India
Author
Series
Dangerous damsels volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Known as Agent A, Alice is the top operative within the Agency of Undercover Note Takers, a secret government intelligence group that is fortunately better at espionage than at naming itself. From managing deceptive witches to bored aristocratic ladies, nothing is beyond Alice's capabilities. She has a steely composure and a plan always up her sleeve (alongside a dagger and an embroidered handkerchief). So when rumors of an assassination plot begin...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
As the queen's search for a true heir to her throne takes her to the court of the wisest man in the world, both she and the king learn how to value truth, love, and duty...and the king's daughter learns that not all the world is ruled by men.
4) The rapture
Author
Publisher
Bond Street Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Girl, Interrupted" meets "The Dead Zone" in this utterly compelling drama about a paranoia that starts inside one murderously insane teenage girl's head and then grows to encompass the whole world.
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The second season of AMC's post-Civil War series Hell on Wheels; continues the story of former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, whose journey is filled with turmoil and danger as he struggles to leave a troubled past behind. Centered around the traveling town that follows the construction of the transcontinental railroad, the series examines the greed and corruption in man's fight for power.
Author
Series
Red gloves series volume 4
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"A fifteen-year-old girl longs for the father she never knew"--Provided by the publisher.
7) Being mortal
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Frontline teams up with writer and surgeon Atul Gawande to examine how doctors care for terminally ill patients. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film explores the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and shows how many doctors, including himself, struggle to talk honestly and openly.
Author
Publisher
Campfire, Kalyani Navyug Media Pvt Ltd
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Retells in graphic novel format Kipling's story of young Mowgli, a human boy who grows up with a pack of wild animals and must choose one day between people and his animal family.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A former Confederate soldier still haunted by his past, Cullen Bohannon made a home in Hell on Wheels hunting down the men responsible for killing his family. Following the Indian attack that destroyed the railroad settlement, Cullen spends a long winter reshaping his lust for revenge into a burning ambition, to take control of the Union Pacific and drive it across the country.
11) The namesake
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The son of Indian immigrants born in America wants to fit in with fellow New Yorkers, but his family is unwilling to let go of their traditional ways.
"The Namesake is suffused with radiant grace, and manages to be old-fashioned yet immediate, epic and intimate."--New York Daily News.
"The Namesake brims with intelligence, compassion and sensuous delight..."--Chicago Tribune.
"A deeply moving saga of several generations of a Bengali family."--San...