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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Portofino, Italy, 1943. A young woman steps off a boat in a scenic coastal village. Although she knows how to disappear in a crowd, Elodie is too terrified to slip by the German officers while carrying her poorly forged identity papers. She is frozen until a man she's never met before claims to know her. In desperate need of shelter, Elodie follows him back to his home on the cliffs of Portofino. Only months before, Elodie Bertolotti was a cello...
Author
Series
Childhood of Jesus volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A major new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for the Barbarians, The Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels. Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a boy who is quite literally adrift. The piece of paper...
43) A place to land
Author
Language
English
Description
"[A] story of sisterhood, healing, and the meaning of home. A hidden past isn't past at all. Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sugar Bend, Alabama, since a night forty years ago that stole Trudy's voice and cemented Violet's role as her sister's fierce and loyal protector. Now Trudy spends her days making sculptures from found objects and speaking through notes written on scraps of paper, while Violet runs their art shop,...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
℗♭2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1776 Thomas Jefferson put his quill to paper and the Declaration of Independence sprang to life. Follow the Declaration's journey over the next two centuries, surviving eight wars and travelling through five states on horseback, boat, railcar, and tank to its current home in the National Archives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A classic of children's literature, The Wind in the Willows is author Kenneth Grahame's tale of adventure, misadventure, and friendship. Grahame grew up in Cookham in Berkshire, which provided the scenery for Wind in the Willows. When Mole wanders off from his spring cleaning, he discovers a thrilling new world of boat trips, caravan rides, car crashes, and other madcap adventures with his friends Rat, Badger, and the impetuous Toad. This unabridged...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
On May 19, 1942, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. Captained by twenty nine-year-old Iron Cross and King's Cross recipient Erich Wurdemann, the submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia with sixty-two souls on board. Most aboard were merchant seamen, but there were also a handful of civilians, including the Downs family: Ray and Ina, and their two children, eight-year-old Sonny and eleven-year-old...
48) Major Impossible
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
John Wesley Powell always had the spirit of adventure in him. As a young man, he traveled all over the United States exploring. When the Civil War began, Powell went to fight for the Union, and even after he lost most of his right arm, he continued to fight until the war was over. In 1869, he embarked with the Colorado River Exploring Expedition-- ten men in four boats-- to float through the Grand Canyon. Ten explorers went in, but only six came out....
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture. You know his work--Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But you don't really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical. Among the most commercially successful artists of his time, he was a fighter for social justice who constantly prodded his audiences to be better...
Series
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Whether you choose an itinerary-free ramble through Lisbon's cobblestoned streets or an eye-opening bike tour of Tokyo's diverse neighborhoods, pack your bags and share in the discoveries of The New York Times Explorer: Cities & Towns. This volume of the paper's Explorer series with TASCHEN tells the stories of dream destinations where the past and the present collide and even the most familiar locales never cease to surprise. all under the spell...
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Language
English
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Description
"Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years.
56) With paper
Author
Series
Publisher
Sea-to-Sea Publications
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Teddy-bear mask, jigsaw puzzle, and box boat are just a few of the paper crafts that young children can make. Contains complete instructions and photos of finished craft.
57) Thunder point
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1945, the bets were that Martin Bormann fled to South America on a German U-boat. Then a wrecked submarine comes to light in the American Virgin Islands. It holds the captain's diary-- and Bormann's briefcase, full of secret papers. Over 45 years later those papers are still dynamite. They touch off a scramble that turns nasty.