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Mice of the Round Table volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A mysterious new threat sparks a dangerous quest in book two of the epic middle grade series Booklist called "a charming blend of Arthurian legend and Brian Jacques' Redwall series." Young mouse Calib Christopher has nearly completed his training to become a squire to the Knights of the Round Table when news of a deadly plague comes to the castle. Soon all of Camelot is showing signs of the illness, animals and humans alike. Desperate to find a cure,...
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Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept , comes a novel of group therapy with a cast of memorably wounded characters struggling to heal pain and change lives Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier....
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Part of the spell has already been broken. The first stones have begun to crumble. In Artie Kingfisher's world, wizards named Merlin, fire-breathing dragons, and swords called Excalibur exist only in legends and lore-until the day his video game Otherworld springs to life. You are special, Arthur, Says the mysterious message in his game. In one week's time you will come to me at the it. Cryptic clues lead Artie to a strange place called the Invisible...
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of works on everyone's favorite gentleman sleuth: Sherlock Holmes. This compendium of Sherlockiana compiled by Vincent Starrett, one of the world's foremost Holmes experts, is sure to please fans everywhere. Enjoy scholarly works on such topics as: "Was Sherlock Holmes an American?," "On the Emotional Geology of Baker Street," "Dr. Watson's Secret," "The Care and Feeding of Sherlock Holmes," and "The Other Boarder." Featured...
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English
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Don't be a Donkey is a true story about the life and career of Chef Chadd McArthur. It is about the lessons, about both kitchen and life, that he learned while working for Gordon Ramsay. Eighteen hours a day, five days a week ... when you work with a great chef and leader that much, his wisdom will rub off on you, and at times traumatize you. The lessons learned will stick with Chef McArthur for the rest of his life, and now, with funny stories and...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the flea market nine-and-a-half-year-old Chase and his younger sister Ava acquire an old suitcase filled with rows of carefully packed strange objects, and when they handle one of the objects (a dragon-headed doorknob) they find themselves in King Arthur's castle, on a mission to save the King--and pursued by a strange man whom they first saw at the flea market, who is after their suitcase.--
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Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Stories of the knights who gathered around Arthur's great table and their adventures in the wide world. Around the round table there was always one seat which remained empty, a place left for the one who would one day attain the grail and redeem and restore the land. It was known as the Seat Perilous, and anyone who sat there undeservedly would be consumed by fire. These are the untold stories of the knights who went out into the world to prove themselves...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fans of Percy Jackson will devour this first book in Dianne K. Salerni's time-bending series that combines exciting magic and pulse-pounding suspense. In this riveting fantasy adventure, thirteen-year-old Jax Aubrey discovers a secret eighth day with roots tracing back to Arthurian legend. When Jax wakes up to a world without any people in it, he assumes it's the zombie apocalypse. But when he runs into his eighteen-year-old guardian, Riley Pendare,...
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English
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In this enchanting version of the story of King Arthur, the renowned American illustrator and storyteller Howard Pyle displays his unique talent for capturing and stimulating the imaginations of the young. Inventively retold and vividly illustrated, these stories describe the perilous and thrilling adventures of King Arthur and his knights in that glorious age of chivalry and honor. After showing how Arthur established his right to the throne by drawing...
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Language
English
Description
"The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877-1959), a founder of welfare economics and one of the twentieth century's most important and original thinkers. Though long overshadowed by his intellectual rival John Maynard Keynes, Pigou was instrumental in focusing economics on the public welfare. And his reputation is experiencing a renaissance today, in part because his idea of "externalities"...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration, which encompassed the years 1890 until the end of World War I. The acclaim for the artist's wealth of color illustrations has overshadowed the merit of his first-rate ink work, a genre richly deserving of individual attention. This original volume, the first available collection of Rackham's line art, features images from throughout...
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Language
English
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Arthur Briggs's life was Homeric in scope. Born on the the tiny island of Grenada, he set sail for Harlem during the Renaissance, then to Europe in the aftermath of WWI, where he was among the first pioneers to introduce jazz music to the world. During the legendary Jazz Age in Paris, Briggs's trumpet provided the soundtrack while Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the rest of the Lost Generation got drunk. By the 1930s, Briggs was considered the Louis Armstrong...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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"Mark Twain's classic satirical tale of time travel and Arthurian legend Hank Morgan is a supervisor at a firearms factory in Hartford, Connecticut. Following a violent argument with a man named Hercules, Hank is surprised to find himself under an oak tree, staring up at a man on horseback in full armor. The year is 528, and Hank has somehow landed in King Arthur's Court in Camelot. Worse still, Hank is ridiculed by the boorish knights, brought in...
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Language
English
Description
At times, even his admirers seemed unsure of what to do with General Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and vain, MacArthur matched an undeniable military genius with a massive ego and a rebellious streak that often seemed to destine him for the dustbin of history. Yet despite his flaws, MacArthur is remembered as a brilliant commander whose combined-arms operation in the Pacific, the first in the history of warfare, secured America's triumph...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Prominent Sherlockians have collected all of the facts, trivia, and quotes that remind readers why Sherlock Holmes is such an important literary creationExploring the fascinating and enigmatic world of Sherlock Holmes, this miscellany examines his place in literary history, his popularity, and how he has become the iconic, timeless character who is loved by millions. Along with facts, trivia, and quotes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary stories...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Brilliant detective Mycroft Holmes-Sherlock's older brother-tackles cases beyond life and death in this reimagining of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mystery series. When London grows stifling, Mycroft Holmes and his assistant, Sydney Silchester, flee to the English countryside. They rent a charming little house whose sprawling garden boasts a pond, trees, sculpture-and an irresistible mystery. When a dead man is found in the backyard, sitting in...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"With Idylls of the King , one of the giants of Victorian literature turned his considerable talents to the chivalric lore surrounding a larger-than-life British ruler, King Arthur. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, cast his interpretation of Arthurian myth into the form of an epic poem, and his tales of Camelot soar to remarkable imaginative heights to trace the birth of a king; the founding, fellowship, and decline of the Round Table; and the king's inevitable...
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Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Sherlock Holmes takes to the stage for the sake of a beleaguered actress Sherlock Holmes can tell the woman pacing outside of 221B Baker Street is an actress. She mutters to herself and practices gestures in preparation for her meeting with the world-famous detective. It's a matter of life, death, and theater. Flora Adler has come on behalf of her father--the American impresario Florenz Adler, who turned Times Square into a circus, staged Wagner...
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Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A string of murders threatens to draw Sherlock Holmes back into his past It has been too long since his last assignment, and Sherlock Holmes is beginning to come unglued. He stalks around his rooms at 221B Baker Street, too tense to work, and he is about to drive Dr. Watson up the wall when they are rescued by a knock at the door. It is Inspector Lestrade from Scotland Yard, and he has come to save Holmes--with a murder. A man has been found dead...
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