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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
103 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elizabethan England is a time of superstition and strange goings on. If you have a problem, it's common to go to a witch for help. And Queen Elizabeth I is no different... When Daisy -- a precocious young witch -- learns of the death of the Queen's Royal Witch, she flies to London to audition as her replacement. But Daisy is from a poor family, and they don't let just anyone into the Royal Court. The only way into the palace is to take a job as a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
157 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Sent by the Supreme Chancellor, two Jedi Knights--Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi--are sent to Naboo where they discover the Trade Federation's droid army and help the Queen of Naboo escape, but a failed hyperdrive leads to an emergency landing on the planet of Tatooine, the home of Anakin Skywalker.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi make an emergency landing on Tatooine to acquire parts for their ship, they meet a boy named Anakin Skywalker, who helps them by winning a Podrace while the Sith continue to attempt to kidnap the Queen.
113045) Umberland
Author
Series
Everland volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bella, Gwen, and the Lost Boys have escaped to Alnwick Castle, but it is not the safe haven they hoped it would be for the "cure" for the Horologia virus has mutated into something even worse--so the Duchess Alyssa and Maddox Hadder set out searching for the virus's origin, an extinct poisonous apple, supposedly from a tree at the center of a labyrinth hidden deep within Germany and guarded by monsters.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world." Pasternak...
113047) Hamilton: an American biography
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 193 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the events and values that enabled Hamilton to rise from his youth as a dispossessed orphan to Revolutionary War hero and Founding Father, a life uniquely shaped by America and who, in turn, contributed to the creation of the American regime of liberty and self-government. He was one of key leaders in the American Revolution, a chief architect...
113048) The circus of stolen dreams
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After Andrea's brother, Francis, disappeared, everything changed. Her world turned upside down, and there was nothing she could do to right it. So when she discovers a magical dream world called Reverie in the woods near her home, Andrea jumps at the chance to escape her pain and go inside. But the cost of admission is high: Andrea must give up a memory in order to enter. And she knows exactly which memory she'd like to give up. Once inside, Andrea...
113049) Fort Solitude
Author
Series
Secret Hero Society volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
175 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Clark Kent and his friends, Bruce and Diana, are invited to Camp Evergreen, their initial fun with new and old friends is thrown into chaos by disappearing campers and rumors of monster sightings.
113051) 5-minute Pete the Cat stories
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
192 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pete the cat and the bad banana. Pete the Cat bites into a bad banana and vows never to eat bananas again, even though he generally likes the fruit.
Go, Pete, go! A groovy Pete the Cat adaptation of "The Tortoise and the Hare" finds a bike-riding Pete accepting a challenge from Turtle, who has a new racing car with cool gadgets.
Sir Pete the brave. When a dragon kidnaps Lady Callie, Sir Pete the Brave must come to her rescue.
Rock on, mom and dad!...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
183, 2 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xix, 149 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia. Like a young Edith Piaf, wandering the streets singing for alms, and like Oliver Twist, living by his wits, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up watchful and hungry, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the championship baseball game gets rained out, ballplayer Braden curls up on the couch and cries. Just another one of his overreactions. Braden always lets small disappointments ruin his day, so his mom and teacher give him a lesson on "flexible thinking." Will this help Braden feel better when disappointment comes his way?" -- Publisher.
113055) Wagon train adventure
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A story about heroic struggles and bravery for survival on the pioneer trail.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eyes in focus? Wearing your lucky shirt? Let the games begin! In a second book of speed-search adventures, Waldo summons fans to go head-to-head with each other or to race solo against the clock. Just open the book perfectly flat, with your opponent sitting opposite--or your self-timer at the ready--and zero in on one side of an action-filled spread. Find Waldo among zany games, super sports, and comical contests, from a heated soccer match to a high-flying...
113057) The watcher in the shadows
Author
Series
Inquisitor's apprentice volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century New York, as thirteen-year-old Sacha Kessler, the Inquisitor's apprentice, faces enemies old and new that threaten him and his family, he changes his mind about learning magic.
113058) Time after time
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from his point of view, continues the love story of Bennett, a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco, and Anna, sixteen, of 1995 Evanston, Illinois, as they try to make their relationship work despite his fear that it is not meant to be.
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 Banagrams game, 1 Companion care puppy 1 Dog breed memory card game & dog breed quiz, 1 copy of Really important stuff my dog has taught me (paperback), 1 copy of Alzheimer's from the inside out (paperback), 1 What's up pup? puzz;e (300 pieces), 1 Irish and Celtic Folk Classics (CD), Companion pet "Puppy" (4 "C" batteries included), Kit Activity card & Memory Kit survey : 1 clear plastic container ; 15 x 171/2 x 6 in.
Language
English
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Description
Description of Alzheimer's disease from the inside out: Receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease profoundly alters lives and creates endless uncertainty about the future. How does a person cope with such a life changing discovery? What are the hopes and fears of someone living with this disease? How does he want to be treated? How does he feel as the disease alters his brain, his relationships, and ultimately himself? The author provides illuminating...
113060) Endling: the last
Author
Series
Endling volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
383, 10 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Byx is the youngest member of her dairne pack. Believed to possess remarkable abilities, her mythical doglike species has been hunted to near extinction in the war-torn kingdom of Nedarra. After her pack is hunted down and killed, Byx fears she may be the last of her species. The Endling. So Byx sets out to find safe haven, and to see if the legends of other hidden dairnes are true. Along the way, she meets new allies--animals and humans alike--who...
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