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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After Liam writes to his mailbox, asking for more mail, he gets his wish, but soon he realizes that sending mail is even more fun than receiving it.
4) Penguin post
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
While his mother is looking for food and his father is tending their egg, a young penguin named Milo is charged with delivering the mail, not knowing that he is about to make a very special delivery.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This is a multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS's monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system--and the country--to a halt in the 1970s. An exciting and engrossing read, this is the first major history of the USPS in over fifty years.
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A wonderful combination of romance, comedy and drama that follows the lives of four postal detectives who transform themselves into a team of detectives to track down intended recipients of undeliverable mail. Their missions take them out of the office and into an unpredictable world where redirected letters and packages can save lives, solve crimes, reunite old loves and change futures by arriving late but somehow always on time.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Like the best of its predecessors, Making Money balances satire, knockabout farce and close observation of human — and non-human — foibles with impressive dexterity and deceptive ease. The result is another ingenious entertainment from the preeminent comic fantasist of our time." — Washington Post.
The hero of Going Postal returns in the 36th installment of Sir
...9) Off & away
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The daughter of a ocean-faring delivery man who has enjoyed many adventures while delivering messages in bottles must conquer her fear of sailing alone when her father catches a bad cold, requiring her to assume his responsibilities on the high seas. By the creator of Explorers of the Wild. 20,000 first printing.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic...
12) The Pony Express
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Gossamer Network presents a new history of the American state and its efforts to conquer, occupy, and integrate the western United States between the 1860s and early 1900s. The success of this project depended on an unassuming government institution: the U.S. Post. As millions of settlers rushed into remote corners of the region, they relied on the mail to stay connected to the wider world. Letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When the United States entered World War II, it had to face its own contradictions at home. Opportunities opened up for Black people and women in support of the war effort. But ideas about race and gender didn't change as swiftly. Read the story of the first all-Black battalion in the Women's Army Corps-the Six Triple Eight-and its leader, Major Charity Adams. These women bravely confronted the racism and sexism they experienced. And they did it...
16) Whisker of evil
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
19) In the cage
Author
Publisher
Hesperus
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In this small masterpiece of unrequited love, Henry James, as in his greatest novels, depicts a moral consciousness torn between emotional impulses and the demands of society. Working in a post office in Mayfair, a young woman is exposed to the cryptic but alluring correspondence of the social elite, and in particular, to lines written by the dashing Captain Everard. As she memorizes the messages he telegraphs, she becomes increasingly attracted to...
20) Santa clawed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry and her husband, Fair, have gone to fetch a Christmas tree at the tree farm run by The Brothers of Love, a semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients, when they find the tree they've chosen grimly decorated with a dead body. Can Harry, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker save the season from a killjoy who's decided to gift the festive little town of Crozet, Virginia, with murder?
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