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430381) After Alice fell: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"New Hampshire, 1865. Marion Abbott is summoned to Brawders House asylum to collect the body of her sister, Alice. She'd been found dead after falling four stories from a steep-pitched roof. Officially: an accident. Confidentially: suicide. But Marion believes a third option: murder. Returning to her family home to stay with her brother and his second wife, the recently widowed Marion is expected to quiet her feelings of guilt and grief - to let go...
430382) Animal hibernator battle
Author
Series
Incredible animal face-offs volume Animal hibernator battle
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The animal kingdom is full of extraordinary hibernators, but which animal would win a hibernator battle? Read this book to find out. Journey to the bottom of an icy pond with a painted turtle. Sleep in a black bear's den. Compare animals side-by-side with colorful photos and cool infographics. Decide for yourself the winner of each animal face-off! -back cover.
430383) Pop music history
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This title focuses on the history of pop music and gives detailed information related to its origins and fun facts about superstars spanning from the Beach Boys to Taylor Swift.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning pioneer of "ironic gothic" (Washington Post) comes a wry and spooky set of ghost stories, replete with original illustrations. Since her acclaimed novel A Carnivore's Inquiry, Sabina Murray has been celebrated for her mastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing readers to haunted sites from a West Australian convent school to the moors of England to the shores...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
221 pages; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Learning through experience within an outdoor community provides an opportunity for the next generation to figure out who they are, separate and apart from the noise. Within an intentional, safe environment, even the most alienated kids can develop social, emotional, and communication skills that will amplify their connectedness, and independence. When kids recognize that they can do hard things, provide value to the group, and rely on others, the...
430387) I don't want to go to school
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's Mouse's first day of school. It's Dinosaur's first day of school. As each of them get ready for the first day of school, they definitely DON'T want to go! But when class begins, there is a very big surprise! A reassuring tale for those first-day-of-school jitters. It's Mouse's first day of school, and she is so nervous. She can't eat her cereal, and she wonders what the children will be like. And it's Dinosaur's first day of school, too! He is...
430388) The spoiled heart
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She's returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and--though she's strangely guarded--Nayan can't help but be drawn to her. He hasn't risked love since losing his young family in a terrible accident twenty years earlier. In the wake of the tragedy, Nayan's labor union, long a cornerstone of his community, became the center of his life: a way for him to channel...
430389) Amish hideout
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With a price on his witness's head, US Marshal Jonathan Mast can think of only one place to hide Celeste Alexander-- in the Amish community he left behind. As a computer expert, leading a life off the grid isn't easy for Celeste. But will staying in Jonathan's childhood home save her... and convince them a future together is worth fighting for?"--
430390) Amish safe house
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Julia Bradford's son witnesses a gang shooting, hiding in witness protection on Abraham King's Amish farm is the only hope the Englischer and her children have. Even as danger closes in, Julia is drawn to the community's peaceful ways-- and the ex-cop turned Amish protector. But when their location is discovered, can Abraham protect her family...and possibly have a future by herside?
Author
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
160 pages : map, photographs ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Simon, a young Polish Jew, and his family are forced by Nazis to leave their home for the filth and hunger of the Warsaw ghetto then, when his family is all taken away, he escapes to fight for survival in the countryside. Includes facts about the Holocaust.
430392) Planters
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The seeds on a farm don't sow themselves, but luckily farmers have sophisticated machinery to help them transform a fertile field into a bountiful breadbasket. This book takes readers out to the fields to see planters at work.
430393) Surviving a tornado
Author
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discusses the dangers of tornados, how to prepare for them, and how to stay safe during and after a tornado"--Provided by publisher.
430394) To be a man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Trevor's mother discourages his relationship with known troublemaker Vanessa, Trevor hides it from his family and friends.
430395) Transgender history
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
ix, 190 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Transgender History covers American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today. Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapter 1 covers the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II. Chapter 2 addresses trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A spirited investigation into the world of bargain hunting and how shoppers and sellers try to one-up each other -- from the haggling bazaars of Istanbul to Black Friday at a mall in upstate New York to pinnacles of global luxury such as Hermes and Louis Vuitton.
Author
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, teenager Lee Chin and his father leave China for California to work on the transcontinental railroad, where Lee defies his father's wishes and saves money to free his younger sister from slavery in China, then brings her to join him in beginning a new life in America. Includes historical note about the Chinese who helped build the transcontinental railroad.
430398) Amelia Earhart: beyond the grave
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 175 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This well-researched book is a biography of the life--and disappearance--of Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator who was the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic in 1928. But did Amelia's plane really crash and sink in 1937, or was her fate entirely different"--
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
256 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
For over sixty years Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's study of European architecture has been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students of architecture around the world. In this updated, larger format edition, which also has a new and elegant design and completely new drawings, an extra dimension is provided through the integration of over 200 superb colour photographs. Through his perceptive understanding of the heritage of past civilizations,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiii, 567 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Moving beyond older approaches to the history of the Habsburgs in Central Europe in which nations are the main actors and nationalist conflict the inevitable moving force in the monarchy's trajectory, Pieter Judson offers an alternate narrative framework for the history of Habsburg Central Europe from the eighteenth century to the demise of the empire in World War I. He investigates how shared imperial institutions, administrative practices, and...
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