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Series
A history of US volume 8
Language
English
Description
Award-winning series about the birth and development of the United States. Master storyteller and lifelong student of American history, Joy Hakim, takes readers from 9 to 99 on a breathtaking journey through time, from the Ice Age to the 21st century.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2008, 1988.
Physical Desc
2 CDs (2 hrs., 32 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sixth baby in Madeleine Mouse's litter is so huge that the other babies don't stand a chance. Magnus's obsessive quest for more grub leads his family out of their warm cottage and into a pigsty, where, fattened on patent Porker Pills, Magnus just grows and grows - and so do his problems.
6) Glubbslyme
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
2 CDs (2 hrs., 25 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
7) Hunky Dory
Author
Publisher
Chivers Audio Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 CDs (3 hr., 16 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"My name is Dorian and what follows is the official autobiography of my life so far. That includes my school, my family, my friends, my hobbies and - unfortunately - lots of girls! They get together in groups and lurk about, waiting for boys to giggle at. But why pick on me???"--Container.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 CDs (2 hrs., 21 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Ibby is sent to stay with her aunt, she discovers her two troublesome boy cousins, Francis and Alex, playing with an old box of magic tricks they found in the attic. Ibby is sure that magic isn't real - until she sees Francis sitting at the bottom of the biscuit tin, magically miniaturized by Alex. After that, nothing is what it seems.
10) The mum mystery
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 hrs., 40 min.) : digital., stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Young Alec Ramsay is shipwrecked on a desert island with a horse destined to play an important part in his life. Following their rescue, their adventure continues in America.
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 CDs (1 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The special Class Prize will be awarded to the children who make the most money at the Pudding Bag School Summer Fair. With their teacher in bed and only a very mangy moose for company, Class 4b despair of winning anything at all. Something special is needed, and it arrives just in time. But could it be a bit too special? After all, it smells very strongly of magic!
13) The slave dancer
Author
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Author
Language
English
Description
One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife...
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife...
15) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This work traces the tradition from phonographic books made on wax cylinders to talking books made for blinded soldiers returning from the First World War and, much later, the commercial audiobooks heard today. Addressing the vexed relationship between orality and print, the author shows how talking books developed both as a way of reproducing printed books and as a way of overcoming their limitations. In an overview, he charts the talking book's...
20) Missing May
Author
Language
English
Description
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
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