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33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A.by Tonya BoldenISBN 0375811222 (0-375-81122-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Amber Spyglassby Philip PullmanISBN 0375823352 (0-375-82335-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amber Spyglass'Book summary:From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we'll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we've yet to discern whether this individual's intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel's mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the "tingle of the starlight" on Serafina Pekkala's skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel's crusade:
A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king's mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch's insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.
Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest "preemptive absolution" should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than "a sacred task."In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news--not that The Amber Spyglass doesn't contain standoffs and close calls galore. (Who would have it otherwise?) But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3-D, the author weaves in and out of his principals' thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa (again, we'll reveal nothing more) makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet (or on other things entirely) when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark-matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices--or betrayals.
Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra's mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: "The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief." Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. --Kerry Fried [via]
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American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Stormby Gail Lumet BuckleyISBN 0375760091 (0-375-76009-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm'Book summary:A dramatic and moving tribute to the militarys unsung heroes, American Patriots tells the story of the black servicemen and women who defended American ideals on the battlefield, even as they faced racism in the ranks and segregation on the home front. Through hundreds of original interviews with veterans of every war since World War I, historic accounts, and photographs, Gail Buckley brings these heroes and their struggles to life. We meet Henry O. Flipper, who withstood silent treatment from his classmates to become the first black graduate of West Point in 1877. And World War II infantry medic Bruce M. Wright, who crawled through a minefield to shield a fallen soldier during an attack. Finally, we meet a young soldier in Vietnam, Colin Powell, who rose through the ranks to become, during the Gulf War, the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Fourteen years in the making, American Patriots is a landmark chronicle of the brave men and women whose courage and determination changed the course of American history. [via]
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The American Revolution: A Nonfiction Companion to Revolutionary War on Wednesdayby Mary Osborne, Natalie Boyce, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0375823794 (0-375-82379-4)
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When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #22: Revolutionary War on Wednesday, they had lots of questions. What was it like to live in colonial times? Why did the stamp Act make the colonists so angry? Who were the Minutemen? What happened at the Boston Tea Party? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. [via]More editions of The American Revolution: A Nonfiction Companion to Revolutionary War on Wednesday:
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Ancient Rome And Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Vacation Under the Volcanoby Natalie Boyce, Mary Pope Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0375832203 (0-375-83220-3)
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When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #13: Vacation Under the Volcano, they had lots of questions. How did ancient Rome become an emipre? Where did ancient Romans go for fun? What happened to the Roman town of Pompeii? What have we learned from it? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.More editions of Ancient Rome And Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Vacation Under the Volcano:
Art Against the Odds : From Slave Quilts to Prison Paintingsby Susan Goldman RubinISBN 0375824065 (0-375-82406-5)
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The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperorby Wheeler M. Thackston, Babur, Salman RushdieISBN 0375761373 (0-375-76137-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianismby John Stuart Mill, J. B. SchneewindISBN 0375759182 (0-375-75918-2)
Softcover, Modern Library
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This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly commissioned endnotes and commentary by Dale E. Miller, and an index. [via]More editions of The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism:
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Before We Were Freeby Julia AlvarezISBN 0375815449 (0-375-81544-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before We Were Free'Book summary:What would life be like for a teen living under a dictatorship? Afraid to go to school or to talk freely? Knowing that, at the least suspicion, the secret police could invade your house, even search and destroy your private treasures? Or worse, that your father or uncles or brothers could be suddenly taken away to be jailed or tortured or killed? Such experiences have been all too common in the many Latin American dictatorships of the last 50 years. Author Julia Alvarez (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) and her family escaped from the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic when she was 10, but in Before We Were Free she imagines, through the stories of her cousins and friends, how it was for those who stayed behind.
Twelve-year-old Anita de la Torre is too involved with her own life to be more than dimly aware of the growing menace all around her, until her last cousins and uncles and aunts have fled to America and a fleet of black Volkswagens comes up the drive, bringing the secret police to the family compound to search their houses. Gradually, through overheard conversations and the explanations of her older sister, Lucinda, she comes to understand that her father and uncles are involved in a plot to kill El Jefe, the dictator, and that they are all in deadly peril. Anita's story is universal in its implications--she even keeps an Anne Frank-like diary when she and her mother must hide in a friend's house--and a tribute to those brave souls who feel, like Anita's father, that "life without freedom is no life at all." (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell [via]
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The Bravest Dog Everby Natalie Standiford, Donald CookISBN 0375835776 (0-375-83577-6)
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The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Caseby Sam RobertsISBN 0375761241 (0-375-76124-1)
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Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranchby Dan O'BrienISBN 037576139X (0-375-76139-X)
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0375815260 (0-375-81526-0)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'Book summary:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, along with Roald Dahl's other tales for younger readers, make him a true star of children's literature. Dahl seems to know just how far to go with his oddball fantasies; in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for example, nasty Violet Beauregarde blows up into a blueberry from sneaking forbidden chewing gum, and bratty Augustus Gloop is carried away on the river of chocolate he wouldn't resist. In fact, all manner of disasters can happen to the most obnoxiously deserving of children because Dahl portrays each incident with such resourcefulness and humor.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a singular delight, crammed with mad fantasy, childhood justice and revenge, and as much candy as you can eat. The book is also available in Spanish (Charlie y la Fabrica de Chocolate). (The suggested age range for this book is 9-12, but nobody this reviewer has met can resist it, including New York City bellhops, flight attendants, and grumpy teenagers.) [via]
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bangby Ian Fleming, Brian SelznickISBN 0375832831 (0-375-83283-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Christians in Japanby Carolyn Bowen Francis, John Masaaki NakajimaISBN 037700216X (0-377-00216-X)
Softcover, Cokesbury
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Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rightsby Kenji YoshinoISBN 0375760210 (0-375-76021-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Cracking the Ap U.S. History Exam, 2002-2003by Tom Meltzer, Princeton Review, Jean Hofheimer BennettISBN 0375762310 (0-375-76231-0)
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Cracking the Ap World History Exam 2004-2005by David Daniel, Princeton Review, Alexandra Freer, Abby KanarekISBN 0375763805 (0-375-76380-5)
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Cracking the SAT U. S. and World History Subject Tests : 2005 - 2006 Editionby Grace Roegner Freedman, Dan KomarekISBN 037576450X (0-375-76450-X)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
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Dangerous Planet : Natural Disasters That Changed Historyby Bryn BarnardISBN 0375822496 (0-375-82249-6)
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Dinosaurs: A Nonfiction Companion to Dinosaurs Before Darkby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0375802967 (0-375-80296-7)
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When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #1: Dinosaurs Before Dark, they had lots of questions. When did the dinosaurs live? What other animals lived at that time? Which dinosaur was biggest? How do we know about dinosaurs? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. [via]More editions of Dinosaurs: A Nonfiction Companion to Dinosaurs Before Dark:
The Encyclopedia of Preserved People: Pickled, Frozed, and Mummified Corpses from Around the Worldby Natalie Jane PriorISBN 0375822879 (0-375-82287-9)
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The First Emancipator: Slavery, Religion, and The Quiet Revolution of Robert Carterby Andrew LevyISBN 0375761047 (0-375-76104-7)
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George Washington and the General's Dogby Frank Murphy, Richard WalzISBN 0375810153 (0-375-81015-3)
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sees a dog lost on the battlefield. Whose dog is it? How will it find its master? Early readers will be surprised to find out what happens in this little-known true story about Americas first president. [via]More editions of George Washington and the General's Dog:
Ghost Towns of the Westby William Carter, Jack McDowellISBN 0376053127 (0-376-05312-7)
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Golden Compassby Philip PullmanISBN 037582345X (0-375-82345-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Compass'Book summary:Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal daemon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.
Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber [via]
The House of Sight and Shadow : A Novelby Nicholas GriffinISBN 0375759395 (0-375-75939-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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How Tia Lola Came to Stayby Julia AlvarezISBN 0375802150 (0-375-80215-0)
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Jack: A Life Like No Otherby Geoffrey PerretISBN 037576125X (0-375-76125-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Jack and the Leprechaunby Ivan Robertson, Katy BratunISBN 0375803289 (0-375-80328-9)
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Jamaica Innby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0380000725 (0-380-00072-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jamaica Inn'Book summary:Jamaica Inn is a true classic. After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan travels to Jamaica Inn on the wild British moors to live with her Aunt Patience. The coachman warns her of the strange happenings there, but Mary is committed to remain at Jamaica Inn. Suddenly, her life is in the hands of strangers: her uncle, Joss Merlyn, whose crude ways repel her; Aunt Patience, who seems mentally unstable and perpetually frightened; and the enigmatic Francis Davey. But most importantly, Mary meets Jem Merlyn, Joss's younger brother, whose kisses make her heart race. Caught up in the danger at this inn of evil repute, Mary must survive murder, mystery, storms, and smugglers before she can build a life with Jem. [via]
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Joan of Arcby Nancy Wilson RossISBN 0375802320 (0-375-80232-0)
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Johnny Appleseed: My Storyby David Lee Harrison, Mike WohnoutkaISBN 0375812474 (0-375-81247-4)
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The Kidnapped Princeby Olaudah Equiano, Ann CameronISBN 0375803467 (0-375-80346-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kidnapped Prince'Book summary:Kidnapped at the age of 11 from his home in Benin, Africa, Olaudah Equiano spent the next 11 years as a slave in England, the U.S., and the West Indies, until he was able to buy his freedom. His autobiography, published in 1789, was a bestseller in its own time. Cameron has modernized and shortened it while remaining true to the spirit of the original. It's a gripping story of adventure, betrayal, cruelty, and courage. In searing scenes, Equiano describes the savagery of his capture, the appalling conditions on the slave ship, the auction, and the forced labor. . . . Kids will read this young man's story on their own; it will also enrich curriculum units on history and on writing. [via]
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Knights and Castles: A Nonfiction Companion to the Knight at Dawnby Will Osborne, Mary OsborneISBN 0375802975 (0-375-80297-5)
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When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #2: The Knight at Dawn, they had lots of questions. How were castles built? What was it like to live inside a castle? How did boys train to become knights? Did horses really wear armor? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. [via]More editions of Knights and Castles: A Nonfiction Companion to the Knight at Dawn:
The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of America's First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler's Europeby McKay JenkinsISBN 0375759514 (0-375-75951-4)
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Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writingsby Robert G. O'Meally, Ralph EllisonISBN 0375760237 (0-375-76023-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartlandby Tom BrokawISBN 0375759352 (0-375-75935-2)
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The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt : The Astonishing and Unlikely True Story of One of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Paleontological Discoveriesby William NothdurftISBN 0375759794 (0-375-75979-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Lyra's Oxfordby Philip PullmanISBN 0375828192 (0-375-82819-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lyra's Oxford'Book summary:Attention all serious book collectors and fans of Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials. This undoubtedly beautiful packagecloth-bound in a classy red and adorned by numerous illustrations by master engraver and illustrator John Lawrenceis a must-purchase. A pint-sized pocket volume, Lyras Oxford packages together a short story set in the same universe as his famous trilogy, a fold-out map of the alternate-reality city of Oxford, a short brochure for a cruise to The Levant aboard the S.S. Zenobia, and a postcard from the inventor of the amber spyglass, Mary Malone. Pullman, in his introduction, suggests that the peripheral items within "might be connected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories that havent appeared yet. Its difficult to tell."
A very sumptuous and lovingly crafted but tantalizingly brief book , Lyras Oxford begins when Lyra and Pantalaimon spot a witchs daemon called Ragi being pursued over the rooftops of Oxford by a frenzied pack of birds. The daemon heads straight for Lyra (the creature was given Lyras name as somebody who might help) and is given shelter. Together Lyra and Pan try to guide the daemon to the home of Sebastian Makepeacean alchemist living in a part of Oxford known as Jerichobut it is a journey fraught with more danger than they had at first anticipated. (Age 10 and over) --John McLay [via]
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Meet Thomas Jeffersonby Marvin Barrett, John EdensISBN 0375812113 (0-375-81211-3)
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The Mercury 13: the True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flightby Martha AckmannISBN 0375758933 (0-375-75893-3)
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The Mildenhall Treasureby Roald Dahl, Ralph Steadman, Simon BoughtonISBN 0375810358 (0-375-81035-8)
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Mythologyby Neil Philip, Neil PhillipISBN 0375801359 (0-375-80135-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythology'Book summary:From the mighty Zeus of Ancient Greece to the trickster Coyote of Native America, a host legendary icons spring to life in this comprehensive overview of world mythology. With a cultural and topical approach, Mythology examines the various interpretations of phenomena such as creation, afterlife, deities, and heroes from the Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Native American, Asian, Celtic, African, Maya, Inca, and Hindu traditions. Stunning color photographs and a rich array of artifacts and renderings highlight the influence of mythology on the arts and world religions. [via]
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Night Soldiersby Alan FurstISBN 0375760008 (0-375-76000-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Soldiers'Book summary:Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalins purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates
the European world of 193445: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel, a work on a grand scale. [via]More editions of Night Soldiers:
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane Austen, Robert KielyISBN 0375759174 (0-375-75917-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Olympic Gamesby Chris Oxlade, David BallheimerISBN 0375802223 (0-375-80222-3)
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Outbreak Plagues That Changed History: Plagues That Changed Historyby Bryn BarnardISBN 037592986X (0-375-92986-X)
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Outbreak!: Plagues That Changed Historyby Bryn BarnardISBN 0375829865 (0-375-82986-5)
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 0375761136 (0-375-76113-6)
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Pirates: A Nonfiction Companion to Pirates Past Noonby Sal Murdocca, Will Osborne, Mary Osborne, Sal TmurdoccaISBN 0375802991 (0-375-80299-1)
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The Poles in America 1608-1972: A Chronology and Fact Bookby Frank RenkiewiczISBN 0379005026 (0-379-00502-6)
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The Ruby in the Smokeby Philip PullmanISBN 0375825452 (0-375-82545-2)
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Sabertooth Tigers and the Ice Age: A Nonfiction Companion to Sunset of the Sabertoothby Natalie Boyce, Mary Pope Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0375823808 (0-375-82380-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sabertooth Tigers and the Ice Age: A Nonfiction Companion to Sunset of the Sabertooth'Book summary:Magic Tree House Research Guides are now Magic Tree House Fact Trackers! Track the facts with Jack and Annie!
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #7: Sunset of the Sabertooth, they had lots of questions. What was it like to live in the Ice Age? How did early humans stay warm enough to survive? Who made the first cave paintings? What happened to saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. [via]More editions of Sabertooth Tigers and the Ice Age: A Nonfiction Companion to Sunset of the Sabertooth:
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Season Of The Sandstormsby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0375830324 (0-375-83032-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Season of the Sandstorms'Book summary:Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East at the behest of Merlin who has given them a rhyme to help on their mission. There they meet a Bedouin tribe and learn about the way that they live. From camel rides and oases to ancient writings and dangerous sandstorms, heres another Magic Tree House filled with all the mystery, history, magic, and old-fashioned adventure that kids love to read about.
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Snowby Manya StojicISBN 0375823484 (0-375-82348-4)
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Spy: The Inside Story of How the Fbi's Robert Hanssen Betrayed Americaby David WiseISBN 0375758941 (0-375-75894-1)
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Stage Fright on a Summer Nightby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0375806113 (0-375-80611-3)
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Terrierby Tamora PierceISBN 037581468X (0-375-81468-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Terrier'Book summary:Tamora Pierce has been creating strong, appealing heroines for teen fantasy fans for years, creating 2 main universes to house her multiple series. With Terrier, Pierce returns to the Tortall universe (home to her Song of the Lioness, Immortals, Protector of the Small, and Daughter of the Lioness series). Want to learn more? Read an exclusive essay from Tamora Pierce below. --Daphne Durham
An Essay from Tamora Pierce
Sixteen-year-old Beka Cooper lives far removed from knights, palaces, and the nobility. Her world revolves around thieves, beggars, taverns, and the lowest of the low. She's a trainee for the Provost's Guarda rookie cop, in a world where a cop makes her own name based on her personality, her attitude toward money, and her love of the law. Beka means to prove that she is out to make her mark in this hard and physical world.
She does face a large obstacle. She's shy. Painfully shy. Left to her own devices, she would have no friends. It's hard for her to talk to people she doesn't know. It's a problem for the Guards who train her, a real problem for Bekaunless she can figure out that a uniform is a kind of costume, one she can hide behind. One that will make her a more outspoken person. It will help a lot if people come to realize that under her shyness is a clever, determined young woman. It will help even more if she can make friends who can give her good advice. Luckily, she has one such friend living with her in her slum apartment: a purple-eyed black cat named Pounce. He can make himself understood in human speech if he wishes to. He's capable of doing weirdly intelligent things to help his young companion Beka. With Pounce to assist her, Beka cannot have an ordinary career.
Beka tells her own story in a journal that she keeps from her very first day as a Puppy. The Guards are dubbed "Dogs" in her time and their trainees are called "Puppies." In its pages she writes of her days with her training Dogs, the pair who are to teach her what they know of survival on the streets in the city's toughest slum. Both are veterans. Tunstall is an easygoing, funny man who can be a little crazy in a fight. Goodwin is a small, tough woman who is opposed to Beka's presence at the beginning, a hard Dog and a smart one. They take charge when Beka brings them word of two vicious sets of crimes. Like everyone else in Beka's life, her partners find out that once Beka gets a case in her teeth, she hangs onto it like a terrier until it's been solved.
I have all kinds of reasons why I went to the past of the Alanna books. In part I wanted to show how present-day Tortall came to be. I also knew George's fans would welcome any kind of return to the Lower City, even if it wasn't the Lower City of his time. I wanted to get away from the courts and nobility, the setting for so many of the Tortall books thus far. Since I didn't want to show any of the characters I've come to love as being old or even dead, I couldn't write books in the future of the current Tortall. I turned to the past, and I'm pretty sure my readers will be glad I did! --Tamora Pierce
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Thanksgiving on Thursdayby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0375806156 (0-375-80615-6)
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Thomas Jefferson's Feastby Frank Murphy, Richard WalzISBN 0375822895 (0-375-82289-5)
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Three Soldiersby John Dos PassosISBN 0375760865 (0-375-76086-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Soldiers'Book summary:Part of the generation that produced Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos wrote one of the most grimly honest portraits of World War I. Three Soldiers portrays the lives of a trio of army privates: Fuselli, an Italian American store clerk from San Francisco; Chrisfield, a farm boy from Indiana; and Andrews, a musically gifted Harvard graduate from New York. Hailed as a masterpiece on its original publication in 1921, Three Soldiers is a gripping exploration of fear and ambition, conformity and rebellion, desertion and violence, and the brutal and dehumanizing effects of a regimented war machine on ordinary soldiers. [via]
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The Tiger in the Wellby Philip PullmanISBN 0375825479 (0-375-82547-9)
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Time Annual 1993: The Year in Reviewby TimeISBN 037601914X (0-376-01914-X)
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The Toilers of the Seaby Victor Hugo, James Hogarth, Graham RobbISBN 0375761322 (0-375-76132-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Toilers of the Sea'Book summary:In 1855, fleeing political persecution, Victor Hugo found sanctuary on the Isle of Guernsey, among the most historic and picturesque of the Channel Islands. The legends and lore of the islands sparked Hugo's imagination, resulting in one of his most unusual works. Setting mythical, romantic, and social themes against a backdrop of memorable descriptions, The Toilers of the Sea is a novel of epic proportions, brought to light in a new Signet Classic edition. [via]
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Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Electionby Jeffrey ToobinISBN 0375761071 (0-375-76107-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election'Book summary:From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history.
Packed with news-making disclosures and written with the drive of a legal thriller, Too Close to Call takes us inside James Baker's private jet, through the locked gates to Al Gore's mansion, behind the covered-up windows of Katherine Harris's office, and even into the secret conference room of the United States Supreme Court. As the scene shifts from Washington to Austin and into the remote corners of the enduringly strange Sunshine State, Toobin's book will transform what you thought you knew about the most extraordinary political drama in American history.
The Florida recount unfolded in a kaleidoscopic maze of bizarre concepts (chads, pregnant and otherwise), unfamiliar people in critically important positions (the Florida Supreme Court), and familiar people in surprising new places (the Miami relatives of Elián González, in a previously undisclosed role in this melodrama). With the rich characterization that is his trademark, Toobin portrays the prominent strategists who masterminded the campaigns--the Daleys and the Roves--and also the lesser-known but influential players who pulled the strings, as well as the judges and justices whose decisions determined the final outcome. Toobin gives both camps a treatment they have not yet received--remarkably evenhanded, nonpartisan, and entirely new.
The post-election period posed a challenge to even the most zealous news junkie: how to keep up with what was happening and sort out the important from the trivial. Jeffrey Toobin has now done this--and then some. With clarity, insight, humor, and a deep understanding of the law, he deconstructs the events, the players, and the often Byzantine intricacies of our judicial system. A remarkable account of one of the most significant periods in our country's history, Too Close to Call is endlessly surprising, frequently poignant, and wholly addictive.
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Ugby Raymond BriggsISBN 0375816119 (0-375-81611-9)
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Unicornsby Lucille Recht Penner, Mel GrantISBN 0375830081 (0-375-83008-1)
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V Is for Victory : America Remembers World War IIby Kathleen KrullISBN 0375816003 (0-375-81600-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'V Is for Victory : America Remembers World War II'Book summary:A World War II scrapbook of stories, photos, posters, letters home, and other memorabilia for the whole family to share again and again.
Krull delivers a first-rate commemorative volume. Eminently readable, it showcases her talent for distilling history to its anecdotal best and gives a wide-ranging view of the key players and events of this pivotal era in recent history. From Hitler and Roosevelt to Anne Frank, from Rosie the Riveter to Tokyo Rose, from rationing to espionage, Krull spotlights the many dramas played out on the global stage. She augments her impressive writing with strong visual material, including maps, newspaper headlines, artifacts, posters, and hundreds of vintage photographs (many of them unflinching, including those of concentration camp inmates and other victims of the war). Whether for browsing or close study, this is an extraordinary reference book that should be snapped up by parents and teachers alike. Of equal interest to young readers and adults.
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0375759239 (0-375-75923-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Washington Squareby Henry James, James Danly, Cynthia OzickISBN 0375761225 (0-375-76122-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Washington Square'Book summary:Washington Square follows the coming-of-age of its plain-faced, kindhearted heroine, Catherine Sloper. Much to her fathers vexation, a handsome opportunist named Morris Townsend woos the long-suffering heiress, intent on claiming her fortune. When Catherine stubbornly refuses to call off her engagement, Dr. Sloper forces Catherine to choose between her inheritance and the only man she will ever truly love. Cynthia Ozick, in her Introduction to what she calls Henry Jamess most American fiction, writes that every line, every paragraph, every chapter [of Washington Square] is a fleet-footed light brigade, an engine of irony. Precise and understated, this charming novel endures as a matchless study of New York in the mid-nineteenth century. [via]
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Whittingtonby Alan W. Armstrong, S.D. SchindlerISBN 0375828656 (0-375-82865-6)
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Women Sailors and Sailors' Womenby David CordinglyISBN 0375758720 (0-375-75872-0)
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The Wrong Man : The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Caseby James NeffISBN 0375761055 (0-375-76105-5)
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Antes De Ser Libresby Julia Alvarez, Liliana ValenzuelaISBN 0375815457 (0-375-81545-7)
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Cuando Tia Lola Vino (De Visita) a Quedarseby Julia Alvarez, Liliana ValenzuelaISBN 037581552X (0-375-81552-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cuando Tia Lola Vino (De Visita) a Quedarse'Book summary:With her brilliantly hued flower-print dresses, her maracas and tambor, and the migrating beauty mark over her lipsticked mouth, Tia Lola stands out in Vermont like a tropical bird in a snowstorm. Her nephew, 10-year-old Miguel, just wants to fit in to his new home. He and his mother and sister have just moved here from New York following his parents' divorce. With his black hair and brown skin, it's hard enough already without the flamboyant antics of his friendly, nutty aunt, visiting from the Dominican Republic. But even while she is dancing her merengues in front of his new friends and painting the white farmhouse purple, Tia Lola is also weaving a magical spell of love and support that Miguel and his wounded family sorely need. Miguel's growing appreciation for his crazy aunt's ways, and the entire town's admiration and respect for an outsider who, without even speaking the same language, wins the hearts of all, is a funny, uplifting story.
Julia Alvarez is the author of many award-winning novels, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, and the picture book The Secret Footprints. She writes with a warmth and humor that crosses all boundaries. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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