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Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1982]
Physical Desc
46 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes some of the world's most famous towers as well as a few dungeons and prisons, and relates historical tales associated with several of the structures.
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume G 602
Publisher
John Wilson & Son
Pub. Date
1891.
Physical Desc
xii, 689 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hurrah for the return of that intrepid duo: Blotto (handsome, honorable, not the sharpest knife in the drawer), and his sister Twinks (just a bit brainier than a girl should be)! As this is the 1920s, they are of course attending a weekend house party, where--how astonishing!--a murder is announced. One of the guests has the gall to accuse Corky, the siblings' chauffeur, so Blotto and Twinks have no choice but to find the real murderer and clear...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blotto and Twinks travel to America! Specifically, they travel to Chicago (and this would be during the Prohibition years) in the hopes of marrying Blotto off to an American heiress and thus saving Tawcester Towers from financial ruin. Thankfully, Twinks is around to nose out the dirty undertakings of the heiress's father, a meat-packing magnate and Chicago mob associate.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's that glorious period between the two world wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is visiting the ancestral home of the Duke of Tawcester. When the ex-king's daughter is kidnapped, noblesse obliges the Duke's handsome, brave, and rather stupid son (known to all as Blotto) to drive off to the rescue. Luckily, he's aided by his brilliant sister, Twinks. Plus, he's got a really swell car.
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 42
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
95 pages, 13 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Moldy mozzarella! It was only a few days before Halloween when all of the pumpkins in New Mouse City disappeared. A thief was on the loose, and there was only one person I could count on to help me solve this peculiar mystery--my detective friend Hercule Poirat. But would we be able to figure out what was going on in time to save Halloween?" -- p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 1
Language
English
Description
After a dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stashed "in the tower," the Hardy boys make an astonishing discovery.
Series
Reading rainbow volume 111
Publisher
GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Italian immigrant builds three unusual towers in his back yard in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
15) The Eiffel Tower
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
87 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of the structure built for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, describing the engineering, architectural, and mechanical processes involved.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents simple activities and experiments that demonstrate the principles of making observations about how things work.
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids / Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
What's on the other side of the forest? A young rabbit and his father are determined to find out in this modern picture book that feels like a classic, calling to mind the tender work of Beatrix Potter. Some say that wolves, ogres, and giant badgers live in the forest beside Arthur's house. That's why no one ever goes in there, to see what's on the other side. But one day, Arthur's dad has an idea--a magnificent idea! Build a tower to look over the...
19) Fall
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down.
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
'What? You mean the earl does it for money? That's way beyond the barbed wire!' This explosion of disgust from Blotto is provoked when Twinks informs him of the activities of the Earl of Woking. The gentleman in question is owner of Clusters, a stately home not far from Tawcester Towers, and he has been renting out parts of Clusters for private functions - and charging his guests! The discovery of this appalling lapse in aristocratic behaviour sets...
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