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6302) P'urŭn tolgorae sŏm
Author
Series
Himch'an mun'go volume 13
Publisher
Uri Kyoyuk
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
Korean
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6303) The king's arrow
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In England's New Forest on the second day of August, 1100, eighteen-year-old Simon Foldre, delighted to be allowed to participate in a royal hunt as squire to the Anglo-Norman nobleman Walter Tirel, finds his future irrevocably altered when, during the hunt, he witnesses the possible murder of King William II.
Author
Series
Cat Royal volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Catherine "Cat" Royal, an orphan who lives at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, rallies her friends to try to save Pedro from the clutches of Mr. Hawkins, a slavemaster who considers Pedro his property.
6305) Stowaway
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
6306) The historian: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
A young woman finds old papers which begin to reveal an ancient and evil plot concerning Vlad the Impaler and the legend of Dracula, which may still be continuing.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Coco Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich's High Command in the Hotel Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, she wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the United States with the confidential formula for Chanel...
6308) Curiosity
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Rufus has nothing he can call his own. So when he's recruited by a shady showman to secretly operate a mechanical chess player called the Turk, Rufus sees an opportunity he can't turn down. But the job must be kept secret, and Rufus worries about what has happened to the previous operators of the Turk, who seem to disappear as soon as they are no longer needed. Can Rufus figure out the truth -- before his questions lead him into a...
Author
Series
Butterfly Hill volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns to Valparaiso from Maine, she decides to uncover the truth about what happened in Butterfly Hill during the dictatorship and find her missing friend, Lucila.
6310) The Jupiter myth
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
While visiting his wife's relatives in Britain, Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco confronts a diplomatic crisis when the body of King Togidubnus is found stuffed down a barroom well.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Caroline Gray would rather be daring and intelligent than demure and insipid, which is why she is still unmatched after her third season in London. Her family's threadbare finances leave Caroline with only one choice to secure her future: sail with the Fishing Fleet to India, where the son of a family friend is willing to consider an engagement to her.Captain Thomas Scott loves the open sea as much as he despises the three-month, twice-yearly trip...
6312) Los restos del día
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Inglaterra, julio de 1956. Stevens, el narrador, fue durante treinta años mayordomo de Lord Darlington, quien murió hace tres años, y su propiedad pertenece ahora a un norteamericano. Su nuevo patrón regresará por unas semanas a su país, y le ha ofrecido al mayordomo el auto para que disfrute de unas vacaciones. Y Stevens se embarca en un viaje por el país rumbo a Weymouth, donde vive la señora Benn, antigua ama de llaves de Darlington Hall....
6313) Bronze drum
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the Lac Viet region of ancient Vietnam, two noble daughters fill their days by training, studying, and trying to stay true to Vietnamese traditions. While Trung Trac is disciplined and wise, free-spirited and fierce Trung Nhi is more interested in spending time in the gardens and with her romantic conquests. But these sisters' lives--and the lives of their people--are shadowed by the oppressive rule of the Han Chinese. As the people's frustration...
6314) The wicked city
Author
Series
Wicked city novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the first book of a breathtaking new trilogy by bestselling author Beatriz Williams, two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment --a flapper hiding an extraordinary past, and a modern-day Manattanite forced to start her life anew. When she discovers her banker husband has been harboring a secret life, Ella Gilbert escapes her SoHo loft for a studio in Greenwich Village. Her charismatic musician neighbor,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound by butchery and obscured by the shadows of American history. The winds shift nervously on the Kansas plain whispering of travelers lost and buried, whispering of witches. Something dark and twisted has taken root at the Bender inn. At first the townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the rising medium Kate Bender and her family. Kate's messages from the...
6316) How high the moon
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.
6317) The reckless kind
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It is 1904 and the partially deaf Asta Hedstrom is engaged to Nils, but she does not want to marry him: she would rather spend her time with her best friend Gunnar Fuglestad and his secret boyfriend, Erlend, who belongs to the wealthiest family on their Norwegian island; so when Nils gravely injures Gunnar, she shuns her marriage and moves in with Gunnar and Erlend in a secluded cabin above town--and the three misfits set out to win the annual Christmas...
6318) I, Eliza Hamilton
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In this beautifully written novel of historical fiction, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott tells the story of Alexander Hamilton's wife, Eliza--a fascinating strong-willed heroine in her own right and a key figure in one of the most gripping periods in American history."--
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Just in time for the 120th anniversary of the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing"--This stirring book celebrates the Black National Anthem and how it inspired five generations of a family ... In Jacksonville, Florida, two brothers, one of them the principal of a segregated, all-black school, wrote the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing" so his students could sing it for a tribute to Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1900. From that moment on, the song has...
6320) Tu tosi iyagi
Author
Series
K'ŭllaesik segye munhak k'ŏlleksyŏn volume 016
Publisher
Tŏ K'ŭllaesik
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Korean
Description
Young Englishman Sidney Carton gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves, in an epic novel set against the turbulent backdrop of eighteenth-century France.
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