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6081) 47 ronin
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
In 1701, the noble Lord Asano attacks an official at the Japanese Court in a fit of anger. The punishment is swift and harsh: Lord Asano is ordered to commit ritual suicide, his lands are confiscated, his family is exiled, and his samurai warriors are ordered to disperse--becoming ronin, or masterless. The Ronin plot in secret to avenge their master, biding their time until the moment to strike is right. Their deeds became Japan's most celebrated...
6082) Rescue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there is a wounded British officer hiding in her grandmother's...
6083) Singing with elephants
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
En el "período especial en tiempos de paz" de Cuba de 1991, Liana y Amado encuentran el amor después de que su hambre severa les da coraje a ambos para arriesgarse a las represalias del gobierno saltándose un verano de trabajo para buscar comida. Contada a dos voces más la del perro callejero que los unió.
6085) Se fueron a la izquierda
Author
Publisher
Nube de Tinta, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Alemania, 1945. Aunque el campo de concentración de Gross-Rosen fue liberado, para Zofia Lederman las heridas que le dejó la guerra (tanto en su cuerpo como en su mente) no han sanado. Tres años antes, ella y su hermano menor, Abek, fueron los únicos integrantes de su familia a los que enviaron a la derecha; es decir, lejos de las cámaras de gas de Auschwitz-Birkenau. Todos los demás, sus padres, su abuela, su radiante tía, se fueron a la...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, this fictional story traces the history of the Women's Land Army during World War I. Real-life "Farmerette" Helen Stevens trains to farm the land, negotiates a position for herself and other women, and does her bit for the war effort. This unique book celebrates the true grit of American men and women.
6088) Big George Foreman
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
George Foreman makes a name for himself by channeling his childhood anger in the boxing ring, but when he has a near-death experience, he gives it all up to become a preacher.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Una traducción al español de una novela en verso sobre la vida y obra de Rubén Darío, un poeta nicaragüense que comenzó su vida como un niño abandonado y creció hasta convertirse en el padre de un nuevo movimiento literario. Incluye notas históricas." -- Descripción del editor.
6090) Lloro por la tierra
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Por que es la tierra tan importante para la familia de Cassie? Los acontecimientos de un ano agitado--el ano de los hombres de la noche y de los incendios, el ano en que una muchacha blanca humillo a Cassie en publico porque era negra--sirvieron para que Cassie se diera cuenta de que tener un lugar propio constituye el alma de la familia Logan. El valor y el orgullo de los Logan se los da la tierra, porque sin importar cuanto los puedan subestimar,...
6092) Chain of thorns
Author
Series
Last hours volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Love, duty, and danger collide in Edwardian London, as the Shadowhunters face the greatest threat they have ever known.
In a few short weeks Cordelia Carstains has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter. She flees to Paris with Matthew...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. One is a Russian world chess champion who has turned to dissident politics. The other is an American woman who finds a copy of the letter her late father had written to the young chess champion, to which he'd never received adequate response.
6094) Sisters of Shiloh
Author
Publisher
HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A best-selling novelist enlists her own sister to bring us the story of two Southern sisters, disguised as men, who join the Confederate Army--one seeking vengeance on the battlefield, the other finding love. In a war that pitted brother against brother, two sisters choose their own battle. Joseph and Thomas are fresh recruits for the Confederate Army, daring to join the wild fray that has become the seemingly endless Civil War, sharing everything...
6096) The pagan lord: Bk 7
Author
Series
Saxon tales volume Book 7
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
p2014
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to his epic Saxon Tales saga with The Pagan Lord, a dramatic story of divided loyalties, bloody battles, and the struggle to unite Britain.At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold: the Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, stand ready to invade and will never rest...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In Danielle Steel's epic new novel, the lives of four generations of women in one family span fortune and loss, motherhood, tragedy and victories. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the 1960s-history holds many surprises, and lives are changed forever. For richer or for poorer, in cramped apartments and grand mansions, the treasured wedding dress made in Paris in 1928 follows each generation...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When white silver screen icon Kitty Karr Tate dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the three Black St. John sisters, it prompts questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could, and between a cheating fiancé and fallout from a controversial...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Genghis must act when trouble brews west of the Mongolian plains. Dividing his army and using his sons as generals, he sets out to accomplish two important goals--conquer those who resist, and determine which son should succeed him.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese...
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