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An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb. Olivia is the princess of Venice. So when the waters start to rise, she knows only her magic can prevent disaster befalling the city. Desperate for help, and for a friend, Olivia discovers something incredible: a water horse, hidden in the canals of the city. Invisible to most, Lucian knows the deepest secrets of the sea - secrets that could hold the key to saving the city. But can their friendship overcome those plotting against Olivia, and against Venice itself? The Magical Venice books all share the same beautiful setting, but can be read as standalone stories. The series includes: The Water Horse, The Mermaid's Sister, The Maskmasker's Daughter, and The Girl of Glass. Discover more by Holly Webb with her Rose and Lily series - also filled with magical adventures.

A Magical Venice Story: the Water Horse

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Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.

Matilda

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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

The next time a child proclaims "I'm bored!" the doctor of funny, Bob Phillips, will knock their socks off with this grand collection of jokes.

When a family faces a break from school, a long trip, a rainy day, or any situation when a full-on case of "mundane complain" is kicking in, this is the only way to send joy from kids' toes through their souls.

Knock, Knock
Who's there?
Boo
Boo who?
No need to cry from boredom, just get the new Bob Phillips knock-knock joke collection!

This gathering of good, clean jokes and family fun is the book to add to all libraries, churches, and home collections of happiness material.

Side-Splitting Knock-Knock Jokes for Kids

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Love That Dog

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Roald Dahl

Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.

Esio Trot

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A National Bestseller! "An affectionate ode to books and book lovers." --Publishers Weekly An enchanting story about the magic of books and the power of imagination from debut author Anna James. Perfect for fans of Inkheart, The Land of Stories, and Story Thieves. Soon to be a major television series! Since her mother's disappearance, eleven-year-old Tilly Pages has found comfort in the stories at Pages & Co., her grandparents' bookshop. But when her favorite characters, Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Wonderland, start showing up at the shop, Tilly's adventures become very real. Not only can she follow Anne and Alice into their books, she discovers she can bookwander into any story she chooses. Tilly's new ability leads her to fun and exciting adventures, but danger may be lurking on the very next page... When new secrets are uncovered, it's up to Tilly to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother all those years ago. From debut author Anna James comes a charming and exciting adventure about a bookish young heroine, a mysterious librarian, and a magical bookshop that will delight book lovers everywhere. Praise for Pages & Co.: The Bookwanderers A Fall 2019 Kids' Indie Next List Pick! -"A loving testament to the powerful magic of books and imagination." --Kirkus Reviews -"Delightful! A Joy of a book."--Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink & Stars -"A lovely and enchanting read, whether you're 9 years old or 49 years old." --The Belfast Telegraph

Pages and Co. : the Bookwanderers

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A Novel

Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.

White Oleander

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

'Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth'

In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches, his strange 'family' of boastful, ugly, cruel convicts. Yet The House of the Dead is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption, describing one man's spiritual and moral death and the miracle of his gradual reawakening.

This edition includes notes and an introduction discussing the circumstances of Dostoyevsky's imprisonment, the origins of the novel in his prison writings, and the character of Aleksandr Petrovich.

The House of the Dead

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Don’t miss A to Z Mysteries—alphabetic adventures that are full of thrills, chills, and cases to crack! A is for Author... In the first book of the A to Z Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring strong boy and girl characters—Dink writes to his favorite author, mystery writer Wallis Wallace, and invites him to visit Green lawn. Wonder of wonders, Wallace says yes! In fact, the famous writers says the the only way he won't come is if he's kidnapped. But when the big day comes, Wallis Wallace is nowhere to be found. The police think he just missed his plane, but Dink knows better. It's up to Dink and his two best friends, Josh and Ruth Rose, to find Wallace - before it's too late! Each book includes a map and a letter from the author. Parents, teachers, and librarians agree that these highly collectible chapter books are perfect for emerging readers and any kid who love mysteries!

A to Z Mysteries: the Absent Author

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Physical Education

A Girl's Guide to Growing Up

This bestselling, essential illustrated guidebook for adolescent girls is a trusty friend that can help girls feel confident about this new phase of their lives.

What is my period exactly? Do I need to see a doctor? What does it feel like to wear a pad? What if I get my period at school?

Karen Gravelle and her fifteen-year-old niece, Jennifer Gravelle, have written a down-to-earth and practical book that answers any questions you might have about your period, from what it is and what it feels like, to how to choose pads and tampons, to how to talk to your parents about it. The Period Book will help guide you through all the physical, emotional, and social changes that come with your period, as well as related issues like dealing with pimples, mood swings, and new expectations from friends and family. Debbie Palen's funny and sympathetic cartoons ease the confusion and exasperation you might feel, and celebrate the new sense of power and maturity that your period can bring.

The Period Book

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Faerie Wars II

Henry Atherton, his faerie prince friend Pyrgus, and Pyrgus's fearless sister, Holly Blue, return in this fantastic adventure to save the Faerie Realm from the evil Hairstreak and his henchmen, Chalkhill and Brimstone. With the help of forest faeries, some silk mistresses, a sewer-dwelling creature of unknown dimensions, and additional creatures magical and otherwise, the three intrepid young friends find their way from exile back to the home they all would die to preserve and protect.

The Purple Emperor

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A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.

Sing down the Moon

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Jerry Spinelli

Maniac Magee

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Where the Heart Is

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A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

The Face on the Milk Carton

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The Bone Clocks

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Nobel Prize Winners on Physics and Astronomy

In 1950, near the end of his storied scientific career, Albert Einstein was still publishing groundbreaking works on the fundamental forces of the universe, on the chemical reactions that power the stars, as well as the force that causes an apple to fall to the ground. In response to another scholarly article exploring the nature of gravitational forces, the editors at Scientific American asked Einstein to write an article summarizing his latest achievements and placing them in a historical and philosophical context. What Einstein produced was one of the gems of his last years: a fascinating discussion of the most complicated and difficult problems facing physicists, explained in such a lucid and engaging fashion that a reader might forget just how advanced the material actually is. That story of exploration is now available for the first time in one volume, along with more than a dozen others from the greatest scientific minds of the past sixty years. This collection features articles exclusively written by Nobel Prize-winning physicists which, when combined, make a unique book that will inspire and educate anyone interested in the modern history of astrophysics. First published in Scientific American, these articles explain groundbreaking advances in our understanding of the universe. Original illustrations, charts, and graphs are reproduced as they first appeared in the magazine. You will find that Scientific American Presents Nobel Prize Winners on Physics and Astronomy is the essential collection for anyone looking for the most fascinating advances in physics as they are explained by the brilliant minds that discovered them. Inside, you'll also see original articles on the following: The possibility of a black hole forming at the center of our galaxy What we can learn about relativity from artificial satellites The Process of a supernova exploding The origins of the planet Earth The signals that we receive from radio galaxies, far off in space Scientific American, the country's premier general-interest science magazine, reports the most important developments in modern science, medicine, and technology. The oldest continuously published magazine in the United States, it has been bringing its readers unique insights about developments in science and technology for more than 150 years. Book jacket.

Scientific American Presents

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Ambitious, beautifully told, filled with intriguing characters, panoramic settings, and high drama, RED POPPIES opens a window on a unique region of pre-occupation Tibet, dispelling many of the popular myths about a uniformly pacifistic society peopled by devout worshipers. Set in the eastern part of the country, whose autocratic chieftains received their power to govern from Chinese emperors in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, this novel is about a feudal society in full, hot-house bloom. Lavish, sensual lifestyles, passionate romance, and bloody feuds take center stage in a sweeping historical tale that does for Tibet what the works of Garcia Marquez have done for Colombia and of Faulkner have done for the American South.
RED POPPIES is the story of the Maichi family, its powerful chieftain, his Han Chinese wife, his first son and presumptive heir, and his second, "idiot," son, the novel's narrator and unlikely hero. The time is the 1930s, the setting a stone fortress overlooking all the family rules, the arid plains of eastern Tibet, and a thinly scattered populous of peasant farmers, merchants, and ineffectual, often comical local lamas. A feud breaks out with a neighboring chieftain; an emissaryfrom the Chinese Nationalists comes to the Maichis' aid with the tools of modern warfare. In exchange, fields of bright red poppies, valuable in the Nationalist-sponsored heroin trade, are to be planted instead of grain in a deal that makes the family even richer and earns them the enmity of nearly everyone.
The blooming of the poppies is only the opening act of an epic, cinematic story follows the surprising fortunes of the narrator to the eve of Tibet's occupation by the People's Liberation Army. The first novel in a projected trilogy, RED POPPIES is a complex political parable, a sensuous, riveting read, and finally a moving elegy to the lost world of the author's homeland, in all its cruelty, beauty, and romance.

Red Poppies

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Poems, 1995-1998

"Look: with all my fear I'm here with you, trying what it means, to stand fast; what it means to move." In these astonishing new poems, Adrienne Rich dares to look and to extend her poetic language as witness to the treasures-the midnight salvage-we rescue from fear and violence. Adrienne Rich's work has long challenged social plausibilities built on violence and demoralizing power. In Midnight Salvage she continues her explorations at the end of the century, trying, as she has said, "to face the terrible with hope, in language as complex as necessary, as communicative as possible-a poetics which can work as antidote to complacency, self-involvement, and despair. I have wanted to assume a theater of voices rather than the restricted I. To write both for readers I know exist and those I can only imagine, finding their own salvaged beauty as I have found mine." These are risky poems, infused with the cruelty of history, the presence of the body, the beauty of the natural world, with human love and longing. In the course of these poems, Rich invokes the poet and Resistance fighter Ren?? Char and the photographer and revolutionary Tina Modotti and conjures Julia de Burgos, Hart Crane, and Miles Davis in an urban underworld. Midnight Salvage is a major new work by one of the essential voices of our time.

Midnight Salvage

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Lisa, the founder of an exclusive sexual fantasy resort called The Club, finds her stern self-control disrupted when she falls in love with Elliot, a photojournalist who has been contracted as a slave to the resort. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Exit to Eden

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics

Here in one volume John Gribbin, the award-winning science writer and physicist, has collected the answer to everything you need to know about the quantum world -- the place where most of the greatest scientific advances of the twentieth century have been made. This exceptional reference begins with a thorough introduction setting out the current state of knowledge in particle physics. Throughout, Gribbin blends articles on the structure of particles and their interactions, accounts of the theoretical breakthroughs in quantum mechanics and their practical applications, and entertaining biographies of the scientists who have blazed the trail of discovery. In a special section, "Timelines," key dates in our quest to understand the quantum world are mapped out alongside landmarks in world history and the history of science. Q is for Quantum is an essential companion for anyone interested in particle physics.Historical highlights include: Isaac Newton's work on particles in the seventeenth century; the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century transformation of alchemy into chemistry, culminating in Dmitiri Mendeleyev's publication of the periodic table of the elements in 1869; James Clerk Maxwell's investigation of electromagnetism and waves around the same time; and the brilliant research of Christiaan Huygens, Thomas Young, and Augustin Fresnel. Among the longer biographies in the book number those of such twentieth-century scientific giants as Erwin Schroedinger, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Linus Pauling, Robert Oppenheimer, and Andrei Sakharov.Quantum physics today is directly and continuously relevant to life. Fundamental life processes such as the workings of DNA depend on the quantum behavior of atoms. As entries in the encyclopedia note, the human conquest of this micro-realm has already led to the development of computer chips and the valuable technique of carbon dating, and we are on the verge of still greater practical advances. Gribbin shows that real quantum computer technology is gradually realizing the dreams of science fiction, and identifies the amazing possibilities of energy from nuclear fusion. No one can doubt that the fruits of quantum electrodynamics, the most accurate scientific theory ever developed, have yet to be fully gathered. And no one will dispute that this is the only reference to this weird and wonderful world. The curious, the imaginative, and the bold will require this encyclopedia of the fundamental science of the future.

Q Is for Quantum

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Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper

A wonderful memoir of life as a lighthouse keeper follows a young man as he works in a series of lighthouses in 1973, drinking in Zappa, Vonnegut, Kerouac, Watergate, and Hendrix on the rocky coastline of Scotland.

Stargazing

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The Day the World Exploded: August 27 1883

Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogotá and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all -- in view of today's new political climate -- the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims, one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere. Krakatoa gives us an entirely new perspective on this fascinating and iconic event. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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Holly Webb

A Magical Venice Story: the Water Horse

Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake (Illustrator)

Matilda

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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Bob Phillips

Side-Splitting Knock-Knock Jokes for Kids

Sharon Creech

Love That Dog

Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake (Illustrator)

Esio Trot

Anna James; Paola Escobar (Illustrator)

Pages and Co. : the Bookwanderers

Janet Fitch

White Oleander

Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator, Introduction by)

The House of the Dead

Ron Roy; John Steven Gurney (Illustrator)

A to Z Mysteries: the Absent Author

Karen Gravelle; Jennifer Gravelle; Debbie Palen (Illustrator)

The Period Book

Herbie Brennan

The Purple Emperor

Scott O'Dell

Sing down the Moon

Jerry Spinelli

Maniac Magee

Billie Letts

Where the Heart Is

Caroline B. Cooney

The Face on the Milk Carton

David Mitchell

The Bone Clocks

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Scientific American Presents

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Red Poppies

Adrienne Rich

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Exit to Eden

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Q Is for Quantum

Peter Hill

Stargazing

Simon Winchester

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