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Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Connie and her family flee the Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1941, sailing south on their yacht toward Singapore, where the British are certain to stand firm against the Japanese. En route, in the company of friends, they learn that Singapore is already under siege. Tensions mount, tempers flare, and the yacht's inhabitants are driven by fear.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
58 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 x 33 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follow Victorian naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace on his intrepid journeys across the globe and find out how he developed his own theory of evolution in this beautiful illustrated gift hardback. In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace's travels in the Amazon Basin and Malay Archipelago led him to discover natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. Darwin's Rival traces Wallace's life from his childhood in the Welsh countryside to his rise...
4) Apprentice
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Malay
Description
Aiman is a 28 year old Malay correctional officer who is recently transferred to the territory's top prison. He lives with his older sister Suhaila in a modest housing estate. At his new workplace, Aiman begins to take an interest in a 65 year old sergeant named Rahim. Soon, it is revealed that the charismatic Rahim is actually the long serving chief executioner of the prison.
Author
Physical Desc
1 journal in multi-folder box.
Language
English
Description
The collection consists of a mid-nineteenth-century manuscript journal of a noted Cape Cod sea captain. The volume dates from 1865-1869 and was kept by Captain Sturgis Crowell of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The book bears Captain Crowell's signature in various places, along with a later ownership inscription of his daughter Annie S. Crowell (1880-1956), who taught school in Hyannis. The journal chronicles numerous activities Captain Crowell engaged...
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