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Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
307 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An eccentiric, playfully skewed, surprisingly comprehensive chronicle of life on planet Earth. A novel whose threads of coincidence and hidden connection are woven into a narrative tapestry brilliant with wit, intelligence, and emotion.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sophie and Jake, who don't find history interesting, test a computer program that shows what life was like in ancient Rome, Viking times, the Renaissance, the Gold Rush era, World War Two, and into the space age.
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
190 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks-- a mutiny on the Santa María-- to correct history and defeat the SQ.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[40] p. : col. ill., music ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Purports to be the journal of a cat recounting all nine of the lives she has lived and her remarkable effect on history, beginning in Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. and culminating in Wisconsin in 1995.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fortune is a dazzling, endlessly surprising historical novel that opens the day Napoleon leads his victorious Grande Armée into Berlin after having conquered Prussia in battle. As crowds throng the streets to witness the emperor in his glory, a handful of lives that briefly touch are sprung from their orbits and set on courses that will take them across Europe and around the world--their fates and desires sometimes intersecting--to strange lands...
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sera has seen the future, and it is terrifying. Unfortunately, she can't do anything to prevent the Cataclysm while stranded with Dak and Riq thousands of years in the past. Their only hope lies with the ancient Maya, a mysterious people who claim to know a great deal about the future. Is there more to these ancients than meets the eye?
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 348
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
xxvii, 449 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Flaubert's parrot: Relates a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters. History of the world in 10 1/2 chapters: An eccentiric, playfully skewed, surprisingly comprehensive chronicle of life on planet Earth. A novel whose threads of coincidence and hidden connection are woven into a narrative tapestry brilliant with wit,...
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Europe is in the grip of the Dark Ages, but there is a light in the dark: Baghdad. The great city has become a center of learning, populated by scholars, merchants, and explorers from all across the known world. But danger lurks in the desert ... and Dak, Sera, and Riq must act fast to save the world's greatest library from utter destruction."--
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