Catalog Search Results
2) Breakout
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Since ancient times, the great demon prison Zzyzx has protected the world from the most dangerous servants of darkness, including Gorgrog, the Demon King. After centuries of plotting, the Sphinx is on the verge of recovering the five artifacts necessary to open the legendary prison. To thwart the Sphinx's designs and find a safe home for the five artifacts, Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn must venture far beyond the walls of Fablehaven in...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
A young schoolboy from the early twentieth century hides a candy box with secret instructions in the floorboards of his boarding school for future generations of schoolchildren to find and follow to a mysterious hidden place. Story without words.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter journal ... novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world ... From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American...
12) Wild justice
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journey is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, "After the Ball." This gives Murdock...
Language
English
Description
Were some of your first friends named Grover, Mr. Hooper, and Bob? Remember the Ladybug Picnic? How about Pinball Number Count? The show is a time capsule of the early days of the ground-breaking series kids grew up on. Take a trip back in time with Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, and Snuffleupagus. Sing along with classics. Bring back the music, memories, and mayhem from Sesame Street's first five seasons which can be enjoyed again and again. --adapted from...
Author
Language
English
Description
For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start? In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical reputation, the young and brash son of Sir Keith Murdoch had arrived to fulfill his father's dying wish: for Rupert to live a 'useful altruistic and full life'...
Series
Language
English
Description
"In Australia, a highly toxic, alien invader is attacking the protected habitat of Moreton Bay's endangered green turtles. Destroying all the vegetation in its path, the notorious fireweed is wreaking havoc on the turtle's natural diet and challenging the comeback of these ancient creatures. Deploying National Geographic's Crittercam®, researchers learn how the turtles are coping, and search for ways to protect them from the invading slime."-
"In...
Language
English
Description
"Kevin Williamson created this engaging drama, which chronicles a group of young friends’ passage from adolescence to young adulthood in the small coastal town of Capeside, Massachusetts. Based on Williamson’s own experiences growing up, Dawson’s Creek focuses teenagers Dawson and Joey, who have been friends since they were five and are trying to cope with the way their friendship is changing now that their hormones are raging. Add to the mix...
Series
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century, most women gave birth in their own homes, often attended only by a midwife or some friends and relatives; as they reached the end of life most people died in the same home they were born in, surrounded by family. Today, vast numbers of people begin and end life in the sterilized, institutional world of hospitals and nursing homes, dying far from where they were born, their families broken by divorce, their lives extended...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request