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Sound the jubilee: And Other Prehistoric Creatures
By Sandra Forrester, Jan Pienkowski. 1995
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Historical fictionDinosaurs, General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio
Eleven-year-old Maddie, who works in the big house on River Bend Plantation in North Carolina, longs for freedom. As the…
Civil War approaches and their mistress moves to her summer home on Nags Head, Maddie's family gets their chance at freedom when the bluecoats turn nearby Roanoke Island into an escaped-slave haven. For grades 6-9No Horses in the House!: The Audacious Life of Artist Rosa Bonheur
By Mireille Messier, Anna Bron. 2023
Printbraille
Alphabet, number and picture books, Historical fictionSelf help, LGBTQ+ biography, Fine arts biography, Arts and entertainment, General non-fiction
Human-transcribed braille
A delightful picture book based on the true story of Rosa Bonheur, the nineteenth-century French artist who defied gender expectations and changed the art world with her realistic animal paintings.
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Mammoths on the move
By Lisa Wheeler, Kurt Cyrus. 2006
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
General fiction, Historical fiction, Animal storiesScience and technology, Dinosaurs, History, Ancient history, Animals and wildlife
Human-transcribed braille
Join a pack of woolly mammoths as they trek south for the winter, braving fierce storms, deadly predators, and raging…
rivers while making their slow journey across the gorgeous unspoiled lands of this continent until finally they reach their goal. The author draws readers into the mystery of prehistory and of one of the most awesome beasts to ever walk the earth. For grades K-3Pas de chevaux dans la maison!: La vie audacieuse de l’artiste Rosa Bonheur
By Mireille Messier, Anna Bron. 2023
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Historical fiction, Alphabet, number and picture booksArts and entertainment, LGBTQ+ biography, Self help, General non-fiction, Fine arts biography
Human-narrated audio
Un superbe livre d’images qui raconte la vraie histoire de Rosa Bonheur, une artiste française du XIXe siècle qui a…
défié les attentes genrées de son époque et bouleversé le monde de l’art avec ses peintures animalières d’un grand réalisme.Scenes from the Underground
By Gabriel Cholette. 2022
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Historical fictionLGBTQ+ biography, History
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
I have just heard for the first time the expression “to make soup”: it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs…
of everyone huddled in the club toilet stall, opened MD, ketamine, old dry speed, crushed e pills, to make big lines that will let us forget the past forty-eight hours that have been so difficult. In Instagram-style vignettes that span Montreal, New York, and Berlin, our narrator — a doctoral student in medieval studies — leads us through the bathrooms and back rooms of clubs and raves as he explores the sex, drugs, and music that define queer nightlife. Accompanied by Jacob Pyne’s full-colour illustrations, which perfectly punctuate the narrator’s occasional self-destructive melancholy, Scenes from the Underground delivers the fully uninhibited field notes of the club scene.