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Author
Series
Bardic voices volume 3
Publisher
Baen Pub
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Disturbed by the growing presence of the Church throughout Alanda, Nightingale fears for her non-human friends and joins forces with birdman T'fyrr in a quest to save the High King.
Author
Series
Bulletin) volume no. 936-B
Publisher
United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey
Pub. Date
1942.
Language
English
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc./Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
While attending a conference in Istanbul, Dr. Alithea Binnie happens to encounter a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems: first, she doubts that he's real, and second, because she's a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually, she's beguiled and makes a wish that surprises...
67) Honeycomb
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"The toymaker who wants to create the perfect wife; the princess whose heart is won by words, not actions; the tiny dog whose confidence far outweighs his size; and the sinister Lacewing King who rules over the Silken Folk. These are just a few of the weird and wonderful creatures who populate Joanne Harris's first collection of fairy tales"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence. Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally looking up for her and her sister Florence... until the...
71) The women
Author
Language
English
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Description
"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
72) The four winds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
Publisher
Playaway/Findaway World
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Thumbelina: a tiny baby girl is snatched from her adopted family by an ugly toad but escapes to find happiness with the king of the flower angels.
The talking eggs: The story of Ruby Rouge, her mysterious friend Conjure Woman and two baskets of talking eggs with very different yolks.
The fisherman and his wife: When a simple fisherman catches a magical fish, his wife's constant outlandish wishes causes them to lose everything.
The Emperor and the...
74) Turn it up!
Author
Publisher
Point, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The Nightingales are in a serious funk. Bradley Academy's all-girl a cappella group used to be the pride of the sunshine state, but the Nightingales have recently fallen out of harmony. Best friends and co-captains Lidia Sato and Sydney Marino haven't been speaking ever since a boy came between them. And not just any boy-none other than Griffin Mancini, the lead singer of Bradley Academy's smug all-boy a capella group, the Kingfishers. The Nightingales...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thirty years ago, a teenage Vincent King was sent to prison. But now, he's served his sentence and is returning to his hometown. The hometown where his childhood best friend, Walk, is now the chief of police. The town where his childhood sweetheart, Star Radley, still lives. The same Star Radley whose sister he killed. Duchess, Star's daughter, is a self-proclaimed outlaw. She needs to be. Who else is going to take care of her and her five-year-old...
78) Night road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows--her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close-knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable... --
Author
Series
Language
English
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Choosing spinsterhood over fortune-hungry suitors, Miss Minerva Dodger decides to enjoy one night of pleasure at the Nightingale Club where she is drawn into an intimate affair with the Duke of Ashebury, who, once he discovers her true identity, sets out to win her heart.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Listeners will rediscover Hans Christian Andersen's best-known fairy tales, and find new favorites, all brought to life by a full cast. Recognizing the literary merit of Andersen's own simple colloquial language, which Victorian translators and their imitators very often altered to sentimentalize or vulgarize, translator Erik Haugaard has remained faithful to the original text.
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