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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news...
Author
Series
Treehouse series volume 12
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's the night before Christmas but Andy and Terry aren't ready yet! They haven't written their letters to Santa, they haven't sung any carols or hung their stockings, and now Mr. Big Nose wants their next book done by tomorrow. When Santa Claus's sleigh crash-lands in the treehouse, the reindeer become tangled in the branches and Santa falls into the cloning machine. With dozens of Santas running around and no way to tell which one's the real one,...
707) Saving Mr. Banks
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story behind Walt Disney's struggle to obtain the rights to P.L. Travers' "Mary Poppins."
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times columnist and author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. Bruni hauntingly recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions....
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Part detective story, literary chase and cultural history, this extraordinary biography of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman uncovers friendship, betrayal and violence during America’s slide into Civil War.
711) The Dante chamber
Author
Series
Dante Club novels (Matthew Pearl) volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Poets Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson team up with poet Christina Rossetti and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to decode literary clues after a murder victim is discovered in a London park with a verse from the Divine Comedy around his neck.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
See from start to finish how a creative team at the top of their game makes an Eisner Award-winning graphic novel. Replicates materials from the entire process of creating PULP, from Ed Brubaker's original notebook entries, to the initial script, to Sean Phillips' breakdowns and pencils, all the way to the final edited and polished book itself, presented in full color. See what the book started out as, what changed in the final version before print,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This incredible true story of Anna Sewell, the author of Black Beauty, the beloved classic that changed the way human society views and treats animals, shows how she, after being permanently disabled, rejected the life of a Victorian invalid and developed an extraordinary empathy with horses.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Working with curvy, cheery, cute ghostwriter Mabel Willicker on his memoir, grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding, when their business arrangement is mistaken for a budding romance, convinces her to be in a fake relationship for the public, but their undeniable chemistry between them leads to something real.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based upon actual love letters and telegrams, describes fictionalized accounts of the lives and thoughts of each of Ernest Hemingway's four wives, describing what it was like to be loved by the dashing, adventurous novelist and member of the "Lost Generation."
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