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Mary Poppins series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Mary Poppins comes back on the end of a kite string, stays with the Banks family for a while, and then disappears on a merry-go-round horse.
2) Mary Poppins
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Mary Poppins series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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"An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences."--(Source of summary not specified)
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Mary Poppins series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family in a rocket and involves the Banks children in more magical adventures including those with Peppermint Horses, the Marble Boy, and the Cat that Looked at the King.
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Young royals volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming Queen of England eleven years later.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his...
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BookCaps
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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Mary Roberts Rinehart was often called the American Agatha Christie. Her "Had-I-But-Known" mysteies created a formula for writing that has inspired thousands of writers. But who was Rinehart? Find out in this short biography. --Provided by publisher.
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English
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"In the first work by poet and psychoanalyst Esťs (Women Who Run with Wolves) in a decade, this brilliant treatment is much larger than the sum of its parts. Esťs's understanding of Our Holy Lady ('she wears a thousand names') is disturbing and enlightening; she presents a figure who reflects and elevates the essential and inherent qualities of humanity. Through sacred traditions, personal stories, prayers, and images, Esťs makes visible the ancient...
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English
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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English
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One wet autumn evening in 1848, 15-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father's Sydney hotel and took a coach to a local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butler Kinchela, wayward son of the former Attorney-General. Her enraged father pursued them on horseback and fired two pistols at his daughter's suitor, narrowly avoiding killing him. What followed was Australia's most scandalous abduction trial of the era, as...
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English
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In this wonderful novel about love and trust, hope and belief, Elizabeth Berg, the bestselling author of We Are All Welcome Here and The Year of Pleasures, transports us to Nazareth in biblical times to reimagine the events of the classic Christmas story.
We see Mary–young, strong, and inquisitive–as she first meets Joseph, a serious-minded young carpenter who is steadfastly devoted to the religious traditions of their...
We see Mary–young, strong, and inquisitive–as she first meets Joseph, a serious-minded young carpenter who is steadfastly devoted to the religious traditions of their...
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Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages)
Language
English
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Isobel Mary "Pixie" Annat grew up in rural Queensland and trained to be a nurse shortly after World War II. Working first at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, she went on to forge an extraordinary career as matron, then CEO, of St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital in Brisbane. Pixie Annat: Champion of Nurses draws on anecdotes from Pixie's personal journey and documents the important contributions made by medical colleagues during her more than 50-year career...
15) Lit: a memoir
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English
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The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"As a kid, Mary Anning loved hunting for fossils with her father. One day, that hobby led to an unexpected discovery: the skeleton of a creature no one had never seen before! Mary had unearthed a dinosaur fossil, the first to ever be discovered. Her findreshaped scientific beliefs about the natural world and led to the beginning of a brand new field of study: paleontology. For the rest of her life, Mary continued to make astonishing finds and her...
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Publisher
Canterbury University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (360 pages)
Language
English
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Providing a personal perspective of domestic life in the 19th century, this fascinating biography of Lady Barker sheds light on a Victorian author, Anne Stewart, who lived in England, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Mauritius, Australia, and Trinidad through the course of her life. Illustrating the trials and tribulations of being a female author during that period of time, this volume also demonstrates how Anne's life was impacted by momentous...
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English
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“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.com
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.
The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing...
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.
The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
Language
English
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The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe was first published in 1987. The story is set in the 1980s in New York City. It explores themes such as racism, ambition, politics, social class, and greed. The story revolves around three major characters, Sherman Mc Coy, Larry Kramer, and Peter Fellow. Sherman is a WASP bond trader. Larry is the assistant district attorney, and Peter is a British expatriate journalist
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
The veneration for Tonantzin-Guadalupe has been an essential Mexican theme underlying Mexican cultural and political values since the 16th century. Guided by the testimonies of Indigenous people, Mexicans of mixed heritage and Chicanos about this complex subject matter, the film helps us to understand why.
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