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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for what they are--not a war, but a revolution.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Taking us on a journey from an ancient parable, the ancient inscriptions in Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia that become the puzzle pieces behind what is taking place in our world to this day, this profound work ponders if these gods are transforming our culture, our children, our lives and America itself.
Author
Series
Kinship volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ohio, 1926: For many years, the underground railroad track in Moonvale Tunnel has been used as a short cut through the Appalachian hills. When an elderly woman is killed walking along the tracks, the brakeman tells tales of seeing a ghostly female figure dressed all in white. Newly elected Sheriff Lily Ross is called on to the case to dispel the myths, but Lily does not believe that an old woman would wander out of the hills onto the tracks. In a...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the Mississippi River in the first half of the nineteenth century--before it was tamed by commerce and technology--draws on first-hand accounts to describe life along the river, natural and man-made disasters, acts of piracy, and cultural celebrations.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It’s a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those...
6) 7 wonders
Publisher
Repos Production
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Game takes place over 3 Ages, each using one of 3 card decks. Each player uses 6 cards per Age to build their city and Wonder. At end of third Age, player with most victory points wins.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Like many Americans at the dawn of the 1980s, Richard and Jeanne Coffey were confused about America's direction on the world stage. It was a good time to learn how to live independently. Bogtrotter is the story of a man and woman who sold most of their material possessions to buy time away from their ordered urban lives to explore simplicity and discover their connection to the natural world. Living in a rude one-room cabin on a northern Minnesota...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of her two great loves--Prince Albert and John Brown--Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The two form an unlikely bond and within a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen's teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a friend close to her heart. This marked the beginning of the...
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