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A time to love: stories from the Old Testament (Other or No Series)
Par Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers. 2003
A retelling from the perspective of teenage characters of six Bible episodes exploring the complexities of love. Includes the stories…
of Delilah, Reuben, Naomi, Isaac, Zillah, and Aser. For junior and senior high readers. 2003Muhammad: a biography of the prophet
Par Karen Armstrong. 1992
Prolific writer on the Middle East examines the religious beliefs of the founder of Islam. Investigates the West's distorted view…
of the Muslim faith and traces the life of Muhammad. Explains how "Islam shares many of the ideals and visions that have inspired both Judaism and Christianity." 2001 preface by the author. 1992The deep and other stories
Par Mary Swan. 2003
Canadian writer's evocative collection of fourteen short stories of time and emotion, love and loss. Includes O. Henry Prize-winning "The…
Deep" about twin sisters who volunteer to tend soldiers in France at the close of World War I, and other stories, many of them rooted in history. 2003Jackie's wild Seattle
Par Will Hobbs. 2003
Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her little brother, Cody, who is still coping with witnessing the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on…
New York City, spend the summer helping their uncle Neal at a wildlife rescue center in Washington state. For grades 5-8. 2003Library: an unquiet history
Par Matthew Battles. 2003
Survey by Harvard rare-book specialist of historical events leading to both destruction and proliferation of libraries. Battles laments the burning…
of Alexandria's library in ancient times, then explores preservation of literary culture by monks through medieval ages. Later observations cover Dewey's classification legacy, twentieth-century book bonfires by the Nazis and others, and digital-age challenges. 2003The strange case of Baby H (The American Girl Collection #Bk. 18)
Par Kathryn Reiss. 2002
After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby on the doorstep of her family's boarding house. Clara…
sets about unraveling the mystery of the little girl's arrival--especially since she is disguised as a boy and is believed to have been kidnapped. For grades 4-7. 2002Pocket pets
Par Alvin Silverstein. 2000
Describes ten small pets and how to raise them. Includes common animals such as guinea pigs and rabbits and some…
unusual ones, among them the degu and the duprasi. For grades 4-7. 2000A season of fire: four months on the firelines in the American West
Par Doug Gantenbein. 2003
Reporter describes the forest fires of 2001 that left four firefighters dead in Washington state. Presents an overview of the…
training and deployment of firefighting crews and the methods of preventing and controlling wildfires. Analyzes the disputes between environmentalists, loggers, and the government over tree-thinning policy. Some strong language. 2003Pendulum: Léon Foucault and the triumph of science
Par Amir D Aczel. 2003
Author of The Riddle of the Compass (BR 13785) examines the life of French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819-1868),…
whose pendulum experiments demonstrated the earth's rotation. Centering around 1850s Paris, the chronicle describes the inventor's unlikely partnership with Emperor Napoléon III developed during a time of conflict between science and faith. 2003The Louisiana Purchase (Turning Points In History Ser. #Vol. 2)
Par Thomas J Fleming. 2003
A concise history of the pivotal, $15 million land deal between the United States and France in 1803 that doubled…
America's size and stifled French colonial ambitions in the New World. Fleming depicts the strained relations between the two republics, the political climates surrounding President Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon, and the bargaining process. 2003Blessed are the cheesemakers
Par Sarah-Kate Lynch. 2002
Abbey returns to her grandfather's cheese-making farm in Ireland after twenty-four years of separation. Also arriving is just-fired New York…
stockbroker Kit Stephens, who goes there to dry out and get his life together. The two fall in love at the eccentric homestead. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002Ragtime in Simla
Par Barbara Cleverly. 2002
Himalayas, 1922. British detective Joe Sandilands from The Last Kashmiri Rose (BR 14693) is en route to Simla when his…
traveling companion is shot exactly where a year-earlier murder occurred. He investigates local residents, including several conniving English businesswomen--one the sister of the previous victim. Some violence and some strong language. 2002The city of Ember: The First Book of Ember (The City of Ember #1)
Par Jeanne DuPrau. 2003
A city planned to survive for two hundred years, now in year 241, suffers shortages--and a secret message-bearing box is…
missing. Independent-thinking twelve-year-olds Doon and Lina exchange obligatory jobs and make a discovery that could change their known world. For grades 5-8. 2003This vast land: a young man's journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition : a novel
Par Stephen E Ambrose. 2003
Fictionalized diary of eighteen-year-old George Shannon, the youngest member of the exploration crew. During the journey to the Pacific Northwest…
Shannon records becoming lost for two weeks and falling in love with a Native American woman. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2003Winnie-the-Pooh and some bees (Winnie-the-pooh Ser.)
Par Stephen Krensky. 2001
Winnie-the-Pooh, a bear who loves eating honey, follows some bees to their home high in a tree. His plan to…
use a balloon to reach the honey almost succeeds, but not quite. Beginning chapter book adapted from A.A. Milne's original text. For grades 2-4. 2001In my grandmother's house: award-winning authors tell stories about their grandmothers
Par Bonnie Christensen. 2003
Twelve authors describe their fascination with their grandmothers. In "Rhizomes" Minfong Ho wonders how hers coped with leaving China for…
an arranged marriage in Singapore. In "Grandma and Her Needle" Beverly Cleary reminisces about her hat-making grandmother. For junior and senior high readers. 2003Lunch at the Piccadilly: a novel
Par Clyde Edgerton. 2003
Bachelor Carl Turnage visits his favorite aunt during her convalescence at a North Carolina nursing home. But Aunt Lil and…
some friends there crave adventure and find it when they steal a car. Meanwhile Carl joins a preacher's band at the home and attempts romance with a social worker. Some strong language. 2003Horsemen of terror
Par Jerry B Jenkins. 2002
In this sequel to Escape from New Babylon (RC 57483, BR 15187), Judd's life changes forever as he is forced…
to endure a test from God all alone. At the schoolhouse, Vicki's worst fears are realized as the Global Community sets in motion a plan to trap believers. For grades 5-8. 2002Wildfire!
Par Jerry B Jenkins. 2002
Vicki and the kids in Wisconsin seek a new hiding place. In Illinois Natalie Bishop, a Morale Monitor, works to…
free prisoners of the Global Community. In New Babylon Lionel and Judd hope singer Z-Van will see behind the Antichrist. Sequel to The Beast Arises (RC 57493, BR 15191). For grades 5-8. 2003Breakout!: believers in danger
Par Jerry B Jenkins. 2003
Vicki and other Trib members risk their lives to save believers held by the Global Community. Z-Van receives Carpathia's loyalty…
mark. But the entire Trib Force faces extreme danger by refusing to accept that mark. Sequel to The Mark of the Beast (RC 57503, BR 15193). For grades 5-8. 2003