Dehnel, 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 DEHKerner, 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 WERBernal, Estela
Summary: On the cusp of adulthood, a 17-year-old girl escapes her abusive home and discovers a refuge in a sleepy Arizona town. Two weeks have passed since Nana's funeral. Her absence still feels raw to Lucy Sanchez, a Mexican American girl who has inherited her grandmother's love for and knowledge of cooking. Home offers little solace. Lucy's mother is a ghost of her former self; her father, meanwhile,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books an imprint of Arte Público Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERVinge, 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2001
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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 BERCerney, 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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Summary: There's nothing Kate loves more than being around horses. But her best friend is allergic to them, so Kate has to take riding lessons without her. Kate's forced to navigate some of life's hardships--like the mean girls at the stable who tease her and her body insecurities--all on her own. To make matters worse, Kate is continually falling off her horse. To Kate, her tween years feel like one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2021
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Summary: Professor Arronax and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC VERVerne, Jules
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1962
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wesleyan University Press 2001
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Summary: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea tells the classic story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the point of view of Professor Pierre Aronnax, who was commissioned to find the mysterious sea monster responsible for sinking ships. Written by French science fiction writer Jules Verne in 1870, the novel illuminates themes that transcend time, such as man versus nature,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canterbury Classics 2012
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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