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1) Artifice
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend Truus smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it's hard to know who to trust.
Author
Publisher
Oliver Arts & Open Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
George Haskel, a retired professor of German literature, decides to found an institute to promote dullness, as a counterpoint to the hustling celebrity culture of contemporary America. The venture soon attracts a number of brilliant misfits, who transform the project into a political movement, the Authentic Party, that ultimately swells to 8 million members. Events begin to overtake George and his merry band, as luminaries such as Bill Maher, Woody...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.
With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen:
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
עברית
Formats
Description
God of the piano: Anat has never been able to reach her father's exacting musical standards, and now her family's hope of producing a musical prodigy rests on her unborn son. When the baby is born deaf, she cannot accept it and resorts to extreme measures to ensure that her child will be the composer that her father always wanted. But when the boy grows up indifferent to his destiny as a great pianist, Anat will have to stand up to her father, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A digital-culture expert who writes for The New York Times Magazine discusses the logic, aesthetics, cultural potential and societal impact of the Internet, a medium that favors speed, accuracy, wit, prolificacy and versatility, --NoveList. Cultural critic Virginia Heffernan illuminates the logic, aesthetics, and mysteries of the Internet. Heffernan sees the digital revolution as one of the great developments of human civilization. Magic and Loss...
10) Reuse this book!
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A paper-over-board interactive picture book with sturdy pages that introduces younger readers to recycling, resources, Earth science, and conservation. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Revitalize. Learn how budding environmentalists can help take care of the Earth with the interactive story Reuse This Book! Can you tap the seeds to help them grow? Tilt the book to water the tree? Trace the path of the bumblebee? Bold collage art made from reused mixed media...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scott Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages. Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of "power morphemes"-unnaturally dense units of meaning that warp perception when...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history.
Highly recommended. Editor's choice.--Video Librarian
13) Final set
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Once described as a young professional tennis prodigy, Thomas never had the career in the game he had hoped for. At 37, he decides to return to the French Open at Rolland Garros, despite his declining physical fitness and a shattered knee. Although his wife Eve and mother Judith advise him to give up on his unlikely ambition, Thomas obsessively perseveres. He will have to face his demons as well as the intense competitive qualifying rounds to reach...
14) Cocoon
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Nora, a shy fourteen-year-old with a troubled mother and boy-crazy older sister, must face the many tribulations of adolescence on her own. During one memorable but blistering hot summer, she gets her period for the first time, falls in love with another girl, has her heart broken, and, inevitably, learns to stand up for herself. Shot with a deep understanding of teenage desires, COCOON is a "seductive and well-acted"(The Guardian) sun-soaked tale...
Author
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"University student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto encounter one chilling mystery after another. There’s the enigmatic neighbor woman dressed in black from head to toe—but if she’s so odd, why does it seems like there are many others like her? Then, whose eyes track Mimi’s movements from the cemetery next door? And why does a bizarre red circle drawn on a basement wall change with each passing day? Nine scary stories that really happened, drawn...
16) Resistance
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
121 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although their father is in a German P.O.W. camp, Paul and Marie are barely touched by World War II in Vichy, France, in 1942. But, when their friend Henri's parents disappear, the children decide to hide their Jewish friend from the Nazis and soon find themselves involved in the French Resistance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of the most famous leaders of the Chicano civil rights movement, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, was a multifaceted and charismatic, bigger-than-life hero who inspired his followers not only by taking direct political action but also by making eloquent speeches, writing incisive essays, and creating the kind of socially engaged poetry and drama that could be communicated easily throughout the barrios of Aztlan, the communities populated by Chicanos...
18) Winter flies
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Police interrogate fourteen-year-old Mára at the station after he is caught behind the wheel far across country from where he lives. He and somewhat eccentric Heduš had set out for the frozen landscape down south to seek adventure, but the mischievous breeziness with which Mára gives his story, and his concealment of the details of the trip, gradually strip his statement of credibility.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxi, 308 pages illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the self-described "Poet of Code" who has had a lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art-disciplines that, she felt, pushed the boundaries of reality. After tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Tennessee, to developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow, Buolamwini eventually found herself at MIT. As a graduate student at the "Future Factory," Buolamwini's groundbreaking research revealed...
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