Prehistoric people

Who were our earliest ancestors and how did they live? Step inside the cave of a prehistoric family by turning the page... Learn to hunt mammoth and reindeer, make clothes from animal skins and paint on cave walls.

Farm animal

The cock crows at dawn, ducklings paddle, geese hiss, cows gaze, lambs frisk, and pigs roll in the mud. Visit the farmyard, the cowshed the pig sty and the fields.

Atlas of the earth

See how wins, water and ice sculpt valleys and mountains. Witness a new island being born as a volcano erupts. Find out how landscapes are formed over millions of years

The town

Travel through time. See primitive huts by a river replaced by houses in a hilltop village inside fortified walls. Watch how bridges, road and railways change the village into a modern town.

A guardian and a thief

Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning —longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force.

Yesteryear

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780593804216

Collation

391 p. ; 25 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

823 BUR y

Kin

Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Atlanta at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Bl…

Break the cycle: a guide to healing intergenerational trauma

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780593472491

Collation

275 p. ; 22 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

158 BUQ b

The Book Thief

The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herse…

Stone yard devotional

Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident. But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitati…