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3181) Slammerkin
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Slammerkin: A loose gown, a loose woman.
Born to rough cloth in Hogarth's London, but longing for silk, Mary Saunders's eye for a shiny red ribbon leads her to prostitution at a young age. A dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth, and the position of household seamstress, the ordinary life of an ordinary girl with no expectations.
But Mary has known freedom, and having never known love, it is freedom that motivates her. Mary asks herself...
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Inspired by true events, Indivisible is a story of love, service, and finding each other all over again. Darren and Heather Turner share a passion for serving God, family, and country. When Darren is deployed to Iraq as an army chaplain, Heather vows to serve military families back home as she cares for the couple's three young children. Darren knows he's overseas to support the troops in their suffering as their chaplain. What he doesn't know is...
3183) Ted & Me
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Baseball card adventures volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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With more than 1.5 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures series brings the greatest players in history to life!
Joe "Stosh" Stoshack has an incredible ability. He can travel through time using baseball cards. But the FBI has learned of his talent, and now they have a mission for him: go back to 1941 and warn President Roosevelt about the attack on Pearl Harbor!
Stosh is reluctant, until he finds out that his "ticket" to
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Act out the story of famous inventor and statesman, Benjamin Franklin! This historical script takes readers on a journey with the curious Benjamin as he experiments with electricity, goes to London to fight for colonists' rights, and helps with the Constitution of the United States. The six roles in this script are written at different reading levels, supporting differentiation and English language learner strategies. Teachers can easily implement...
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Act out the story of the events that led up to the writing of the Star-Spangled Banner! Students will learn about Mary Pickersgill, who made a flag for the War of 1812 that inspired the famous poem. The six roles in this script are written at different reading levels, supporting differentiation and English language learner strategies. Teachers can easily implement these strategies by assigning specific roles to their students in a way that best accommodates...
3186) A touch of stardust
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Doubleday
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[2015]
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English
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When Julie Crawford leaves Fort Wayne, Indiana, for Hollywood, she never imagines she'll cross paths with Carole Lombard, the dazzling actress fromJulie's provincial Midwestern hometown. The young woman has dreams of becoming a screenwriter, but the only job Julie's able to find is one in the studio publicity office of the notoriously demanding producer David O. Selznick, who is busy burning through directors, writers, and money as he films "Gone...
3187) Born to trot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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As he learns about the famous Hambletonian, sire of the American trotter, young Gib White dreams of some day having his own filly become a champion trotter.
3188) The White Princess
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When the King of York, Richard III, is murdered in battle at the hand of Henry Tudor, Henry claims the crown and demands Elizabeth wed him, knowing that it's the only way to weaken the claims of other surviving members of the House of York.
Elizabeth begrudgingly agrees. As impostors claiming to be the last York heir begin to come forward, Elizabeth's mother, the former White Queen Elizabeth of Woodville, concocts a plan for revenge.
What only she...
3189) A separate country
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In New Orleans after the Civil War, John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures--struggles with his inability to admit his failures until those who taught him to love, and to be loved, transformed him.
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Extrait : "En 1854, je fus le héros ou plutt la victime d'une si étrange aventure, que je n'hésite pas, malgré l'incrédulité qui pourra l'accueillir, à en faire part au public. La franchise que je vais audacieusement déployer dans ce récit, fera peut-être éclore chez mes compatriotes une audace analogue."
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Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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In this second book in the American Revolutionary War Adventure series, Submarines, Secrets and a Daring Rescue, twins Ambrose and John Clark find themselves volunteering for another mission to help the newly forming United States. Inspired by their success in delivering a secret message to General George Washington himself, the boys step up to help transport much-needed gunpowder to the patriots and end up in an even more dangerous situation, trying...
3192) Ragnar le rouge
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Jours après jours, les jeunes se forment à l'art de la chevalerie.
De retour à Atlantis avec les jeunes élèves et apprentis chevaliers venus du royaume du Berry, chaque groupe rejoint sa formation. Arthur et ses compagnons forment Jeanne et ses partenaires du Berry à l'art de la chevalerie. Chacun prend goût aux leçons prodiguées avant de partir en représailles face aux envahisseurs venus du nord.
Découvrez sans plus attendre le troisième...
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Female-led European literature with a focus on place in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction and diversity in poetry. Plus illustrations by Katherine Cleaver. This edition presents the winner of the New Welsh Writing Awards 2023 Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting: 'Invisibility' by Mark Blayney, a fictionalised biography of Thomas Picton, Tyrant of Trinidad. Plus, poems by Graham Mort and Carson Wolfe.
3194) Mrs Boots
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An incredible historical novel inspired by the true story behind the Boots empire.
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De la Belgique à la Thaïlande, Les diamants du Noratlas et autres anecdotes de ma vie dévoile, dans un style limpide, une série d'anecdotes authentiques et pittoresques puisées de la vie passionnante de l'auteur. Les échos de péripéties professionnelles ou privées parfois tragiques y ctoient de surprenantes aventures plus tendres ou cocasses. L'ensemble forme un panaché de situations inédites laissant entrevoir un éventail de personnages...
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Suivez un groupe de spéléologues dans leurs périples et de leurs découvertes !
Au début des années 1970 un groupe de spéléologues passionnés investit le dernier grand massif karstique européen encore vierge de toute exploration. Au fil des années, les découvertes et les profondeurs atteintes le transformèrent en un Himalaya inversé, terrain de jeu des derniers explorateurs du XXe siècle. Spéléos, héritiers de nos prédécesseurs,...
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Et si vous pouviez refaire tous les choix que vous avez faits jusqu'ici ? Une vie rêvée, en quelque sorte. Mais qui peut tourner au cauchemar...
Ce 22 mars 2010, Paul Tournier, la quarantaine, célibataire, est assis à son poste de comptable dans une entreprise internationale comme il y en a tant dans le quartier des affaires, au cœur de Paris. Une ombre parmi les ombres, Paul ne se démarque en rien du commun des mortels. Il a une existence...
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Quand jungle urbaine et ONG se rencontrent...
Montana est un bangando : un enfant de la rue.
Il rencontre Merco, nouveau débarqué dans le ghetto, et le forme. Ce dernier, un brin naïf, doit faire ses preuves et ne pas oublier les principes qui guident le bangando dans la jungle urbaine librevilloise. « Dans la rue, si tu vois quelqu'un courir, fais attention. Si tu vois quelqu'un faire attention à toi, cours. Si tu vois une voiture de police...
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Un roman éblouissant, inspiré d'un fait réel, qui vous fera voyager au cœur de la Belle Époque.
Quand April Vogt, expert en mobilier, apprend qu´un appartement fermé depuis soixante-dix ans vient d´être découvert à Paris, elle est loin de s´imaginer les richesses et les secrets qu´il renferme. Au milieu des nombreux trésors, April trouve le journal de Marthe de Florian, la très séduisante demi-mondaine qui y vécut en multipliant...
3200) Merlin's Harp
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When I was yet a very young woman I threw my heart away. Ever since then I have lived heartless, or almost heartless, the way Humans think all Fey live. Among the towering trees of magical Avalon, where humans dare not tread, lives Niviene, daughter of the Lady of the Lake. Her people, the Fey, are folk of the wood and avoid the violence and greed of man. But the strife of King Arthur's realm threatens even the peace of Avalon. And while Merlin the...
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