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Battle-Lavert, Gwendolyn Groom, Winston Gross, Gwendolen Welford, Ross Welford, Ross.Gross, Gwendolen
Summary: In this mesmerizing first novel a young American graduate student abandons her research deep in the Australian rain forest to investigate her professor's mysterious disappearance. Annabel Mendelssohn has an unusual but oddly satisfying life -- studying spectacled fruit bats in the rain forest of Australia. She spends her free time discovering waterfalls and e-mailing her sister, Alice, who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROBattle-Lavert, Gwendolyn
Summary: "A son teaches his father how to write his name so he can vote for the first time in this historical tale filled with warmth and strength by Coretta Scott King Honor winner Colin Bootman's expressive oil paintings. In a new author's note, veteran teacher and author Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert expands upon the obstacles facing African American voters in the aftermath of the Civil War and the fight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BATGroom, Winston
Summary: The job-hunting adventures of an unemployed widower with a daughter to support. He is Forrest Gump whose adventures range from selling encyclopedias to discovering New Coke, to the Gulf War during which he captures Saddam Hussein.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GROWelford, Ross
Summary: Twelve-year-old Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad's time machine and travels back to 1984 with his pet hamster to prevent the go-kart accident that killed his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WELWelford, Ross.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad's time machine and travels back to 1984 with his pet hamster to prevent the go-kart accident that killed his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2016