Author: LearningExpress (Organization)
Published: 2017
Call Number: 323.623
Format: Books
Summary: Everything candidates need to know to take and pass the United States Citizenship Exam and become a U.S. citizen!
Author: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
Published: 2013
Call Number: PB BUNYAN
Format: Books
Summary: "The pilgrim's progress tells the story of everyman hero Christian as he abandons this world -- the City of Destruction -- on a journey towards paradise and the Celestial City. As he travels, Christian must fight off the temptations of the Worldly Wise, the Vain and the Ignorant. His adventure takes him through the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty and the Valley of the Shadow of Death. John Bunyan's powerful, imaginative narrative is the most widely read and influential religious allegory ever written"--Back cover.
Author: Voskamp, Ann, 1973- author.
Published: 2010
Call Number: 248.4
Format: Books
Summary: Drawing heartbreaking beauty out of the simplest of details, Ann Voskamp invites you into her grace--bathed life of farming, parenting, and writing--and deeper still into your own life. Here you will discover a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of living that is fully alive, and a way of becoming present to God that brings you deep and lasting joy.
Author: Sparks, Beatrice, editor.
Published: 2006 1971
Call Number: Y ANON
Format: Books
Summary: A teenager whose life is dominated by her drug problems recounts in her diary her experiences from her indoctrination into the world of drugs to three weeks before her death.
Author: Grafton, Sue. author.
Published: 2001
Call Number: F GRAFTON
Format: Regular print
Summary: It's no surprise that Grafton has taken on new territory in her 16th book of the alphabet series, this time entering the world of noir. It's a world cast in shades of black amid shafts of steel and silver, a shadow land in which the disappearance of a prominent physician leads Kinsey Millhone into a danger-filled maze of duplicity as she taps into a cunning Medicare fraud.
Author: Connelly, Michael, 1956- author.
Published: 1992
Call Number: PB CON
Format: Books
Summary: LAPD homicide detective Hieronymus (aka Harry) Bosch attempts to solve the murder of Billy Meadows, a soldier he knew while serving in Vietnam.
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