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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"On January 12, 1888, a surprise blizzard broke out in the middle of the day across the Midwest. In its path, hundreds of children and teachers found themselves stranded inside schoolhouses with no food, no heat, and very few options. Days passed, and over 235 people died as result of the harsh snow of the Schoolhouse Blizzard, but many were able to survive thanks to the bravery of others in their communities. Learn all about the disastrous weather...
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Publisher
MR (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
septiembre de 2023.
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"M̌xico, junio de 1872. Un carruaje se estaciona frente al gran p̤rtico del sal̤n donde se celebra un baile en honor a Benito Jùrez. Una mujer misteriosa baja de ̌l, atrayendo la mirada de todos, especialmente de Sebastìn Lerdo de Tejada, ministro e ̕ntimo amigo del presidente. Ella se hace llamar Emilia, pero antes tuvo otros nombres y otras vidas. Siendo una nįa tuvo que huir tras presenciar el brutal asesinato de su madre. Desde entonces,...
Author
Series
Colección Ancora y delfín volume 1595
Publisher
Ediciones Destino
Pub. Date
febrero 2023.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"Eugene Schieffelin es rico, singular y aficionado a los p̀jaros. Su hermana y su mujer, devotas amantes de Shakespeare. Sus amigos, miembros de una Sociedad m̀s desfasada que cient̕fica que suęa con llenar los cielos neoyorquinos de p̀jaros europeos. Nueva York, una ciudad que a︢n no se parece a ella misma, el escenario ideal para cualquier locura, por descabellada que sea. En esta novela, ambientada en el Nueva York de la segunda mitad del...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
106 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps, photographs, portraits ; 23 cm.
Description
"In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty-eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather, starvation, and illness. To survive, the remaining people resorted to extreme measures . . . including cannibalism. Learn about the many miscalculations,...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 x 29 cm
Description
Celia Thaxter grew up on a desolate island off the coast of Maine, where her father worked as lighthouse keeper. Amid the white and gray of the sea, the rocks, and even the birds, young Celia found color where she could: green mosses and purple starfish and pink morning glories by the shore. And she planted her first garden, tucking bright marigolds between rocky ledges. When she was twelve, Celia's family moved to nearby Appledore Island, where her...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"November 1866: The grisly murder site in London's East End is thronged with onlookers. None of them expect the calmly efficient young woman among them to be a medical doctor, arrived to examine the corpse. Inspector Richard Tennant, overseeing the investigation, at first makes no effort to disguise his skepticism. But Dr. Julia Lewis is accustomed to such condescension . . . To study medicine, Julia had to leave Britain, where universities still...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 873 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to significant changes that continue to shape our world today. These battles for the future were fought with one eye kept squarely on the past: The...
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