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1) Heidi
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains the complete text of the story of a young girl from the Swiss Alps whose life takes a dramatic turn when she must go to live in the city, leaving behind the people and the mountains she loves, with annotations providing background information on the history, geography, social customs, and the arts of the era.
Author
Language
English
Description
Rachael, whose mother is Danish and father is an African-American, loses both her parents and is forced to move to a new city to live with her strict African-American grandmother, but when she is immersed into an African-American community, her physical appearance draws attention and Rachel struggles with her own uncertainties about her identity.
Author
Series
Girl from everywhere volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Nix may have been born in 1868 Honolulu, but the girl has traveled to Scandinavia, modern-day New York City, and other fantastical times and places aboard her father's time-traveling ship, 'The Temptation.' When her father finds the map he has long been seeking, he vows to keep Nix's mother from dying in childbirth this time. But saving Nix's mother could end Nix's life.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Fifth edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 644 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A handbook for expectant mothers that explains what will happen and what to be concerned about during each month of pregnancy as well as labor, delivery, and postpartum. Also explains how to deal with illnesses and chronic conditions during pregnancy, and discusses complications.
Author
Series
Girl from everywhere volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
456 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Heidi Heilig weaves fantasy, history, and romance together to tackle questions of free will, fate, and what it means to love another person. At the center of this adventure are extraordinary, complicated, and multicultural characters who leap off the page, and an intricate, recognizable world that has no bounds.
Author
Series
For a muse of fire volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Jetta is a wanted criminal. The army wants her for treason against the crown, for the sabotage of Hell's Court temple, and for the murder of General Legarde. They also want her for the power in her blood -- the magic that captures wandering spirits to give life to puppets, to rocks, to paper, to weapons. They're willing to trade the elixir that treats Jetta's madness for the use of her blood. The rebels want her, too, to help them reclaim their country....
Author
Series
Hook's revenge volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Hook's swashbuckling daughter must avenge her infamous father's death at the jaws of the Neverland crocodile.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
426 p. : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Few things are as lasting as the bond between sisters. In her poignant debut, Elizabeth Bass explores the lengths one cobbled-together family will go to for each other, and the power of a connection that never fades. . .Sassy Spinster Farm is a place to find solace. At least, that's what it's become since Rue Anderson and her sister Laura transformed their childhood Texas homestead into a successful tourist destination. It's where guests flock to...
Publisher
[distributed in the USA and Canada by] Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 555 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
15) Read harder
Publisher
Believer Books, a division of McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This volume collects the finest essays from the second half of the Believer's decade-long (and counting) run"--
16) Rough weather
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
294 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly escorting the gold-digging and recently separated Heidi Bradshaw to her daughter's wedding, Boston private investigator Spenser hopes to reconnect with his beloved Susan at the wedding, but becomes enmeshed in a kidnapping plot involving his nemesis Rugar.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 570 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the rather austere Sister Ursula is appointed the new head of Nonnatus house, Sister Julienne finds herself demoted and working back alongside the midwives as an ordinary member of staff.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 555 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"Introduces concepts and vocabulary of fall--autumn colors, changes in plants and animals ... and wind, which soon leads to the next season"--
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