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Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
112 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
"Simon Schwartz was born in 1982 in the GDR (East Germany). One and a half years later, he left the country with his parents, and the family resettled in West Berlin. As political dissidents, his parents experienced harassment by the Stasi and a lack of understanding from members of their own family. This striking graphic novel memoir chronicles the family's difficult journey to get to the other side of the Berlin Wall"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Sounds like reading volume 5
Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
30 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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Description
In April 1895, Oscar Wilde stood in the prisoner's dock of the Old Bailey, charged with "acts of gross indecency with another male person. These filthy practices, the prosecutor declared, posed a deadly threat to English society, "a sore which cannot fail in time to corrupt and taint it all." Wilde responded with a speech of legendary eloquence, defending love between men as a love "such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as...
4065) Your name: Vol. 2
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Series
Your name volume 2
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Description
"Fates intentions are never clear... After months of swapping bodies with Mitsuha, Taki remains suddenly fixed in his own. Unable to shake the lingering impressions of a remote town he's never been to and a girl he's never seen, Taki sets off to find Mitsuha's village in the mountains. With only a few landscape sketched drawn from memory to guide his search, Taki's goal seems impossible. However, his journey leads him to a reality more impossible...
4066) A Freedom Bought With Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II
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In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948. Examining literature about the Civil War, the Spanish-American Wars, World War I, and World War II, James introduces a range of rare and understudied texts by writers such as Victor Daly, F. Grant Gilmore, William Gardner Smith, and...
4067) The yellow wallpaper
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a mesmerizing and unsettling exploration of the female psyche and the stifling constraints of 19th-century society. The story is narrated by a woman suffering from what her husband and physicians diagnose as "nervous depression." She is confined to a room in her home and prescribed a treatment of complete rest.
As the protagonist spends her days in isolation, she becomes increasingly obsessed...
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This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends," writes Charles Hudson. Grounded in careful research, his extraordinary work imaginatively brings to life the sixteenth-century world of the Coosa, a native people whose territory stretched across the Southeast, encompassing much of present-day Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.Cast as a series of conversations between Domingo de la Anunciacion, a real-life Spanish priest who traveled...
4069) Monster phonics
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Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
12 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 13 cm + 1 parent guide (28 x 22 cm folded to 14 x 11 cm.)
Description
"Join Blaze and the monster machines for Monster phonics! Blaze, AJ, Gabby, and their friends roar into reading in this fun and educational phonics book set."--Container.
4070) Quiet, loud
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Publication Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Description
Some things are quiet. Some things are loud. But everything is fun!
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Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife-the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film-this book reveals the varied ways in which censorship, for all its blustery self-righteousness, can actually be good for sex, politics, feminism, and art. As much as Victorianism...
4072) Beatrix Potter
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Publication Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.
4074) The racecar alphabet
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An exciting day at the races highlights the letters of the alphabet as a variety of automobiles burn fuel speeding through the curves of the track.
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Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts ; 25 cm
Description
"Level 3 of a complete self-study English-language course that combines easy-to-use visual learning with crystal-clear grammar explanations, practice exercises, and free audio." -- from page 4 of cover.
4077) The field
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"Vini! Come! The field calls!" cries a girl as she and her younger brother rouse their community - family, friends, and the local fruit vendor - for a pick-up soccer (futbol) game. Boys and girls, young and old, players and spectators come running - bringing balls, shoes, goals, and a love of the sport. "Friends versus friends" teams are formed, the field is cleared of cows, and the game begins! But will a tropical rainstorm threaten their plans?...
4078) The blue flower
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Set at the end of the eighteenth century, this tells the story of a young and brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg. The passionate and idealistic Fritz needs his father's permission to announce his engagement to twelve-year-old Sophie von Khuhn. It is a betrothal which amuses, astounds and disturbs his family and friends.
4079) Treasure island
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"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the nevel creates scenes and characters that have firetd the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon...
4080) Star Wars ABC-3PO
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Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Learn the ways of the Force in this alphabet book featuring Star Wars characters.
