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21) Voices
Author
Series
Annals of the Western Shore volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
9 compact discs
Language
English
Description
Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out, he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, sixteen year old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen year old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in whic
Told in their separate voices, sixteen year old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen year old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 339 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home--a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards, and seldom calls. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious package from...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion... and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more. Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away, buys a van and transforms it into a mobile...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Named for two literary characters ("Alice" from Lewis Carroll and "Ozma" from L. Frank Baum), the author is the daughter of a Philadelphia-area elementary school librarian. Father and daughter embarked on a streak of reading-out-loud sessions every night before bed as Ozma was growing up--a "streak" that would continue for eight years straight.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Otto lives in a book in a house but when no one is looking he comes to life to read his favorite stories and practice his writing, until he is left behind and must set out in search of a new home.
32) Books for living
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club--a wonderfully engaging new book: both a celebration of reading in general and an impassioned recommendation of specific books that can help guide us through our daily lives. 'I've always believed that everything you need to know you can find in a book,' writes Will Schwalbe in his introduction to this thought-provoking, heartfelt, and inspiring new book about books....
33) The inside story
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 8
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the fairytale detectives race through the Book of Everafter searching for their baby brother, they encounter various characters including the Editor and his army of Revisers, who threaten the children with dire consequences if they continue to change the stories.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a bookstore in honor of her friend's memory. All she wants...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Fountas & Pinnell
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Language
English
Formats
Description
What happens when the book gets it wrong? Max is not a cat-- Max is a dog! But much to his dismay, this book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a dog? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. Illustrator Mike Wohnoutka hilariously depicts the pup's...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Anchor Books edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives--our own personal libraries--make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all...
38) Among others
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to escape a trouble childhood, Morwenna found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels she read and played among the spirits who made their homes in Wales' industrial ruins. Forced into a confrontation with her mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna fled to her father after her twin sister died. Eventually, she and her mother would meet again in a final battle.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The life of a book isn't easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns!). And this narrator should know--it's the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions. It gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. But it does have a story to tell. Through witty direct address and charming illustrations, readers meet a book that has never been read, with a...
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