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English
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When seventeen-year-old friends Liv and Will are accepted in a semester-at-sea program, they are excited to spend six weeks aboard the luxury cruise ship The Eos, but after Will disappears the first night, Liv grows suspicious that something sinister is lurking below deck.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling, Thurber-prize winning author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap by chronicling the beleaguered Professor Fitger as he leads the annual "Experience Abroad" to London and beyond with eleven clueless undergrads in tow. Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he's the only Professor available to chaperone Payne University's annual...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Isla has had a crush on classmate Josh since their freshman year at the School of America in Paris, but after a chance encounter over the summer in Manhattan they return to France for their senior year where they are forced to confront challenges every young couple in love must face.
4) Cielo
Publisher
h264
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
CIELO is a cinematic reverie on the crazy beauty of the night sky, as experienced in the Atacama Desert, Chile, one of the best places on our planet to explore and contemplate its splendour. Director Alison McAlpine’s sublime nonfiction film drifts between science and spirituality, the arid land, desert shores and lush galaxies, expanding the limits of our earthling imaginations. Planet Hunters in the Atacama's astronomical observatories and the...
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
HOME FROM SCHOOL follows the difficult journey of Soldierwolf and tribal elders as they delve into the controversial history of Indian boarding schools, patch together the historic record and personal stories of the relatives who were shipped away, and, finally, travel to Carlisle to reunite with, and ultimately retrieve, the lost children of their tribe.
Generations after Native American children were sent from their reservation homes across the
...Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
CHASING VOICES tells the extraordinary life story of controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington. Beginning in 1907, Harrington crisscrossed the United States frantically searching and documenting dying Native American languages. For the next 50 years, this became his obsession. Harrington amassed over a million pages of notes on over 150 different tribal languages. Some of these languages were considered dead until his notes were discovered....
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
In the heart of the Tibetan highlands, multi-award-winning nature photographer Vincent Munier guides writer Sylvain Tesson on his quest to document the exceptionally elusive snow leopard. Munier introduces Tesson to the subtle art of waiting from a blind spot, tracking animals, and finding the patience to catch sight of the beasts. Through their journey in the Tibetan peaks, inhabited by invisible presences, the two men ponder humankind’s place...
10) Girl abroad
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English
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"When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it's the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She's ready to be free, to discover herself--but first off, to meet the girls she's rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys. Charming, funny, insufferably attractive...
11) One great lie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni's books, and going to that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to solve a long-time family mystery about a Venetian poet deep in their lineage, Isabella Di Angelo, who just might be the real author of a very famous poem. Bruni's villa on the eerie island...
12) Love à la mode
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
High school juniors Rosie Radeke and Henry Yi, both enrolled in an elite cooking program in Paris, must balance rivalry and romance.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her as Jackie"--
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Hello and welcome to the epic writings of Ned and Peter! This is the place where we recorded our totally awesome, totally normal European adventures. It's weird when you say "totally normal" like that, Pete. I'm just telling anyone who might read this over my shoulder (hey, MJ!) that it is 100 percent average, normal teenage-dude fun. That doesn't sound suspicious at all... Anywaaaay, crack open that cover and dive into all the excitement we had while...
16) Mankiller
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an American hero, who humbly defied all odds and gave a voice to the voiceless. And yet few people know her name. MANKILLER examines the legacy of Wilma Mankiller, who overcame rampant sexism and personal challenges to emerge as the Cherokee Nation’s first woman Principal Chief in 1985. Wilma was featured on the US quarter issued by the US Mint in 2022.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Writer Amy Tan’s hit debut novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989), catapulted her to commercial and critical success. Born to Chinese immigrant parents into 1950’s America, Amy Tan’s painful family legacy inspired her stories of women without the power to choose their lives. Journey through the groundbreaking author’s life and career with archival imagery, artful animation and original interviews.
18) Nine liars
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain--questions about college, love, and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Ellen, an autistic thirteen-year-old, navigates a new city, shifting friendships, a growing crush, and her queer and Jewish identities while on a class trip to Barcelona, Spain"--
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Until today, whitewashing is a racist tradition in Hollywood, and as with “blackface”, “yellowface” was used in Hollywood as a propaganda tool and manifestation of the racism. YELLOWFACE is a historical look at how Asian culture has evolved through on screen representation in Hollywood.
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