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World according to Humphrey volume 1
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English
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Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher.
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Og the Frog volume 1
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English
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"Og the Frog tells the story of how he first came to Room 26, where he meets Humphrey the hamster, befriends the students, and writes poems and songs"--
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"Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist, and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life's telling details. Her insights continue to influence creatives and admirers, encouraging them to become close observers of the world, unsentimental critics, and meticulous stylists. An antidote to a global view that narrows our vision to the smallest screens, The World According To Joan Didion...
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44 Scotland Street volume 4
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English
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Six-year-old Bertie and artist Angus Lordie join forces to rescue Lordie's beloved dog Cyril from the pound in this fourth charming installment in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series.
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"One of Waterstones' Books of the Year 2020: Popular Science" "Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Prize for Science Books" "One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2020: Science" "One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2020: Science" "One of Symmetry Magazine's Top Physics Books of 2020" Jim Al-Khalili is professor of physics at the University of Surrey. He is one of Britain's best-known science communicators and has written...
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In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis' mother.
Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, granddaughter of slaves, Fannie became more than a numbers...
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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The world according to Lucy! She's crabby, she's bossy, and she'll give advice for only five cents! It's all about life with Lucy in this collection of animated shorts straight from the source: Charles Schulz's beloved comic strips. Whether she's tormenting Charlie Brown, trying to get her brother Linus to give up his blanket or pining over her unrequited love, Schroeder, Lucy always has an opinion, and it's probably wise to agree.
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Grand Central Publishing
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2013
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English
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"You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." —Robert Christgau
A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths...
A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths...
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In a collection of musings that is as much historical record and a memoir, Coleen Grissom provides a unique view of life on and off an American university campus. As an administrator and faculty member at Trinity University in San Antonio for over five decades, Grissom has seen the feminist movement take hold, the sexual revolution take off, and the tragic deaths of students, friends, and family. Her honest, witty, and acerbic words have urged students,...
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A collection of classic columns from one of New York's most celebrated journalists Although his career spans decades, the seven years that Jimmy Breslin spent at the New York Daily News sparked some of his finest work. When New York City tumbled into economic and social chaos at the end of the 1970s, Breslin was there. In his brief, insightful columns, he looked at the city not from the top down but from the bottom up. Eschewing the view of politicians,...
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1982.
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English
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Academy Award winner Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow star in this film based on John Irving's expansive, offbeat best-selling novel. When Jenny Fields (Close) decides to become a mother, she has no intention of finding a husband or of having marital sex, so she gets herself pregnant by a hospitalized solder on his deathbed. And so begins the unusual life of Garp (Williams), who is destined to be anything except what he himself desires...
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Journeyman Pictures
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2020.
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English
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Jeff Bezos’ global empire has catalysed the international economy, its influence has pervaded our lives to an immeasurable extent, and it shows no signs of stopping. But what do we really know about the company? And how far will Amazon go? This investigation tunnels into the workings of the company and its philosophy through insider interviews with business owners, employees and a former founding executive, and seeks to reveal the sky-high ambitions...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color-we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven main colors-black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green-and uncovers behind each a root...
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Jeff Bezos' global empire has catalysed the international economy, its influence has pervaded our lives to an immeasurable extent, and it shows no signs of stopping. But what do we really know about the company? This investigation tunnels into the workings of the company and its philosophy through insider interviews with business owners, employees and a former founding executive, and seeks to reveal the sky-high ambitions of the company run by the...
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Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of "Bumble", the legendary SkySports cricket commentator who's one ball short of an over and delivers madcap moments galore in this ebullient, endearing and hilarious new book. David "Bumble" Lloyd is a legend in our living rooms, a genuine "good bloke" all cricket fans feel they know inside out because of his infectious, larger-than-life personality and that distinctive Lancashire burr. Bumble has become the...
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An economic and military superpower with twenty percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to "lead in the reform of the global governance system" suggest that he has just such an ambition. But how does he plan to realize it? And what does it mean for the rest of the world?
In this compelling book, Elizabeth Economy reveals China's ambitious new strategy to...
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