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Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale."--Amazon.
Publisher
A360 Media, LLC
Language
English
Description
In recent years, scientists studying dinosaurs have revolutionized what we know about a world lost to time, much of it covered here. In this issue look for extraordinary paleoart inspired by the latest research showing what dinosaurs looked like in real life (feathered, striped, camouflaged); how many of them managed to live so gigantically large; how they ate; and how they mated and had their young. Also inside: surprising new details about their
...Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between twenty and forty thousand years...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While twins Ella and Herbie help the handyman Mr. Mital work on their new home, he tells them about such inventors as Granville Woods, Dr. Henry T. Sampson, and James West, giving them a new view of their heritage as African-Americans.
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Argues that America's might lies in its middle class and calls for a focused directive to reinvigorate the class in order to return the nation to greatness.
Award-winning author Peter D. Kiernan focuses on America's greatest challenge--and opportunity--restoring the middle class to its full promise and potential. Our educated, skilled, and motivated middle class was the cornerstone of America's postwar economic might, but the country's dynamic core...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a shockingly honest narrative, a former prisoner-of-war tells how her family, along with ten thousand other Dutch residents living in the Dutch East Indies were shipped off to internment camps where food rationing, terrible sanitary conditions, and an uncertain future were the norms for more than three years.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In November 1942, a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap. A B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012, the U.S. Coast...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the heart of the Amazon, the city of Rondon do Pará, Brazil, lived for decades in the shadow of land barons, or fazendeiros, who maintained control of the region through unscrupulous land grabs and egregious human rights violations. They razed and burned the jungle, expelled small-scale farmers and Indigenous tribes from their lands, and treated their farmhands as slaves—all with impunity. The only true opposition came from Rondon’s...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
The forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible twenty-three-day crusade to keep his crew alive
In the darkest days of World War II, an unlikely civilian was sent to deliver a letter from Washington to General MacArthur in New Guinea. Eddie Rickenbacker was a genuine icon, a pioneer of aviation, the greatest fighter pilot of the First World War, recipient...
In the darkest days of World War II, an unlikely civilian was sent to deliver a letter from Washington to General MacArthur in New Guinea. Eddie Rickenbacker was a genuine icon, a pioneer of aviation, the greatest fighter pilot of the First World War, recipient...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Snuggle up with your favorite blue cat in these twelve groovy bedtime adventures! Join Pete the Cat as he hosts a fun slumber party, helps the tooth fairy, camps out in the wilderness, and so much more. Each of these stories is an ideal length for reading aloud in about five minutes, which means this collection is the absolutely perfect addition to your bedtime tradition."--Back cover
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A scheme to open a theme park featuring real dinosaurs cloned from DNA turns into a catastrophe; two teams head for Site B, an island where the dinosaurs have been left alone for four years; renowned paleontologist Dr. Grant is tricked into flying over InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric dinosaurs, when the plane crashes.
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