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Author
Series
Publisher
Balckstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
11 CDs (14 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms...
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Ayla studies to become a spiritual leader to Jondalar's people, the Zelandonii, she faces many challenges, including being separated from Jondalar and their young daughter, Jonayla, and experiences a revelation.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
259p. 21cm.
Language
English
Description
From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story in early 1956 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica; at the time he thought it might be his final Bond book. The novel was first published on 8 April 1957. The story centres on a plot by SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence agency, to assassinate Bond in such a way as to discredit both...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes and deceptions of all stripes; as an attorney for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld, he has seen more than his share. But when he travels to Europe under highly unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself at the center of a mystery that is, even by his standards, most peculiar. While investigating a high-profile murder, he uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1953
Physical Desc
729 p.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Magic Mountain is simply one of the greatest novels ever written." - The Guardian
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps - a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World...
7) Vanity fair
Author
Language
English
Description
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles—military and domestic—are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable...
8) All is fair
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1918, and war is raging across Europe. When Lady Mina Tretheway receives a telegram at boarding school, she doesn't want to read it--telegrams never bring good news. The message is written in a cryptic code, and Mina is soon pulled out of school and into a secret wartime mission with a dashing American spy" --
9) Three fates
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a priceless family heirloom is stolen, Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan embark on a mission to recover the treasure and make their fortune.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939--and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
200 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
12) The chrysalis
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
405 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Earth's children) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Formats
Description
An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory
15) Remembering you
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
351 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Down on their luck, the Tooting family buys an old camper van and begins repairing it, but after installing an engine that once belonged to an extraordinary car, they are off to find other original parts, pursued by a sinister man who wants Chitty for himself.
17) The shadow war
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A group of teenagers fights dark magic and Nazis in 1940s Germany"--
18) Last snow
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
414 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the aftermath of an American senator's death on a political trip, presidential Special Advisor Jack McClure is dispatched to investigate a perilous trail throughout Eastern Europe, an assignment that is complicated by his efforts to protect two unlikely companions.
19) In my pocket
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p.: col. ill.; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fear and uncertainty afflict everyone on the boat on the morning in July 1939 when Jewish children sail from Holland to the safety of a new life in Scotland.
20) The Summer of Us
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Rae, Aubrey, Clara, Jonah, and Gabe travel through Europe by train for ten days, working through their relationships just before setting off in different directions for college.