Wright, Ronald
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.44 WRIWright, Ronald
Summary: Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish explorers, including Francisco Pizarro, and in the culture clash and violent overthrow of the Incan leaders....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WRIWright, Ronald
Summary: The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico still speak Maya languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972 WRIWright, Betty Ren.
Summary: Although a blizzard prevents his cousins from visiting for his birthday, a disappointed Billy ends up having a very special day when his teacher and classmates must stay overnight at his family's house to wait out the snowstorm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WRISummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006