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Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes typical activities performed by ancient Egypt's rulers, such as making religious offerings, judging court cases, and hunting lions.
23) Chinese New Year
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book explores the history, customs, and symbols of Chinese New Year, which is celebrated in Chinese communities all over the world.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money,...
Author
Series
Providence Falls volume 2
Language
English
Description
"They can't be together, but they can't stay apart... Liam O'Connor has one purpose in this life--to push the woman he loves into the arms of another man. The Irish rogue unknowingly changed the course of destiny when he fell in love with Cora McLeod over a century ago. Their passion was intense, brief and tragic. And the angels have been trying to restore the balance of fate ever since. Now police officers in Providence Falls, North Carolina, Liam...
Author
Series
Mrs. Lincoln volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase,...
27) Button Man
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s.
29) Out of Africa
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1937
Physical Desc
389 p. 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian...
32) Amish Society
Author
Publisher
John Hopkins Univers
Pub. Date
1980
Physical Desc
413p
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Old secrets are revealed and lives become unraveled when the children of a well-heeled New England family discover the body of murder victim near Tiger House, their estate on Martha's Vineyard.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to reclaim a van that was featured in a possible prophetic dream, Precious and Grace find themselves helping an apprentice of Phuti Radiphuti, investigating a cattle poisoning, and considering Grace's possible marriage to Phuti.
Author
Language
English
Description
Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built nine mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming...
39) Austria
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Presents the geography, history, economy, and social life and customs of Austria, the birthplace of such people as Kurt Waldheim, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sigmund Freud, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Language
English
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"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""--