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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recalls her experiences coming of age in Fascist Italy during World War II as she, along with her sisters, hid in a convent where she tried to come to terms with her new life while longing to be "just a girl."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvii, 205 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Tillet's cultural criticism blends literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker's National Book Award-winning novel that examines its influence against a backdrop of the civil rights encroachments of the early 1980s"--OCLC.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 282 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Using a combination of moving first-person testimony and previously unseen archival footage, each episode tells the story of an iconic battle, and hones in on the personal experiences of front-line personnel. With these veterans now in their senior years, this may be the last chance to hear their stories of incredible strength and courage during the war.
Author
Series
The American exploration and travel volume 83
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Details the daily lives and adventures of the 1875 Ferdinand V. Hayden survey team, largely through their own personal narratives. The narrative highlights interactions between the surveyors and local indigenous communities, Four Corners region geography, and the American expansionist impulse--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every experience God gives us . . . is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see."--Corrie ten Boom. Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. In World War II she and her family risked their lives to help Jews and underground workers escape from the Nazis, and for their work they were...
9) Calypso
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen other colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds start to boil up, a strange object zooms out of nowhere. It is a drone, and it appears to be buzzing around the balloons, checking them out....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On his regular walk one morning, Spike Carlsen realized there was an entire world outside his front door that he knew nothing about. How does that fire hydrant work, he wondered? Why are street lights shining more brightly than ever before? And, on a more personal level, why does an easy stroll around the neighborhood always leave him feeling more creative and spry, better able to take on the day? A simple walk around the block set Carlsen off on...
12) Disgruntled
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An elegant, vibrant, startling coming-of-age novel, for anyone who's ever felt the shame of being alive Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's Black--most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are too. Maybe it's because she celebrates Kwanzaa, or because she's forbidden from reciting the...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xvii, 356 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Rich with powerful never-before-published details from the author’s interviews with more than 150 U.S. soldiers who liberated the Nazi death camps, The Liberators is an essential addition to the literature of World War II—and a stirring testament to Allied courage in the face of inconceivable...
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