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These classic stories from five different cultures share a common theme: the struggles of a small or young protagonist against mighty opposing forces. In "The...
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by Tamim Ansary
This Book, part of the "Holiday History" Series publshed by Heinemann provides information on holidays to children aged 4-8. This specific volume focuses...
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“A radiant and passionate collection”
--Carol Muske, The New York Times Book Review
“Hirshfield’s verbal power lies in a...
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“What Hirshfield offers could not overtly be called love poems—and yet they are filled with ecstasy and wonder, the world made new in the fresh light of morning....
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Poems by the two foremost women poets of Japanese literature, Ono no Komachi (8th c.) and Izumi Shikibu (11th c.). Predominantly love poems, but with strong...
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Five ways of viewing Heaven with its internal dramas and eternal enemies including myths from Norse, Chinese, Greek, Native Alaskan and European traditions. In...
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Brought alive by storyteller Beatrice Bowles, five classic tales from Asia, Africa and America feature mythic spiders including the kindly Cloudspinner who...
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A cross between True Grit and Huckleberry Finn, Bohemian Girl creates "a western world as raucous and unpredictable as any imagined by Larry McMurtry, and teeming...
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Set in the turbulent 1970s when Patty Hearst became Tanya the Revolutionary, Hystera is a timeless story of madness, yearning, and identity. After a fatal accident...
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Your highest purpose in life is to give yourself away and generously share your abundance with the world. The life you’ve always wanted isn’t found in career choice...
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"Told entirely through dialogue, this quirky tale of period pirate wannabees makes a jeu d'esprit of the privateer life even as it baldly de-romanticizes it. Its...
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In the title novella, a woman newly released from a mental institution believes that a wild child lives behind her trailer park. In "Sundress" two elderly lost...
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by Cheri Laser
In the summer of 1945, as World War II is ending, Abby Ryan is studying to become a nun. On the serene grounds of the convent in Kettle Falls, Washington, she is...
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by Gail Silver
When Anh is left out of a recess play session, his companion, Anger, a red-haired fellow wearing shoes remarkably like Anh’s, suggests a way of getting back...
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For over a century, Dracula—the Prince of Nightmares, the Superman of Evil—has been quietly casting his darkly impish dreams in the sleeping souls of a High Sierra...
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by Jay Feldman
On December 15, 1811, two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews murdered a slave in cold blood and put his body parts into a roaring fire. The evidence would have been...
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by Jay Feldman
Roving the lonesome highways in search of fresh baseball talent in 1942, New York Yankees scout Mac "Suitcase" Sefton discovers a once-in-a-lifetime talent in Jerry...
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