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A School for Unusual GirlsA Stranje House Novel by Kathleen Baldwin
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Stranje House Ser.
A School for Unusual Girls is the first captivating installment in the Stranje House series for young adults by award-winning author Kathleen Baldwin. #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventure "completely original and totally engrossing." It's 1814. Napoleon is ...Show more
A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane
Category: Fiction | Series: hc
What he had been searching for was not the perfect religious order but the perfect landscape...From that moment on he was a poet in search of his ideal landscape. Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnan ...Show more
A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne by Andrew Markus; Margaret Taft
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a culture that defined who they were, a way of life that had endured pogroms, persecution, and a genocide that pushed them to the brink of extinction. Melbourn ...Show more
A Secret Affair by Mary Balogh
Category: Fiction | Series: Huxtable Series ; bk. 5
Hannah Reid, born a commoner, has been Duchess of Dunbarton since she was nineteen years old, the wife of an elderly Royal to whom she is rumoured to be consistently and flagrantly unfaithful. Now the old Duke is dead and, more womanly and beautiful than ever at thirty, Hannah has her freedom at last. A ...Show more
A Seed Will Grow (a Hello! Lucky Hands-On Book) by Sabrina Moyle, Hello!Lucky
Category: Board Books | Series: A\Hello!Lucky Book Ser.
Just like a seed, here's what you need:patience, warmth, a caring heart,so you can bloom and play your partin Mother Nature's brilliant art!Filled with exuberant illustrations in Hello!Lucky's inimitable style, A Seed Will Grow introduces young readers to the plant life cycle, starting with sowing seeds ...Show more
A Semi-Charming Kind of Life: A School Story by Suzanne Selfors
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Ever After High
Darling Charming is bored in Damsel-In-Distressing class. She'd much rather be in Hero Training with her brothers. The only thing is, she has secretly been helping her brother Dexter ace the class. If anyone finds out, a scandal would erupt at Ever After High. One of the most prestigious families in tow ...Show more
A Shadow Crown (#2 Halfling Saga) by Melissa Blair
Category: Science Fiction | Series: The\Halfling Saga Ser.
To the kingdom, Keera is the king’s Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow—the dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on fire. Together, they plot to topple the crown. Keera swore she would never open her heart again a ...Show more
A Ship of War by Sean Thomas Russell
Category: Fiction | Series: Charles Hayden Ser.
A Ship of War is a stunning new maritime adventure from Top Ten bestselling author Sean Thomas Russell, following the great success of A Battle Won and Under Enemy Colours. For fans of Bernard Cornwell and Patrick O'Brian, A Ship of War is the third instalment in the electrifying historical series of Ch ...Show more
A Ship of the Line by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea Ser.
A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . . Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundr ...Show more
A Short History of Ancient Greece by P. J. Rhodes
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and democracy, Homer and heroism, myth and Mycenae and the Delphic Oracle and the Olympic Games has, perhaps more than any other, helped shape the intellectual c ...Show more
A Short History of Cambodia by John A. Tully
Category: No Category | Series: Short History of Asia S.
This title offers a concise and readable history of Cambodia, from its rich and powerful past, through the era of French protection, the Vietnamese conflict, the Pol Pot regime and to its present day incarnation as a constitutional monarchy and popular tourist destination. Temples and killing fields, mi ...Show more
A Short History of Coffee by Gordon Kerr
Category: Cook Books | Series: Short History Ser.
Having conquered the world's taste buds and established itself as a staple in our daily lives, coffee has mirrored the moods and movements of society for centuries - yet, how much do we know about its history?In his riveting new book, Gordon Kerr investigates the fascinating history behind the global ob ...Show more