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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world's most beloved toys. A perfect fit among favorites like The Day the Crayons Quit and Balloons Over Broadway"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Riots are attributed as the spark that ignited the LGBTQ+ Movement. The author describes American gay history leading up to the Riots,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike--strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents--and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' personalities. Parents suddenly couldn't recognize their own children. Pillars of the community...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades--the legalization of same-sex marriage. In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade and Brown v Board of Education. Through insider accounts and access to...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings ... Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in...
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"The roots of Greek civilization reach back into legend but the artifacts the Greeks produced can still be appreciated. Although much of the Grecian achievement was destroyed by later conquerors, the buildings which remain prove that the Greek ideal in art and architecture is still valid today. As early as the Bronze Age, the Minoan culture demonstrated the Greeks' love of beauty. Bronze cult figurines and superb wall paintings show the heights artistic...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the ancient architects completed construction on the Great Pyramid at Giza, they left behind the greatest riddle of the engineering world. For centuries, adventurers and Egyptologists have crawled through every passageway and chamber, measuring and collecting data in an attempt to determine how it was built. Using cutting-edge 3-D software, see the incredibly accurate blueprints of the Great Pyramid.
Author
Pub. Date
1973
Edition
[1st ed.]
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
William Collins paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Isaac Newton is heralded as the father of British science and regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time, but would we even remember him without the pioneering work of his contemporaries, Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley? Newton 'borrowed' many of Hooke's best ideas, including the principles which would form the foundation for his universal theory of gravity, which Hooke formulated long before Newton's mythological apple fell from the tree....
Author
Publisher
Mustard Seed Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elsie and Willis Masterson have been married 69 years when he passes away. Before he dies Willis encourages Elsie to make sure the family knows about her life. She's always been his biggest supporter, bragging about him, pushing her own life into the background. Now it's her turn to shine. And share. The notion of talking about herself is foreign to Elsie. Yet as she copes with widowhood, she gets an idea: why not create treasure hunts for her...
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xix, 235 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis"--Amazon.com.