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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780253335869
Author of the immensely popular children's books featuring Frances the Badger, Russell Hoban is also a master of contemporary imaginative literary forms...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:832
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747553816
The first time Peter Diggs saw Amaryllis she was at a bus stop where the street sign said Balsamic, although there was nothing vinegary about the place. The bus was unthinkably tall...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9781408810088
A vertiginous and dazzling spin on the classic quest story by 'far the most imaginative novelist in Britain' (Independent)...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747546115
Angelica's Grotto is a pornographic website into which seventy-two-year-old art historian Harold Klein wanders one evening. Klein, a walking catalogue of infirmities...more details Format:Hardback Pages:271
Russell Hoban takes this premise and shows why he is one of Britain s most startling, original and funniest writers. Harold first visits Angelica's Grotto after losing his 'inner voice'...more details Format:Paperback Pages:271
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780099432432
With the arrival of baby Gloria in the house, Frances feels that living with her parents is not as much fun as it used to be, so after dinner...more details Format:Paperback
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747561637
Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell Clark's life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo. His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an 18th century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780613979795
For use in schools and libraries only. Children will cheer for Frances as she cleverly avoids her bedtime, stubbornly refuses to eat anything but bread and jam...more details
Famed for her many adventures, Frances made her debut with this title over thirty years ago. In this first Frances book, the little badger adroitly delays her bedtime with requests for kisses and milk...more details Pages:31
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780099432456
It's seven o'clock and bedtime for Frances, but she is not yet tired. She needs a glass of milk, a piggyback, goodnight kisses and a room free of tigers...more details Format:Paperback
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780606048774
For the first time ever, this classic story is available in the I Can Read format. With gently abridged text and beautiful full-color art, this edition will introduce a new generation of beginning readers to Hoban's lovable...more details Pages:42
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780099432425
When Albert says that Frances doesn't know enough to play ball, or to accompany him on one of his wandering days, she turns to her little sister Gloria as a playmate and they set out on a best friends only outing - with no boys allowed...more details Format:Paperback
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780099432449
Frances isn't happy, because it isn't her big birthday day, it is Gloria's. Frances isn't sure she will give Gloria her whole present and might keep half for herself. After all...more details Format:Paperback
Frances, one of children's best-loved characters for over 30 years, now springs to life even more in "Bread and Jam for Frances, "beautifully reillustrated in sparkling full color by Lillian Hoban. In this memorable story...more details
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780099432395
Frances loves bread and jam, it is her favourite thing to eat. She likes it so much that she eats it at every meal, she even trades sandwiches with Albert at lunchtime so that she can have his bread and jam sandwiches. But when her mother stops making any alternative food for Frances...more details Format:Paperback
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747574521
When Christabel was thirteen she was walking beside the River Lea and some people in a cabin cruiser waved to her. The scene before her seemed to freeze like a photograph and she felt weird. A little later the boat blew up and killed everyone on board. Since then she's been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes...more details Format:Hardback Pages:208
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747578895
Since the age of thirteen, Christabel Alderton has been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes, but not always. Death is much on her mind because the men in her life tend to die before their time and she's come to think she's bad luck. Fascinated by Christabel...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780061863981
In honor of Frances's 50th anniversary, this box includes three of the most beloved Frances titles--"Bread and Jam for Frances," "Best Friends for Frances...more details Format:Paperback
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780060852818
This collection includes four endearing favorites, "Bedtime for Frances; A Baby Sister for Frances; Bread and Jam for Frances"; and "A Birthday for Frances." Children will cheer for Frances as she cleverly avoids her bedtime...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747561644
Fourth Galaxy, 4th November 2052: in the black sparkle of deep space, a figure in a blue overall tumbles over and over as it drifts towards the planet Badr-al-Badur. No space suit...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9781559707268
The irresistibly witty, endearing and captivating new novel from the inimitable Russell Hoban--who has been compared to Tolkien and Lewis, Salinger and Vonnegut--about a hopelessly conflicted man torn between two enchanting women....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:207
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747570240
'This is it... this is my destiny woman,' Max blurted out when he first met Lola Blessington at the Coliseum shop. Not only was Lola aristocratic and wild at heart...more details Format:Hardcover
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747568377
'This is it...this is my destiny woman,' Max blurted out when he first met Lola at the Coliseum shop. Not only was she aristocratic and wild at heart...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780099432470
Tom likes fooling around. In fact, he's really rather good at it, much to the annoyance of his Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong. So one day this fearsome lady decides to teach Tom a lesson and summons Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen. How will Tom fare against the awesome Captain and his highly trained team as he takes them on at womble...more details Format:Paperback
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780744594065
An acclaimed, moving story about a child undergoing a major operation facing his fear and triumphing. Lying in his hospital bed, Jim worries about being put to sleep before his operation...more details Format:Paperback
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9781567923261
Irving Goodman, self-confessed dirty old man, is 83 years old and has just fallen in love. Unfortunately, Justine Trimble, satr of 1950s cowboy B-movies...more details Format:Paperback Pages:132
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747585770
When eighty-three-year-old Irving Goodman falls in love with actress Justine Trimble she's been dead for forty-seven years. Irving may not know how he's going to attain his heart's desire but he knows a man who does. Istvan Fallok...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780312563738
They eat sand and gravel for breakfast and a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one says "please" or "thank you." Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes...more details Format:Paperback Pages:39
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780312621384
They eat sand and gravel for breakfast and a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one says "please" or "thank you." Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:39
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780571202225
The mouse and his child are discarded into the rubbish after Christmas. Forced to join the ruthless Manny the rat, they remain indomitable - with the help of their guardian angel...more details
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747561651
Jonathan Fitch was shocked by Mr Rinyo-Clacton's offer of a million pounds and one year to live, but what happened next was even more shocking. In a state of desperation after being left by the beautiful Serafina...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747592716
Recently separated, Phil Ockerman falls hard for Bertha Strunk at a tango lesson in Clerkenwell. Bertha also bears a strong resemblance to the seventeenth-century Venetian singer and composer Barbara Strozzi (with whom Phil happens to be obsessed)...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:164
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747590286
Phil Ockerman falls hard for Bertha Strunk at a tango lesson in a church crypt in Clerkenwell. 'Is Bertha's trunk anything like Pandora's box?' he wonders...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780099432463
Captain Najork has never quite got over the time that Tom beat him and his Hired Sportsmen at womble, muck and sneedball, so when he sees Tom hurtle past his window in a two-seater jam powered frog...more details Format:Paperback
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747556404
He climbed a ladder to reach another man's wife and gave himself up to her beauty, but then Pilgermann descends into a mob of peasants inspired by the Pope to shed the blood of Jews. Alone on the cobblestones...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
"A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy.... Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and -- this matters most -- intensely ponderable." -- Benjamin DeMott...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747559047
'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780744567434
One stormy night a draggled heap of scales and feathers is flung up on the beach. The sea-thing child is afraid of the wild waves and the storm skies. He meets a fiddler crab with no bow. They help each other to avoid facing their fears but finally he finds his star...more details Format:Hardback
Somewhere in the Arctic Circle, Sixteen-Face John, a shaman, learns that his first child, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs from her mother's womb. The World Songs are what inspire all newborns to come out into the world...more details Format:Hardback Pages:144
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747560227
Roswell Clark's life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed to get an optimistic-looking bat tattoo on his shoulder. His ideal bat image was featured on an 18th century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
In a not-so-distant future when lions are extinct Jachin-Boaz, a middle-aged mapmaker, leaves home with the wonderful map that was to tell his son where to find everything. In the ruins of a palace at Nineveh...more details Format:Paperback Pages:183
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780606237604
The Little Brute Family members eat gravel for breakfast, never say "please" or "thank you" and kick, yell, punch, and shove. But one day everything changes when Baby Brute finds a "lost good feeling" wandering around in a field of daisies and brings it home...more details Pages:32
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780756933012
They eat sand and gravel for breakfast and a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one says "please" or "thank you." Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes...more details
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747559092
An inexplicable message flashing on the screen of his computer at 3 a.m. heralds the beginning of a startling quest for frustrated author Herman Orff. Taking up the offer of a cure for writer's block leads him 'to those places in your head that you can't get out of on your own...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780571246441
Offers both a survey of Messiaen's extraordinary achievements and a comprehensive guide to his music. This title examines the enduring inspiration which Messiaen derived from his religious faith and from his lifelong passion for ornithology and the natural world....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:596
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780571226177
'What are we, Papa?' the toy mouse child asked his father. 'I don't know,' the father answered. 'We must wait and see.'
This is the story of a tin father and son who dance under a Christmas tree until they break the ancient clockwork rules and are themselves broken. Thrown away...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9781590173435
Father has had a sorely trying day, but what he finds when he comes home isn't going to make it any better. The cat is on top of the grandfather clock...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:48
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780571193592
The highly respected author Russell Hoban and the famous illustrator Quentin Blake have joined forces to create a funny and enchanting picture book about market forces...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Russell Hoban
ISBN:9780747548317
In the aquarium at the London Zoo, three sea turtles swim endlessly in 'their little bedsitter of ocean'. Two lonely people, William G and Neaera H...more details Format:Paperback Pages:179
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban LillianHoban
ISBN:9781559942249
One day Thelma tricks Frances into buying her old plastic tea set. Thelma says there are no backsies on the bargain. Can Frances come up with a plan that will change her friend's mind...more details Format:CD
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780060223298
One day Thelma tricks Frances into buying her old plastic tea set. Thelma says there are no backsies on the bargain. Can Frances come up with a plan that will change her friend's mind...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:64
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780060223304
One day Thelma tricks Frances into buying her old plastic tea set. Thelma says there are no backsies on the bargain. Can Frances come up with a plan that will change her friend's mind...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:64
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780064430074
s her little sister Gloria's birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous'and being jealous. ' Frances] is every youngster who chafes at being the un-birthday child...more details Format:Paperback Pages:32
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780060223380
As her little sister Gloria's birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous'and being jealous. ' Frances] is every youngster who chafes at being the un-birthday child...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban LillianHoban
ISBN:9780060223441
'An hilarious account of Arthur's attempts to earn enough money to buy a T-shirt and cap, assisted by his sister Violet. Simple business concepts are ingeniously woven into the story...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:64
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780881036497
Frances and Thelma are friends -- most of the time. But Thelma always seems to get Frances into trouble. When she tricks Frances into buying her tea set...more details Pages:64
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Russell Hoban;Garth Williams
ISBN:9780064434515
Famed for her many adventures, Frances made her debut with this title over thirty years ago. In this first Frances book, the little badger adroitly delays her bedtime with requests for kisses and milk...more details Format:Paperback Pages:31
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Russell Hoban;Garth Williams GarthWilliams
ISBN:9780060271060
Famed for her many adventures, Frances made her debut with this title over thirty years ago. In this first Frances book, the little badger adroitly delays her bedtime with requests for kisses and milk...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780060838034
Frances doesn't think her little sister, Gloria, can be her friend. But when Frances's friend Albert has a no-girls baseball game, Frances shows him a thing or two about friendship--and a thing or two about what girls can do. Along the way...more details Format:Paperback Pages:42
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780060838010
Frances doesn't think her little sister, Gloria, can be her friend. But when Frances's friend Albert has a no-girls baseball game, Frances shows him a thing or two about friendship--and a thing or two about what girls can do. Along the way...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:42
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780064430968
Frances, one of children's best-loved characters for over 30 years, now springs to life even more in "Bread and Jam for Frances, "beautifully reillustrated in sparkling full color by Lillian Hoban. In this memorable story...more details Format:Paperback Pages:31
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780060223601
Frances, one of children's best-loved characters for over 30 years, now springs to life even more in "Bread and Jam for Frances, "beautifully reillustrated in sparkling full color by Lillian Hoban. In this memorable story...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:32
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban LillianHoban
ISBN:9780060223595
Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets. Unless Mother can come up with a plan...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780060838003
Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets. Unless Mother can come up with a plan...more details Format:Paperback Pages:45
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780060837983
Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets. Unless Mother can come up with a plan...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:45
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban
ISBN:9780064433365
Frances, one of children's best-loved characters for over 30 years, now springs to life even more in "Bread and Jam for Frances, "beautifully reillustrated in sparkling full color by Lillian Hoban. In this memorable story...more details Format:Paperback Pages:32
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Russell Hoban;Quentin Blake
ISBN:9781567923223
Because Tom's aunt disapproves of his constant fooling around she calls in Captain Najork to teach him a lesson. Tom, however, has a splendid idea....more details Format:Paperback Pages:32
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban Peck
ISBN:9780613710084
They eat sand and gravel for breakfast and a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one says "please" or "thank you." Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes...more details Pages:28
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Russell Hoban;Lillian Hoban Peck
ISBN:9780374444839
They eat sand and gravel for breakfast and a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one says "please" or "thank you." Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes...more details Format:Paperback Pages:32
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Russell Hoban;David Small
ISBN:9780439098267
Russell Hoban is probably best known and loved for his charming series of books about Frances the Badger. In 1967, however, he wrote a novel that many consider one of the great works of children's literature of the twentieth century...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Hoban Russell
ISBN:9781408806609
In Ariosto's epic 16th-century poem Orlando Furioso, the beautiful Angelica, chained, naked, to a rock and menaced by a sea monster is rescued by the valiant Ruggiero...more details Format:Hardback Pages:237
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ISBN:9780694700189
When a baby sister arrives, Frances the beloved badger finds a charming way to prove her own importance. Glynis Johns is the perfect voice for Frances. ...more details Format:CD Pages:32