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There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two rivers, all under the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems of all time. “Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf… you won’t regret it...Categorized as:
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![Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney]()
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsGreat-aunt Runfio was once a little girl who loved the sea, longed to visit faraway places, and wished to do something to make the world more beautiful...Categorized as:
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![Where Butterflies Dream by Cindy Brandner]()
Where Butterflies Dream by Cindy Brandner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEach of us carries within a map of memory. The map is worn at the folds--sometimes right through--and so place names are missing first letters or last or have a hole through the middle. We carry those maps with us always, and this map is mine--an island on the edge of the world and beyond it a place of dragons and sunken cities with bells that still ring a thousand years on.. -
![The Apprenticeship of Nigel Blackthorn by Frank Kelso]()
The Apprenticeship of Nigel Blackthorn by Frank Kelso
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNigel must choose between entering an orphanage or entering an apprenticeship on a mule train.The APPRENTICESHIP OF NIGEL BLACKTHORN is a coming-of-age story set in the American West of 1853. The story relates the adventures of a thirteen-year-old English boy whose missionary parents came to convert the wild heathens to the way of Christ...Categorized as:
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![Wheel of the Fates by J. Boyce Gleason]()
Wheel of the Fates by J. Boyce Gleason
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIT IS 742. The throne is empty; the pagan states are in rebellion; Charles Martel’s widow and youngest son have been imprisoned, and trust between Carloman and Pippin—the two brothers who remain in power—has been shattered... -
![Galloglass Book Two:: Defender of the Realm by Seamus O'Griffin]()
Galloglass Book Two:: Defender of the Realm by Seamus O'Griffin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe adventure continues as Ronan MacAlasdair is drawn deeper into the political intrigues and rivalries of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and Acre. New dangers arise as the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt moves closer to a war whose ultimate goal is to drive the last remaining Crusaders in the Holy Land into the sea... -
![Galloglass by Seamus O'Griffin]()
Galloglass by Seamus O'Griffin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsEpic high adventure, Galloglass details the story of Ronan MacAlasdair,grandson of Angus Mor MacDonald, Lord of the Isles. Given to the Templars to save him from outlawry,the story takes the young Isleman from Islay to the Levant where he comes to manhood and finds fame, surviving intrigue, battle and seige. A rousing story with adult themes, this is the first in a series... -
![Two Little Savages: Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned by Ernest Thompson Seton]()
Two Little Savages: Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned by Ernest Thompson Seton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...Categorized as:
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![Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird]()
Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwelve-year-old Omar and his brothers and sisters were born and raised in the beautiful and bustling city of Bosra, Syria. Omar doesn't care about politics—all he wants is to grow up to become a successful businessman who will take the world by storm. But when his clever older brother, Musa, gets mixed up with some young political activists, everything changes...Categorized as:
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![Brother Wind by Sue Harrison]()
Brother Wind by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a time before time at the top of the world -; in a harsh and unforgiving age of ice -; courage will sustain three remarkable souls through trials as bitter as the chill winds of the eternal winter."Claimed by a brutal, despised enemy, Kiin must sacrifice her love for the sake of her tribe and the safety of her children...Categorized as:
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![Legacy of Ra by M. Sasinowski]()
Legacy of Ra by M. Sasinowski
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe epic conclusion to the best-selling Blood of Ra TrilogyTWO HEIRS. AN AGE-OLD BATTLE. ONE TRUE LEGACY.The Rathadi, defeated and ravaged by illness, are in hiding.Alyssa must awaken Horus's last memory to unlock her potential and claim her birthright as his Legacy... -
![The Best of Robert Service by Robert W. Service]()
The Best of Robert Service by Robert W. Service
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties...Categorized as:
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![Wildwood by Elinor Florence]()
Wildwood by Elinor Florence
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA single mother. An abandoned farmhouse. An epic battle with the northern wilderness.Broke and desperate, Molly Bannister accepts the ironclad condition laid down in her great-aunt’s will: to receive her inheritance, Molly must spend one year in an abandoned, off-the-grid farmhouse in the remote backwoods of northern Alberta... -
![Daughter of Ra by M. Sasinowski]()
Daughter of Ra by M. Sasinowski
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 2 in the Blood of Ra Trilogy In the heart-pounding sequel to M. Sasinowski's award-winning Heir of Ra, Alyssa's wit and resolve--and sanity--are put to the test once again. Alyssa thought her fight was over. She was wrong. The memories come unbidden.Plagued by visions from the past, Alyssa struggles to discern myth from reality...Categorized as:
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![An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden]()
An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA much-loved English novel reminiscent of The Secret GardenSomeone has dug up the private garden in the square and taken buckets of dirt, and Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is sure that a gang of boys from run-down Catford Street must be to blame. But Angela's sister Olivia isn't so sure...Categorized as:
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![Run with the Wind by Tom McCaughren]()
Run with the Wind by Tom McCaughren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Don't forget,' said the old fox, "If danger threatens, run with the wind."In the Land of Sinna, Black Tip, Vickey, Old Sage Brush, Fang and the rest of the foxes who live around Beech Paw are in trouble. The fur companies are hunting them almost to extinction. The foxes have no choice but to set out in search of the secret of survival...Categorized as:
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![Across the Nightingale Floor, Episode 1: The Sword of the Warrior by Lian Hearn]()
Across the Nightingale Floor, Episode 1: The Sword of the Warrior by Lian Hearn
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard." "The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden, a reclusive and spiritual people who have taught him only the ways of peace...Categorized as:
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![American History Quartet Set (Magic Tree House, #21-24) by Mary Pope Osborne]()
American History Quartet Set (Magic Tree House, #21-24) by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBooks 21-24 of the "New York Times" bestselling Magic Tree House series boxed together for the first time! These four titles are the perfect gift for a Magic Tree House fan or any child who loves a good adventure...Categorized as:
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![Tales of the North by Jack London]()
Tales of the North by Jack London
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you enjoy nonstop adventure and heroic exploits, then you are sure to love Tales of the North...Categorized as:
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![How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman, Allen Say]()
How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman, Allen Say
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn American sailor courts a young Japanese woman and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating... -
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The Origin by Irving Stone
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"The Origin" fills an important gap in literature on Charles Darwin. In 1832 at age 22, Charles Darwin was invited to sail with H.M.S. Beagle as a naturalist. The surveying voyage would encircle the globe...Categorized as:
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![Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett]()
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams...Categorized as:
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![The Seed Woman by Petra Durst-Benning]()
The Seed Woman by Petra Durst-Benning
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom bestselling author Petra Durst-Benning comes a sweeping emotional story of courage, triumph, and love against all odds in nineteenth-century Germany. After a long and trying journey from her home, Hannah arrives at a charming village nestled in the foothills of the Swabian Mountains, eager to find Helmut Kerner, a traveling seed merchant she loved and lost...Categorized as:
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![California! by Dana Fuller Ross]()
California! by Dana Fuller Ross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGold fever. It swept the country from coast to coast, luring more than a hundred thousand seekers to the untamed territory of California. For them, the Gold Rush of 1848 represented the American Dream come true. But for the settlers who lived there, it was an all-out assault on the homes they'd struggled so hard to build...Categorized as:
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![The Terrors of Ice and Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr]()
The Terrors of Ice and Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNovels with explicitly novelistic themes are often bloodless, carrying the fatal odor of the sheltered writing workshop; Austrian writer Ransmayr's first novel, however, is a stunning exception. (His second book, The Last World, was published here last year to critical acclaim.) The underlying concerns of this work are primarily literary--creator vs. creation, history vs...Categorized as:
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![The Danish Scheme by Herb Sakalaucks, Eric Flint]()
The Danish Scheme by Herb Sakalaucks, Eric Flint
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomething new is brewing in the 17th century! Fans of the 1632 series have often asked "What's going on in North America?" Herbert Sakalauks has set out to let you know in his short novel "The Danish Scheme... -
![Radiant Girl by Andrea White]()
Radiant Girl by Andrea White
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA girl’s 11th birthday always brings big changes to her world, but for Katya Dubko, it is truly the end of the world as she knows it. In the northern Ukraine, an area of dense forests, abundant wild life, and sparkling rivers, Katya’s little village of Yanov has been a fairytale home...Categorized as:
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![The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge]()
The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this stunning novel, award-winning author Beryl Bainbridge offers a fictionalized account of the doomed Antarctic expedition led by Captain Scott in 1912. At once hair-raising and beautiful, here is an astonishing tale of misguided courage and human endurance. The Birthday Boys of the title are Scott and four members of his team, each of whom narrates a section of the book...Categorized as:
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![Landfalls by Naomi J. Williams]()
Landfalls by Naomi J. Williams
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi J. Williams reimagines the historical Lapérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, more than two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France...Categorized as:
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![Storm by George R. Stewart, Ernest Callenbach]()
Storm by George R. Stewart, Ernest Callenbach
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA violent storm, affectionately known as Maria, sweeps through California and changes the lives of many in its path... -
![I, Crocodile by Fred Marcellino]()
I, Crocodile by Fred Marcellino
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhile robbing Egypt's mummies, sphinxes, and palm trees, Napoleon can't resist bringing home a souvenir crocodile as well. All Paris is enchanted with this exotic creature. But for a crocodile with an appetite as big as his ego, being the toast of the town has its downside, too...Categorized as:
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![The Beloved Wild by Melissa Ostrom]()
The Beloved Wild by Melissa Ostrom
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHarriet Winter is the eldest daughter in a farming family in New Hampshire, 1807. Her neighbor is Daniel Long, who runs his family's farm on his own after the death of his parents. Harriet's mother sees Daniel as a good match, but Harriet isn't so sure she wants someone else to choose her path—in love and in life...Categorized as:
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![Bridie's Fire by Kirsty Murray]()
Bridie's Fire by Kirsty Murray
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis sweeping historical novel for young adults documents the adventures of Bridie, an orphaned Irish teenager who escapes the potato famine that claimed the lives of her parents and baby brother. Independent and stubborn, Bridie makes a new life for herself in the rough-and-tumble world of Australia during the nineteenth-century gold rush... -
![Threads West: An American Saga by Reid Lance Rosenthal]()
Threads West: An American Saga by Reid Lance Rosenthal
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Adventure and Romance of the America, her people, her spirit, and the West. This is our story...Categorized as:
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![The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett]()
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the stories of her 1996 National Book Award-winning collection, Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett explored the human passions at work behind a dazzling array of scientific endeavors...Categorized as:
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![The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig]()
The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBased on an actual incident in 1853, award-winning author Ivan Doig's The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom."Goes beyond being 'about' survival and becomes, mile by terrible mile, the experience itself...Categorized as:
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![The Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne]()
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHere is the first new translation of ever-popular adventure writer Jules Verne's thrilling novel of polar exploration in over a century. In the novel, First Mate Shandon receives a mysterious letter asking him to construct a reinforced steamship in Liverpool...Categorized as:
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![Quest For Fire by J.-H. Rosny aîné]()
Quest For Fire by J.-H. Rosny aîné
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Future Began 80,000 Years AgoThe thrilling science fantasy adventure which re-creates, through the mists of time, our unthinkable past.Most of the tribe are dead or dying after the battle. But worse, they have been robbed of their most scared possession - FIRE! So three young warriors must brave a world of untamed savagery during their search for survival itself in Quest for Fire... -
![The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 by Laurence Yep]()
The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 by Laurence Yep
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA gripping portrait of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake by Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Laurence Yep.When the quake subsides, Chin and Henry and their families are lucky to be alive. But now they must escape the fires that have broken out and find their way to safety-before it's too late...Categorized as:
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![Los Ojos del Tuareg by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa]()
Los Ojos del Tuareg by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsObra inspirada en hechos reales, Los ojos del Tuareg narra con dramatismo y perspicacia los conflictos provocados por uno de los grandes acontecimientos deportivos y publicitarios del mundo occidental: el famoso rally Paris-Dakar... -
![White Jade Tiger by Julie Lawson]()
White Jade Tiger by Julie Lawson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a trip to Chinatown, thirteen-year-old Jasmine steps through a doorway back in time and finds herself in the 1880s.1994 Sheila A...Categorized as:
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![Deception's Pawn by Esther M. Friesner]()
Deception's Pawn by Esther M. Friesner
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFortune favors the bold in this adventurous tale of broken friendships, forbidden love, and a fiery heroine's journey to escape the role into which she was born. Perfect for YA fantasy fans of Shannon Hale, Malinda Lo, and Tamora Pierce.Maeve, princess of Connacht, seems to have won her freedom. Her father, the High King, is finally allowing her to explore the world beyond his castle...Categorized as:
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![Hoping for Home: Stories of Arrival by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz]()
Hoping for Home: Stories of Arrival by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life. In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada's top children's authors contribute stories of immigration, displacement and change, exploring the frustration and uncertainty those changes can bring...Categorized as:
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![Katie's Trunk by Ann Turner]()
Katie's Trunk by Ann Turner
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a true incident that happened to one of the author’s ancestors, Katie’s Trunk gives an unusual and arresting glimpse of the beginnings of the American Revolution.Katie could feel it in the air—something was wrong. Neighbors didn’t speak to each other anymore, and someone even hissed “Tory!” at her. All around Katie, men were arming themselves for war...Categorized as:
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![Mutant Message from Forever: A Novel of Aboriginal Wisdom by Marlo Morgan]()
Mutant Message from Forever: A Novel of Aboriginal Wisdom by Marlo Morgan
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFollowing her modern classic and worldwide bestseller A Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan's long-awaited second novel is a tale of self-enlightenment about aboriginal twins separated at birth and the searchfor roots that reunites them from opposite sides of the globe...Categorized as:
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![Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess by Richard Platt]()
Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess by Richard Platt
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"Not many, if any, children’s books on the Middle Ages and castles contain the wealth of information found in this fresh, appealing offering." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)What was it really like to live in a castle? Step back to the Middle Ages with Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess...Categorized as:
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![Voyage by Stephen Baxter]()
Voyage by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe space mission of a lifetime An epic saga of America's might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events... -
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Ice Drift by Theodore Taylor
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe year is 1868, and fourteen-year-old Alika and his younger brother, Sulu, are hunting for seals on an ice floe attached to their island in the Arctic. Suddenly the ice starts to shake, and they hear a loud crack--the terrible sound of the floe breaking free from land...Categorized as:
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![Heartbroke Bay by Lynn D'urso]()
Heartbroke Bay by Lynn D'urso
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA powerful literary debut inspired by a true story.In 1898, Alaska is an untamed wilderness with an unforgiving climate. At the tail end of a world-wide depression, thousands of destitute people are drawn north by rumors of easy wealth coming out of the remote claims of the Gold Rush...Categorized as:
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![Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney]()
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFlora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve. In 1889, the whaler's daughter from Dundee - dubbed by the press "The Snow Queen" - sets out to become a scientist and explorer...
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