; ; isbn:9781605147710 More Information |
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A Christmas blizzard [playaway] : a novel
Garrison Keillor
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A wealthy and depressed man bound for Christmas in Hawaii is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. During his stay, he reaches an epiphany worthy of the season and resolves to simplify his life
2009; ; isbn:9781615876853 More Information |
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The secret life of bees [playaway] : a novel
Sue Monk Kidd
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Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August
2001; ; isbn:1598956485 More Information |
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A girl named Zippy [playaway] : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
Haven Kimmel
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Named "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around her home, Kimmel's witty memoir takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent post-war period, where people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards
2005; ; isbn:1598952099 More Information |
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Duma Key [playaway] : a novel
Stephen King
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When self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle is mangled in an accident, his life falls into disarray. Prone to fits of rage, Edgar moves to Duma Key, a secluded area on the Florida coast where he can paint--and that's when his nightmare begins
2008; ; isbn:9781436157773 |
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