The Discovery of the Americas
Title | The Discovery of the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Betsy Maestro |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1992-04-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0688115128 |
"The Maestros do a real service here in presenting the more familiar explorers in the context of all the migrations that have populated the Western Hemisphere....An outstanding introduction."--Kirkus Reviews. "The dazzlingly clean and accurate prose and the exhilarating beauty of the pictures combine for an extraordinary achievement in both history and art."--School Library Journal.
A Discovery of Witches
Title | A Discovery of Witches PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Harkness |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 593 |
Release | 2011-02-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101475692 |
Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series, from the author of The Black Bird Oracle. “A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” (People). Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, book three, The Book of Life, and the fourth in the series, Time’s Convert.
The Discovery of Slowness
Title | The Discovery of Slowness PDF eBook |
Author | Sten Nadolny |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 1997-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101658096 |
In The Discovery of Slowness, German novelist Sten Nadolny recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). The reader follows Franklin's development from awkward schoolboy and ridiculed teenager to expedition leader, governor of Tasmania, and icon of adventure. Everyone with whom he came into contact sensed that he was a rare man, one who was “out of his time” and who moved to a different, grander beat. That beat eventually led Franklin to sail once more—on his final, fateful voyage—into the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. The Discovery of Slowness is both a riveting account of a remarkable and varied life, and a profound and thought-provoking meditation on time.
The Discovery Series
Title | The Discovery Series PDF eBook |
Author | Wanda E. Brunstetter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Absence and presumption of death |
ISBN | 9781624167515 |
If This Is the Age We End Discovery
Title | If This Is the Age We End Discovery PDF eBook |
Author | Rosebud Ben-Oni |
Publisher | Alice James Books |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2021-03-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1948579499 |
A fascinating blend of poetry and science, Ben-Oni’s poems are precisely crafted, like a surgeon sewing a complicated stitch. The speaker of the collection falls ill, and takes comfort in exploring the idea of “Efes” which is “zero” in Modern Hebrew, using that nullification to be a means of transformation.
The Discovery of Dragons
Title | The Discovery of Dragons PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme Base |
Publisher | Viking |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Dragons |
ISBN | 9780670070480 |
A brand-new edition of the classic book of Serpentology brought to you by the brilliant Graeme Base Was Bjorn of Bromme one of the greatest explorers of the Viking Age or just a simple-minded, lice-infested Barbarian with a passion for beach volleyball? Could Soong Mei Ying really have discovered every Asiatic Dragon known to Serpentology, or was she just a thirteenth-century teenage who wanted to travel and meet people? Did Dr E. F. Liebermann perish after discovering the Common Green Draak, also known as the 'Awful Gurgler', or was he suffering from a severe bout of jungle madness? The answers to these questions and more will not be found within the pages of this book - but a lot of great big Dragons will . . . Visit graemebase.com
The Human Body
Title | The Human Body PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvaine Pérols |
Publisher | Richmond Hill, Ont. : Scholastic Canada |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780590738767 |
A detailed and straightforward guide to the human body helps young readers discover how their bodies work, both inside and outside.