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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: What will Maya be when she grows up? A rocket scientist like Annie Easley? An Olympic athlete like Alice Coachman? A brain surgeon like Alexa Canady? In this heart-warming and funny story, Maya discovers the achievements of some amazing Black women... but it's a brave Nigerian princess who really captures her imagination!
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This much is history: On Christmas Eve, 1800, an "infernal machine" exploded in one of the busiest streets in Paris, France, destroying buildings and killing innocent civilians. It wasn't the first attempt on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the newly minted Republic of France. This much is exclusive to our story: Upon the failure of the Christmas Eve plot, the conspiracy takes a new and more diabolical turn. Posterity knows what became...
86) Just Jake
Author
Series
Just Jake volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Jake and his family have moved to a new state and now Jake must start at the bottom of the social ladder, but he is determined to make friends and get back on top with his box of "kid cards."
Follows the experiences of young Jake, a boy who endures the drama and frustrations of being the new kid in school.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Guido, an Italian monk, invents a method of notating music, but is discouraged by the other monks until he is given the opportunity to share his invention and love of music. Includes information on the song "Do-Re-Mi," a glossary, and Guido's life at Pomposa Abbey.
Author
Series
Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory) volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Mary and Anne Boleyn are sisters unlike in every way. Born into an ambitious family, they're brought to court as girls and dangled like jewels to capture the favor of the king, Henry VIII, married to Katherine of Aragon, who has not produced a male heir. After Mary bears him a healthy bastard son and Henry's interest in her wanes, the Boleyns offer Anne in Mary's stead. This is the story of two sisters who compete for the love of a king. One will...
89) Paths of glory
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This real-life mountaineering mystery recounts the story of Britain's George Mallory and his attempt to scale Mt. Everest.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From her earliest days, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly, his devotion to his country runs deeper still. As Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter, she becomes his helpmate, protector, and constant companion in the wake of her mother's death, traveling with him when he becomes American minister to France. It is in Paris, at the glittering court and among the first tumultuous days of revolution, that fifteen-year-old...
Author
Series
Jesus chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Portrays the story of how Levi the tax collector became Matthew, the apostle of Jesus Christ and one of the great authors of the Gospels.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband's career.
98) Girl in disguise
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A new novel from the USA Today Bestselling author of The Magician's Lie "Electrifying...a rollicking nineteenth-century thrill ride." Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun Inspired by the real story of investigator Kate Warne, this spirited novel follows the detective's rise during one of the nation's times of crisis, bringing to life a fiercely independent woman whose forgotten triumphs helped sway the fate...
99) Sutton
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Willie Sutton, one of the most notorious criminals in American history, traces his life, his doomed romance with his first love, and his surprise pardon on Christmas Eve in 1969.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, “Hick,” as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as...
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