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Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Why is this night different from all other nights? Every year when families gather for the Passover holiday, the youngest child poses that question as part of the poetic Four Questions near the start of the Seder. The answers are no less than the story of people bound in slavery, their suffering in a foreign land, and their ultimate liberation - the story of Passover. Here the Four Questions are presented in breathtaking luminous paintings by Ori...
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 6
Publisher
Sandstone Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Stavern 1983: Christmas is approaching, snow is falling heavily, and a young ambitious policeman named William Wisting has just become the father of twins. After a brutal robbery he is edged off the investigation by more experienced officers, but soon he is on another case that is not only unsolved but has not even been recognised as murder. Forgotten in a dilapidated barn stands a bullet riddled old car, and it looks as if the driver did not get...
84) Big ship rescue!
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a cargo ship is wrecked during a storm, the first on the scene is Salvage Master Miley with her tugboat and salvage team, ready to do what it takes to bring the ship back to port.
87) The spaceman
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When a large bird makes off with his ship, a tiny Spaceman is forced to venture out into this new world--planet Earth--on foot, coming to a pond where he meets a friendly, goofy, slobbery beast and wonders if he's found a new home"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by...
90) The caveman
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 4
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Only three houses away from the policeman's home, a man has been sitting dead in front of his television set for four months.
92) Thistlefoot
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist--have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited--only to discover that their bequest isn't land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as the house...
Author
Series
Bretonische Spezialit�aten volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jean-Luc Bannalec's internationally bestselling series starring Commissaire Georges Dupin returns with Death of a Master Chef. Commissaire Georges Dupin is certain these first beautiful summer days in June would be perfect for a fun trip to Saint-Malo. In a region known as the culinary heart of Brittany, the paradoxical city is known for being a uniquely Breton, yet un-Breton, place. Their cuisine's motto is voyages et aventures. Travel and adventure....
94) In tongues
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery"--
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Big Books of Trains is a colorful compendium of amazing trains and locomotives that will entertain and inform children for hours. Learn all about powerful steam engines, hanging monorails, and superfast bullet trains. Featuring stunning illsutrations of locomotives and fun facts, The Big Books of Trains is the ultimate first trains book."--page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
When cousins Riley, who has a way with people, and Maya, a tech wizard, move in with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start until they join forces as superheroes to stop their school culture from being threatened by money, power and lies.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books, a division of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sammie, a budding naturalist, knows of a secret and wonderful place: Winghaven, an abandoned lot in the middle of the suburbs where wildlife flourishes. She spends hours making notes and drawings in her meticulous field journal. When Bram, a new boy, turns up with his camera, Sammie worries he'll give away her hidden haven-after all, the other boys at school bully her. But Bram is a scientist like Sammie, and together they observe tiny pond creatures,...
98) The hunting dogs
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 3
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years ago William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway's most notorious criminal cases, the murder of young Cecilia Linde. When it is discovered that evidence was falsified he is suspended from duty. It looks like a man has been wrongly convicted, and suddenly the media are baying for blood. Wisting, who has spent his life hunting criminals, is now the hunted.
99) Ordeal
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 5
Publisher
Sandstone Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The investigation into taxi-driver Jens Hummel's disappearance has been fruitless, but a crucial discovery directs suspicion at Dan Roger 'Danny' Brodin. The problem is, however, that Danny is already in prison, convicted of another murder.--
100) Dregs
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 1
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Chief Inspector William Wisting, an experienced policeman who is familiar with the dark side of human nature. He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world"--Publisher's website.
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