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41) Just one day
Author
Series
Just One Day volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Sparks fly when American good girl Allyson encounters laid-back Dutch actor Willem, so she follows him on a whirlwind trip to Paris, upending her life in just one day and prompting a year of self-discovery and the search for true love."--
42) Castle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks behind fortress walls to explore how they were built to house hundreds of people and animals, the important rooms, the people who lived in them, and what castle life was like.
Author
Series
The eldest curses volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
High Warlock Magnus Bane learns that a demon-worshipping cult, the Crimson Hand, is wreaking havoc across Europe, threatening more than just his romantic getaway with new boyfriend, Alec Lightwood.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine...
48) Renaissance
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
59 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An overview of the philosophy, inventions, art, government, religion, and daily life of the Renaissance.
49) Twelfth night
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The lovely Viola disguises herself as a young man and quickly falls in love with the Duke she serves. The Duke in turn sends the disguised Viola to woo his lady - the fiesty and impetuous Olivia. Olivia becomes smitten with the young man Viola impersonates, and all careens to a happy resolution by the play's end.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Alex and his grandfather hold the fate of history itself in their hands in a Rick Riordan meets Raiders of the Lost Ark adventure of epic proportions!
"A few months ago, Alex's world changed...forever. Now, just when it seems life is almost getting back to normal, Alex's grandfather crashes back into the picture with grave news: their friend Harry has fallen into the clutches of a familiar foe, and the old man needs Alex's help to rescue him. This...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nina lives in San Francisco with her parents, and she loves visiting her two grandmas across the world. Follow Nina as her two trips unfold side by side: Young readers will love poring over the details of what is the same and what is different at Nana’s home in England and at Nenek’s home in Malaysia. In each place, Nina wears different clothes, plays different games, and eats different food. But so much about visiting Nana and Nenek is the same,...
54) Medieval society
Author
Publisher
Crabtree
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age's uniquely devastating despots-and how and why other countries found better paths. The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death....
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
180 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1990s, a boy with a mysterious past and the woman who cares for him endure a five-year journey across the war-torn Caucasus and Europe, weathering hardships and welcoming unforgettable encounters with other refugees searching for a better life.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
li, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone-Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London-reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (630 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.