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"A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of Fingersmith and The Confessions of Frannie Langton The library is under lock and key. But its secrets can't be contained. 1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence's father had her hair hot-combed to make her look like the other girls. But as a young woman, Florence...
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When tens of thousands of owls descend on her hometown library, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Madigan Purdy, tasked with keeping her students safe, seeks inspiration from her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen, to find a solution to their dilemma.
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In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literature can transform us for the better.
"We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply...
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Mama takes her two daughters to the library every summer to pick out books about Black people so they can see the struggles, strength, and hope of people who look like them. Mama’s Library Summers is a moving picture book tribute to a strong Black mother, libraries, and the power of reading and of seeing oneself in books. Every summer, Mama takes her two daughters to the library to pick out books. Not just any books--books about Black people....
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Kex & Kola are two hamsters living in Hamster Valley in the sewer. The sewer is no longer what it once used to be as it is clean, with rivers, crystal clear waters and palm trees looking like a tropical paradise occupied by Hamsters that are middle and upper class. Follow Kex & Kola into a magical sewer in a book written for those who like to dream. From adventures of playing soccer by the crystal-clear stream with Vincent who is a colorful turtle...
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A book sits abandoned on a living room shelf. While the Blossburn family happily gets on with other things like watching TV and playing video games, the book aches to be read. Slowly it starts to swell. Then it starts to leak! At first it's only a small trickle, but when pirates sail out of the book, the family must band together to reclaim their living room. An action-packed adventure into the wonderful world of books, the power of the imagination,...
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"Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and...
10) Sweet September'
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Susan always enjoyed her favorite month, September, which she nicknamed 'Sweet September.' September is the season of Autumn, Spring, and Harvesting. That month, her plants and fruits fully bloomed in her hometown of Mississippi. Also that month, Susan is always looking forward to the Mississippi Festival. That following year in 1995, Susan was super busy getting prepared for the festival. She is growing apples in her garden, for her mom's yummy apple...
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Es que para Nauro, como para otros lúcidos y emprendedores, el tiempo apocalíptico del contagio chino se convirtió en época de producción y cosecha, cuyos frutos surten ahora un prometedor mercado comunitario cultural y espiritual, a partir de historias transmitidas por paisanos y un merecido reconocimiento a personajes e íconos culturales y sociales de las provincias del Sur de Santander y otras regiones.Los "Historias sin de Jarantivá", presentados...
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Finding a mysterious letter from her late Grandpa, Dally is led straight to a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time, and she must find the courage to write her own life story as she "checks out" adventure after adventure.
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This first-of-its-kind book for young entrepreneurs is now completely revised and updated for a new generation by one of the original authors (now an adult) and his 14-year-old sister.
Originally written by Arthur Bochner when he was just 13 with his mom, financial planner Adriane G. Berg, this was the first book to take kids step-by-step through the process of starting their own businesses. Now 24 and a successful political speechwriter, Arthur...
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"Schopenhauer: Literary Analysis" delves into the depths of the mind of the renowned German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, meticulously and insightfully exploring his extensive collection of essays and literary works. This book provides a critical analysis of his ideas, examining how Schopenhauer wove his philosophical reflections into a unique literary tapestry, unraveling the layers of meaning behind his words and revealing the lasting influence...
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Junia is a mule. But she's not just any mule. She's a mule with an important job. Every morning she carries her Book Woman up and down the rugged hills and surrounding woodlands near the Kentucky town of Troublesome Creek. Book Woman is a Pack Horse librarian. She and Junia deliver free books and reading material to the people living in the hills and woods. It's not easy work. Every month they ride hundreds of miles to make their deliveries. They've...
16) A Golden Web
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Alessandra is desperate to escape.
Desperate to escape her stepmother, who's locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There's no tolerance in her quiet village for Alessandra and her keen intelligence and unconventional ideas.
In defiant pursuit of her dreams, Alessandra undertakes...
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They call Gabriela Tree Girl. Gabi climbs trees to be within reach of the eagles and watch the sun rise into an empty sky. She is at home among the outstretched branches of the Guatemalan forests.
Then one day from the safety of a tree, Gabi witnesses the sights and sounds of an unspeakable massacre. She vows to be Tree Girl no more and joins the hordes of refugees struggling to reach the Mexican border. She has lost her whole family; her entire...
18) The Lost Lenore
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Cobblestone floors, heavy, dusty books, quills and parchment-the Library has transformed.The clues: strange rustling sounds, a gentle rapping, and a black feather or two. Who's to blame? It's Poe's Raven, of course, come to find the lost Lenore. But Lenore only exists in the poem . . . doesn't she?
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A moon shines indoors, bats fly through the stacks, and a wolf howls in the distance. That's unexpected-even for the Nightingale Library. A parade of zombie monks is marching through, and they're eating books. The only hope? Mary Shelley and Ben Franklin. Between Mary's monster of books and Ben's electricity, will the zombies be defeated?
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Sandy beaches, tiny arrows, and knee-high trees. What has the Library turned into this time? The Nightingale Library pages are up against armies of tiny people on the island of Lilliput from Gulliver's Travels. Meanwhile their giant arch enemies have lost track of their giant pet monkey, who's loose in the Library!
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