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"When Adebimpe is ten, she is sold with her mother, Sanite, to plantation owner John du Marche. He soon renames her Ady but Sanite never lets her daughter forget who she really is - a person who can read and write and understand numbers. Most importantly, Sanite reminds Ady that she must never reveal these abilities to a white person, especially not her true name. Tasked with maintaining du Marche's home in vibrant New Orleans, Ady takes in the city...
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Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
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2024.
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"Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she's not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell's Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite...
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Lerner Pubns
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2024
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English
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Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! A Sydney Taylor Notable BookWinner of the Crystal Kite AwardTablet Magazine's Best Jewish Kids Books of the YearShoham's bangle jingles and jangles, clinks and clacks.Shoham wears a golden bangle on her wrist, just like her Nana Aziza. Their bangles jingle when they cook, and glitter in the sun. When Shoham and her family must leave Iraq,...
5) African Town
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2022
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Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.Cover may vary.In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along...
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The international bestseller that has touched millions of readers around the world is now available in a deluxe illustrated edition, featuring powerful illustrations by acclaimed artist Oliver Jeffers.Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and...
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2023
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, BookPage
“Dazzling” –Walter Mosley, The New York Times Book...
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, BookPage
“Dazzling” –Walter Mosley, The New York Times Book...
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From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander, comes the first book in a searing, breathtaking trilogy that tells the story of a boy, a village, and the epic odyssey of an African family.
In his village in Upper Kwanta, 11-year-old Kofi loves his family, playing oware with his grandfather and swimming in the river Offin. He’s warned though, to never go to the river at night.
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Dodd Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"George Barr McCutcheon (July 26, 1866 – October 23, 1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include a series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, and the novel Brewster's Millions, which was adapted into a play and several films."
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2023
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La suite de «La reine Margot». Située entre le 9 février 1578 et le 19 août 1579, l'action s'ouvre sur le mariage de Saint-Luc, ex-amant de la reine Margot et favori d'Henri III, rappelé de Pologne pour succéder à Charles IX. Chicot, personnage central de la trilogie, déjoue avec maestria les conspirations contre le roi qui se succèdent. Sur ce fond d'intrigues, se déroule l'histoire des amours de Diane de Méridor, dame de Montsoreau,...
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MICHEL LÉVY FRÈRES, LIBRAIRES ÉDITEURS
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2023
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Septembre 1798. Suite à son retour d'Aboukir où il a vaincu Bonaparte, lord Nelson, accompagné de la flotte britannique, est reçu en triomphateur par la cour de Naples. L'ambassadeur français Garat fait irruption dans cette manifestation d'hostilité anti-française et promet la guerre au Royaume de Naples. Trop vite cependant: le soir même, Salvato Palmieri, agent envoyé de Rome par le général Championnet, et qui devait l'informer de la...
12) Le Bossu
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LEIPZIG, ALPHONSE DÜRR, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR
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2023
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Français
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Un grand classique du roman de cape et d'épée. Vous connaissez tous l'histoire de Lagardère, par les multiples films qui ont été faits. Pourquoi ne pas lire l'original ?...
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Calmann-Lévy
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2023
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Français
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Anatole France, pour l'état civil François Anatole Thibault1, né le 16 avril 1844 à Paris et mort le 12 octobre 1924 à Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (Indre-et-Loire), est un écrivain français. Il est considéré comme l’un des plus grands de l'époque de la Troisième République, dont il a également été un des plus importants critiques littéraires.
Il devient une des consciences les plus significatives de son temps en s’engageant en faveur...
15) Woman and Puppet
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Greening & Co., Limited
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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In Spain the Carnival does not finish, as in France, at eight o’clock on the morning of Ash Wednesday. Over the wonderful gaiety of Seville the memory that “dust we are,” etc., spreads its odour of sepulture for four days only, and the first Sunday of Lent all the Carnival reawakens.
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William Blackwood and Sons
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2023
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English
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Dariel: a romance of Surrey is a novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1897. It is an adventure story set initially in Surrey before the action moves to the Caucasian mountains. The story is narrated by George Cranleigh, a farmer who falls in love with Dariel, the daughter of a Caucasian prince. Dariel was the last of Blackmore's novels, published just over two years before his death. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
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2023
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English
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"It had been a great day for the children at Hope Center the closing day of school, the last of the term, the last of the week. The larger boys and girls had spent the morning decorating the "big" room, which was to be the assembly-room. At the Center they were still quite primitive. There were many old or rather elderly people very much opposed to "putting on airs." Boys and girls went to school together, but they wouldn't have called it co-education....
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The Copp Clark Company Ltd.
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2023
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English
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'These narrow, cramped streets torture me! I must get out of this place or I shall go mad. The country, with its rolling fields and great stretches of calm sky helps a little, but nothing except the ocean will satisfy my spirit. Five years have gone now, and I am still penned up in this miserable hole, with no power to go abroad, save for a cruise up the Channel, or a run south along the coast. If matters do not change, I think I shall quietly weigh...
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The MacMillan Co.
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2023
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English
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I was born in London on the eighteenth of June, 1815. The battle of Waterloo was being fought as I entered this world. Thousands were giving up their lives at the moment that life was being bestowed upon me. My father was in that great battle. Would he ever return? My mother was but eighteen years of age. Anxiety for his safety, the exhaustion of giving me life prostrated her delicate constitution. She died as I was being born.
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