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Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of Nelle Harper Lee, the girl who grew up to write To Kill a Mockingbird. Growing up in Monroeville, Alabama she wore overalls, went to the courtroom to watch her daddy try cases, and with her best friend Tru read books and wrote stories of their own. When she moved to New York City she wrote a novel that made her one of the most beloved writers in the twentieth century.
1022) Dangerous alliance
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lady Victoria Aston, obsessed with Jane Austen and content to stay home, is suddenly expected to enter society and find a husband, preferably one who cares for her more than her dowry.
Lady Victoria Aston must marry, or her family will be destitute. Armed only with the wisdom she has gained from her beloved novels by Jane Austen, she enters society's treacherous season. Is the roguish Mr. Carmichael indeed a scoundrel? Is her former best friend,...
1023) Un cuento de magia
Author
Series
Tale of magic volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
476 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen risks everything by opposing her kingdom's repression of women, but Madame Weatherberry, seeing her potential, invites her to a school where she hopes to change the world's perception of magic.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read by tracing the letters on the tombstone of her famous feminist mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and whose only escape from her strict father and overbearing stepmother is through the stories she reads and imagines. Unhappy at home, she seeks independence, and at the age of sixteen runs away with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley,...
1025) Lola planta un jardín
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
Español
Description
Inspired by a collection of garden poems, Lola wants to grow her own garden of silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids in a row. Lola plants a flower garden with her parent's help, and watches it grow.
Spanish translation of English summary: Inspirada en una colección de poemas de jardín, Lola quiere cultivar su propio jardín de campanas de plata y cáscaras de berberechos y bonitas criadas en fila. Lola planta un jardín de flores con...
1026) The story seeker
Author
Series
Story collector volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Viviani Fedeler, proud resident of the New York Public Library, has her sights set on becoming a star reporter. She's thrilled when Miss Hutch announces a story contest where the winner gets their essay printed in the New York Times! But then Viviani gets her first-ever case of writer's block. As she struggles to find inspiration, the library is hit with a strange mystery involving overdue books, secret messages, and perhaps a spy...
1027) The Beginning Woods
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
522 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Scientists have been striving to explain why adults started suddenly vanishing, but Max, a strange foundling, may discover the answers in the Beginning Woods where he goes to seek his Forever Parents.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lady Victoria Aston must marry, or find her family destitute. Armed only with novels by Jane Austen, she enters society's treacherous season. Sadly, Miss Austen has little to say about whether Mr. Carmichael is a scoundrel, if Tom Sherborne is out for her dowry or for her heart, or how to fend off the foppish Mr. Silby. Vicky's books also don't mention the mysterious accidents plaguing her.
1030) Reading together
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discover the magic of reading together with this story of a family’s love for picture books and the moments of laughter, imagination, and connection they share. Filled with playful illustrations and fond memories from classic children’s tales, this book takes you on a nostalgic journey through childhood, when the joys of discovering new stories together create bonds that last a lifetime. Whether you're a parent looking to relive the...
1031) The book rescuer: how a mensch from Massachusetts saved Yiddish literature for generations to come
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Over the last forty years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics. He did all of this in pursuit of a particular kind of treasure, and he's found plenty. Lansky's treasure was any book written in Yiddish, the language of generations of European Jews. When he started looking for Yiddish books, experts estimated there might be about 70,000 still in existence. Since then, the MacArthur...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two years after choosing his mother in a Christmas-season custody hearing, Truman Capote runs away to spend Christmas in Monroeville, Alabama, with best friend, Nelle Harper Lee, who gives him courage to stay true to himself.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The wordsmith Lewis Carroll is famed for the freewheeling world of Wonderland in his beloved classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In this gloriously illustrated picture book, Carroll's childlike love of life is showcased alongside his brilliance at creating and adapting playful words and phrases.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's an exciting day at Minnie's school. They are having a book fair! Minnie loves books, but which story will she choose? Thankfully, there's no idea too big or too small for Minnie and her adventures!--
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