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Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In "Might as Well Laugh About It Now," the beloved superstar imparts her insights on surviving all of life's roadblocks and detours in a collection of friendly musings and heartening advice about learning to survive, and moving forward with humor and optimism.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Marie later won another Nobel for chemistry in 1911.)...
8) Little
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud" --
9) Marie Curie
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
This book examines the life of the scientist who, with her husband Pierre, was awarded a 1903 Nobel Prize for discovering radium
Author
Series
Tender ties historical volume 1
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"During the fur-trapping era of the early 1800s, with two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind in St. Louis when her husband heads west. Faced with hostile landscapes, an untried expedition leader, and her volatile husband, Marie finds that the daring act she hoped would bind her family together may in the end tear them apart."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
15) Concussion
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Pittsburgh doctor Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage that football players suffer over the course of their careers.
16) Concussion
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Pittsburgh doctor Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage that football players suffer over the course of their careers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recount how the aristocratic Frenchman, who disdained court life and craved battlefield glory, came to the aid of the Continental Army and ended up one of George Washington's closest associates and friends. From Lafayette's mostly fatherless childhood and military career to his exile for his part in the French Revolution and his final, vindicated days.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated not only by their different social class but by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people.
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