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Author
Series
Vango volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleeing dark forces and unfounded accusations across Europe in the years between World Wars, a young man named Vango has been in danger for as long as he can remember. He has spent his life running along rooftops, fleeing to isolated islands, and evading capture across Russia, Paris, New York, and Italy as he continues to unravel the mysteries of his past. In the shadow of a rapidly changing world, can he find those who have hunted him for so long...
Author
Series
Book of dust volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy.... Malcolm's parents run an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. Malcolm and his daemon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm catches wind of something new:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world between wars, a young man on the cusp of taking priestly vows is suddenly made a fugitive. Fleeing the accusations of police who blame him for a murder, as well as more sinister forces with darker intentions, Vango attempts to trace the secrets of his shrouded past and prove his innocence before all is lost. As he crisscrosses the continent via train, boat, and even the Graf Zeppelin airship, his adventures take him from Parisian rooftops...
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
491 pages : 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her...
5) Night
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
Author
Publisher
Unruly, Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 35 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of Snow White from the point of view of the stepmother queen, whose blinding obsession and insatiable jealousy lead inexorably to her own violent undoing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
82 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Nathalie and Marie have been playing a game for years where they imagine what life would be like as different people or objects, but their lives change when a new player joins their game.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, a French professor and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Follows Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans as they venture deep into a volcanic crater in Iceland on a journey that leads them to the center of the earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.
11) Nancy Drew
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nancy is an iconic girl detective with a passion for mystery and all things old, but she is about to experience a serious case of culture shock as she heads to Hollywood on an extended business trip with her father, Carson Drew. Having promised him that she has given up sleuthing in favor of becoming a "normal" teenager, Nancy tries her best to resist the lure of the age-old mystery of famous actress Dehlia Draycott's death, and living in Dehlia's...
Author
Series
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lyra Belacqua and her daemon familiar set out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome experiments in the Far North"--
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