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1) Bamboo
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This book describes the life cycle of the pine tree and explains why pine forests are important to humans, animals, and other plants.
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The characters from Machine Gun Jelly and The Chameleon Fallacy ride again as they get caught in the crossfire in a vicious, malicious, and devious game of cut and thrust between a deranged megalomaniac billionaire who wants to destroy the Greenland ice cap, and a batshit doolally eco-valkyrie who wants to reforest Madagascar.
Throw in a spectacularly inept secret agent, an extraordinarily disfunctional international agency, a piratical sea captain...
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160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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Beautiful, sustainable bamboo is one of the most popular materials around for gardens and home décor, the "it" plant of the green movement. This highly regarded introduction to the material, revised and updated, offers rich history, fascinating background and great projects, and illustrates how to contain bamboo in the landscape. It covers all the tools and techniques you need for harvesting, storing, and making things with bamboo. Thirty how-to...
10) The bamboo sword
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In Japan in 1853, at the time of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's visit to Japan, Yoshi, a young Japanese boy who dreams of becoming a samurai one day, learns about America from Majiro and has adventures with Jack, a young cabin boy aboard one of the U.S. ships. Includes historical notes and glossary.
11) Bamboo and blood
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In a late 1990s North Korea, a younger Inspector O is working Pyongyang as the country's nuclear missile program begins to escalate and as the wife of a North Korean diplomat turns up dead in Pakistan under suspicious circumstances, but as Inspector O investigates, he discovers that the woman's death could lead to a larger conspiracy.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm
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Adorablemente ilustrado, este libro enseña a los niños sobre las muchas propiedades del bambú en una tierna y dulce historia. Una buena manera para que padres e hijos convivan a la vez que fomentan el hábito de la lectura con un valioso y entretenido mensaje. Este libro permite que los niños aprendan jugando.
"I want to be tall, strong and flexible like the bamboo!", Baby Panda says to his mom. A bilingual book Spanish-English, beautifully illustrated,...
14) The big bamboo
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Tim Dorsey is the internationally best-selling author of the gleefully over-the-top series starring spree-killer Serge Storms. In The Big Bamboo, Serge and sidekick Coleman head out west to take on Hollywood bigwigs and L.A. lowlifes in Dorsey's most outrageous novel yet. Before Tinseltown knows what's hit it, Serge has made an unforgettable foray to the Playboy Mansion and come up against Japanese Yakuza and a host of wacky characters.
15) Bamboo Terror
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Ex-U.S. Army intelligence officer, Michael Hazzard, and the only foreign private detective in Japan, is offered $10,000 to deliver a cheap $5.00 string of Buddhist prayer beads to someone in Saigon, who will be identified by the phrase, 'There is terror in the bamboo only for the wicked.' When he finally agrees, he finds himself the target in a bizarre plot of Oriental intrigue when he is taken hostage and brought to a guerrilla camp in the jungles...
16) Bamboo People
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Narrated by two teenage boys on opposing sides of the conflict between the Burmese government and the Karenni, one of Burma's many ethnic minorities, this coming-of-age novel takes place against the political and military backdrop of modern-day Burma. Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-loving Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. Tu Reh, on the other hand, wants to fight for freedom after watching...
17) Bamboo Work
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First published in 1901, this book contains a comprehensive guide to making various things out of bamboo, including tables, chairs, cabinets, and more. "Bamboo Work" is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in woodwork and hand making furniture, and it would make for a great addition to DIY collections. Contents include: "Bamboo: It's Sources and Uses", "How to Work Bamboo", "Bamboo Tables", "Bamboo Chairs and Seats", "Bamboo Hall Racks and...
18) Bam-Boo!
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A Halloween book about Chester the panda who doesn't like Halloween because it gives him a fright. With the help and support of his friend Lily, the llama he is able to work through being afraid a little at a time, and comes to realize Halloween isn't as scary as he thought.
19) Bamboo Doors
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With time running out and the whole North Vietnamese Army working their way South, two young U.S.Navy sailors and two combat hardened U.S.Marines are thrown together in the midst of all the chaos of evacuating high level civilian families before the enemy can get a hold of them to make an example to others, that there is no escape. An unforgettable story of survival and savagery at the end of a war, the end of a country.
20) Gone bamboo
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286 pages ; 21 cm
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Henri Denard, a Vietnam War hero and professional assassin who is living on a French island in the Caribbean, discovers his neighbor is a man he unsuccessfully tried to assassinate as part of a contract. A crime comedy.
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