Moses
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tells the dark and compelling stories of iconic cultural objects that were stolen, smuggled or sold, and eventually returned back to their original owner. This book is structured as a series of vivid stories in which the reader joins the author as she uncovers a cultural treasure and follows its often-convoluted trail. Along the way author and reader encounter a cast of fascinating characters from the underbelly of the cultural world: unscrupulous...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of a woman forging a new life for herself after her marriage has foundered, shutting up her beloved Devonshire house and making a home for her two young children in London, elated at completing the collection of poems she foresees will make her name. It is also the story of a woman struggling to maintain her mental equilibrium, to absorb the pain of her husband's betrayal and to resist her mother's engulfing love. It is the story
...Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Crystal Springs, Louisiana, when sixteen-year-old James finds his mother lying in her bed, dead, he tries to run the household by himself, hiding his mother's death from the authorities, caring for his little brother, and scrounging for food until things become increasingly desperate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
358 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Dirt, a retired elite female fighter, must enter the South God Bow tournament to protect her found family of younger sisters and their beloved Mud Fam.
Eat. Dance. Fight. This is the life of the girls who compete in the Isle's elite, all-female fighting sport of Bowing. At sixteen Dirt is old, and has retired from competition. She spends her days coaching the younger sisters of the Mud Fam and dreading her birthday, when she'll have...
11) Rip Van Winkle
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., music ; 25 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1810s Massachusetts, young Mary Elizabeth Sawyer nurses a sickly lamb back to health and becomes the subject of a famous nursery rhyme. Includes facts about the real Mary, John Roulstone who wrote the rhyme, and Lowell Mason who set it to music.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
49 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Born in Washington, DC, in 1970, and raised in Miami, Florida, Ketanji Brown Jackson developed an interest in law and politics at an early age. As a preschooler, she sat with her father and watched him complete his law school assignments. And even though some people, including a school guidance counselor, discouraged Ketanji from aiming high, she proved them wrong and graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. She went on to serve on the U.S....
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) ; col. ill. : 25 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
For anyone who's ever wondered how a groom can get cold feet when he's wearing shoes and socks, or how a person can be in a pickle when pickles are so small, or how butterflies could possibly get into your stomach, Will Moses has the answers. Using his trademark folkart style along with plenty of mischief and humor, Will Moses shed some light on these often puzzling phrases, educating young readers while entertaining them in high style.
20) Silent night
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
One snowy Christmas Eve a Vermont community makes preparations for the holiday as well as for the arrival of another Christmas miracle.