Wonderful things are being invented every day in Al Pha's worldAfire, the wheel, even shadows His big chance to be part of history comes when the King announces that the twenty-six recently invented letters need to be put in order. Al makes a bet with himself that he's the man for the job. Through a series of funny events...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Jean Fritz
ISBN:9780399255465
Acclaimed biographer Jean Fritz writes the remarkable story of Alexander Hamilton, one of Americas most influential and fascinating founding fathers...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
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Max Kornell
ISBN:9780399252570
Everything in Owen's world is just peachy-till his parents bring home a bear named Gary-without even asking! Gary changes everything: he takes up way too much space and makes a mess of all of Owen's toys. Gary means well...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Richard Schickel
ISBN:9780307268402
Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, The Departed, The Aviator, Shutter Island: these are just a few of the critically acclaimed films...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:423
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Laura Summers
ISBN:9780399256165
Vicky has always felt responsible for her mentally disabled twin sister, Rhianna, and their feisty little brother, Jamie. So when the foster care system threatens to split them up...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Matthew Johnson
ISBN:9780582772182
@lt;P@gt;How have we lived in the past? And what were our homes like? There are thousands of traditional houses, hundreds of years old, still standing in the English countryside...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Michael Rex
ISBN:9780399255212
Eastwood Elementary has a new student, and he's nothing like the other kids in 3G. Fangbone is a barbarian warrior from another world! And he's been charged with the task of keeping a deadly weapon from Skullbania's vilest villain...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Andrea Wulf
ISBN:9780307269904
From the author of the acclaimed "The Brother Gardeners, "a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:349
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Joseph Lelyveld
ISBN:9780307269584
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments -his success in seizing India's imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:425
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Guido H Stempel
ISBN:9780313295454
Entries in this dictionary focus on the people, organizations, events, and ideas that have been significant in the slightly more than two centuries of political communication in this country...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:182
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Verla Kay
ISBN:9780399238703
Life in an eighteenth-century one-room schoolhouse might be different from todayAbut like any other pair of siblings, brothers Peter and John Paul get up to plenty of mischief Readers follow the two as they work with birch-bark paper and hornbooks...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Patricia Polacco
ISBN:9780399254710
Michael and Derek don't expect the adventure of a lifetime visiting a Civil War museum with their grandmother. But the mysterious museum keeper invites them to play a game...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:48
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Robin Palmer
ISBN:9780399256295
Lucy B. Parker is running for class president And she's up against the most popular girl in school. Sure, Lucy could let her frister (friend + sister)...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:210
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Maeve Binchy
ISBN:9780307273567
Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community. When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:400
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Meryle Secrest
ISBN:9780307263681
"People like us . . . have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us . . . above their moral standards." --Modigliani Amedeo ("Beloved of God") Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:387
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Carolyn Burke
ISBN:9780307268013
The iconic French singer comes to life in this enthralling, definitive biography, which captures Edith Piaf's immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her unprecedented international career. Raised by turns in a brothel...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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Nora Roberts
ISBN:9780425239933
Roberts's #1 "New York Times"-bestselling Bride Quartet is available in one deluxe box set. It includes "Vision in White, Bed of Roses, Savor the Moment...more details Format:Boxed Set
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Peter Maloney
ISBN:9780399254468
A funny, kid-friendly introduction to counting and plural nouns
In this clever counting book, die-cut windows frame a single object and a turn of the page reveals a group. Featuring familiar objects and funny artwork...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:48
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Kyung-Sook Shin
ISBN:9780307593917
A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea and poised to become an international sensation. "Please Look After Mom" is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Ross B Emmett
ISBN:9780857240590
This collection includes both refereed articles and review essays. The articles highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution (Paul Trescott)...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:438
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Solomon Volkov
ISBN:9780307270634
In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:287
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Betty G Birney
ISBN:9780399254130
Humphrey is excited to get back to Room 26 and see all his old classmates. But on the first day of school, a bunch of strange kids arrive and no matter how loudly he squeaks up...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:151
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Anthony Hecht
ISBN:9780375711985
Alongside Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and other pillars of twentieth-century poetry, Anthony Hecht joins the Borzoi Poetry series.@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;Hecht...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Sheila O'Connor
ISBN:9780399254581
It's the summer before seventh grade, and twelve-year- old Raine OARourke's mother suddenly takes a job hours from home at mysterious Sparrow RoadA a creepy...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:247
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Jamelia
ISBN:9780752898827
Jamelia's inspirational account of how she rose to success demonstrates how others can escape from difficult circumstances to achieve their dreams. Jamelia has had a string of hits over the last decade such as Thank You...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:288
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Richard Kluger
ISBN:9780307268891
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Kluger, the riveting story of a brutal confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers, a harrowing drama that unfolded in the new...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:330
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Lisa Broadie Cook
ISBN:9780399245336
Martin MacGregor is having one rotten week First, his substitute teacher, Mrs. Payne, gives out mountains of homework. And when Martin's dog literally eats his homework...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Kristin Clark Taylor
ISBN:9780425241967
In the engaging tradition of "Tuesdays with Morrie"-a unique memoir of friendship, family, and irreplaceable memories. Throughout her life and career...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224
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Laura Murray
ISBN:9780399250521
A gingerbread man searches all over the school for the group of children that made him and then left him behind....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Marge Piercy
ISBN:9780307594105
This new gathering of Marge Piercy's poems--funny, angry, in awe of life, compassionate--brings us the heart of her mature work, the first selected since "Circles on the Water "in 1982. Here...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:327
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Jan Neuharth
ISBN:9780984189823
Award finalist in the mystery/suspense category of USA Book News Best Books 2010 awards When word reaches her in war-torn Afghanistan that her beloved Uncle Richard has been brutally murdered...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:339
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Stephen Reid
ISBN:9780205817245
@lt;P style="MARGIN: 0px"@gt; The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers features a brief but comprehensive coverage of the writing process and research.@lt;/P@gt;@lt;P style="MARGIN: 0px"@gt; Each chapter in this sequence is self-contained...more details
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Jonathan Coe
ISBN:9780307594815
Maxwell Sim can't seem to make a single meaningful connection. His absent father was always more interested in poetry; he maintains an e-mail correspondence with his estranged wife...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:314
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Henning Mankell
ISBN:9780307593498
The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell's brilliant, brooding detective Kurt Wallander. Hakan von Enke, a retired naval officer, disappears during a walk in a forest near Stockholm. Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:367
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Jim Shepard
ISBN:9780307594822
Following "Like You'd Understand, Anyway"--awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award--Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:240