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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Description
For close to three thousand years, Helen of Troy has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek king Menelaus and the Trojan prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West. But who was she? Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Age of Heroes; the focus of a cult that conflated Helen the...
Author
Description
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In her frank, moving, and often surprisingly funny new memoir, Fremont delves even deeper into the family dynamic that produced such a startling devotion to secret-keeping. She begins her story with the discovery that she has been disinherited in her mother's will, her existence as a member of the family erased, and she writes with unflinching candor about growing up in a household whose members were devoted to hiding the truth. The younger and infinitely...
Author
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2011
Description
From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets-the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living... while other people are making a killing.
Newly married, Helen Hawthorne can't wait to start her life anew-and start an investigation agency with her PI hubby, Phil. Her penchant for working dead-end jobs comes in handy when they're hired to look into a fitness fanatic who may be cheating on his wife.
Taking a receptionist...
9) Helen Keller
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Focuses on the early life of a woman who is well known for overcoming her handicaps of being both blind and deaf.
10) Helen Keller
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the life of the celebrated author and activist for people with disabilities, chronicling her achievements and the challenges she faced along the way.
11) Killer cuts
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets-the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living... while other people are making a killing.
Miguel Angel's chic salon is where Fort Lauderdale's high society hairdos get done. Even though Helen Hawthorne is just a gofer at the upscale salon, she has to admit the fabulous Miguel Angel is a master at the craft of coif.
But with great heads of hair come great headaches....
Author
Series
Dead-end job mystery volume 13
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Shhh...in the newest hardcover in the national bestselling Dead-End Job Mystery series, Helen Hawthorne quietly goes undercover at a local library to search for a missing masterpiece. Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Cateman Kingsley has hired Helen to find a missing John Singer Sargent painting, owned by her late father. After his death, many of Davis Cateman's books were donated to the Flora Park library, and his daughter suspects the small watercolor-worth...
13) Wicked beauty
Author
Series
Dark Olympus volume 3
Formats
Description
"Achilles Kallis vowed that he'd do whatever it took to claw his way into Olympus's inner circle. Now that the former Ares is gone and the coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to both compete and double their odds of winning. Neither expect the infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize...or for the sparks that fly when the three of them meet. Zeus may have decided Helen...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
Author
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The one thing celebrity Trish Barrymore and her no account accountant husband, Mort, can agree on in their bitter divorce is shared cat custody. But when Mort is found brained by a mahogany cat tower, and Justine, their pedigreed Chartreux show cat, goes missing, Trish calls on Helen and Phil. Despite a ransom note from the catnapper, Trish is still the prime murder suspect in the eyes of the police. As they await the post Mortem, it's up to Helen...
16) Helen Hayes
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
An illustrated biography of the celebrated actress.
17) Helen Keller
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography stressing the childhood of the woman who overcame the handicaps of being blind and deaf.
19) Helen Keller
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A skill-building adaptation of the iconic notable's life features archival photographs, is designed for accessibility to first-time independent readers and traces Keller's early days as a disabled child through her triumphant academic achievements.
Author
Publisher
London
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Julia Child's monumental Mastering the Art of French Cooking and iconic television show The French Chef required a team of innovators to bring out her unique presence and personality. Warming Up Julia Child is behind-the-scenes look at this supporting team, revealing how the savvy of these helpers, collaborators, and supporters contributed to Julia's overwhelming success." --Provided by Publisher.
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