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Quenelda has always had a magical bond with dragons, and her greatest wish is to fly one and fight alongside…
her father in the war against the hobgoblins. Root, on the other hand, wishes only to avoid the fearsome creatures, so the role of Quenelda's esquire is the last thing he needs. But an unexpected friendship is forged, and when Dragons Dome is besieged by a deadly plot, this unlikely duo must find a way to defeat the dark forces. Grades 4-7. 2009.
Jimmy Stewart went to school at thirteen and he was sure he wasn't going to like it. First he got…
into trouble with the masters and then with the boys. Big trouble. Because Jimmy tangled with Fagso Brown, the tough gang leader who terrorised the school with his 'protection racket'. Jimmy took lessons in judo - to be ready for the big clash when it came. Grades 5-8. 1968.
In post-war Ireland, young Molly Hassard and her upper-class Anglo-English family live in genteel poverty. In order to change their…
fortunes, Molly and her cousin Sophie eventually relocate to England. But Molly misses the Irish traditions and longs to return to rekindle her secret love for a fellow countryman. 1998.
When Joseph Drayton, head of the family, refuses to let his sister marry and sends her suitor packing, he little…
knows what turmoil he is creating for the future. For Jessica is pregnant by her lover, and her predicament has far-reaching consequences in the close-knit community of the Staffordshire village of Butslem. 1985.
History teacher Tertuliano wakes up find a video playing on his VCR, and one of the actors is the spitting…
image of Tertuliano as he was five years ago. Tertuliano, divorced, lonely, and depressed, is susceptible to becoming obsessed, which he quickly becomes. He decides to track down the actor who is his double, with disturbing, even dire, consequences. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2004. Uniform title: Homem duplicado.
Old Linn is to be the teacher of 13-year-old Artos. Doubting that he can capture the boy's attention, Linn constructs…
a fire-breathing dragon as a facade. A retelling of the Arthurian legend. Grades 4-7. 1990.
No Prime Minister of modern times has sought to change Britain and its place in the world as radically as…
Margaret Thatcher. Her government, she says, was about the application of a philosophy, not the implementation of an administrative programme. She sets out here with forcefulness and conviction the reasons for her beliefs and how she sought to turn them into action. 1993.
In his latest assignment, Saboteur Extraordinary Jorj X. McKie is sent to planet Dosadi to investigate an experiment that has…
gotten out of hand. Humans and Gowachin have been confined there in overcrowded conditions, and an interstellar war is imminent. Companion to "Whipping Star". c1977.
A witty social history of the parade of American heiresses who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, captured…
aristocratic European husbands by their fortunes and their charms. Includes such foster princesses as Consuelo Vanderbilt, Nancy Shaw, Anna Gould, Winnaretta Singer, and many others. 1980.
An American journalist learns of a dossier, kept in Moscow, that could topple a former French Resistance hero who now…
is running for the presidency of France. Some strong language. 1984.
Ten-year-old Ashley Cummings and her mother move into an apartment on the top floor of an old house. At eighty-eight,…
its owner, Miss Cooper, has become a grumpy old woman. She doesn't like cats and even though most of her lawn is very neat, there is a patch at the back that is overgrown with weeds. It isn't long before Ashley discovers why. Grades 4-7. 1989.
Believing that "the first reports of the great discoveries of science are works of art," Lightman has selected 25 "breakthrough"…
papers in fields ranging from quantum physics to molecular biology, medicine, and cosmology. Each is introduces with an essay on the life of each scientist and the significance of their discovery, being sensitive to the suffering of Jewish German scientists under the Nazis and of women scientists in the days of institutionalized misogyny. Includes papers by Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Henrietta Leavitt, Linus Pauling, Edwin Hubble, and Barbara McClintock. 2005.
As a nurse-midwife in Amish country, Amber Bradley helps expectant mothers have their babies safely at home. But when Hope…
Springs' new doctor arrives, he insists all maternity patients deliver at a hospital. Amber is determined to show Dr. Phillip White that the Amish have a different way of life, one he needs to respect if he expects any patients at all. But even as he becomes more a part of the community, Amber must remember his stay is just temporary. Unless she can convince Phillip he's found the home--and heart--he's always been looking for. 2010.
Thomas is a fifteen year old traveller, a professional guide to the old trade routes across Asia. He is asked…
to go further east than any traveller has been, in search of the legendary kingdom of Prester John. Thomas agrees on one condition - that he may have a donkey to go with him. But Ears is no ordinary donkey. Grades 5-8. 1983.
Peter Matty of Matty Books Ltd. is definitely not himself - morose, absent-minded and obviously worried. He has good reason:…
someone is sabotaging a very pleasant little affair he has set up for the summer ahead and the pointers are growing sinister. A total of three dead bodies await him before he can solve this particularly intricate puzzle. 1982.
For diabetics, diet is more than a lifestyle choice - it's the key to controlling the course of their disease.…
Many struggle to maintain a healthy weight because the guidelines of the American Diabetes Association are unhelpful in regulating blood sugar - the critical component in keeping diabetes in check. Dr. Bernstein provides a low-carbohydrate approach that has enabled his patients, and himself, to take control of their disease. 2005.