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1) Italy
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Jumbo, an imprint of Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title introduces beginning readers to the country of Italy. The book covers Italy's geography, capital and largest cities, popular foods, and its famous landmarks and people. Complete with large, full color photographs, a large map, and more exciting landmarks to explore.--
Author
Language
English
Description
It’s the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive what some see as the invitation of a lifetime. Amelia Alexander, who hopes to eventually attend law school, hesitates to participate in what she sees...
Author
Series
Skip and loafer volume 6
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's wintertime in Tokyo! Even as Mitsumi juggles Valentine's Day infatuations and White Day revelations, the high-school life of this natural-born happiness influencer is hurtling headlong towards spring--and her second year in high school!--
Author
Series
Skip and loafer volume 4
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Between her class' musical performance and a dizzying array of committee duties, Mitsumi is determined that her first school festival in Tokyo will be a rousing success! But will it...?--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, a new novel is a coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Every year, millions of Asian families come together to celebrate the first new moon in the sky. Now preschoolers can learn about the zodiac animals, the delicious food, the exciting parades, and all the fun traditions. Filled with colorful illustrations and simple, yet informative text, this Big Golden Book is perfect for reading again and again to the whole family. Happy Lunar New Year!
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper--a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland's most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years. Here he transports us to the otherworldly island, a place that is teeming with natural life,...
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
March 1817: As winter turns to spring, Jane Austen's health is in slow decline, and threatens to cease progress on her latest manuscript. But when her nephew Edward brings chilling news of a death at his former school, Winchester College, not even her debilitating ailment can keep Jane from seeking out the truth. Arthur Prendergast, a senior pupil at the prestigious all-boys' boarding school, has been found dead in a culvert near the schoolgrounds--and...
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Siblings Perri and Archer are on another whimsical, time traveling adventure. This time they're in Medieval England. Travel with them as they jest a jester, aid an archer, and join a joust.--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late 19th century Scotland Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family on her...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life-the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago-is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation. Kate is a pop culture commentator and host of the popular millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five. Part-funny, part-serious, Kate...
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On June 19, 1865, a Union soldier traveled to Texas to tell the enslaved people who lived there that they were free--that slavery was now illegal in every state. The people danced and sang in celebration of their freedom. Today, we pay tribute to this historical day with a special holiday on June 19 called Juneteenth. This colorfully illustrated story takes kids on an exciting journey through all the events that led up to the first Juneteenth, the...
14) Always remember
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society--even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and children, and of walking--and dancing. When Ben Ellis comes...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto—winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize—is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. Imagine A Year In Provence with alligators and assassins, or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with hunting scenes and swamp-to-table...
Author
Series
Skip and loafer volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
While Mitsumi adjusts to big city life, her cheerful and forthright personality brings joy to her classmates. Now that she's getting the hang of high school, her circle expands even further.--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
The thrilling story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who roamed the homes of Dallas high society—and a window into the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the Swinging Sixties.
As a string of high profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief the King of Diamonds because he eluded police and the FBI for more than a decade.
Like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, the King was so bold...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the peasants--ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and bad apples: the Greens--...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiance in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will never marry. A woman of independent means--and rather independent ways--Petra sees no reason to cede her wealth and freedom to any man now that the love of her life is gone. Instead, she plans to continue enjoying the best...
20) Opal Lee
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to the teacher and community leader responsible for making Juneteenth a national holiday to mark the end of enslavement for Black Americans, helping millions of people learn about important aspects of American history.
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