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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently.--
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"My Brilliant Life interweaves the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in even the most difficult times. Areum lives life to its fullest, vicariously through the stories of his parents, conversations with Little Grandpa Jang-his sixty-year-old neighbor and best friend-and through the books he reads to visit the places he would otherwise never see. For several months, Areum has been working on a manuscript, piecing together...
84) Delta farce
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Down on his luck after losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day, Larry decides to join his neighbor, Bill and his combat-happy buddy, Everett for a relaxing weekend of drinking and target practice. But when the three hapless guys are mistaken for Army Reservists they are loaded onto an army plane headed for Fallujay, Iraq. The threesome is mistakenly ejected in a Humvee somewhere over Mexico. Convinced they are actually in the Middle East,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When the river swallowed Kai, Damien's little brother didn't die so much as vanish. As the unbearable loss settles deeper into his bones, Damien, a small-town line cook, walks away from everything he has ever known. Driving as far south as his old truck and his legs allow, he lands in a fishing village beyond the reach of his past where he hopes he can finally forget. But the village has grief of its own. The same day that Damien arrives, a young...
87) The village
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In a quiet, isolated village in old Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays intact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the elders...
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Storm in the village: Miss Read, the headmistress of Fairacre School, learns of a proposed new housing development that soon has the citizens of Fairacre up in arms.
Fairacre festival: After a heavy storm damages the church roof, the villagers must raise money to have it repaired, but something on a grander scale than fetes and coffee mornings is required. So the Fairacre Festival is launched.
89) Mar de amor
Publisher
Televisa
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Español
Description
Estrella is a girl from a fishing village who falls in love with Victor, a man with a dark past who has just returned to town. Oriana, daughter of the most prominent citizen in town has also fallen for Victor and will do anything to win his heart. Victor finds himself at a crossroads when Coral his long lost love reemerges after a long disappearance due to amnesia. She then sets off to win him back, no matter the cost. But, Victor and Estrella's love...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store and all clues point to bistro owner Olivier being the killer. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies, exposing both treasures and rancid secrets long buried--but not forgotten.
92) The band's visit
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
עברית
Description
The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event. Once there, they find the expected delegation is not there to meet them. Arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva have not been taken care of either. They find their own ride and arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, lead by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya, gets help from the worldly...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. In the wake of her mother's death, Kalyani, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dark forces are moving outside the court and when a powerful Danish warlord Bloodhair attacks, Uhtred must lead Wessex's forces into battle. He captures Bloodhair's mysterious lover, the savage sorceress Skade, who throws a curse, and his world becomes blighted by tragedy.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
El alcalde de la ruidosa ciudad de La Paz instituye nuevas leyes que prohíben todo el canto, pero un gallo valiente decide que debe cantar, a pesar de los castigos progresivamente severos que recibe por seguir cazando. El populacho silenciado, vigorizado por la valentía del gallo, derroca al tirínico alcalde y devuelve su ciudad a su estado libre y clamoroso.
"The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but...
97) Wings of fire
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In post-World War I Britain, Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard travels to Cornwall to investigate three mysterious deaths. Accompanying him is his constant companion, a young Scot he executed on the battlefield whose tormenting voice forces him to face unpleasant truths. By the author of A Test of Wills.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Nightingale Books, nestled on the main street in an idyllic little village, is a dream come true for book lovers-- a cozy haven and welcoming getaway for the literary-minded locals. But owner Emilia Nightingale is struggling to keep the shop open after her beloved father's death, and the temptation to sell is getting stronger. The property developers are circling, yet Emilia's loyal customers have become like family, and she can't imagine breaking...
99) A lonely death
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
It's 1920. Three men are dead, all garroted, all war veterans. When a piece of evidence, kept from the public, suggests a much stronger link between the victims and the unknown, it's up to World War I battered survivor, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge to find the killer.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Beginning with the Germans arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact. The war shatters all their lives, but a few of them, even in the shadow of destruction, reach out to find fleeting moments of connection and love.
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