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"From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner KenardPak"--
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Joanne Penney
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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On the Horizon is Joanne's first collection of prose poetry. It was written during the 2020/21 pandemic lockdowns. She writes through the diverse lenses of mental illness, disability, and the female, with hints of intertextuality.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"The acclaimed author of the "dazzling" (Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Book of Speculation returns with an engrossing new novel about a bio-prosthetic surgeon and her personal AI as they are drawn into a catastrophic war. The cityof Bulwark is aptly named: a walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, Bulwark was founded on a system where sacrifice is rewarded by...
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Fordham University Press
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by "world literature" as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus provided-and continues to provide-a condition...
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Zaffre
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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In 1899 South Africa, as war erupts between the Boers and British, Colonel Penrod Ballantyne and his family face peril and separation, while Ryder Courtney and his family are drawn into the conflict, risking everything to reunite and survive.
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Scholastic Inc
Lexile measure:
490L
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English
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"Liko gets her very first partner Pokémon, Sprigatito. It's so cute! But the pair have trouble bonding. When a suspicious stranger shows up looking for Liko, can she and Sprigatito work together to get away from trouble?"--Back cover.
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English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Escape to a deserted island and create your own paradise as you explore, create, and customize in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons game. Your island getaway has a wealth of natural resources that can be used to craft everything from tools to creature comforts. You can hunt down insects at the crack of dawn, decorate your paradise throughout the day, or enjoy sunset on the beach while fishing in the ocean. The time of day and season match real life,...
13. Lost horizon
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1060L
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English
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3.5 stars
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Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people is hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
Pub. Date:
[2017]
Language:
English
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For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in U.S. history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety.
15. Black horizon
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Jack Swyteck novel volume 11
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English
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"It's devu, with a big twist. Three summers after the biggest man-made environmental disaster in history, millions of gallons of oil are again spewing from a hole in the ocean floor. But this rig explosion was in Cuban waters, just 50 miles away from Florida, and the situation is complex. The consortium doing the work is state-owned Venezuelan, Chinese and Russian, controlled by a mineral lease from the Cuban government. And the Cubans not only refuse...
Publisher:
Warner Bros
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won, and lost, through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, Kevin Costner's ambitious cinematic adventure will take audiences on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America.
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White Sails volume 2
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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GRACE ON THE HORIZON is the second full-length novel in The White Sails Series. Grace and Seamus, united by their past experiences, are adrift on a raft of shame in the sea of 1830s London society. After a personal tragedy, Grace's desperation to leave London forces Seamus to accept a dubious commission on the private explorer, Clover. With the expedition financed by Colonel Hamilton and his private backers, Seamus is tasked with mapping a round-the-world...
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Pub. Date:
2011
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English
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"A phenomenal feat of journalism. . . . I tore through it like a novel but with the queasy knowledge that the whole damn thing is true." -Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and War Blending exclusive first-person interviews and penetrating investigative reporting, oil rig captain John Konrad and veteran Washington Post writer Tom Shroder give the definitive, white-knuckled account of the Deepwater Horizon explosion-as well as a riveting...
19. Lost horizon
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Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date:
[1999]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people are hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
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Publisher:
Swan Charm Publishing
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Eyes on the Horizon" is a poignant collection of poetry that invites readers to embark on a journey of introspection and discovery. Each poem reflects the tension between hope and despair, illuminating the beauty found in the mundane and the extraordinary alike. Through vivid imagery and evocative language, the poet beckons us to gaze beyond the immediate, to seek the unseen possibilities that stretch before us like an endless horizon. This collection...