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Amelia Bedelia chapter books volume 5
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148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Picked last for kickball, Amelia Bedelia gets another chance to prove her athleticism when her class holds a mini-Olympics.
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278 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
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From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a disembodied human arm in a taxidermist's shop, Sedaris takes us on side-splitting adventures that...
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When shoelace heir Neddie Wentworthstein and his family take the train from Chicago to Los Angeles in the 1940s, he winds up in possession of a valuable Indian turtle artifact whose owner is supposed to be able to prevent the impending destruction of the world, but he is not sure exactly how.
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Adventures of Captain Underpants volume 1
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English
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When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
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243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about -- his bar mitzvah is coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other, he is beginning to notice girls, and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
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298 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.
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xviii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"This is Eduardo Galeano's last book, a masterful, deeply considered, and poetic autobiography, written in his signature style of short essays, fables, stories, snippets of dialogue, and epigraph-length fragments with illustrations. A mix of old and new autobiographical material, Hunter of Stories includes Galeano's reflections on death, written during the very last months of his life"--
"Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries...
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xx, 441 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America's greatest writers. For more than sixty years he stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his exhilarating perceptions of life. Here, collected in one volume and chosen by the author himself, are favorites such as 'What kind of day did you have?,' 'Leaving the yellow house,' and a previously uncollected piece, 'By the St. Lawrence.' With his larger-than-life...
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Bad guys volume 17
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186 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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"OK. It's time to stop messin' around. In this book, the One is going to be reunited with the Others. You are going to actually meet the real dread overlord Splaarghön. And one character is going to change everything you thought you knew. This is the one you've been waiting for!"--
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vii, 241 pages ; 22 cm
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From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty years. Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories. A woman's deceased father appears in her dreams with clues about the afterlife; a Russian professor in a small American town constructs elaborate fantasies during her cigarette...
16) Captain Underpants and the preposterous plight of the purple potty people: the eighth epic novel
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Captain Underpants volume 8th epic novel
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172 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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When George and Harold use their traveling purple potty to travel to another dimension where the school is nice and the principal, Mr. Krupp, thinks they're funny, they meet up with their evil twins and must face their cleverest enemies ever -- themselves.
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 574
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Español
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"No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea ..., nos advierten con frecuencia los distintos narradores y personajes de esta historia, en la que lo corriente se transforma en un delirio sin que uno sepa muy bien cómo, en la que lo raro acaba siendo normal y en la que no podemos hacer otra cosa que reírnos, porque todo es hilarante, cotidiano y surrealista a la vez, como la vida misma." --
"In this story, the ordinary becomes a delirium without one knowing...
19) Toil & trouble
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320 pages ; 22 cm
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"From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching ... and just a little spooky. 'Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Bigfoot. Canola oil, because there's no such thing as a canola. Note that 'witches' and 'witchcraft' are absent from this list. When really they should be right...
20) Days of awe
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288 pages ; 22 cm
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"With her signature humor and compassion, A.M. Homes exposes the heart of an uneasy America in her new collection - exploring our attachments to each other through characters who aren't quite who they hoped to become, though there is no one else they can be. In "A Prize for Every Player," a man is nominated to run for president by the customers of a big box store, while he and his family do their weekly shopping. At a conference on genocide(s) in...
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