Leah Janeczko
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she'll find refuge there. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go...
2) Lost on me
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Already a bestseller and award-winner in Italy, Lost on Me is a burningly witty coming-of-age novel of a young woman in a wildly eccentric family from one of Italy's most celebrated young writers working today. In this distinctly contemporary, irreverent, and hilariously inverted bildungsroman, award-winning Italian author Veronica Raimo transforms neurosis, sex, and family disaster into brilliant comedy reminiscent of Fleabag and Portnoy's Complaint....
3) Glowrushes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Artist Sakumat and eleven-year-old chronically ill Madurer forge a beautiful friendship as the painter brings landscapes to life in the boy's windowless rooms.
Author
Series
Century quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Sheng, Elettra, Harvey, and Mistral meet in Shanghai to find the Pearl of the Sea Dragon relic and complete the pact before Heremit Devil can stop them.
Author
Series
Century quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
In their continuing adventures, Elettra, Sheng, and Minstral meet Harvey and Ermite in New York City and follow the clues to find the mysterious Star of Stone.
6) City of wind
Author
Series
Century quartet volume 3
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
In their continuing quest to save the world from evil forces, Mistral, Elettra, Harvey, and Sheng meet again in Paris, where they must search for the mysterious veil of Isis reportedly hidden in the heart of the city.
Author
Series
Ulysses Moore volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia, along with their friend Rick, find themselves in ancient Egypt in search of an important map after going through a magical door in their old English mansion.
8) Ring of fire
Author
Series
Century Quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Four seemingly unrelated children are brought together in a Rome hotel where they discover that they are destined to become involved in an ancient mystery involving a briefcase full of artifacts that expose them to great danger.
Author
Series
Century quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
Every hundred years, four kids from four cities must save the world.Rome, December 29.A mix-up with their reservations forces Harvey from New York, Mistral from Paris, and Sheng from Shanghai to share a room with the hotel owner’s daughter, Elettra. The four kids discover an amazing coincidence—they all have birthdays on February 29, Leap Day. That night, a strange man gives them a briefcase and asks them to take care of it until...
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