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Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
16 books (264 pages ; 22 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Relates the tale of Rumpelstiltskin's childhood and youth, explaining why his name is so important, how he is able to spin straw into gold, and why a first-born child is his reward for helping the miller's daughter-turned-queen.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Paperback edition.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
20 books (313, 6 pages : illustrations), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack--who has already killed...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
1st New American Library trade paperback print.
Physical Desc
8 books (310 pages) in a bag ; 36 x 45 cm
Language
English
Description
Just before World War I, two men--one a noble Russian emissary, the other a denizen of Europe's underground--set in motion a concatenation of world-shaking, ultimately fatal events.
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and a folder containing book sign out sheets.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
8 books, 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter resuced him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be - with Pax. He strikes out on...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
10 books (323 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 45 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning, flashing past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stopping at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. Their life, as she sees it, is perfect ... until she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but now everything is changed. Rachel goes to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in the lives of everyone involved....
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
8 books (309 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm), + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and 1 discussion folder.
A beautifully rendered portrait of rural life in Ulster which contrasts the vivid portrayal of the universal search for love against the darker tale of Jamie's early years.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Gallery trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (343 pages) in a bag ; 37 x 45 cm + 1 folder (30 x 24 cm)
Language
English
Description
Kit contents: cloth bag contains 8 paperback copies of the title and 1 discussion folder.
"From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a powerful new novel that does for Huntington's Disease what her debut Still Alice did for Alzheimer's. Joe O'Brien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
10 books (246 pages) in a bag ; 37 x 41 cm + 1 folder (30 x 25 cm)
Language
English
Description
A bag with ten copies of the title that may also include miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
8 books (368 pages) in a bag ; 37 x 45 cm + 1 folder (30 x 24 cm)
Language
English
Description
Kit contents: cloth bag contains 8 paperback copies of the title and 1 discussion folder.
"In 1790, Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant with the kitchen house slaves. Though she becomes deeply bonded to her new family, Lavinia is also slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
8 books (360 pages ; 21 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Harold Fry is convinced that he must deliver a letter to an old love in order to save her, meeting various characters along the way and reminiscing about the events of his past and people he has known, as he tries to find peace and acceptance.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
8 books (248 pages ; 20 cm), 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
Astonished to learn that her impeccable mother led a secret life marked by her passionate love for a Las Vegas man and a private commitment to pleasure, Barbara elects to end destructive patterns in her own life while honoring her mother's final wishes.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
8 books (176 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and a reading guide in a canvas book bag with identification tag.
Set in Utah during the nineteenth century, a Mormon woman is caught between the persecution of religious zealots and several "Gentile" gunmen seeking to lend her a helping hand. Offers an early critique on the practice of polygamy and plural marriage in the Old West.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
10 books (386 pages ; 25 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
10 books (387 pages ; 21 cm), 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
Rachel, a woman of exquisite beauty, descends on the great Cornwall estate of Philip Ashley. Despite his aroused suspicions, she soon enchants him. In this tale of good and evil, Philip must decide whether the glorious Rachel, the recent mysterious widow of his beloved cousin, is out to destroy him or is the innocent victim of devious man with a tremendous longing to be loved. His fate and his future lie in the answer to this deadly question.