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1) Many waters
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Time quintet volume 4
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English
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The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood. A touch of computer keys, a blast of heat, and suddenly the Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are gasping in a shimmering desert land.
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English
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When Alice Wright agrees to marry handsome American Bennett Van Cleve and leave behind her stifling life in England for a new adventure in Kentucky, she's soon disenchanted by her newlywed status and overbearing father-in-law, owner of the local coal mine. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically.The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is...
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English
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"Best-selling author David McCullough tells the story of the settlers who began America's migration west, overcoming almost-unimaginable hardships to build in the Ohio wilderness a town and a government that incorporated America's highest ideals. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of...
5) Ghost towns
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Series
Publisher
Amber Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A lifeless village in Turkey where the houses are crumbling and the streets are empty; an abandoned island in southern Japan; homes left under a blanket of volcanic ash in Chile; a deserted new town in Spain where construction sites are neglected and houses remain unsold. Where has everyone gone? And why aren't they coming back? From former gold rush towns to settlements evacuated because of natural disasters or chemical spills and from communities...
