Don Quixote and the Windmills By Eric A. Kimmel

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Title	:	Don Quixote and the Windmills
Author	:	Eric A. Kimmel
ISBN	:	0374318255
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	32

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A self proclaimed knightSe or Quexada has read so many books about knights in shining armor that he thinks he is one He gives himself a name fitting for a knight Don Quixote and sets off one evening with his squire At dawn they come across what Don Quixote recognizes as an army of monstrous giants Master cries Sancho Panza They are only windmills But D A self proclaimed knightSe or Quexada has read so many books about knights in shining armor that he thinks he is one He gives himself a name fitting for ...

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Mailman of the Birdsville Track By Kristin Weidenbach

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Title	:	Mailman of the Birdsville Track
Author	:	Kristin Weidenbach
ISBN	:	0733619355
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	313

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The Birdsville Track is one of the best known tracks in Australia, and for 20 years Tom Kruse was the mailman, battling searing heat, floods and mechanical breakdowns He made the run every fortnight and was a lifeline to the isolated settlements and stations along the way, delivering everything from letters to essential supplies....

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Traversa By Fran Sandham

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Title	:	Traversa
Author	:	Fran Sandham
ISBN	:	0715637029
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Number of Pages	:	274

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Inspired by the legendary explorers who first crossed the African heartland, Fran Sandham left the daily grind of London to undertake an extraordinary adventure He traveled on foot across Africa from the Skeleton Coast on the southwest tip of the African continent through Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania, until he reached the Indian Ocean Traversa is the fascinating Inspired by the legendary explorers who first crossed the African heartland, Fran Sandham left the daily grind of Londo...

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The Secret Life of Josephine By Carolly Erickson

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Title	:	The Secret Life of Josephine
Author	:	Carolly Erickson
ISBN	:	031236735X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	336

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The bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette and The Last Wife of Henry VIII returns with an enchanting novel about one of the most seductive women in history Josephine Bonaparte, first wife of Napoleon Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, Josephine had anexotic Creole appeal that would ultimately propel her to reign over an empire as wife of t The bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette and The Last Wife of Henry VIII returns with an...

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Sosu's Call By Meshack Asare

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Title	:	Sosu's Call
Author	:	Meshack Asare
ISBN	:	1929132212
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	37

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Winner of the 1999 UNESCO prize and IBBY s Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities award, Sosu s Call by Ghanaian author illustrator Meshack Asare is a story of heroism and resolve Sosu is all alone in his family s compound when disaster strikes The waters are rising, and most of the people of the village are in the fields The only ones left are the very ol Winner of the 1999 UNESCO prize and IBBY s Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities award, Sosu s Call by Ghanaian ...

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The Princess Guide to Rome By Belinda Darcey

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Title	:	The Princess Guide to Rome
Author	:	Belinda Darcey
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	294

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Packed with truly helpful information and well researched background stories on the art that fills every corner of Rome, this travel guide is a trip in itself Written in a deliciously irreverent tone, The Princess Guide To Rome 2014 covers all the fabulous stuff that s so often missing from other travel guide books on Rome and Italy.The first half is all the practical a Packed with truly helpful information and well researched background stories on the art that fills every corner of Rome, this travel guid...

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Saturdays are Gold By Pierre Van Rooyen

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Title	:	Saturdays are Gold
Author	:	Pierre Van Rooyen
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	384

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Pierre Van Rooyen s latest novel, Saturdays Are Gold, was nominated for The Guardian s Not the Booker Prize 2011 Set in 1940s Johannesburg, it explores the innocence of childhood in an adult world of prohibition, superstition, sorcery, divination, child abduction and muti murder Seven year old Maudie is kidnapped because she witnesses a muti murder and her brother, nine Pierre Van Rooyen s latest novel, Saturdays Are Gold, was nominated for The Guardian s Not the Booker Prize 2011 Set in 1940s Johannesbur...

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The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1) By Sandra Gulland

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Title	:	The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)
Author	:	Sandra Gulland
ISBN	:	1615547363
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	429

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Since completing high school history, few of us have managed to keep straight the details of the French Revolution Beyond suggestions of eating cake and the effectiveness of the guillotine, this sordid time period has remained for many somewhat obscure Now, through the novel The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., not only do we learn of the many differences Since completing high school history, few of us have managed to keep straight the details of the French Revolution Beyond...

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Shine, Coconut Moon By Neesha Meminger

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Title	:	Shine, Coconut Moon
Author	:	Neesha Meminger
ISBN	:	1416954953
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	256

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Seventeen year old Samar a.k.a Sam has never known much about her Indian heritage Her mom has deliberately kept Sam away from her old fashioned family It s never bothered Sam, who is busy with school, friends, and a really cute but demanding boyfriend.But things change after 9 11 A guy in a turban shows up at Sam s house, and he turns out to be her uncle He want Seventeen year old Samar a.k.a Sam has never known much about her Indian heritage Her mom has deliberately kept Sam away from her old fashioned f...

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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone By Saša Stanišić

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Title	:	How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Author	:	Saša Stanišić
ISBN	:	0802118666
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	304

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For young Aleksandar the best magician in the non aligned states and painter of unfinished things life is endowed with a mythic quality in the Bosnian town of Vi egrad, a rich playground for his imagination When his grandfather dies, Aleks channels his storytelling talent to help with his grief.It is a gift he calls on again when the shadow of war spreads to Vi egrad, For young Aleksandar the best magician in the non aligned states and painter of unfinished things life is endowed with a mythic quality in ...

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John Oliver Killens By Keith Gilyard

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Title	:	John Oliver Killens
Author	:	Keith Gilyard
ISBN	:	0820335134
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	456

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John Oliver Killens s politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize His works of fiction and nonfiction, the most famous of which is his novel Youngblood, have been translated into than a dozen languages An influential novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and teacher, John Oliver Killens s politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion or One Good B...

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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie By Ayana Mathis

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Title	:	The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Author	:	Ayana Mathis
ISBN	:	0307949702
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320

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In 1923, fifteen year old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north Full of hope, she settles in Philadelphia to build a better life Instead she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment, and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins are lost to an illness that a few pennies could have prevented Hattie In 1923, fifteen year old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north Full of hope, she ...

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The Red Lily Crown By Elizabeth Loupas

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Title	:	The Red Lily Crown
Author	:	Elizabeth Loupas
ISBN	:	0451418875
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	418

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Elizabeth Loupas returns with her most ambitious historical novel yet, a story of intrigue, passion, and murder in the Medici Court April, 1574, Florence, Italy Grand Duke Cosimo de Medici lies dying The city is paralyzed with dread, for the next man to wear the red lily crown will be Prince Francesco despotic, dangerous, and obsessed with alchemy Chiara Nerini, th Elizabeth Loupas returns with her most ambitious historical novel yet, a story of intrigue, passion, and murder in the Medici Court ...

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House of Splendid Isolation By Edna O'Brien

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Title	:	House of Splendid Isolation
Author	:	Edna O'Brien
ISBN	:	0452274524
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	232

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Book Description Publication Date April 1, 1998 The author of A Fanatic Heart offers a timely novel that looks into the mind and heart of contemporary Ireland as an escaped IRA operative takes refuge in an abandoned house until the occupant unexpectedly returns home....

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The Kings in Winter By Cecelia Holland

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Title	:	The Kings in Winter
Author	:	Cecelia Holland
ISBN	:	031286888X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	208

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It was a time of legend, a time of strugle, a time when the Kingship of the hero Brain Boru is being contested by men of other clans, and by the Danish invader who had come in their longships to take hold of Ireland and make it their own All through a long winter of strife, Muirtagh struggles to balance his own honor and that of his clan, against his divided loyalties to It was a time of legend, a time of strugle, a time when the Kingship of the hero Brain Boru is being contested by men of other...

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Six Suspects By Vikas Swarup

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Title	:	Six Suspects
Author	:	Vikas Swarup
ISBN	:	0385608152
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	480

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There s a caste system even in murder.Seven years ago, Vivek Vicky Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal The police search each and every guest Si There s a caste system even in murder.Seven years ago, Vivek Vicky Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Prades...

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Japanese Culture By H. Paul Varley

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Title	:	Japanese Culture
Author	:	H. Paul Varley
ISBN	:	0824821521
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	383

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For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well written introduction to Japanese history and culture This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topics, among which are samurai values, Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony, Confucian For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well written introduction to Japanese hi...

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