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1) Middlesex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
4) Steeplechase
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A search for a missing church leads Homer to a century-old mystery Somehow, against all odds, Homer Kelly has become famous. After decades toiling in academic obscurity, the Harvard professor has a book on the bestseller list. To capitalize on his sudden fame, Homer's editor demands another book, and fast. Homer is working on Steeplechase, a tour of churches in and around his little patch of Massachusetts, and at his editor's request he goes searching...
6) Woodsburner
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In his scintillating debut, John Pipkin fictionalizes an ignoble event in noted naturalist Henry David Thoreau's life. One year before his historic retreat to the woods around Walden Pond, Thoreau struck a match and carelessly started a mammoth fire that would go on to consume 300 acres of forest and farmland.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Guide to Walden Pond is the first guidebook to Henry David Thoreau's most defining place, visited by half a million people each year. Many more know it as the fountainhead of America's environmental consciousness. Using this guide, both armchair readers and trail-walkers alike can join Thoreau devotee Robert M. Thorson on an amble around the pond's shoreline. We'll pause to explore people, events, and the natural world at fifteen special places....
8) Edison
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Edison, named for its most famous resident, inventor Thomas Alva Edison, can be called the birthplace of modern life as we know it. It was here at his Menlo Park complex that Thomas Edison created the incandescent electric light bulb and 300 other inventions, providing residents with not only a place of employment but also a source of national pride. Known as Raritan Township until 1954, Edison was a slow-paced agricultural community until the twentieth...
Author
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Austin Steward (1793—1869) was an African-American author and abolitionist. Born into slavery, he managed to escape from Virginia aged 21 and moved to Rochester, New York before settling in Canada. "Twenty-Two Years a Slave - And Forty Years a Freeman" is Steward's astonishing 1856 autobiography within which he recounts the travails of his harrowing life as a slave in America, as well as his experiences as a free man. A compelling and heart-breaking...
Author
Series
Scientific investigations map volume 3200
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Series
Scientific investigations map volume 3052
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Series
U.S. Geological Survey open-file report volume 2006-1296
Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
V. 1.0.
Language
English
Author
Series
Water-resources investigations report volume 90-4083
Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
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