Jennifer Niven
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English
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"Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 431 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Chronicles the life of Ada Blackjack, an unskilled 23-year-old Inuit woman who accompanied explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson into the far North to colonize uninhabited Wrangel Island in 1921.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2000
Edition
1st edition
Physical Desc
xiv, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the 1913-14 Arctic scientific expedition on the H.M.C.S "Karluk" that ended when its twenty-two men, an Inuit woman and her two very young daughters, twenty-nine dogs, and a pet cat were shipwrecked in the Arctic Ocean, and describes their attempts to survive until twelve of them were rescued nine months later.
5) Breathless
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Language
English
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"Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's looking for. Then her dad drops a bombshell: he and Claude's mom are splitting up. Suddenly, Claude's entire world feels like a lie, and the ground under her feet anything but stable. After: Claude's mom whisks them...
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