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1) Eastbound
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this swirling, gripping tale, a young Russian conscript and a French woman come together in a crowded compartment of the Trans-Siberian railroad, each of them fleeing to the east for their own reasons"--
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
During the summer holiday Louis and his younger brother spend two weeks with their dad, who appears to have stopped drinking, but a close call with a bee sting brings their mother and the quartet spend a few days together before everything starts back up again.
Author
Language
English
Description
"An impressive coming-of-age novel and a gripping investigation into the life of a mysterious author. A prolific novel and a true ode to literature in the vein of Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives, written by one of the most prominent figures in contemporary literature. In 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book in Paris, published in 1938 and entitled Le labyrinthe de l'inhumain (The Maze of Inhumanity)....
Author
Publisher
Etch, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Starring a resourceful young boy, this full-color graphic combines thrilling adventure, daring feats, and humor in a magical quest story"--
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles inspiring women--some who are world famous and some who are little knownin graphic format, including Nellie Bly, Mae Jemison, Hedy Lamarr, Josephine Baker, and Naziq al-Abid.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Siblings Hocus and Pocus, students at a magical school, investigate the strange disappearance of two children, in a book where the reader's decisions determine the end of the story.
9) Kibogo
Author
Language
English
Description
"In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity. When a rogue priest is defrocked for fusing the gospels with the martyrdom of Kibogo, a fierce clash of cults ensues. Swirling with the heady smell of wet earth and flashes of acerbic humor, Mukasonga brings to life the vital mythologies that imbue the Rwandan...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Three brothers who dream of joining the Royal Order of Knights must solve riddles, learn combat techniques, and gather magical objects, in a book where the reader's decisions determine the end of the story.
11) The open road
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"South of France, 1950: A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of the region between northern Provence and the Alps. He picks up casual work along the way, and spends the winter as the custodian of a walnut oil mill. He also picks up a problematic companion: a card sharp and con man, whom he calls "the Artist." The action moves from place to place, and episode to episode, in truly picaresque fashion. Everything...
12) In his own image
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born in a small town in Corsican countryside, Antonia grows up in a place of deeply-rooted traditions and strong family ties. When she's fourteen, her uncle, a priest, gives her a camera, changing the way she sees the world and igniting a passion for photojournalism. Two decades later, after a tragic accident, Antonia's uncle is forced to reflect on her life and legacy, and on the profound questions both beg about ambition and doubt, passion and guilt,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. It twists around Pierre's decisive judgments about class, nationalism, and beauty, and winds its way towards dissolution and Christine's own birth. Though it's Pierre whose ideas are most often voiced, it's Rachel who slowly comes into view,...
Author
Series
Benot̋ Brisefer volume 2
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
63 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Benny Breakiron, a polite little boy with superhuman strength and speed he uses to help him fight crime, makes friends with Madame Adolphine, an elderly woman who seems to be two different people--one of them nice and the other a thief.
19) The rabbi's cat
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
142 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gaining the ability to speak after swallowing a parakeet, the rabbi's cat uses his newfound talent to tell lies, the consequences of which lead to being banned from contact with the rabbi's daughter and an education in the Torah.
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