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The Red Lady is a homage to the classic stories in the form of a novel, where Étienne, a talented French artist accustomed to the good life at court, is compelled to leave behind all these comforts after falling out of favor due to an affair and travel through the woods in France seeking a living through his songs.
One dark night, he crosses paths with a mysterious woman bearing a red hood and a black sword, with which she saves him from a beast...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Real life and fairy tales collide in Never After: The Broken Mirror, book three of the funny and thrilling middle-grade saga perfect for fans of The Land of Stories series from the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of the Descendants, Melissa de la Cruz.
The Never After crew is back for another twisted adventure. This time, they're off to Snow Country—that is, after they rescue the beleaguered Lord Sharif of Nottingham
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Idea and Design Work, LLC
Edition
Collected Mini-Series
Language
English
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Return to the Mirror Universe with the Next Generation crew in a way you've never seen them before! Captain Jean-Luc Picard will stop at nothing to get his hands on the Terran Empire's newest starship, the Enterprise. And no one had better stand in his way...
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English
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Sometimes, the only thing that can overcome the darkest of days and nights is a little sunshine and your beloved pet. As you sit there pondering the meaning of life and if it is worth the energy to get up and do the next task, you see a stream of light coming through the glass and light upon your pet. You cannot help but forget your previous worries and gaze instead at the simple beauty of light and animal that God has placed in front of you.
Even...
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English
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"Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, was jailed after a brutal military coup that saw many of his comrades flee elsewhere. Santiago, feeling trapped, can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay sane. Far away, his nine-year-old daughter Beatrice wonders at the marvels of 1970s Buenos Aires, but her grandpa and mother--Santiago's beautiful, careworn wife, Graciela--struggle to adjust to a life in exile"--
10) Grace in the Rearview Mirror: Four Women Priests on Brokenness, Belonging, and the Beauty of God
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English
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"These stories are poignant, inspiring, moving and, above all, real."
--Michael Curry
Have you ever wondered if God is missing in the mundane? Four women priests have found God in the most unexpected places: in a dive bar, at the drugstore, and even at the grave. As we go about our everyday lives, the divine can feel illusive: grappling with the realities of cancer, infertility treatments, searching for a birth story, and honoring the divine in a...
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1972]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
125 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
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Thrown out of her 12th foster home with only a copy of "Through the Looking-Glass," a 12-year-old black girl interchanges the people and situations of her life with those in the book.
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Publisher
Cider Mill Press Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
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"Friday the 13th; rabbit feet; knocking on wood; walking under a ladder; the curse of the evil eye. We all have a superstition or two. Unveil the origins of some of the most universal and little known superstitions that have influenced cultures around the world for centuries. Including beliefs that gained a foothold in African and European folklore, notions from ancient Greece, legends of the British Isles, and beyond, this is a captivating read for...
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English
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The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is one of America's best-known novels. In his Reader's Companion to this new edition, Daniel Dyer provides a wealth of annotations explaining the book's many "sourdough" expressions and geographical references in order to help the modern reader see what London saw. Dyer also identifies characters in the novel - human and canine alike - whom London had known, and he spices his annotations with Northern lore and...
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English
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Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question -- why her only son died -- and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm....
18) The magic mirror
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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The Ice Princess's magic mirror is broken, one piece is missing, and without it the Enchanted Kingdom is locked in a terrible, unseasonable, heat wave (even the palace is melting); two children, Kara and Zed, are determined to help, but first they must figure out whether the break is the result of the sibling rivalry between the Ice Princess and her sister the Sun Princess--or did the monkey do it?
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some customers are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace better. Some are locals, trying to hide...
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