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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
The biography of Marie Curie, the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, and one of the discovers of radium and polonium. The author sheds light on the tragic losses and patriotic passion that infused Marie Skodowaka Curie's early years in Poland, as well as the intimacy and joy of her marriage to Pierre Curie and the depth of her despair at his premature death.
5) Marie Curie
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The book follows Marie Curie, whose love of learning helped her to revolutionize the fight against cancer with her discovery of radium and polonium. This inspiring and informative little biography comes with extra facts about Marie's life at the back.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Français
Description
Sidonie, who serves as reader to Marie Antoinette and displays a singular romantic devotion to the queen, witnesses the final days of the French Revolution from inside the walls of the Palace of Versailles. The film is seen from Sidonie's point of view, and the story takes place over the course of four days.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Presents the life of the scientist responsible for the first map of the ocean floor, describing her experiences with sexism and her pioneering work which led to the confirmation of the theory of continental drift.
10) Marie Antoinette
Author
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
11) Marie Curie
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mainly the story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While in Paris, France on a class trip, Colette Iselin enlists the help of her charming French tour guide to help uncover a possible connection between Marie Antoinette, a series of gruesome murders, and perhaps her own family history, and he also gives her insights into herself.
13) Richard Jewell
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Security guard Richard Jewell saves thousands of lives from a bomb at the1996 Atlanta Olympics, but soon becomes the FBI's number one suspect after false reports in the news.
15) Marie Antoinette
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the 14-year-old ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France. Marie Antoinette has became one of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria. And how the young woman must grow up in front of the entire country of France.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''This is a comprehensive and accessible picture book biography of Marie Curie, the groundbreaking scientist and two-time Nobel Prize winner, from an acclaimed author and illustrator duo. Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)— she was a little girl named...
17) Camille
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1936
Language
English
Description
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure.
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