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DK eyewitness books If you lived Imagine you were there Titanic stories What was...?Patrick, Denise Lewis
Summary: "What do you know about the sinking of the Titanic? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived... series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 PATLester, David
Summary: "Under the Banner of King Death explores the sub-culture and resistance of eighteenth-century pirates, telling the tales of John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina; Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam; and Mark/Mary Reed, an American woman who dressed as a man and went to sea"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 LESAdams, Simon
Summary: Detailed descriptions of the "Titanic," including its accommodations and a retelling of its sinking in the North Atlantic in April, 1912.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2021
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 910.9163 ADASimon, Nelson
Summary: "Nelson Simon didn't want to sign up as a last-minute crew member to transport a Norwegian schooner from Brooklyn to Bermuda. But one thing led to another, and there he was. He told himself that it would be a sort of pleasure cruise: a week in the Gulf Stream with a gourmet chef on board, some down time on a tropical island, then a quick flight home. What did it matter that he had practically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMON, NELSON SIMSabol, Stephanie
Summary: "For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later. At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, the largest passenger steamship of this time, met its catastrophic end after crashing into an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 SABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What SabolCook, Julie
Summary: When Titanic foundered in April 1912, the world's focus was on the tragedy of the passengers who lost their lives. Ever since, in films, dramatisations, adaptations and books, the focus has mostly continued to be on the ones who died. The Titanic and the City of Widows it Left Behind focuses on another group of people - the widows and children of the crew who perished on board. Author Julie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pen & Sword History 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.91634 COOFredeen, Charles
Summary: Details the events leading up to and following the sinking of Britain's Lusitania from the perspectives of those involved. Additional features include a bullet-point summary of the events, compelling narrative descriptions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, questions to spark critical thinking, sources to guide further research, historical photographs, informative captions, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 FREJordan, David (David John)
Summary: Hitler's U-boat arm formed the backbone of the German war effort at sea. Th is study describes the evolution, design, construction, strategy and techno logy of these mighty oceanic submarines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.5451 JORBailey, Rachel A.
Summary: Compelling narrative nonfiction text introduces the Titanic's second-class passengers, including details about their experiences aboard the historic ship, tragic losses, and dramatic stories of survival. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, fact-filled captions and callouts, historical photos, a glossary, sources for further research, a listing of source notes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World Inc 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910 BAINielsen, Jennifer A.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury stows away aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery--until the ship hits an iceberg and she must fight to save herself and her friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Terrell, Brandon.
Summary: Compelling narrative nonfiction text introduces the first-class passengers on the Titanic, including details about their experiences aboard the historic ship, tragic losses, and dramatic stories of survival. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, fact-filled captions and callouts, historical photos, a glossary, sources for further research, a listing of source...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World Inc 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910 TERStone, Daniel (Daniel Evan)
Summary: "On a frigid April night in 1912, the world's largest--and soon most famous--ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the world's fixation with her every tragic detail. Plans to find and raise the Titanic began almost immediately. Yet seven decades passed before it was found....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 STORussell, Gareth
Summary: "A product of Anglo-American capitalism, built by a generation that had never known trauma and was bored by its own prosperity and success, the Titanic set sail into a world that was about to change forever. Modernity was shaking the class system, the Industrial Revolution was creating new kinds of wealth, and revolutionary fervor would lead to The Great War. Exploring the infamous disaster...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 RUSTerrell, Brandon.
Summary: Compelling narrative nonfiction text introduces the crew members of the Titanic, including details about their occupations, efforts to rescue passengers, and the dangers they faced at sea. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, fact-filled captions and callouts, historical photos, a glossary, sources for further research, a listing of source notes, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World Inc 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910 TERSpencer, Charles Spencer
Summary: The sinking of the White Ship on the 25th November 1120 is one of the greatest disasters that England has ever suffered. Its repercussions would change English and European history for ever. King Henry I was sailing for England in triumph after four years of fighting the French. Congregating with the king at the port of Barfleur on that freezing night was the cream of Anglo-Norman society,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Collins 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Linke, Dorit
Summary: Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany. Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LINGaddy, K. R.
Summary: "An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.8 GADJenner, Caryn
Summary: "On September 6, 1620, the Mayflower ship headed across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. Sixty-six days later, land was sighted. Now you can imagine you were there ... More than 100 passengers boarded the Mayflower to make their home in the unknown land of America. They became known as the Pilgrims. Meet the men, women, and children who braved the voyage, and read their first hand accounts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.402 JENHughes, Lorena
Summary: "As a child in Spain, Puri always knew her passion for chocolate was inherited from her father. But it's not until his death that she learns of something else she's inherited--a cocoa estate in Vinces, Ecuador, a town nicknamed "París Chiquito." Eager to claim her birthright and filled with hope for a new life after the devastation of World War I, she and her husband Cristóbal set out across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022