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Pub. Date
[2013], c1963
Language
English
Description
Portrays the history of San Francisco pointing out that sailing ships brought the gold miners of 1848, the workers who built the transcontinental railroads, and the farmers, merchants, loggers and cattlemen. Depicts the city today (1963) as a center of wealth, culture and beauty.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Meet a curious young lady living in India’s largest slum area, Dharavi. Follow her around as she introduces you to the people in her neighborhood—like the potters’ colony making huge water jars, the embroidery masters working on beautiful saris, and the leather makers producing quality handbags. Find out too how they manage to survive with only one toilet for every 1,500 people.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From a chorus of bestselling historical fiction writers, a breathtaking book inspired by the day tens of thousands of women marched for the right to vote on October, 23, 1915. Includes an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories by Lisa Wingate, M. J. Rose, Steve Berry, Paula McLain, Katherine J. Chen, Christina Baker Kline, Jamie Ford, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Megan Chance, Alyson Richman, Chris Bohjalian, and Fiona Davis."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Presents a complete collection of the author's short stories, some of which were not previously published, featuring such characters as a boy who decides to become a writer to impress the rich girl he has fallen in love with and an architect with plans for an impregnable library.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Joker(TM) is on the loose in Gotham City, and it's up to you to decide how Batman(TM) and his Super Hero friends take him down! Everyone who's seen the LEGO(R) Batman Movie knows that when the Crown Prince of Crime(TM) takes over the Gotham City Power Plant, Batman decides to save the city and lets the Joker escape. But what would have happened if he'd decided to do something different?! The choices you make will open up a huge number of alternate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Josie Shilling's family is too big, their cramped city house is too small, and she feels like no one is ever on her side. Then, on Thanksgiving Day, her older brother Tom brings home a pink, squirmy bundle wrapped in an old football jersey--a piglet he rescued from a nearby farm.
Language
English
Description
Qal’at al-Bahrain is a typical tell: an artificial mound created by many successive layers of human occupation. The strata of the roughly 1,000-by-2,000-foot tell testify to continuous human presence from about 2300 B.C. to the 16th century A.D. About 25% of the site has been excavated, revealing structures of different types: residential, public, commercial, religious and military. They testify to the importance of the site, a trading port, over...
Author
Series
Irving and Muktuk stories volume 3
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Irving and Muktuk, two muffin-eating polar bears from the frozen north, have some trouble fitting into life at the zoo in Bayone, New Jersey.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of ‘novelties’ from Vienna’s famous Golden Hall. Andrea’s talented singers and orchestra have broken new ground by bringing popular opera to this traditionally symphonic concert hall. From the poignant love story, La Boheme, we’ll experience Rudolpho’s romantic aria, Che Gelita Manina and his love’s response, Si Mi Chiamano Mimi. La Boheme is packed with beautiful melodies and Andrea’s passionate interpretation of Soave...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An distracted young raccoon gets separated from her family one night. She discovers she can retrace her steps using smells, sights, and sounds, plus help from an owl's birds'-eye view (which looks like a map). Focuses on developing spatial thinking, understanding the world around us, and using concepts of space for problem solving"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Through three interconnected stories, linked by the dread of things internal, the #1 New York times best-selling author of Stitches and modern master of graphic literature turns his attention to the twilight of life and to aging, gracefully or otherwise.
Author
Series
Ming's adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Chinese
Description
While on a visit to the Forbidden City in Beijing, Ming travels back in time, meets the young emperor, and the two of them fly around the sky on the back of a bronze dragon.
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
Amateur Night at City Hall: The Story of Frank L. Rizzo is a colorful portrait of Francis Lazarro Rizzo who rose from tough Philadelphia cop, to law-and-order police commissioner (1967 to 1971), to polarizing mayor of Philadelphia (1972 to 1980). This award-winning documentary was produced in 1977 and released in early 1978. A primary theme is "politics as show business."
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