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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In April 1903, the steamship Republic spills more than two thousand immigrants onto Ellis Island. Among them are Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, nine, sent by their poor families in southern Italy to make their way in America. Amid the chaos and splendor of New York, the misery and criminality of Little Italy, and the shady tenants of Vita's father's decrepit Prince Street boarding house, Diamante and Vita struggle to survive, to create a new life,...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A "novel in verse that inspired the ... West End and Off-Broadway play of the same name, [this book] follows the epic rise and fall of three generations of [the Lehman] family and through them tells the story of American ambition and hubris"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 37
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton participates in the Race Across America on his bicycle with his friend Bruce Hyena.
6) Malcolm X
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Biography of Malcolm X, the famous African American leader.
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2008?]
Language
English
Description
"Focuses on suppressed historical & modern information about currently dominant social institutions, while also exploring what could be in store for humanity if the power structures at large continue their patterns of self-interest, corruption, and consolidation" -- http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/statement.htm.
Part I, The greatest story ever told: Denounces the originality of many world religions, arguing they are mainly derived from astrological...
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 37
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton accepts a challenge from his friend Bruce Hyena, and enters a race across the United States on his bicycle.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 33
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Taking a road trip to San Jose along Route 66 while stopping in Chicago, St. Louis, and other iconic cities, the Thea Sisters are dismayed to learn that an unknown saboteur has wiped a special video game project off of a programmer friend's computer.
11) Contact
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An astronomer discovers a signal from another planet and is chosen to go into space on a new spaceship and find its source.
Series
Criterion collection volume 672-675
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Stromboli. After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee marries a simple Italian fisherman she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany.
Europe '51. Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son....
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The good, the bad, and the ugly: A spaghetti western tale of greed, revenge and epic warfare. Three ruthless outlaws avidly search for a treasure chest containing $200,000.
Hang 'em high: Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.
14) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In December 2014 a cab driver tells his passenger, an impatient young man, about Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and his memories growing up at that time.
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