Title search results
Showing 61 - 80 of 239 items
Sun Mountain: a Comstock memoir
By Richard S Wheeler, Tom Doherty Associates, Richard S. Wheeler. 1999
On January 1, 1900, journalist Henry Jackson Stoddard, age sixty-one, begins his recollections of people encountered and events witnessed in…
Virginia City and the Comstock Lode since his arrival there in 1861. Among his acquaintances was Samuel Clemens when he was a young reporter, and a mining town was the place to be. 1999Earthly joys (Earthly Joys Ser. #Bk. 1)
By Philippa Gregory, St. Martin`s Press. 1998
England, 1603. John Tradescant is gardener and confidant to Sir Robert Cecil and, later, to Lord Buckingham. Because he is…
a trusted employee of men close to James I and then Charles I, Tradescant is able to help safeguard the realm. Prequel to Virgin Earth (DB 50011). 1998Virgin earth
By Philippa Gregory, St. Martin`s Press. 1999
John Tradescant the Younger has inherited his father's talent for nurturing plants. When he sails to Virginia in 1638 to…
gather specimens for the king's gardens, he meets Suckahanna, a Powhatan maiden. He promises to marry her when he returns to America, but many obstacles await him. Sequel to Earthly Joys (DB 50010). 1999What you never knew about fingers, forks & chopsticks (Around-the-house history)
By Patricia Lauber, John Manders. 1999
Describes the development of eating customs and table manners from the Stone Age through modern days. Explains how knives, spoons,…
chopsticks, and eventually forks came into use and what was considered polite in different centuries and countries. For grades 2-4. 1999Monsoon (Courtney Family Adventures Ser.)
By Wilbur A Smith, St. Martin`s Press, Wilbur Smith. 1999
In this sequel to Birds of Prey (DB 48319) Hal Courtney takes three of his four sons on a voyage…
to deter a pirate from looting ships off the coast of Africa. The Courtneys meet disaster when the youngest is kidnapped by Arabs. Violence and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1999We goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera
By Doris Orgel, Marilee Heyer. 1999
Three Greek immortals--Athena, goddess of wisdom; Aphrodite, goddess of love; and Hera, goddess of marriage--tell their own stories. The introduction…
provides background on the society and religion of ancient Greece. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 1999En el nombre de Salomé
By Julia Alvarez. 2002
Historical novel based on the life of Camila Henríquez, daughter of the Dominican poet Salomé Ureña de Henríquez (1850-1897). Both…
mother and daughter were rebels: Salomé in her patriotic poems and Camila in her sexual preference and her relinquishment of a safe retirement to teach in Castro's Cuba. Some descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2002Aftershocks
By Richard S Wheeler, Tom Doherty Associates, Richard S. Wheeler. 1999
San Francisco, 1906. Survivors cope with the fiery aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake in different ways. Architect Harrison White is…
chiefly concerned with his buildings; Katharine Steinmetz photographs the city for posterity; missionary Ginger Severance works to save souls; and the army sets about making matters worse. Some violence. 1999The secret diary of Anne Boleyn
By Robin Maxwell. 1997
Fictionalized account of sixteenth-century royal life in England told through the eyes of the young queen, Elizabeth I, and a…
diary kept in secret by her mother, Anne Boleyn. Events in Elizabeth's life unfold alongside those retold in the diary, and her mother's words bring her new insight into her family and herselfAcross the wide dark sea: the Mayflower journey
By Jean Van Leeuwen, Thomas B. Allen. 1995
A fictionalized account of a young boy's trip to America with his family on the Mayflower in 1620. Once there,…
the settlers begin making a new life for themselves. For grades K-3Martin Dressler: the tale of an American dreamer
By Steven Millhauser. 1996
From a boy working in his father's New York City cigar shop in the late 1800s, Martin Dressler rises to…
the pinnacle of entrepreneurial success during the early 1900s. His vision leads him to build the Grand Cosmo, the ultimate hotel, retail center, and theme park. Only later does he realize that "he had dreamed the wrong dream."Sound the jubilee: And Other Prehistoric Creatures
By Sandra Forrester, Jan Pienkowski. 1995
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 6-9A dead man in Deptford
By Anthony Burgess. 1995
A fictionalized life of Elizabethan playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe, depicting his homosexuality, his espionage for the crown, and his…
early death in a bar brawl. Using the diction of the period, Burgess celebrates the life of the great artist, whom he calls "the Muse's darling."The peculiar people: a novel (C and M Bessie Book Ser.)
By Jan De Hartog. 1992
The final novel, covering the 1830s, in a trilogy on the Quakers in the United States. The struggles within the…
church are chronicled through the lives of Mordecai Monk, who becomes a Society of Friends evangelist, and Lydia Best, an Indiana schoolteacher who champions the rights of Indians and escaped slaves. Sequel to Lamb's War (DB 15784) and Peaceable Kingdom (DB 75043), but can stand alone. Some descriptions of sexTinker vs. Des Moines: student rights on trial (Be the judge/be the jury)
By Doreen Rappaport, John J. Palencar. 1993
By 1965, 200,000 Americans were fighting in a war in Vietnam. Many Americans did not support the war. In Des…
Moines, Iowa, a dozen high school students were suspended for protesting the war, and three sued school officials for violating their right to free speech. Briefs and testimonies from the case, which reached the Supreme Court, are provided to challenge critical thinking. For grades 5-8 and older readersSong of the rock (A Double D western)
By Don Coldsmith. 1989
Trade with the Spanish has stopped, and the Elk-dog People have returned to their traditional ways. White Fox journeys to…
Medicine Rock, a sacred place, to seek the wisdom of the ancients through a vision-quest. On his way back, he comes upon the body of a dead warrior and is furiously attacked by--to his surprise--a woman. She continues to haunt him. Sequel to Trail from Taos (DB 31392). Prequel to Fort De Chastaigne (DB 32345)The Thanksgiving story
By Alice Dalgliesh, Helen Sewell. 1987
No-no boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)
By John Okada. 1981
A 25-year-old man returns home to Seattle after spending two years in an internment camp for being Japanese-American, and another…
two years in prison for refusing to join the United States Army during World War II. 1976Les bas du pensionnat: une histoire vraie / [1
By Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. 2011
"Margaret Pokiak est une jeune Inuit de 8 ans. Son désir le plus cher est d'aller à l'école pour apprendre…
à lire, même s'il lui faut quitter son village arctique. Sa famille tente de la décourager, mais rien ne peut la faire changer d'avis et c'est à contrecoeur que son père consent enfin à la laisser partir. Une fois à l'école, Margaret est confrontée à une religieuse cruelle dont le nez ressemble à un bec d'aigle. Dès les premiers jours, celle-ci s'en prend à la jeune fille qu'elle juge têtue et rebelle. Avec l'intention de l'humilier, elle lui confie les tâches les plus ardues et la force même à porter des bas rouges, qui lui font paraître les jambes énormes, alors que toutes les autres pensionnaires portent des bas gris. Margaret travaille dur tout en rêvant au jour où elle pourra enfin quitter le pensionnat pour ne plus jamais y remettre les pieds..." -- 4e de couvLa llamarada
By Enrique A Laguerre, Enrique Laguerre, Vazquez. 2011
Famed novel about Puerto Rican sugar plantations after the 1929 economic collapse. Protagonist Juan Antonio Borrás narrates his years working…
for a US-owned sugar company, as he first adopts more progressive ideas, then succumbs to his company's conservative propaganda, before a friend's death pushes him toward revolution. Some violence. Spanish language. 1935