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"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false...
43) Beautiful
Author
Pub. Date
9999
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (6 hours and 30 minutes) : digital, CD audio 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Read by Nick Afka Thomas. A renowned supermodel's world is torn apart in an instant, sending her on an unexpected journey of discovery in this masterful novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet, despite being the consummate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
2 MP3 discs (32 hours, 23 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jondalar and Ayla are two Ice Age travelers on an uncertain journey. The journey will require them to brave flash floods and glaciers, hungry hyenas and vengeful hunter women, and midnight visions and painful echoes from the past.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An ecological history of Europe that focuses on the "land itself and the forces shaping life on it."--Dust jacket flap.
46) 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."--
47) 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
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Down on their luck, the Tooting family buys an old camper van and begins repairing it, but after installing an engine that once belonged to an extraordinary car, they are off to find other original parts, pursued by a sinister man who wants Chitty for himself.
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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The decade of the 1920s was a good time to be an American; wealth and luxury were on the rise, culture and music was roarin', and the world was returning to normalcy following World War I. All this changed after the stock market crash of 1929 slammed the United States into the Great Depression, which would last more than a decade. This book covers the causes that led up to this event that affected, not only the United States, but many other countries....
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
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...
55) Renaissance
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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.
56) Stonemason
Author
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
45 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Traces the life of a typical stonemason in medieval times from birth to death, including childhood, training, masonry jobs that were available, and retirement. Includes primary source quotes"--Provided by publisher.
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
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the sophisticated D-Day operation through which extraordinary spies deceived the Nazis about the location of the Allied attack, profiling the successful Double Cross System and the remarkable individuals who used the program to save thousands of lives.
59) The Renaissance
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The rebirth of knowledge, art, and philosophy, and a rejuvenation of banking and business, mark the period known as the Renaissance. Follow the important events in this flourishing of Western culture through the words spoken and the works done by the people of this period.
