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Series
Kane chronicles volume 3
Description
When Apophis, the chaos snake, threatens to plunge the world into eternal darkness, siblings Carter and Sade Kane plan to use an ancient spell to destroy the snake, but first must rely on the murderous ghost of a powerful magician.
3) Train trip
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
While on a trip to visit his grandmother, a young boy enjoys the many sights and sounds he experiences along the way.
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Series
Description
After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
Author
Series
Dodsworth volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
[48] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Dodsworth sets out for adventure, including a stop in New York City before going to Paris, London, and beyond, he does not expect a crazy duck to stow away in his suitcase and lead him on a merry chase.
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"[T]he story of a father and son separated by war and circumstance--and whose encounter with the legendary Holy Grail will change their lives forever-- an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland on his journey to reunite with his estranged son, Ishmael, a captain in the United States Army" --
"After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Hackberry escapes the country...
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Description
Since the Cook Shop is closed, the reader is led around the United States to gather coal, cotton, granite, and other natural resources needed to make the utensils for preparing a cherry pie.
Author
Series
The never tilting world volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
496 pages cm.
Description
"After an ancient prophecy is betrayed, a world ruled by a long line of goddesses is split in two--one half in perpetual day, and the other in an endless night--and two young twin goddesses set out on separate and equally dangerous journeys to the Breachthat divides them, hoping to save their broken world"--
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Appears on list
Description
"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
17) The crossing
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Tim, an affable young man with modest ambition, is infatuated with Maud the moment they meet in hte University Sailing Club. A career scientist who betrays little of herself, Maud is found by some to be enchanting, by others distant. There is little to suggest that she has any need of anyone. Tim ties his life to hers, but slowly the marriage unravels as she quietly refuses to conform to the conventional demands of wife and mother. A sudden tragedy...
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Series
Appears on list
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Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. How this...
20) Nine lives
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After a carefree childhood, Mary Margaret Kelly came of age in the shadow of grief. Her father, a dashing daredevil Air Force pilot, died when she was nine. Maggie saw her mother struggle to put their lives back together. As the family moved from one city to the next, her mother warned her to beware of daredevil men and avoid risk at all cost. Following her mother's advice, and forgoing the magic of first love with a high school boyfriend who was...
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