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Children's stories FICTION / Science Fiction / General French novel 19th century Critical edition Islands of the Pacific Fiction Sea stories Submarines (Ships) Juvenile fiction Underwater exploration Juvenile fiction Voyages around the world Voyages around the world Fiction Voyages around the world Juvenile fictionDehnel, Jacek
Summary: "Lala has lived a dazzling life, filled with love, betrayals, acts of courage and some of the most extraordinary events of the twentieth century. There is nothing she likes better than to tell stories of her fascinating past - of her grandfather, the legendary owner of the first car in Ukraine; of her aristocratic mother; and not least of herself. Her most avid listener is her grandson, Jacek,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEHVinge, Vernor.
Summary: "Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2011
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Vinge 2011Bergel, Colin
Summary: A young girl learns how the birthday card she makes for her father will get to him as he works on a freighter carrying coal on Lake Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2000
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERKerbel, Deborah
Summary: "A young child and a dog delight in making noise in this board book comprising only onomatopoeias"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD KERKerner, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERWerfel, Franz
Summary: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is Franz Werfel's masterpiece that brought him international acclaim in 1933, drawing the world's attention to the Armenian genocide. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains along the coast of present-day Turkey and Syria chose not to obey the deportation order of the Turkish government. Instead, they fortified a plateau on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WERCerney, Michele
Summary: Joey experiences life without rules, boundaries, or chores and he wants the rules back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HatTrick Publishing 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CERVerne, Jules
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wesleyan University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerne, Jules
Summary: A futuristic novel, written in the 1860s, describing the Paris of the 1960s, a city of cars, computers, even fax machines. The rulers are corporations, technology is god and people are expected to accept material profit as the reason for living. The novel was rejected by the publisher of the day as unrealistic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerne, Jules
Summary: Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VERVerne, Jules
Summary: In 1859, three sailors arrive on an isolated island to man a new lighthouse at the wreck-prone tippy tip of South America. They soon discover a band of egregious criminals, led by dangerous evildoer Kongre, who have been tricking ships into running aground, killing the survivors and taking the loot. When two lighthouse men go to assist a ship and are killed, serious trouble ensues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerne, Jules
Summary: Professor Aronnax sets out in search of a dangerous sea monster, only to learn that the monster is really Captain Nemo's powerful submarine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JF Classic VerneVerne, Jules
Summary: Un monstre marin sème la terreur dans toutes les mers du globe. Le gouvernement américain décide de le poursuivre et de l'éliminer. Le professeur Aronnax, célèbre savant français, est invité à participer à l'expédition. Il accepte. C'est alors que commence pour lui la plus incroyable des aventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard-Jeunesse 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 VER FRENCHVerne, Jules
Summary: En 1872 Phileas Fogg ha sufrido una apuesta por viajar alrededor del mundo en setenta y nueve días,, veintitrés horas y cincuenta y siete minutos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blume 2012
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH FIC VERVerne, Jules
Contents: Twenty thousand leagues under the sea.--A journey to the center of the earth.--Around the world in eighty days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Longmeadow Press 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerne, Jules
Summary: "The eccentric Phileas Fogg is risking his fortune in a race against time. With his servant Passepartout, he sets out to circle the globe-without a moment to spare for the sight-seeing, storms or delays, for ambushes, rescues or adventure..." --Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020
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Summary: A team of explorers makes an expedition into a crater in Iceland which leads to the center of the earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1967
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VERVerne, Jules
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Publisher / Publication Date: Welcome Rain Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerne, Jules
Summary: During the Civil War, five Union soldiers and a dog quietly escape from the clutches of the Confederate Army at Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon. Their intention was to simply drift safely over to the Union lines and rejoin their own troops. Instead, while aloft, they were caught in a high wind and whisked hundreds of miles out to sea. The men carried no provisions for survival and had no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0201
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VERVerne, Jules
Summary: This book tells the story of Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman who makes a fantastic trip as a bet. His adventures, with his French manservant Passepartout, by railway, steamship and elephant see him travel around the world pursued relentlessly by a detective who mistakes the traveler for a notorious criminal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VER FRENCHVerne, Jules
Summary: A 19th-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerne, Jules
Summary: "When Professor Aronnax agrees to investigate a series of attacks by a mysterious sea monster, he begins an incredible underwater journey that leads him from Atlantis to the South Pole. Through unforeseen dangers and exotic settings, this epic adventure is a tour-de-force of imagination and narrative grandeur" -- from publisher's web site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2001