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Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, Johanna Porter was a rising star in the art world. Now she's an unknown soccer mom. When an invitation arrives for an elite gallery opening for her former lover, the great Nestor Pinedo, Johanna wants to throw it in the trash where it belongs. But with some styling help from her daughter, she makes an appearance and comes face-to-face with the woman she was before the powerful and jealous Nestor ruined her. La Rosa Blanca is a portrait...
Author
Publisher
Houghton
Pub. Date
1961
Language
English
Description
'I'm looking for two really trustworthy rabbits and six sensible clear-speaking frogs!'
Young Anna Lacey has spent most of her life on a farm in Essex. But her first teaching position carries her to an unattractive, newly constructed suburb where she has to adjust to cramped lodgings, a skinflint landlady, overcrowded classrooms, and eccentric colleagues ('a rum lot'). She must also adapt some of her idealistic theories of teaching to the realities...
Author
Series
Madeline Dare mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Tough-talking former debutante Madeline Dare navigates the darker side of her tenure as a teacher at a boarding school for emotionally disturbed teens, questioning the school head's credibility and forging an unlikely alliance with a small group of rebels.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Storm in the village: Miss Read, the headmistress of Fairacre School, learns of a proposed new housing development that soon has the citizens of Fairacre up in arms.
Fairacre festival: After a heavy storm damages the church roof, the villagers must raise money to have it repaired, but something on a grander scale than fêtes and coffee mornings is required. So the Fairacre Festival is launched.
Author
Publisher
Ig Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When his father leaves town, twelve-year-old Rodney Culver's mother takes up with Otis Dell, a fry cook at the local diner--and a well-known petty thief. While Rodney resists the man's influence at first, Otis soon draws the boy into his small-time criminal world. After a simple heist goes violently wrong, Rodney becomes an unwitting fugitive, swept away from his mother to the primitive mountain sanctuary of the mysterious Lester Fanning. But with...
Author
Series
Midnight hour volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When strange late-night letters start arriving at home, Emily's parents set off to investigate. But when her parents disappear completely and Emily is left home alone to face the weird strangers that begin to appear at her door. Taking all of the clues at her disposal, she'll set off to discover the secret world of the Midnight Hour -- a Victorian London frozen in time, full of magic and monsters. Kept safe by an age-old agreement, the Night Folk...
Author
Publisher
Formac Publishing Company Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Since the early days of flight, animals have helped researchers learn how to survive in the sky, and their role continues as humanity voyages into outer space. In 1783 a rooster, a duck and a sheep were placed in a basket attached to the first hot-air balloon. In the age of rockets and space travel, many more animals have travelled into orbit, and most have returned safely to earth. This book tells the stories of 50 trips into space, with details...
Author
Series
Thrush Green series volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1982, c1981
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes. Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The skies were clear that Friday, October 13, 1972, and at 3:30 p.m., the Fairchild's pilot...