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721) Dare to be wild
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
This is the true story of Mary Reynolds, a feisty landscape designer whose goal is to share the beauty of wild nature with the world. With the odds stacked against her, Mary enters the prestigious (and conservative) Chelsea Flower Show to execute a competition garden using only wild plants. To achieve her goal, she must enlist handsome botanist, Christy Collard, working in Ethiopia, and a rag-tag group of hippies to help her. From the iconic green...
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Takes you on an in-depth journey through the heart of the mysteries behind Dan Brown's best-selling novel 'The Da Vinci Code'. Cuts through the confusion, ultimately cracking Da Vinci's code and revealing the remarkable truth behind the legend of the Holy Grail. Probe new revelations in an exclusive discussion with the authors of the book 'The Templar Revelation', the main source for 'The Da Vinci Code'. Listen to a renowned expert on comparative...
724) Lady Audley's secret
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The nephew of a wealthy man begins to nurse suspicions about his uncle's new wife that implicate her in the disappearance of his old school friend, back from Australia in search of his lost wife and child.
Author
Series
Tudor court volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004, c2001
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Description
The daughters of a ruthlessly ambitious family, Mary and Anne Boleyn are sent to the court of Henry VIII to attract the attention of the king, who first takes Mary as his mistress, in which role she bears him an illegitimate son, and then Anne as his wife.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The young scientist Victor Frankenstein has created something amazing and horrible at the same time--a living being out of dead flesh and bone. His creation, however, turns out to be a monster! Frankenstein's creation quickly discovers that his hideous appearance frightens away any companions. Now Victor Frankenstein must stop his creation before the monster's loneliness turns to violence.
This book, in graphic novel format, retells the story...
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain: A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
Sirens: An idealistic young minister on a mission, must tame the wicked ways of a notorious artist whose nude paintings of...
730) The sister queens
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Two rival queens. History's greatest playwright. And a deadly plot for the crown. London, 1600. With no legitimate heir to Queen Elizabeth's throne, and no clear successor with her modern vision of a civilization that thrives in peace and diversity, England is in a supremely perilous moment. Elizabeth's foes understand the power of a poet's voice to shape popular opinion, and force esteemed playwright William Shakespeare to write a script detailing...
731) Chappaquiddick
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Investigates the fascinating truths behind The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. From centuries-old secret societies to real-world cryptography and the high-stakes intrigue surrounding the installation of a new Pope to the sometimes uneasy relationship between the Vatican and leading scientists.
733) Cheshire Crossing
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"What happens to Alice when she comes back from Wonderland? Wendy from Neverland? Dorothy from Oz? The three meet here, at Cheshire Crossing -- a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers. But the trio -- now teenagers, who've had their fill of meddling authority figures -- aren't content to sit still in a classroom. Soon they're dashing from one universe...
Pub. Date
2017
Description
The fourth and final season finds Mary rising to the challenge, taking back her country and establishing her rule in Scotland, the land of her birth but a wild nation foreign to her, and now, once again, her home. There will be impossibly high stakes, unexpected betrayals, sexual exploits, a royal wedding, a royal birth and a rising body count as three queens in three nations fight for their people, their loves, and their lives.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe comes alive in this beautifully illustrated graphic novel. Amidst the dangers of the Mexican revolution, a young boy named Jose is motivated by the story of St. Juan Diego and how the Indian convert assisted in carrying out the messages of Our Lady, leading to the conversion of millions. Authentic Church teachings and today's abortion issues are perfectly integrated in this pro-life book as it takes its reader through...
737) Mary Poppins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who, with her magical umbrella, flies into the lives of a proper, upper crust Edwardian English banker and his two children. She proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers and, in the process, teaches the family just how much fun life can be.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Anne of the thousand days: Follow King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in one of history's most famous tragic love affairs in the Academy Award winning masterpiece starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.
Mary Queen of Scots: The battle between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth, Queen of England comes alive in this epic film.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Based on the best-selling novel, Lily James (Mamma Mia! We Go Again, Cinderalla, Baby Driver) plays free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with eccentric Guernsy Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey during WWII.
740) Joseph & Mary
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A biblical drama that follows Elijah, a devout Rabbi, during a time of unrest when King Herod the Great's slaughter of innocents claims the lives of two boys Elijah had sworn to protect. Elijah makes it his life's mission to avenge their deaths, but when he meets Joseph, Mary and their young son Jesus, the beliefs fueling his revenge are put into question. When the time comes to face his life long enemy, Elijah finds himself warring within whether...
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