David Colmer
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English
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"A translated book of poems for children that explore life, love, and feeling from a child's perspective, with accompanying illustrations"--
"Sometimes our feelings are so big, our dreams and our worries so wide, that we can't find the words to express them. How MUCH love we feel; what a new sibling will bring; exactly what it's like to take a hard tumble, or to want the sun to shine on a rainy day. These thoughts and questions are explored by...
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227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Journal written in Auschwitz by a Holocaust survivor in the weeks following the camp's liberation by the Red Army.
"In 1943, amidst the start of German occupation, Eddy de Wind worked as a doctor at Westerbork, a Dutch transit camp. His mother had been taken to this camp by Nazis but Eddy was assured by the Jewish Council she would be freed in exchange for his labor. He later found out she'd already been transferred to Auschwitz. While at Westerbork,...
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176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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"It's the first day of the holidays and Sam is roaming the island of Texel, imagining what it'd feel like to be the last person on earth. Then, like a whirlwind, 12-year-old islander Tess swoops into his life. Sam's only option is to go along for the ride. Soon he's dancing the waltz, burying a pet canary, and coming up with an especially weird plan to help Tess find her father, who doesn't even know she exists. Along the way, Sam discovers the true...
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67 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"'Maybe we don't have it in us to get really angry," said the squirrel. The animals looked at each other and frowned. Nobody knew what Firebelly's anger felt like. Maybe it wasn't like their idea of anger at all. Maybe it was more like when they were happy! You never know, they thought... More stories from the world of the acclaimed The Day No One Was Angry" --
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230 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"A woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. An Emily Dickinson scholar, she has fled Amsterdam, having just confessed to an affair. On the farm she finds ten geese. One by one they disappear. Who is this woman? Will her husband manage to find her? The young man who stays the night : Why won't he leave? And the vanishing geese? Set against a stark and pristine landscape, and with a seductive blend of solace and menace,...
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x, 639 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first country to rid itself of colonial rule after World War II. In this vivid history, renowned scholar and celebrated author of Congo David Van Reybrouck...