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2) Rainforests
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Series
Publisher
EDC Pub
Language
English
Description
An illustrated presentation of the rainforest and its creatures and plants, and covers its products, such as soap, chocolate, bananas, and kawakawa, and the destruction of the lush habitat that results in extinction of animals such as the Bali tiger.
3) Reptiles
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Series
Publisher
[EDC Pub.]
Language
English
Description
Introduces reptiles, including how they care for their young, how they regulate body temperature, and how they hunt for food.
4) Snakes
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Series
Publisher
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Language
English
Description
"Why do snakes hiss? HOw do they catch their food and whate do they eat? How to they shed their skim? In this book, you'll find the answers and more about the fascinating lives of snakes"--Back cover.
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English
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"It's funny how going back can get you back to where you belong. It's the difference between just a melody and my favorite Christmas song." The fireplace is lit, the snow is falling, and sleigh bells echo in the distance-it's Christmas, and it's time to come home. Thirty-five-year-old Heath Sawyer has finally made it to the big-time as a country music star. After a year full of the kind of success he could only dream of, it's December 23, and he's...
6) Trains
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Series
Publisher
Usborne
Language
English
Description
Presents information about trains and railroads, including the history of railroads, different types of trains, and famous trains.
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English
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"The story of four couples linked over several decades by one diamond ring, and the woman who launched the most famous diamond campaign in the world Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years-forty years since he slipped off her first wedding ring and put his own in its place. Delphine has seen both sides of love-the ecstatic, glorious highs of seduction, and the bitter, spiteful fury that descends when it's over. James, a paramedic who...
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Series
Jeeves and Wooster volume 7
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Language
English
Description
Bertie must deal with the Market Snodsbury Grammar School prize giving, the broken engagement of his cousin Angela, the wooing of Madeline Bassett by Gussie Fink-Nottle, and the resignation of Anatole, the genius chef. Will he prevail? Only with the aid of Jeeves!
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Edition
First hardcover edition
Language
English
Description
Middle child Huey stages Captain America plays and treasures his older brother's comic book collection almost as much as his approval. "Marble Season" subtly and deftly details how the innocent, joyfully creative play that children engage in (shooting marbles, backyard performances, and organizing treasure hunts) changes as they grow older and encounter name-calling naysayers, abusive bullies, and the value judgments of other kids. An all-ages story,...
10) Subtle bodies
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
When Douglas, the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits of "superior sensibility" dies suddenly, his four remaining friends are summoned to his luxe estate high in the Catskills to memorialize his life and mourn his passing.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
"As World War II winds to a close, Europe's roads are clogged with twenty million exhausted refugees walking home. Among them are Jacob and Sarah, lonely Holocaust survivors who meet in Heidelberg. But Jacob is consumed with hatred and cannot rest until he has killed his brother's murderer, a concentration camp guard nicknamed "The Rat." Now he must choose between revenge and love, between avenging the past and building a future. Martin Fletcher,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
"A comic, bittersweet tale of family evocative of The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Everything Is Illuminated Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch and his family would like to mourn the passing of his mother, Rachela, with modesty and dignity. But Rachela, a famous Polish e;migre; mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin, is rumored to have solved the million-dollar, Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. Rumor also has it that she spitefully...
Author
Language
English
Description
This reference to essential everyday vocabulary illustrates over 3700 words in full color, each defined in context; offers 140 key topics targeted to meet the vocabulary needs of adults and young adults; topics grouped into 12 thematic areas, several with a vocational strand; a variety of exercises.--From publisher description.
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Edition
First Simon & Schuster Hardcover Edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman's parents are dead set against the union. She's from a high-caste family; he's an Untouchable, from the lowest stratum of Indian society. Young Tulsi's father locks her up and promises to hunt down the 'loverboy dog.' Fortunately, India's Love Commandos, a real-life group of volunteers dedicated to helping mixed-caste couples, come to the rescue. Just after they liberate Tulsi, Ram is mysteriously...
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Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Language
English
Description
"Richard Tillinghast, a celebrated American poet and critic, lived for a year in Ireland in the early 1990s and then returned each year until he became a resident in 2005. From an insider/outsider perspective, he writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its culture, its literature, and its long, complex history." "Tillinghast orients the reader to Ireland as it is today. Following its entry into the European Union,...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential, and compassion when her sunny child reveals unique needs.
18) Emma
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English
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"Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austen's novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular one. Its numerous film and television adaptations testify to the world's enduring affection for the headstrong, often misguided Emma Woodhouse and her many romantic schemes. Like the previous volumes in Harvard's celebrated annotated Austen series, Emma: An Annotated Edition is a beautiful and illuminating gift edition that...
19) Vintage
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Language
English
Description
"Debut author Susan Gloss's VINTAGE is set in a Madison, WI vintage clothing shop, where every garment has a story, just like the women who meet there--a pregnant teenager, an Indian housewife, and a divorcee looking for love--who over the course of a few months come to transform the store and each other"--
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