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1281) Ancient Egypt
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The legacy of past civilizations is still with us today. In Ancient Egypt, readers discover the history and impressive accomplishments of the people of ancient Egypt, including their extraordinary cultural achievements and feats of construction. Engaging text provides details on the civilization's history, development, daily life, culture, art, technology, warfare, social organization, and more. Well-chosen maps and images of artifacts bring the past...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Thirty chic days is a warm, encouraging and fanciful guide on living a simple and beautiful French-inspired life. Enjoy dozens of delicious, no-cost ideas and feel inspired to uplevel yourself and your surroundings in an effortless way"--Back cover.
1285) Death at the manor
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Expecting a relaxing autumn in Hampshire with her friends, Regency widow Lily Adler becomes instantly intrigued by the tale of a new haunting at Belleford manor, but a planned visit to Belleford turns tragic when the family matriarch is found murdered.
1286) A Puerto Rican childhood
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about Carmen's childhood in Puerto Rico with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress. DK Super Readers Level 1: A Puerto Rican Childhood will introduce kids to the day-to-day life of a child growing up in Puerto Rico-and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for children ready to enter the riveting world...
1288) The story of a bad boy
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed love of mischief. The book follows Tom as he engages in a series of adventures which take him from his New Hampshire hometown to New Orleans and beyond.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation. Kate is a pop culture commentator and host of the popular millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five. Part-funny, part-serious,...
1290) Murder in Drury Lane
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the town's judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of abolition--and her fears that someone from her past...
1291) Murder at midnight
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While spending a quiet Christmastime away from London with the family of her late husband, regency widow Lily Adler, when an unexpected snowstorm, stranding the neighborhood families together, leads to murder, must unmask a killer among the guests who is linked to her friend’s scandalous sister.
1292) Small pleasures: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Gretchen Tilbury claims that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, Jean Swinney, a feature writer on a local paper, sets out to prove whether Gretchen is a miracle or a fraud-an investigation that sends dark ripples across all their lives with unimaginable consequences.
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Language
English
Description
The Karuk, Yurok, and Hoopa peoples live along northern California's Klamath River, and each tribe's ancient culture revolves around the majestic Pacific salmon. Today, four large hydroelectric dams have made salmon extinction a real and frightening possibility. This case study follows tribal members as they confront the owners of the dams-specifically, a global energy giant in Scotland which is subsequently bought out by Warren Buffett's corporate...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Describes the people and events involved during the colonial years before the Revolutionary War. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of an indentured Virginia servant, a Massachusetts colonist, and a resident of Philadelphia just before the revolution.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Known for their vicious raids, love of treasure, and fierce warriors: the Vikings were the most feared invaders of the Medieval period. For 300 years, they terrorized the world in their hunt for land and power, but they also had a rich culture in art, literature, and law. Packed with facts, maps, infographics, and photos, this is the perfect introduction to the most feared invaders of the Middle Ages. Covering where they came from and who they conquered,...
1296) Garden of the midnights
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The accidents are not a matter of chance. They are deliberate. As English gentleman William Kensley becomes aware of the danger at Rosenleigh Manor, he pleads for the truth of his past from the only man he can trust--until that man is murdered. As the secrets unfold into scandal, William's world is tipped into destitution, leaving him penniless and alone. His only comfort is in the constant friendship and love of Isabella Gresham. If he does not...
1297) The duchess
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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Description
"It's been a year since her wretched cad of a husband died and Valencia, the Dowager Duchess of Dedham, is finally her own woman. Flitting from party to party, freedom is sweet and life should be perfect. Until the new duke surfaces. Nothing like the haughty noblemen who populate the ton, Rhain, the newly minted Duke of Dedham, is a big brawny Welshman with an accent that makes Valencia's knees go weak as he boldly moves into her home with his six...
1298) The Maya
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Presents an overview of the Mayan culture, discussing their government, religion, domestic life, recreation, occupations, entertainment, food, shelter, and clothing.
1299) Love is blind
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Adrian Montfort, Earl of Mowbray, had been warned that Lady Clarissa Crambray was dangerous. From stomping on toes to setting wigs on fire, the stunning beauty was clearly a force to be reckoned with. Still, he's in need of a wife and is sure he can handle one woman and her 'unfortunate past.' Intrigued by the mysterious vixen, he soon discovers he's greatly underestimated the lady ... Clarissa would like to find a husband, but perhaps not as much...
1300) The twelve-mile straight
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably...
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