A case of life and limb

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781526668752

Collation

322 p. ; 20 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 SMI a

A guardian and a thief

Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning —longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force.

Yesteryear

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780593804216

Collation

391 p. ; 25 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 BUR y

Sisters in yellow

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781035095094

Collation

429 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 KAW s

Fear and fury

In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson reveals how the infamous New York subway shooting of 1984 divided a nation, unveiling the potent cocktail of rage and resentment that ushered in a new era of white vigilante violence.

Rain or shine

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781740898034

Collation

24 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

500 RYA r

Kin

Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Atlanta at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Bl…

Break the cycle: a guide to healing intergenerational trauma

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780593472491

Collation

275 p. ; 22 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

158 BUQ b

Reading and writing for pleasure: an evidence-informed framework for practice

Reading and writing for pleasure represent issues of global concern and interest in policy, research and practice, underpinned by evidence illustrating their importance for young people’s academic, social, and emotional experiences and outcomes. In the face of a sustained decline in children’s enjoyment in both reading and writing, this highly significant book presents findings from a three…

The teacher of nomad land

1941. The German armies are storming across Europe. Iran is a neutral country occupied by British forces on one side, Soviet forces on another. Soldiers fill the teahouses of Isfahan. Nazi spies roam the alleyways. Babak and his little sister have just lost their father. Now orphans, fearing they will be separated, the two devise a plan. Babak will take up his father's old job as a teacher t…