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With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod...
5) Home
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34 pages (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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A whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home depicts homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings.
8) Jack
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm.
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"Young Jack meets a host of animals on his way to ask the king for a house"--
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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While the library that Sam and his adventurous friend Sarah live in is being renovated, the two mice try to make new homes for themselves in the attic, constructing everything from a yurt to a geodesic dome. Includes photographs of real house styles discussed and a brief glossary of terms.
13) Farmhouse
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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A farmhouse provides the setting for a dozen children to live and grow, and when they leave, another family arrives to fill the house with love again.
14) This house, once
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Asks readers to think about ways in which the natural world has provided for them, by exploring all the different elements of a house and where each came from, once.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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When animals seeking new homes see Old Mill Farm, they know that it is just right, while human house-hunters, shown a variety of houses by their realtor, finally make clear what they are truly seeking and wind up at the farm, as well.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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While the Petersons are away, their house decides to take a trip to the sea to watch the "Dance of the Sunlight," despite some groaning from the chimney and the basement's refusal to rise to the occasion.
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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"A house sits in a field under the ever-changing sky. For a while the house was full of laughter and children and the sounds of lives being lived under its roof. And then, for a long time, it was empty and quiet. New people came to look, but they always left. Will anyone come to stay?"--Jacket
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