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1) Colette
Language
English
Formats
Description
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as “Willy” (Dominic West), Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
The life of Martha Ballard, a frontier midwife in Maine, is reconstructed through her diary. She lived through the economic boom and bust, and political and social turmoil of the decades following the American Revolution.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Fiftieth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An English governess is hired to teach the King of Siam's children, but challenges the country's traditions during her work and forges an unusual and spellbinding friendship with the King.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The tenth novel in the riveting series featuring Victorian private eye William Monk - by the acclaimed author of A Breach of Promise. In stunning feats of imagination, Anne Perry brings to life the lost world of England's Victorian Age. With The Twisted Root, she holds us rapt with a chilling story of love, betrayal, and consummate evil. Miriam Gardiner has disappeared from a croquet party at the luxurious mansion of her future in-laws. On Hampstead...
8) The atlas of Christmas: the merriest, tastiest, quirkiest holiday traditions from around the world
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated collection of 50-60 holiday and New Years' traditions from around the world"--
9) KAA du kí
Author
Publisher
Nhà xuất bản Kim Đồng
Language
Vietnamese
Description
KAA là tên studio vẽ minh họa cá nhân chỉ gồm hai người: Huỳnh Kim Liên và Phùng Nguyên Quang cùng ba con mèo, trong một căn hộ nhỏ xíu ở Sài Gòn.
KAA du kí ₫ưa đến cho bạn đọc rất nhiều kĩ năng du lịch, từ chuần bị hành trang, mẫu câu giao tiếp đơn giản nhưng hữu dụng, cho đến những điều nên và không nên làm khi ở nước ban...Bên cạnh đó quyển du...
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Do You Know: A good reason to be phobic about oysters and olives? That you can step inside a roaring coal furnace and feet cool? That Jesus had an older brother? How shutting your mouth can help you avoid brain surgery? How to avoid cow-pies during your baptism? How to survive in the winter wilderness with only a fishing pole and a sausage? Chris Crutcherknows the answers to these things and more. And once you have read about Chris Crutcher's life...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
Kazakh
Description
Follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been typically been handed down from father to son for centuries.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
With sugar skulls, sweet-smelling marigold petals and joyful songs, Hispanic families welcome back ancestors on this holiday.
El Día de los Muertos las familias hispanas honran a los antepasados con ofrendas de flores, calaveras de azúcar, bailes y canciones.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is know as 'the strange plague' and its unfortunate victims are referred to only as 'unmentionables' or 'dreadfuls.' All over England, the dead are rising again, and now even the daughters of Britain's best families must devote their lives to mastering the deadly arts. Elizabeth Bennet is a fearsome warrior whose ability with a sword is matched only by her quick wit and even sharper tongue. But she faces her most formidable foe yet in the haughty,...
15) Native American stories for kids: 12 traditional stories from indigenous tribes across North America
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Language
English
Description
Tales from 12 tribes-Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America, exploring lore about how the mountain Denali formed, why the North Star stays still, and more. Tribal history-Every story ends with a brief historical sketch of the tribe, providing context and offering a glimpse into their way of life and their traditions.
16) Girl in Dior
Author
Series
Publisher
NBM Publishing
Language
English
Description
"The Girl in Dior is Clara, a freshly hired chronicler, fan of fashion and our guide in the busy corridors of the brand new house of Christian Dior. It's February 12, 1947 and the crème de la crème of Paris Haute Couture is flocking to the momentous event of Dior's first show. In a flurry of corolla shaped skirts, the parade of models file down the runway. The audience is mesmerized: it's a triumph! Carmel Snow of Harper's Bazaar cries out: 'It's...
Author
Publisher
NAXOS
Language
English
Description
This varied, well-chosen selection brings into one set the best of Dylan Thomas. Here is the legendary recording of Under Milk Wood, with Richard Burton and Richard Bebb as narrators; but here also are two radio productions he wrote before that great classic, and though interesting in their own right, they show how Under Milk Wood grew gradually in his imagination.
Author
Series
Kid Beowulf volume 4
Publisher
Kid Beowulf Comics
Language
English
Description
"In this graphic novel, twin brothers Beowulf and Grendel are in ancient Italy fighting in the gladiatorial games. There they meet another pair of twins, Romulus and Remus, and it all leads to the founding of the world's most epic city: Rome"--
19) Through fences
Author
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic story, Dorian Gray hides a monstrous secret in his attic--a portrait that ages and shows the results of his hedonistic and selfish lifestyle while he remains ever-youthful and handsome.
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