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The Graveyard BookThe 10th anniversary edition of The Graveyard Book includes a foreword by Margaret Atwood as well as sketches from the illustrator, handwritten drafts, and Neil Gaiman's Newbery acceptance speech. IT TAKES A GRAVEYARD TO RAISE A CHILD.Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal...
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I'm So Glad You Were Born: Celebrating Who You AreParents and children both have big dreams--about their life and the wonders the future holds. I'm So Glad You Were Born celebrates those dreams as well as the wonder of everyday experiences like sweet and special snuggles and cuddles, fun times and learning times...
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Among the HiddenIn a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm in this start to the Shadow Children series...
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Crying in H Mart: A MemoirNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American--"in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself" (NPR) -...
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CoralineThis edition of New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman's modern classic, Coraline--also an Academy Award-nominated film--is enriched with a foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and more."Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house...."When...
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Happy-Go-LuckyDavid Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask--or not--was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent...
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Remarkably Bright CreaturesAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * USA Today"Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . ....
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AwakeningAwakeningStartled, Alice realized that she was behind schedule in her household duties. Quickly she switched the news off the Tevee. Master Kelsey hated newscasts. They made him uneasy, particularly with all this talk about a possible air-raid. The cumulative loneliness, the hours of lonely...
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A bird of passageA bird of passageFew travellers penetrate to the Andamans, unless it be an enthusiastic astronomer to witness a rare comet, or an enterprising professor, who happens to be fired with a desire to study the language and the skulls of the aborigines. These islands...
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O CortiçoO Cortiço Os meus honrados collegas do jornalismo, e todos esses grandes publicistas que fatigam o co e a terra para provar que esta em que estamos a verdadeira epoca de transio, esses nos diro se a Providencia andaria bem ou mal se hoje...
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The hellflowerThe hellflowerThe book had been thrown at Charles Farradyne. Then they had added the composing room, the printing press, and the final grand black smear of printer's ink. So when Howard Clevis located Farradyne working in the fungus fields of Venus four years later,...
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The girl in the crowdThe girl in the crowdStretch an invisible cord knee-high across the sidewalk at Broadway and Forty-second Street, and in five minutes a hundred prettier girls than Daisy Reynolds will stumble over it. (A hundred homelier girls too, for that matter!) Daisy was just the...
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The 13th ManThe Thirteenth ManOne of the pedestrians, a young and athletic man, had climbed the bank nearer to him in a second, and was peering through a gap in the hedge, where nothing met his gaze but miles of smiling country, dotted by farms at...
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Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin no. 496. Economic and political science series, v. 7, no. 2Women and economic evolution: or, The effects of industrial changes upon the status of women[Pg 5] In dealing with the evolution of home industry and its effects upon the status of women, it will be necessary to note briefly the status of the sexes...
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The prey of the strongestThe prey of the strongest Of all the men I worked with on the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the Kicking Horse Pass and on the Shushwap, when you and men like you were hustling to put it through, I am not, nowadays, in touch...
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BlindfoldBlindfoldEllen Sydneys first garden in the Meadowburns new American home had made a fair beginning. She was at work one afternoon bending over the bed of sweet peas, hooking the baby tendrils to the wire mesh of the frame, with an occasional pat of...
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23 1/2 hours' leaveTwenty-three and a half hours’ leaveThe Headquarters Troop were preparing to leave camp and move towards the East, where at an Atlantic port they would take ship and the third step toward saving democracy. Now the Headquarters Troop are a cavalry organisation, their particular...
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The book of EvelynThe book of EvelynThe household gods that have lain four years in storage are grouped round me, showing familiar faces. Its nice of them not to have changed more, grown up as children do or got older like ones friends. They dont harmonize with...
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The mate of the VancouverThe mate of the Vancouver I am going to write, not the history of my life, which, on the whole, has been as quiet as most men's, but simply the story of about a year of it, which, I think, will be almost as...
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20 tales by 20 women: From real life in ChicagoTwenty tales by twenty women: From real life in ChicagoWithout women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure, and the end of consolation. In London alone there are eighty thousand fallen women, and, while the number is infinitely...
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