 | Japanese Children's Day and the Obon Festival (Best Holiday Books)
Publication Date: June 1997| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | In Pursuit of Glory
Release Date: October 12, 2006Sail with Oliver Baldwin, recently back from the Barbary Wars, in the US Frigate Chesapeake as she leaves Hampton Roads, VA, on a routine patrol. The patrol turns out to anything but routine as the ship is confronted by the fifty gun HMS Leopard outside the Virginia Capes. The British ship is seeking Royal Navy deserters and, when Commodore James Barron refuses the British captain's orders to produce them, fires into the ill-prepared American frigate with disastrous results. The lop-sided fight, the Chesapeake/Leopard Incident, was one of the major contributors ...
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 | Suttree (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 30, 2009Knoxville, Tennessee, d...
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 | Yellow Truck: Book 1: Billy's Toolbox
Publication Date: March 19, 2012Why do cheaters win? Why do the worst people just scam their way to prosperity? Can honest, hard-working people get a break? Or are they just doomed to play fair and fall on their faces anyway? When a delusional and neurotic truck loses his wheels, he gains a special poetic skill. He also dreams of becoming a race truck in spite of his handicap, and will trust anyone who promises to fulfill his naive fantasy.It’s not nice to take advantage of the gullible. ...
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 | Inferno (Bantam Classics)
Release Date: January 1, 1982| Series: Bantam Classics In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age. ...
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 | Greek Gods and Heroes (Laurel-leaf books)
Release Date: October 15, 1965| Series: Laurel-leaf books Recounts the glorious days when gods and godesses who dwelt on Mount Olympus ruled over the world of mortals below, and fabled heroes performed mighty deeds of valor. ...
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 | Blue Door: A Play of Original Songs
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 | The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa (Essential Poets) by Hass, Robert published by The Ecco Press Paperback
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 | Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Routledge Study Guide (Routledge Guides to Literature)
Publication Date: April 18, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415358434 | ISBN-13: 978-0415358439| Edition: New Ed On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and divided critical opinion.This guide to Roy’s ground-breaking novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The God of Small Things a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication...
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 | Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric
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 | Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Publication Date: November 19, 2009American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together. Trains, technology, and expanding market forces catapulted the United States into the future on a straight line of progressive time. The nation's exceedingly diverse population could cluster around this common temporality as one forward-looking people.In a bold revision of this narrative, Archives of American Time examines American literature's figures and forms to disclose the competing temporalities that in fact defined the antebellum ...
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 | Duke Most Wanted (Heiress Brides)
Release Date: April 29, 2008| Series: Heiress Brides Sophie Blake’s grandfather willed his fortune to the first of his granddaughters to marry a duke. Since her cousin, Deirdre, will seal the deal any day now, the quiet, bookish Sophie can sit back and enjoy her time with the only man she truly adores: Graham. No matter that the part charmer, part scoundrel has absolutely no designs on her! Sophie is content to engage Graham in lively conversation, beat him at cards. . .and probe at the darkness hiding behind his rakish smile.Then Graham unexpectedly gains a title, an estate in ...
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 | Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune Chronicles)
Release Date: August 4, 2009| Series: Dune Chronicles (Book 6) The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world--and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile.Here is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death. A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever... --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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 | Blood Brotherhood (Bloodlines)
Publication Date: January 2, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Harmony: A Treasury of Chinese Wisdom for Children and Parents (This Little Light of Mine)
Publication Date: October 15, 2008 ...
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 | I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie (Picture Puffins)
Release Date: September 16, 2002| Age Level: 3 and up...
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 | The Little Witch's Black Magic Cookbook
Publication Date: June 1972Easy recipes using inexpensive and easily available ingredients. Also includes holiday ideas. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | A is for Axel: An Ice Skating Alphabet (Sports)
Publication Date: December 15, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | When Elephant Was King: And Other Tales from Africa
Publication Date: January 1, 2000In this series, traditional African fables about elephants, hippos, lions and other animals of the African bush are combined with factual information about them and their conservation. Keenly aware of the needless destruction of wildlife and vegetation which occurs all over the continent as a result of ever expanding population growth and the greedy, land hungry actions of man, the author brings together a collection of fables told by different African tribes that mirror the richness and diversity of Africa's wildlife. The stories bring home the message that ...
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 | Come Along, Daisy!
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Grade Level: P and up Daisy's mother warns her to stay close, but there are so many distractions in the pond! After all, there are fireflies to chase and lily pads to jump on. A sudden, scary noise teaches Daisy to heed her mother's words. The author's colorful illustrations will capture children's attention as they enjoy the adventures of this playful duck. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc. ...
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