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Secret life of squirrels volume 2
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See how squirrels celebrate the Christmas season.
2) The bad seed
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A New York Times bestseller!
This is a book about a bad seed. A baaaaaaaaaad seed. How bad? Do you really want to know?
He has a bad temper, bad manners, and a bad attitude. He's been bad since he can remember! This seed cuts in line every time, stares at everybody and never listens. But what happens when one mischievous little seed changes his mind about himself, and decides that he wants to be—happy?
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Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be--if her husband would just come and claim her. Bollywood's favorite director, Samir Rathod, has...
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Explores global traditions surrounding the loss of first teeth, including the tooth fairy, the tooth mouse, and beliefs to make teeth strong. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, informative captions, detailed maps, sources for further research, an index, and introductions to the author and illustrator. Activities for further learning Author/Illustrator biography Detailed maps Educational front/back...
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Explores wishing traditions from around the world, including rainbows, wishing wells, the moon, birthday candles, and wishbones. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, informative captions, detailed maps, sources for further research, an index, and introductions to the author and illustrator. Activities for further learning Author/Illustrator biography Detailed maps Educational front/back matter...
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Teens heading out to help with a charity event learn how to practice a variety of community courtesies in all kinds of public places. How do you act on public transportation, in a movie theater, in a restaurant, in a gym, at a laundromat, when shopping or as a guest? This video teaches teens that small courtesies can add up to big impressions anywhere.--Kanopy.
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Alden Patterson wants two things: to regain what she sees as her rightful place in Toronto society and to do so without succumbing to the traditional role of wife and mother. But escaping such roles is almost impossible for a woman in 1916, and the history of the Patterson family and Patterson House haunts her. On the day she imagines her most ambitious plans will come to fruition, Alden unexpectedly becomes guardian to a foundling, Constance. Alden's...
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A festive tribute to all the things that make Christmas awesome from the bestselling creators of Hello!Lucky!
In this whimsical holiday romp, everyone’s getting in on the festive fun, including a grumpy but adorable lump of coal. Celebrate all of the things that make Christmas special as the trees are trimmed, the stockings are hung, and the ugly sweater contest gives out the grand prize. Hello!Lucky lends their winning illustrations and pun-derful...
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The North Carolina author has collected ten of his most powerful short stories-- all of which have never appeared in a book and some of which have never before been published-- into a single volume. In his characteristic style, Gurganus limns remarkable vignettes with unforgettable characters, such as Esther, the grammar school librarian who develops a relationship with a snake farmer in My Heart is a Snake Farmer, and the narrator of A Fool for Christmas,...
13) Violets
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"San, a neglected young woman, experiences the violence and isolation of late twentieth-century Korean society"--Provided by publisher
15) Why do we sing?
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From YouTube creators and married musicians Sam Tsui and Casey Breves comes an adventure around the world to celebrate the role of music throughout cultures after one girl asks, Why do we sing? Lullabies, love songs, caroling, karaoke-- have you ever wondered . . . why do we sing? Travel the world and learn about the reasons we sing--to have fun and share our stories; to pass the time and remember times past; and to come together and celebrate! With...
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Jean Rouch is known to many worldwide as a French anthropologist and innovative filmmaker. Much of his work is linked to the birth of cinéma vérité. However, Rouch's fifty-year involvement with a particular group of people in Niger shines a more personal light on his work - one of friendship and collaboration. Together with this group, Rouch made numerous ethnographic films and developed their own cinematographic style. These films have been termed...
18) Mooncakes
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Mooncakes is the lyrical story of a young girl who shares the special celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents.
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Marriage game volume 4
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Haunted by her past, Lady Caroline Martindale fled England for the solace of her godmother's palazzo in Venice. But if Caro was hoping to escape the charms of marriage-minded men, she's come to the wrong place. And she'll resort to extreme measures to spurn the advances of a dangerously determined Venetian marquis. . . Though most of his friends have married off, Gervais, Earl of Huntley, remains bent on eluding the parson's mousetrap. But his convictions...
20) Chez Nancy
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Coming in 2018 to Disney Junior, Fancy Nancy will star in her own fabulous TV show! Nancy has a new playhouse, and it's time for some ooh-la-la fancy fun! But when one friend wants to be the boss of who can come to play, Nancy has to decide what it means to be a good friend.
Based on the new Disney Junior TV show and inspired by the classic picture book series by Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser, this brand-new Level One I Can Read retells...
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