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Press here
by Hervé Tullet
Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, a series of dots multiplies, grows, or changes color by pressing, tilting, or blowing on the previous page
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The book with no pictures
by B. J. Novak
The Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his performances in The Office presents a silly read-aloud book that combines a deliberately image-free format with wacky nonsense text, goofy song lyrics and more.
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Actual size
by Steve Jenkins
Discusses and gives examples of the size and weight of various animals and parts of animals
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It's a tiger!
by David LaRochelle
A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.
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Mr. Tiger goes wild
by Peter Brown
Wanting to have more fun when he tires of his prim-and-proper existence, staunch Mr. Tiger decides to give in to his wild nature until his antics go too far. By the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Creepy Carrots!
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The monster at the end of this book
by Jon Stone
An addition to the "Sesame Street" collection provides preschoolers with a fun-filled tale as Grover uses suspense to build up to the mystery monster at the end of the book.
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Homer Price
by Robert McCloskey
Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage
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The Borrowers
by Mary Norton
Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock.
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The wolves of Willoughby Chase
by Joan Aiken
Three children become involved in a series of adventures when left under the care of a detestable governess in a rural English manor.
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Igraine the brave
by Cornelia Caroline Funke
When a distant relative shows up with a dastardly plan to capture the castle and claim his parents' collection of singing books, it is up to Igraine and his friend, the Gentle Giant, to save the home and possessions he loves!
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A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories
by Richard Peck
Year after year, Joey and Mary Alice go to visit their Grandma in her quiet town in Illinois, but with every summer that passes, things become increasingly odd in this collection of amusing adventure stories.
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A single shard
by Linda Sue Park
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself
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Odd and the Frost Giants
by Neil Gaiman
Odd has had some terrible luck, but it's about to change when he rescues a bear who is more than he seems to be in this brilliantly inventive short novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology from a Newbery-winning New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist.
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The mysterious howling
by Maryrose Wood
Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles (a.k.a. Alexander, Cassiopeia and Beowulf) are no ordinary children -- luckily, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess… but mysteries abound and Penelope will unquestionably have her hands full as she attempts to domestic the Incorrigibles.
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We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball
by Kadir Nelson
Rich illustrations capture the excitement and thrills of the glory years of Negro League baseball in the early 1900s, profiling its star athletes, highlighting the challenges faced by the players, and the sacrifices made to live out their dreams and play the game they loved.
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Letters to a young scientist
by Edward O. Wilson
A Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist and the author of two New York Times best-sellers weaves together more than 20 letters that highlight his childhood and career and why he became a biologist in the hopes of inspiring today's young people into similar pursuits
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The Tao of Pooh
by Benjamin Hoff
An expert in Chinese philosophy explains facets of Taoism using Milne's famous character and explores the world of Winnie-the-Pooh through Tao, characterizing Pooh as a simple bear who subscribes to the principles of successful living
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1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
The internationally best-selling and award-winning author of such works as What I Talk About When I Talk About Running presents a psychologically charged tale that draws on Orwellian themes.
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven
by Sherman Alexie
A collection of twenty-two interconnected short stories portrays life on the Spokane Indian Reservation, relating the stories of a child with alcoholic parents, a letter-writer who is dying of cancer, and others.
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Fragile things : short fictions and wonders
by Neil Gaiman
A collection of more than 25 short fictional works includes a novella featuring the hero from his best-selling American Gods, in a volume that follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light.
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Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
Short narratives probe man's soul to reveal his conflicting emotions, motives, and desires and his tortured struggle for salvation.
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The bloody chamber : and other stories
by Angela Carter
Combining the erotic and the sinister, the lyrical and the grisly, and the comic and the demonic, a collection of short stories transforms such classic children's tales and legends as "Beauty and the Beast" and "Little Red Riding Hood."
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Ransom
by David Malouf
A reimagining of the story of Priam's effort to claim the slain body of his son finds the grief-stricken Achilles striking out against Hector after the death of Patroclus during the siege of Troy, an act that invokes a passionate bereavement in the king and ultimately results in a powerful confrontation. By the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon.
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Weight
by Jeanette Winterson
The author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and The Passion: Written on the Body rewrites the myth of Atlas and Hercules, finding new meaning in this ancient tale.
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The uncommon reader : A Novella
by Alan Bennett
Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role in the monarchy.
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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
Growing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder hopes to pay back that kindness by playing a key role in a swindle scheme devised by their leader, Gentleman, who is planning to con a fortune out of the naive Maud Lily, but Sue's growing pity for their helpless victim could destroy the plot. By the author of Tipping the Velvet.
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Interpreter of maladies : stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
A debut collection of short fiction blends elements of Indian traditions with the complexities of American culture in such tales as "A Temporary Matter," in which a young Indian-American couple confronts their grief over the loss of a child, while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout.
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If on a winter's night a traveler
by Italo Calvino
Ten different and thoroughly dissimilar novels intertwine as the beginning of each book, interrupted at a critical moment of suspense, leads into yet another novel reflecting yet another literary mode.
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Tales of mystery & imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
Presents an anthology of tales of horror and the supernatural, including stories of a strange double, a family decline, a torture victim, revenge, and murder.
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