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Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Psychic investigator Gilda Joyce is appalled that her mother plans to remarry, but while they are in St. Augustine, Florida, making wedding arrangements Gilda discovers that the city is full of ghosts and mysteries, including one involving her stepfather-to-be.
3) Fort Mose: and the story of the man who built the first free black settlement in Colonial America
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Fort Mose, the first free African settlement to legally exist in what is now the United States, established in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1738, and includes over forty images, as well as notes on the uncovering of the fort.
Author
Series
South Shores volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every case that Claire Britten cracks is a win, not only professionally, but personally. The forensic psychologist has spent a lifetime fighting a neurological disorder, and her ability to conquer it is a testament to her razor-sharp intuition. Nick Markwood is used to winning in the courtroom, so when his latest case is overthrown by Claire's expert testimony, he can't help being impressed by her skill. He needs her on the team of his passion project,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While many know of the great Christian bishop St. Augustine of Hippo, few consider the deeply influential women in his life. Drawing upon their depictions in his startlingly intimate memoir, the Confessions, it becomes clear that Augustine's canonical Western text goes beyond autobiography to reveal a history of the Classical World as seen through the eyes of women. More than an iconic figurehead, Augustine was also a young man torn between the pangs...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Earl Hammond, the wealthy patriarch of a family of ranchers, lies dead, shot just as he was about to donate his Coquina Ranch to the state to preserve it from developers. Spearheading the plan to save this environmental treasure was Thorn, a reluctant heir to a secret family fortune, who now finds himself in terrible danger as well. A pair of deviant brothers, both contract killers, kidnap him and drag him to a game preserve, surrounded by herds...
10) Confessions
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
"The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. A remarkably honest and revealing spiritual autobiography,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the “dean of adventure writing.” By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed “Gino”), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer,...
12) Irish gilt
Author
Series
Notre Dame mysteries volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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