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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gino Bartali pedaled across Italy for years, winning one cycling race after another, including the 1938 Tour de France. Gino became an international sports hero! But the next year, World War II began, and it changed everything. Soldiers marched into Italy. Tanks rolled down the cobbled streets of Florence. And powerful leaders declared that Jewish people should be arrested. To the entire world, Gino Bartali was merely a champion cyclist. But Gino's...
Author
Series
Sybil the backpack fairy volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
47 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fun trip through time turns into a nightmare when Nina and Sybil magically jump into the pages of a history book that falls into the hands of the dark fairy Amanite!" -- p. [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
xviii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In his pediment for the Pantheon, a sculptural work depicting the many citizens who advanced the revolutionary cause in France, Pierre-Jean David d'Angers (1788-1856) celebrated the heroism of the individual while perpetuating a mythology of the modern world. Reassessing the art of David d'Angers, Jacques de Caso not only presents him as a central figure of French Romanticism, but also explores his role in shaping the artistic and social directions...
Author
Pub. Date
August 2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the first family in science, this biography explores Marie Curie's relationship with her two daughters. Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic...
Author
Series
Ballad of Yaya volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly illustrations ; 13 x 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shanghai, 1937. War rages across China, leaving children of all walks of life helpless victims. In the chaos, Yaya, the daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant, meets Tuduo, a little boy form the streets, and together, they embark on an extraordinary adventure..."--Page[4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
405 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the machinations of three individuals in their efforts to win the American Revolution, tracing their applications of espionage to smuggle weapons and supplies while spinning a web of international political intrigue.
Author
Series
Trish Trash volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
55 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Patricia "Trish Trash" Nupindju is a talented young hoverderby player on Mars 200 years in the future. Trish wants desperately to go pro because it seems like the only way to escape a future of poverty and hard labor on her family's moisture farm in Candor Chasma. But even if she could make the team, she's too young to get a contract, and her family is going broke faster than her escape velocity.
2669) Four sisters, all queens
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of the controversial international bestseller The Jewel of Medina, a historical novel that chronicles the lives of four sisters, all daughters of Beatrice of Provence--all of whom became queens in medieval Europe. When Beatrice of Savoy, countess of Provence, sends her four beautiful, accomplished daughters to become queens, she admonishes them: Family comes first. As a result, the daughters--Marguerite, queen of France;...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
vii, 632 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history -- and sometimes about the modern world too. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with remarkable...
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