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Apr.01.2009
Dinosaurs Across California continues Phil Yeh's popular Dinosaurs Across America series with a wonderful tour of the Golden State, highlighting some of the noted people who changed the world in the arts, sports, science and other fields. In spite of his attitude, Patrick Rabbit learns more than he...
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Mar.26.2009
Twenty-four-year-old Daniella is an architecture student living with her narcissistic artist boyfriend in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Abandoned by her father at an early age, Daniella always falls for the wrong type of man. Her most enduring male relationship so far is with her 30-pound Turkish angora...
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Mar.25.2009
The first book of its kind to suggest a mindful and meditative approach to anger resolution among children. Children experience anger on a regular basis, but can lack the coping skills to guide them through these difficult moments. In Anh's Anger, five-year-old Anh becomes enraged when his...
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Mar.23.2009
With a nod to the chemically-induced contentment of Huxley’s Brave New World, “American Soma” explains how a friction-filled democratic system is lubricated by a collusion of partisan politicians and commercial interests. “Evolution”, written during the Dover Area School District ’s Intelligent...
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Mar.10.2009
Calling All Superheroes
The first encyclopedic reference work that profiles superheroes from all companies and in all media, The Superhero Book is the ultimate A-Z compendium. Its 300 full entries provide information on more than 1,000 mythic overachievers, covering the best-loved and historically...
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Feb.06.2009
How the Harmonica Can Make You More Playful (which is the WHOLE POINT of this book)
> WHILE YOU’RE PLAYING HARMONICA YOU CAN’T YELL AT YOUR KIDS OR YOUR DOG, AND YOU CAN’T FROWN.
FURTHERMORE, THE HARMONICA: • Is a self-contained pomposity-reducing unit • Keeps you from thinking too much about...
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Feb.03.2009
This semi-autobiographical debut novel chronicles the life of Alex, raised in Siberia in 1950, and his dreams of becoming a writer and of meeting Annie, his distant American cousin. As a child, Alex observes a group of foreign tourists do something that non-drunk Soviet adults seldom do: they laugh...
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Jan.13.2009
Every page of the book includes simple instructions for a particular activity and black-and-white photos by Mikkel Aaland or illustrations by Kim Dietch. The book is divided into two parts: 1) How to Have Fun with Your Body from tip to toe, and 2) How to Have Fun with Someone Else's Body.
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Dec.22.2008
“Carpe Scrotum. Seize Life by the Testicles.”
—Electra-Djerroldina
The Queen Consort of the Volnoth needs a sperm donor, and only one green-eyed god has the right stuff. Little does she know she has pinned all her hopes on the crown jewels of the fabled Royal Saurian Djinn. Not only is he the son...
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