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[2021].
Description
"One Little Snake River Odyssey is a different kind of memoir. It recounts the lives of the three St. Louis siblings - David, Kenneth, and Rita - especially their 1950s and 1960s childhood in the sheep and cattle country of northwest Colorado. It's a world of 4-H experiences, a one-room schoolhouse, and precious connections with others in the lonely country where the mountains give way to high desert...The history of the St. Louis family is the history...
324) Out of the shadows
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Clara Fitzgerald's recent losses have set her adrift, personally and professionally. Remembering the stories her mother used to tell her, Clara decides to research her ancestry-only to uncover an extraordinary link to Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. With her sister in tow and the help of Kay, a retired Shelley scholar, Clara embarks on a search for the author's long lost journals and letters. As a bond among the three women grows, and as the profound...
327) The Domestic world
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Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
History of the development of the home and family from the primitive shelter through medieval times to the present day.
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Pub. Date
2007.
Description
After the death of her elderly Aunt Lucy, Katharine Murray discovers a priceless Celtic necklace and a mysterious diary written in German among her aunt's miscellaneous possessions, and her search for the truth about the artifacts leads to the discovery of the fifty-year-old murder of Aunt Lucy's brother Carter, the theft of the objects, and the killing of the prime suspect.
336) Something shady
Author
Series
Secrets from grandma's attic volume 11
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
While Tracy is preparing for a fundraiser, a mysterious envelope full of cash is found in an old piano. Meanwhile, Linnett claims there is a ghost in her house. --
Author
Series
Secrets from grandma's attic volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"While rummaging around Grandma Pearl's attic, sisters Tracy Doyle and Amy Allen discover a box of old letters written to their grandmother in 1945 from a woman named Peggy living in Washington, DC. Each letter has a reference to a Bible verse in the Book of Numbers. When they also find an old Bible with cryptic notations in the margins next to those exact same verses, the sisters' curiosity is piqued. With a little digging, Tracy concludes that Peggy...
338) Eldorado
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Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Felix and Emma are biking in Germany when Felix decides to visit his late father's family home; there he finds an elderly stranger who claims his father never lived there.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"In Encounter with the Plumed Serpent, two scholars present and interpret the sacred histories narrated in the Mixtec codices, the largest surviving collection of pre-Columbian manuscripts in existence.".
"By analyzing and cross-referencing the codices, which have been fragmented and dispersed in far-flung archives, the authors attempt to reconstruct Mixtec history. Their synthesis here builds on long examination of the ancient manuscripts. Adding...
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