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6782) Convergence
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, has taken aboard five thousand human refugees from a destroyed station in a distant sector of space. With supplies and housing stretched to the breaking point, it is clear that the refugees must be relocated down to the planet, and soon. But not to the atevi mainland: rather to the territory reserved for humans, the island of Mospheira. Tabini-aiji, the powerful political head of the atevi, tasks his...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 415 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The author's search for the annihilated Polish community captured in his grandfather's 1938 home movie. Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, the author's grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome color film. More than seventy years later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of home-movie footage...
6784) Lion: a long way home
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how the author was accidentally separated from his family and home in India as a child, how he survived as an orphan in Kolkata, his adoption by an Australian family, and his search for his biological family as an adult.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Blowing snow and frigid temperatures were no match for even the bravest explorers. Robert Falcon Scott led his men to their death amidst the frozen landscape near the South Pole in 1912. Follow along with the true story of a doomed expedition to uncharted land. Then, review what you've learned with a recap timeline and a quick quiz to check how much doomed history you remember"--
6786) Pluck and perfection
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a fall during her balance beam routine thirteen-year-old Rachel and her cousin use the magical Sports Illustrated magazines in their grandfather's collection to travel back to the 1976 Olympics to observe Nadia Comăneci's perfect routines--and incidentally meet their grandfather who is covering the Olympics as a sports reporter.
6787) The last best hope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An original novel based on the new Star Trek TV series! A thrilling novel leading into the new CBS series, Una McCormack's The Last Best Hope introduces you to brand new characters featured in the life of beloved Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard--widely considered to be one of the most popular and recognizable characters in all of science fiction"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 32 x 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, but his most revolutionary idea was a radical vision of nature as a complex and...
Author
Series
Adventures in time-1849 volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
335 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When modern-day thirteen-year-old Zane wakes from a coma in 1849 Missouri, his plans for adventure in Indian Territory with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Jim are halted by the kidnapping of Becky Thatcher.
6790) The Disenchantments
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Colby's post-high school plans have long been that he and his best friend Beth would tour with her band, then spend a year in Europe, but when she announces that she will start college just after the tour, Colby struggles to understand why she changed her mind and what losing her means for his future.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 304
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 1,122 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including such topics as Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Panthers, California earthquakes, and Bill Clinton.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the harrowing, yet wryly funny story of Safran's childhood chasing the perfect life off the grid--and how he and his mother survived the imperfect one they found instead. More than just a coming-of age story, "Free Spirit" is a journey of the spirit, as Safran reconnects with his Jewish roots; a tale of overcoming adversity; and a captivating read about a childhood unlike any other.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
518 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, an estimated 30,000 Nazi war criminals fled from justice, including some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi Party. In this exhaustively researched work of history and investigative reporting, journalist Guy Walters gives a comprehensive account of how the most notorious Nazi war criminals escaped justice, how they were pursued, captured or able to remain free until their natural deaths, and how they were assisted...
6794) The Wrong Wrights
Author
Series
Secret Smithsonian adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
After discovering that the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is much smaller, has no Spirit of St. Louis airplane or Apollo 11 command module, and is filled with balloons, blimps, and dirigibles, four schoolmates travel through time to try and restore the Wright brothers to their well-earned place in history and learn about aerodynamics and other aviation principles along the way.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Oscar Indigo has never been good at baseball, so naturally he's nervous when he has to fill in for his team's injured All-Star, Lourdes. Luckily, Oscar has a mysterious gold watch that can stop time, which he uses to fake a game-winning home run. Now Oscar's the underdog hero of his town and even Lourdes wants to be his friend. But the universe is a precarious place, and you can't just steal time without any consequences. If Oscar doesn't find a way...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A flame-throwing star with the Houston Astros, J. R. Richard was at the top of his profession when he inexplicably began complaining of arm weakness in 1980. Initially scoffed at because he continued approaching 100 mph on the radar gun, everything changed when Richard collapsed while playing catch with a teammate--later diagnosed as a life-threatening stroke. The shocking development ended Richard's major league career and set off a chain of events...
6797) Chasing the skip
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Rick's mother finally leaves for good, Ricki's absentee father steps in, taking Ricki with him as he chases bail "skips" across the country, but their fledgling relationship is tested as they pursue attractive, manipulative, seventeen-year-old Ian Burnham.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
17 sound discs (21 hours, 15 minutes) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The second volume of a comprehensive companion guide to each book in the "Outlander" series includes a complete chronology of the series, synopses of novels, a guide to research sources, a Scottish glossary and pronunciation guide, and essays by the author.
Author
Series
Finniverse volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finn and his friends travel to the Subatomic, a microscopic world where Finn hopes to find his father and defeat the Plague once and for all.
6800) The Black Canary
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well.
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