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"In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-hour travelogue that is a passport to truly cosmopolitan adventures. Presenting the most dazzling destinations on the globe, it provides in-depth exploration of all the sights on the civilized traveler's bucket list. Featuring stunning footage and valuable insights into each capital's distinctive customs, cuisine, architecture and landscape. It pairs friendly, knowledgeable narration with the folkloric music that captures the heartbeat...
3) Castle
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
CASTLE combines colorful animation with live-action documentary sequences to tell the story of a 13th-century Welsh castle. Author David Macaulay, who wrote and illustrated the best-selling book of the same title, leads viewers on a castle tour, explaining its cultural and sociological significance and its architectural design. Detailed animation dramatizes the building of the castle and portrays the lifestyle of the early inhabitants.
Publisher
n + 1/FARRAR, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"A collection of essays--historical and personal--about the present and future of American cities Edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb, City by City is a collection of essays--historical, personal, and somewhere in between--about the present and future of American cities. It sweeps from Gold Rush, Alaska, to Miami, Florida, encompassing cities large and small, growing and failing. These essays look closely at the forces--gentrification, underemployment,...
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Cold Sassy series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Young Will Tweedy becomes chaperon, conspirator, and confidant to his renegade grandpa, E. Rucker Blakeslee, and the old man's young new wife, Miss Love Simpson, in a new edition of the classic novel set against the backdrop of Cold Sassy, Georgia, at the beginning of the twentieth century.
10) City
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Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
11) Suited
Author
Series
Veiled worlds trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Tanyayna, stuck inside a powerful suit, has been made a debris collector and becomes involved in the battle between the Keeper and the Puppet Men over the city of Movoc-under-Keeper.
12) Small town
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Obama's Reading Lists
On Hunger & Homelessness
Poverty Awareness Month
Pulitzer Prize Winners in Nonfiction
On Hunger & Homelessness
Poverty Awareness Month
Pulitzer Prize Winners in Nonfiction
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A Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional legal systems.
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Series
Western ghost town volume 3
Publisher
Superior Pub. Company
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
15) Serendipity
Author
Series
Serendipity novels volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Series
Thrush Green series volume 2
Publisher
Sound Library / BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
" ...the arrival of a stranger to live in the village stirs up ripples of speculation and interest..." -- from container.
18) Thirteens
Author
Series
Secrets of Eden Eld volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Neil Gaiman's Coraline meets Stranger Things in a dark and twisted story about a sleepy town with a dark secret--and the three kids brave enough to uncover it. Every thirteen years in the town of Eden Eld, three thirteen-year-olds disappear. Eleanor has just moved to the quiet, prosperous Eden Eld. When she awakes to discover an ancient grandfather clock that she's never seen before outside her new room, she's sure her eyes must be playing tricks...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our future prosperity. The automobile promised freedom, and highways were going to take us there. Instead, theydivided cities, displaced people from their homes, chained us to our cars, and locked us into a high-emissions future. And the more highways we built, the worse traffic got. Nowhere is this more visible...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In his small New England hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spent his childhood dreaming of elsewhere— of the distant, real cities he found on the illuminated globe in his bedroom, and of one perfect metropolis that existed only in his imagination. These cities were the sources of endless comfort and escape, and of a lasting fascination. Streets unspooled, towers shone, and anonymous crowds bustled in the places where Mark hoped he could someday be anyone—perhaps...
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