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1021) The story seeker
Author
Series
Story collector volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Viviani Fedeler, proud resident of the New York Public Library, has her sights set on becoming a star reporter. She's thrilled when Miss Hutch announces a story contest where the winner gets their essay printed in the New York Times! But then Viviani gets her first-ever case of writer's block. As she struggles to find inspiration, the library is hit with a strange mystery involving overdue books, secret messages, and perhaps a spy...
1022) The Beginning Woods
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
522 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Scientists have been striving to explain why adults started suddenly vanishing, but Max, a strange foundling, may discover the answers in the Beginning Woods where he goes to seek his Forever Parents.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lady Victoria Aston must marry, or find her family destitute. Armed only with novels by Jane Austen, she enters society's treacherous season. Sadly, Miss Austen has little to say about whether Mr. Carmichael is a scoundrel, if Tom Sherborne is out for her dowry or for her heart, or how to fend off the foppish Mr. Silby. Vicky's books also don't mention the mysterious accidents plaguing her.
1025) The book rescuer: how a mensch from Massachusetts saved Yiddish literature for generations to come
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Over the last forty years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics. He did all of this in pursuit of a particular kind of treasure, and he's found plenty. Lansky's treasure was any book written in Yiddish, the language of generations of European Jews. When he started looking for Yiddish books, experts estimated there might be about 70,000 still in existence. Since then, the MacArthur...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two years after choosing his mother in a Christmas-season custody hearing, Truman Capote runs away to spend Christmas in Monroeville, Alabama, with best friend, Nelle Harper Lee, who gives him courage to stay true to himself.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The wordsmith Lewis Carroll is famed for the freewheeling world of Wonderland in his beloved classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In this gloriously illustrated picture book, Carroll's childlike love of life is showcased alongside his brilliance at creating and adapting playful words and phrases.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's an exciting day at Minnie's school. They are having a book fair! Minnie loves books, but which story will she choose? Thankfully, there's no idea too big or too small for Minnie and her adventures!--
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