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English
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
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Series
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Milo, a young boy with little interest in anything, takes a trip through the Phantom Tollbooth to the Lands Beyond where he meets an enchanting cast of characters that teaches him the importance of words, numbers, ideas, creativity, and enthusiasm for life. Includes an introduction by Maurice Sendak and "Celebrations of The Phantom Tollbooth" by various authors.
5) Rosie's walk
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Language
English
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"Rosie the hen leaves the chicken coop and sets out for a little walk. Right behind her is the fox, slyly trying to catch up with her. Rosie's walk is quiet, uneventful and eventually leads her back to the coop, blissfully unaware of the fox's travails as he tries--unsuccessfully--to navigate the obstacle course that Rosie has let him through." -- Page [4] cover.
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Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Antony and Cleopatra (1607) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Inspired by Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives-a series of biographies on influential figures of the ancient world-Shakespeare wrote Antony and Cleopatra sometime between 1599 and 1601. Often considered a sequel of sorts to his earlier play Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra has served as source material for countless film and television adaptations. "Let Rome in Tiber melt,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Description
Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
The story of a South Vietnamese captain -- a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America -- who returns to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Description
"It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans. Their reunion sets her own life down a startling path. Vivid, tender, darkly funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xl, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of an ancient ambush that devastated Rome-and the modern-day hunt that finally revealed its location and its archaeological treasures.
In 9 A.D., the seventeenth, eighteenth, & nineteenth Roman legions and their auxiliary troops under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus vanished in the boggy wilds of Germania. They died singly and by the hundreds over several days in a carefully planned ambush led by Arminius-a Roman-trained German...
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, tells of how a poor Ghanaian boy buys a chicken through a community loan program, which eventually helps lift him, his mother, and his community out of poverty.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : map.
Language
English
Description
First century English innkeeper Aurelia Marcella discovers ties between a murdered soldier in her inn and anti-Roman sentiments threatening violence in northern regions where her cousin Jovina plans to throw a midsummer birthday party.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : maps.
Language
English
Description
First century English innkeeper Aurelia Marcella teams up with traveler Quintus to uncover the identity of an anti-Roman rebel band responsible for a string of brutal murders targeting Roman citizens.
20) Chester's back!
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Lexile measure
510L
Description
The battle of the picture-book makers, Chester and M©♭lanie Watt, continues. Is one book big enough for these two creative heavyweights?