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Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the service of God -- Loyal men and true -- To the manor born -- Of towns and tradesmen. Essays : Monastic life. The Crusades. A child's world. Cathedrals.
"The text presents an overview of life in the Middle Ages through descriptions of noble and notable individuals such as Charlemagne, Heloise and Abelard, Thomas Becket, and William Marshal....The book is divided into four chapters that center on the people of the church, the knightly class,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The five friends--Martin, Sally, Pedro, Nick and Yulee--are best friends, but they each have their own unique heritage. Their class is hosting a Heritage Festival, where they will celebrate the customs and traditions of people all over the world. Join the friends as they learn about many different traditional foods, music, clothing and crafts in this kid-friendly introduction to family heritage"--Provided by publisher.
64) Devil's daughter
Author
Series
The Ravenels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Falling for a dashing stranger, young widow Phoebe, the daughter of Lord St. Vincent and Evie Jenner, is horrified to discover that he is the bully responsible for her late husband's boarding-school misery.
"Although beautiful young widow Phoebe, Lady Clare, has never met West Ravenel, she knows one thing for certain: he's a mean, rotten bully. Back in boarding school, he made her late husband's life a misery, and she'll never forgive him for it....
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
In 1953, Olivia de Havilland--already an Academy Award-winning actress for her roles in To Each His Own and The Heiress--became the heroine of her own real-life love affair. She married a Frenchman, moved to Paris, and planted her standard on the Left Bank of the River Seine. It has been fluttering on both Left and Right Banks with considerable joy and gaiety from that moment on. Still, her transition from Hollywood celebrity to parisienne was anything...
67) Almost, Maine
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Almost, Maine, a town that's so far north, it's almost not in the United States--it's almost in Canada. And it almost doesn't exist, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it's just...Almost. One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken....
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her sister Julia's new--and much older--husband is found dead the morning after their hasty marriage, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva, must discover the killer before the Renshaws' social standing is irreparably damaged by a murder charge.
69) Dead souls
Author
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Nikolai Gogols Dead Souls is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literaturea satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces.Gogol hoped to show the world “the untold riches of the Russian soul” in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of characters: rogues and scoundrels, landowners and serfs, conniving petty officialsall of them both utterly lifelike and alarmingly larger than life. Setting...
70) The gown
Author
Language
English
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Description
"London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation in spite of their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers in the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their bond, along with their nascent hopes for a brighter future, are...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
On seeing her portrait, a servant girl modelling for an artist in 17th century Holland realizes she is ugly. But the portrait opens her eyes to the world of art, she becomes a painter and is transformed by her work so that when a prince charming appears she is no longer ugly.
Gregory Maguire proves himself to be “one of contemporary fiction’s most assured myth-makers” (Kirkus Reviews) with Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, his ingenious and...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Now in Spanish! Explore Christmas traditions from 13 different countries! Rhyming text and detailed illustrations make the book accessible to younger readers, while educational endnotes about the 13 celebrations add interest for older children. Gold ink and festive illustrations capture the joy of the season and make this book a beautiful gift in itself. Engaging and informative for anyone who wants to learn about the holiday. Features Christmas...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearnwhose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong's novel The Sweetest Fruits. A Penguin Classic. In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living, and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess...
74) Geisha
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The author shares her personal experience and knowledge of the life of a Japanese Geisha and how they have been affected by the social and political changes since the mid-twentieth century
77) Nine stories
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and the first appearance of Salinger's fictional Glass family. Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and frequently affecting, Nine Stories sits alongside Salinger's...
78) Honey sandwich
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A collection of more than fifty poems about everyday life.
80) Lunar New Year
Author
Series
Publisher
DiscoverRoo, an imprint of Pop!
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An overview of Lunar New Year, from the origin of the celebration to how it is practiced today"--Provided by publisher.
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