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Author
Language
English
Description
Using a new technology, recently discovered documents, and sophisticated investigative techniques, a retired FBI agent and a cold case team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest of Anne Frank and her family--and came to a shocking conclusion.
Author
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his best-selling memoir, filled with poverty and humor, suffering and grace, Frank McCourt traces his childhood in Limerick. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and nominated for the PEN/Faulkner award, Angela's Ashes is an unflinching vision of life on the dole in Ireland. It is also a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Frank McCourt's early years are a nightmare. His father is a drunk; his mother is often pregnant; social services...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
A time-and-motion expert and his engineer wife use scientific principles to raise their twelve children. No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous Gilbreth clan. First there are a dozen red-haired, freckle-faced kids to contend with. Then there's Dad, a famous efficiency expert who believes a family can be run just like a factory. Finally there's Mother, his partner in everything except discipline. How...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the discovery by Frank's aunt's daughter-in-law of numerous family correspondences and keepsakes and what they revealed about the Frank family and the forces that shaped the famous young diarist.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 263 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Anne Frank's life has been studied by many scholars, but the story of Bep Voskuijl has remained untold, until now. As the youngest of the five Dutch people who hid the Frank family, Bep was Anne's closest confidante during the 761 excruciating days she spent hidden in the Secret Annex. Bep, who was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding, risked her life to protect them, plunging into Amsterdam's black market to source food and medicine...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 404 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical table, portraits ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the discovery by Frank's aunt's daughter-in-law of numerous family correspondences and keepsakes and what they revealed about the Frank family and the forces that shaped the famous young diarist.
Author
Publisher
Anne Frank House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Anne Frank's life story is told by answering the most frequently asked questions posed by young people visiting the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam. Text, detailed photographs and beautiful illustrations combine to give the fullest picture of Anne's life, her diary and the Secret Annex. The book provides both an overview of the history of World War II and the Holocaust as well as intimate insights into the life of Anne Frank." -- Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
412, 8 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"She was the small-town southern beauty transformed into a Hollywood love goddess. He was the legendary crooner whose voice transfixed the world. They were Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra. Separately they were irresistible; together they were an explosive combination. Ava's star is rising just as Frank's career--and public image as a family man--is taking a hit. Gone are the days of the screaming bobbysoxers and chart-topping hits. Ava, however, finds...
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Before Frank Calabrese Jr. realized that he had to turn on his father in order to save his life and reconcile with his wife and children, he had worked alongside his father and his Uncle Nick in loan sharking, gambling, labor racketeering, and extortion. This is the dramatic tale of how for six months, unmonitored and unprotected, he wore a wire in the prison where both he and his father were serving time, as his father revealed details of decades...
14) Angela's ashes
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
15) Angela's ashes
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (146 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A compassionate, heartrending memoir of a mother's quest to accept her son's journey through psychosis. One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach--gentle and full of promise--in the grip of what the psychiatrists would label a psychotic break. Suddenly and inexplicably, Tanya is thrown into a parallel universe: Zach's world, where the phones are bugged, his friends have joined the Mafia, and helicopters are spying on his...
18) Fallingwater
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
This book guides readers through the process American architect Frank Lloyd Wright used in designing Fallingwater, a now-famous house in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, perched atop a waterfall. Full color.