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21) Prudence
Author
Series
Custard protocol volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Prudence "Rue" Akeldama and her friends journey in a gaudy dirigible to India in search of a superior type of tea for her adoptive father, a wealthy vampire, only to run headfirst into danger, intrigue, and local politics.
24) Firestarter
Author
Series
Timekeeper volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Colton, Daphne, and the others must choose between those striving to take down the world's clock towers so that time can run freely, and terrorists trying to bring back the lost god of time.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
With elegance and unsparing honesty, special correspondent for The Times of London, Anthony Loyd records this harrowing account of modern war. My War Gone By, I Miss It So exposes the unspeakable terror, visceral thrill of combat, and countless lives laid waste in Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.
Unsatisfied by a brief stint in the British army and driven by the despair of drug dependence, the author was searching for excitement when...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1988.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A magnificent saga of two proud and powerful families-one British, one African-and their battle over Kenya's destiny in the twentieth century.
In 1917, Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya, determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England. The aspirations of the wealthy Trevertons collide with...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
" The seductive and chilling debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of The King of Limbo In isolated British Columbia, girls, mostly native, are vanishing from the sides of a notorious highway. Leo Kreutzer and his four friends are barely touched by these disappearances-until a series of mysterious and troublesome outsiders come to town. Then it seems as if the devil himself has appeared among them. In this intoxicatingly lush debut novel,...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Full-frame version.
Language
English
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Description
It's now 1933, 10 years after Rick and Evie met. They're married, settled in London and are raising their 8 year old son, Alex. Imhotep's corpse has been brought to the British Museum, and resurrected; the mummy walks the earth again, determined to become immortal. Another force born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, even more powerful than Imhotep, has also been set loose in the world. When these two forces clash, the world will...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spring 1813 --The exotic splendors of India are legendary, and the colorful sights of her new home in Calcutta immediately captivate eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Poulter. Whereas many of her fellow British expatriates despise the culture they see as barbaric, Helen sees excitement in the unusual locale. It is in this vibrant, bustling city that she finds a kindred soul in Captain Michael Rhodes, an Englishman whose lifelong love of India runs deep....
Author
Series
African trilogy (Chinua Achebe) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The contemporary African writer's classic novel depicting the destruction of traditional tribal life by the white man
Author
Series
Postcards from Pullman volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The truth could cost her everything.... Olivia Mott didn't intend to lie. Somehow, it just happened. And wasn't it all Lady Charlotte's fault anyway? Now Olivia's position as assistant chef at Pullman's elegant Hotel Florence is dependant upon her keeping her secrets. And sometimes lies have a way of leading to other lies. Should Olivia admit her real past and accept the consequences or keep quiet in order to preserve her comfortable new circumstances?...
37) Never knowing
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At thirty-three, Sara Gallagher is finally happy. Her antique furniture restoration business is taking off and she's engaged to a wonderful man. But there's one big question that still haunts her: who are her birth parents? Sara is finally ready to find out. Sara's birth mother rejects her, again. Then she discovers her biological father is an infamous killer who's been hunting women every summer for almost forty years. Sara tries to come to terms...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A professional chef and judge on the Great British Baking Show shares his favorite recipes for baking cakes, cookies, and breads, each fully tested and tasted for at-home chefs who enjoy discovering new techniques, ingredients, and influences.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, historian Joshua...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A mother-daughter team attempting a six-month journey through a mountain wilderness; a group of nuns who inhabit a mountain retreat to be closer to God; an impassioned alpinist; a focused snow artist; a couple who has been living off grid in the mountains for nearly 50 years. Shot in cinematic detail, this is a riveting examination of human passion set high in the peaks of British Columbia.
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