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"In Italo Calvino's cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to Earth's first dawn. Exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe, these beloved tales relate complex scientific concepts to our common sensory, emotional, human world."--from publisher's description.
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[2016]
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28 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 22 cm.
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Taming the tongue can be a difficult thing. Watch as a few children struggle to keep their tongues from taking over, while others are unsure if they should speak at all, although they know it might be the right thing to do.
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2021.
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129 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Why do we decorate Christmas trees? Do all children receive gifts on the same day? Come find out as Monika Utnik-Strugala captures the smells, tastes, and unforgettable traditions about the most popular, exciting, contemplative, and unique Christmas customs and legends from around the world. Find out why celebrate Christmas on December 25th, who invented the first glass ornament, why people build nativity scenes, and more! A truly international collection...
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[2022]
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407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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For the past one hundred years, Emily Post has been America's definitive source for how to navigate-- and enhance-- every social interaction. This centennial edition has been updated for our increasingly diverse and intersectional world. Post and Senning-- great-great grandchildren of Emily Post-- continue the Post family legacy of upholding traditions while moving forward with the times. From table manners and gift-giving to video meetings, AI and...
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Foxfire volume 2
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1973
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410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.
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Wildflower House volume 3
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Kara Hart is looking forward to a quiet holiday--just like the ones she's always known--but this year, she's at Wildflower House and alone. But fate--with an extra dose of Christmas spirit--intervenes as the people now in Kara's life show up. If Kara is ready to up her holiday game, she may find new traditions to build on for the future.
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From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the social changes of the '60s, to the rise of Silicon Valley today, this extraordinary novel takes us on a family odyssey that is both heartbreaking and inspiring, as each generation faces the challenges of their day. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the 1960s--history holds many surprises, and lives are changed...
16) Fancy Nancy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special night.
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While you were sleeping... With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious...
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"Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
19) The last midwife
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It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. She is a gifted and important resource for the women of her hardscrabble community, a position earned through wisdom and trust. Most women in Swandyke couldn't even imagine getting through their pregnancy and labor without Gracy by their sides. But everything changes when a baby is found dead--and...
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The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook presents over 100 recipes that showcase the cookery and customs of the Crawley household-from upstairs dinner party centerpieces to downstairs puddings and pies--and bring an authentic slice of Downton Abbey to modern kitchens and Downton fans. Whether adapted from original recipes of the period, replicated as seen or alluded to on screen, or typical of the time, all the recipes reflect the influences found on the...
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