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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Big Cheese is the best at everything, and brags about it, too. When the annual Cheese-cathlon comes around, the Big Cheese is prepared to win, as always. But what happens when the quiet new kid, Wedge Wedgeman, comes out on top? Is a slice of humility all the Big Cheese needs to discover that some things are better than being the best?"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Clementine Chan believes in the power of the written word. Under the pseudonym Hibiscus, she runs a popular blog reviewing tea shops and discussing larger issues within her Chinatown community. She has a loyal, kind following, save for this one sour grape named BobaBoy888. Danny Mok is allergic to change, and the gentrification seeping into Chinatown breaks his heart. He channels his frustration into his internet alter ego, BobaBoy888, bickering...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Baseball at the Abyss is the story of one of baseball's darkest days and how innovative, behind-the-scenes work of the first-ever player agent pushed the game's greatest player to a history making season, one which rescued a tarnished game"--
"In the winter of 1926, Major League Baseball became enveloped in scandal. Two of baseball's biggest stars, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, were accused of fixing and betting on games. Sportswriters called the scandal...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
"This is the first book-length biography of Edgar Lee Masters, author of the celebrated Spoon River Anthology, one of the most widely read and discussed volumes of poetry ever written in America." "Herbert K. Russell conveys the internal contradictions that drove Masters throughout his life and kept the happiness, love, security, and success he dreamed of always out of reach. Masters was one of America's most prolific authors, publishing fifty-three...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"When Bree Carlyle's boyfriend leaves for Paris, taking the rent money with him, all she has left are boxes of old books and a gift from her friendly, pothead neighbor. Desperate for a place to lick her wounds, Bree heads to her family's once-thriving Napa vineyard. After all, where better to drown her sorrows than a small town with lots and lots of alcohol? Gideon Donnelly is a sheriff's deputy with eyes on a law career . . . and on his teenage crush,...