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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her own granddaughter Natalie, Vice President Joe Biden's wife, Jill, tells a story through a child's eyes of what family life is like when a parent is at war across the world. When her father leaves for a year of being at war, Natalie knows that she will miss him. Natalie is proud of her father, but there is nothing to stop her from wishing he was home. Some things do help her feel better. Natalie works with her Nana to send her dad and...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a twice-elected president who fought for the civil...
905) La esp�ia
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espa�nol, una divisi�on de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
A novel of Mata Hari's final days, as written by the woman herself while accused of espionage.
En su nueva novela, Paulo Coelho da vida a una de las mujeres m�as enigm�aticas de la historia: Mata Hari, quien fuera acusada de espionaje durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Aunque hubo poca evidencia para incriminarla, ella no pudo escapar de la persecuci�on y el enjuiciamiento por la inteligencia militar francesa. Esta cautivadora e �intima narraci�on...
906) Strange star
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Told primarily by servant Felix, a former slave, Lord Byron and friends gather to tell ghost stories on a stormy night in 1816 Switzerland, but a scarred girl arrives with her own dark and dangerous tale.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A World War II novel about a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies"--
"Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb...
