Catalog Search Results
1) The Favorite
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Revisit the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series in this digital original novella. While America Singer's heart was torn between Aspen and Prince Maxon, her friend Marlee knew exactly what she wanted'and paid the price.Told from Marlee's point of view, this all-new 64-page story returns to the fateful Halloween when Marlee and Carter were discovered and reveals how that night'and Prince Maxon'changed...
2) The Queen
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Don't miss this digital original novella set in the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series.Before America Singer's story began, another girl came to the palace to compete for the hand of a different prince'.This prequel story takes place before the events of The Selection and is told from the point of view of Prince Maxon's mother, Amberly. Discover a whole new Selection with this inside look at how Maxon's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Does a bear shift in the woods? Well, partially. That was what got grizzly shifter Ted Farnsworth into trouble. He wasn't trying to break the Secrecy Pact. He just wants people to see the real him. So he signs up with the mate-matching service Supernatural Selection-which guarantees marriage to a perfect partner. Not only will Ted never be lonely again, but once his new beaver shifter husband arrives, they'll build Ted's dream wilderness retreat together....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A match between a vampire and shifter could be deadly-but this broken beaver doesn't give a dam. Silent film actor Casimir Moreau had imagined that life as a vampire would be freewheeling and glamorous. Instead, he's plunged into a restrictive society whose rules he runs afoul of at every turn. To "rehabilitate" him, the vampire council orders him mated to an incubus with impeccable breeding who'll mold Cas into the upstanding vampire he ought to...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
**First in a brand new cozy series!** Fern Rivers works two part-time jobs and lives upstairs in a cramped storefront apartment with her nerdy ex-boyfriend…who also happens to be her boss. But she is on the verge of realizing her career as a full-time naturalist and will soon be able to prove to her nagging mother that she is a capable woman after all. That is until one of her co-workers at the park unexpectedly ends up dead. Darren may have been...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After decades of unrequited love, this kangaroo will jump at the chance for a date. Any date. Lovelorn kangaroo shifter Hamish Mulherne, drummer for the mega-hit rock band Hunter's Moon, waited years for the band's jaguar shifter bassist to notice him. Instead, she's just gotten married and is in a thriving poly relationship. How is Hamish supposed to compete with that? But with everyone else in the band mated and revoltingly happy, he needs somebody....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The success that the Newton's GRAVITY THEORY had took Marquis de Laplace, who was a scientist, to defend the idea that Universe was completely DETERMINIST. ACCORDING TO LAPLACE THERE ARE NATURAL LAWS SO STRICT AND UNBREAKABLE THAT IF WE KNEW EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN UNIVERSE IN THE PRESENT MOMENT, WE COULD PREDICT WITH NO RISK OF EROR ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING WHAT'S COMING NEXT. FOR LAPLACE DETERMINISM DIDN'T ENCOMPASSED ONLY PHYSICAL WORLD BUT ALSO...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
We have summarized the essentials of four short texts by this prestigious thinker: from LA CABEZA BIEN PUESTA. RETHINKING REFORM. REFORMING THOUGHT, we offer ANNEX 2 INTER-PLURI-TRANSDISCIPLINARITY. It is followed by INTRODUCTION TO COMPLEX THINKING and the text closes with brief synthesized passages from "Science with Conscience" and "The Lost Paradigm".
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Selected Shorts has toured The Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and others. Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short stories, recorded live at the Mount, and featuring acclaimed actresses Kathleen Chalfant, Christina Pickles, Maria Tucci, and Brenda Wehle.
10) Poe!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Poe! is a deliciously gripping sampling of the mad imagination of 19th century gothic master of horror and suspense, murder and mayhem, Edgar Allan Poe. The creepy, breathtaking, and soulful classic tales include: The Masque of the Red Death," the terrifying and ironic story of a nobleman who attempts to seal himself and his friends away from a terrible plague raging outside, performed by Fionnula Flanagan (Transamerica); The Pit and the Pendulum,"...
11) Geometries
Author
Series
Description
In the present text, we present a brief introduction to non-Euclidean geometries. We begin by presenting the foundations of classical geometry, and the discussion that gave rise to other geometries. There is an incredibly old example of an attempt to demonstrate the fifth postulate of Euclid due to Proclus, and part of Sacheri's work is retaken, to continue later with the achievements of Lobachevsky. In simple terms, the geometry to which we are accustomed,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Adjectives have long suffered from bad press. For many years, English teachers have been fond of telling students that "adjectives are the enemy of nouns, and adverbs are the enemy of everything else."
While it's still advisable to heed your English teacher's advice on most other matters, The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for the Extraordinarily Literate proves that breaking certain rules can make written and spoken language that...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Between TV talk shows, radio call-in programs, email and the Internet, spontaneous-talk media has skyrocketed in the '90s. People are interacting more frequently and more fervently than ever before, turning the English language into an indecipherable mess. Now, this unique and concise compendium presents the most confused and misused words in the language today -- words misused by careless speakers and writers everywhere. It defines, discerns and...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request