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Keneally, Thomas

Summary: "From the bestselling author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars, a new historical novel set on the remote island of Saint Helena about the remarkable friendship between a young woman and one of history's most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life in exile. In October 1815, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was banished to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

Blackburn, Julia.

Summary: An account of Napoleon's six years on the island of St. Helena describes the island's strange history and recounts the stories, myths, and absurdities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.05 BLA

Bradley, Marion Zimmer.

1 hold on 1 copy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Hansen, Brooks

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

Wagner, Eric Loudon

Summary: "How life bounces back from epic destruction On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted in southwestern Washington. Fifty-seven people were killed, and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed. While most people thought of the eruption as a catastrophe, a small, ragtag team of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 WAG

Nelson, Sharlene P.

Summary: Describes the destruction caused by the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, the slow return of plant and animal life, and the special area set aside to study this renewal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.784 NEL

Tarshis, Lauren

Summary: On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered--all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TAR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION TAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Tarshis 2016

Gómez, Sarah Hannah

Summary: Twelve-year-old Maribel daydreams at school, but when she defies evacuation orders to return home just as Mount St. Helens erupts in 1980, she must focus in order to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GOM

Gorokhova, Elena.

Summary: Elena Gorokhova grows up in 1960's Leningrad where she discovers that beauty and passion can be found in unexpected places in Soviet Russia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 947 GOR

Lauber, Patricia.

Summary: An account of how and why Mount St. Helens erupted in May 1980 and the destruction it caused, and a discussion of the return of life to that area.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1986

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Nature Lauber

Summary: In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens leveled 230 square miles, sent 540 million tons of ash and volcanic rock twelve miles into the air, and blasted one cubic mile of earth from the crest of the Cascade Mountain Range. Witness the terrifying fury of the worst volcanic disaster in American history through aerial photography and the survivors' own words and photos.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Entertainment 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.97 FIR

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