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8361) Under Green Leaves
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This treasury of verse rejoices in the pleasures of the countryside and the beauty of the outdoors. Originally published in the mid-19th century, Under Green Leaves offers a wealth of poetry inspired by nature, from lyrics by English dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, to works by Metaphysical, Romantic, and Victorian poets. Dozens of enchanting verses include William Blake's "Piping Down the Valleys Wild,"...
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Legend tells of a traveler who roams the world upon the back of wind itself. A song sung by Asher, the bard at the Twisted Key Pub, so claims that even an ordinary man may learn to fly, so long as he first learns to put others before himself. The great bard learns the story well, and if one would like to hear its tale, all one must do is accept as true that men, and not dragons, are beasts.
Follow the journey of a young man named Nero as he encounters...
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India has a rich culture and History. Most of which is unknown to the children of our present generation. Too engrossed in their Cartoons and Video Games, Children do not spare any time in learning about India's great epics. Here's another epic of India, specially illustrated to be interesting and exciting for children to read. Gift your children the the knowledge of Indian epics, bundled in and exciting and simple form, corroborated with images to...
8364) King of the Sea
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Will the royals survive, and will magic prove useful in this final installment of the Secrets of Galathea collection? Loch always knew that one day he would be crowned king, but he never thought the day would come so soon. When the king dies during a gruesome battle with the Kraken, Loch must assume the role of ruler. But there is more to worry about than the upcoming coronation ceremony-there is a monster to kill and a heavy decision to make.
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Little Pampu is a rabbit. She belongs to the family of Chocolate Bunnies. Little Pampu has adventures in her sleep and when she wakes up, she tells her family of Chocolate Bunnies about her dreams. Her family and friends help her make her dreams come true. She proves to children that their dreams can come true!
Little Pampu dreams of piloting an airplane, scuba diving, and a magnificent island. She tells her dad about her dreams. Soon, she is on...
8366) Interesting Creatures
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A girl has to deal with a fallen angel.A Voodoo priest fights demons.Demons start issuing from the ground.Economics from a supernatural perspective.Some girls engage in a science project that goes too far.This and much more in this eclectic short story collection.
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Desire is rising-and hearts are melting-in these sizzling holiday stories…
Hot Coded Christmas by Nana Malone
Nothing says Christmas quite like…computer coding? That's how CEO Jamie Reed plans to spend the holidays, holed up in an upstate New York guesthouse, desperately trying to save her company. She didn't count on sharing this secluded wonderland with her business rival, Cole Nichols. But the sexy tech billionaire just might be the one to...
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Two lavish destination weddings set the stage for romance and desire… Hot Night in the Hamptons, Nana Malone - A fling with the gorgeous best man is not on Elina Sinclair's to-do list as maid of honor at her best friend's Hamptons wedding. Yet former child star Gabe Anderson is intent on seduction. He's also a new client at her image consulting firm…which makes a relationship strictly forbidden. Can the onetime playboy convince her that he's the...
8369) Favored by the Goddesses
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Sixteen Everyday Goddess Stories in one place for your reading enjoyment!
Women and goddesses alike face adventures of all sizes in the Everyday Goddess series.
Whether they deal with issues that shape the world or merely their personal destinies, their choices matter, and they follow intuition and luck to figure things out . . .
Sometimes with surprising results.
These sixteen stories-first gathered together for the first time in this omnibus-explore...
8370) The World Treasury Of Fairy Tales & Folklore: A Family Heirloom of Stories to Inspire & Entertain
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Relive the magic of classic fairy tales. For centuries fantastical stories of witches, giants, princesses, talking animals, and magical kingdoms have been passed from generation to generation. Many of the fairy tales we are most familiar with today have their roots in this oral tradition of storytelling. The World Treasury of Fairy Tales and Folklore is a stunning collection of fairy tales organized by date of printing. From the familiar tales collected...
8371) Ghost in My Room
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What if your apartment were haunted? Before you say "Run", think about how hard it is to find an affordable apartment in New York City. Paul, a young graphic designer, isn't about to give up his dream of making it big in the Big Apple. He needs to find a way to get along with everyone in the apartment, even the ghost!
Sci-Fi Fantasy Graded Readers for ELT are designed to bring science fiction and fantasy into the ESL or EFL classroom. These genres...
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À la découverte des traditions et de la culture de la Corée du Sud.
Pour ce pays du Sud, douzième puissance économique du monde, on a parlé de « miracle ». L'industrialisation à marche forcée et le développement économique spectaculaire ont fait naître ici, en très peu de temps, des conglomérats tentaculaires aux enjeux planétaires. Coincé entre deux géants, il affirme sa personnalité grâce à sa langue originale, non tonale à...
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Family friendly Un-Adult-A-rated fun! Does size matter? Is bigger better? That's no small question to Tom Little-the circus midget with giant dreams. Tom may be king of the midgets, but he's got far grander ambitions-to become the muscleman at the top, the ringmaster. Now, drawing on some dark ancient secrets and mystic texts, he's about to get his wish. Imagine a pint-sized Mickey Rooney on steroids, trading up into a body like Burt Lancaster's....
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Get 5 Gripping, heart wrecking mystery short stories in one great collection!BUY NOW!A Pointy Way To GoA Needle Covered Body. A Twisted Cold Case. One Team To Solve It.Kendra and Jeff, two recently retired London Detectives, volunteer their time solving cold cases.20 years ago, an officer finds a well-liked schoolteacher covered completely in needles. Kendra and Jeff decide to take one more look at the impossible case. Just one more.Can Kendra bring...
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In a world whose inhabitants routinely visit famous historical events, two jaded road-weary tourists take a holiday in an isolated retrograde enclave where time travel is forbidden.Humankind is plunged into chaos as the recently deceased reappear and take up residency in their former homes.As the result of an expensive technique that restores their youthful vigor, wealthy old people gallivant from place to place adventure-seeking and partying. However,...
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This book invites the reader into a cloister of poems, there to look with eyes of faith through the arches of rhythm and rhyme onto the wide vistas, terrible chasms, and hazy mountains of Mystery, Beauty, and Love. Written by monks of Silverstream Priory, some poems let memory and imagination search the corners of the earth, there to glean the sorrows, hopes, and joys of men, and so present them to the Father. Others draw from the deep wells of tradition,...
8377) The Clause Rebellion
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From the author of More Than Instinct, Elizabeth Lee Sorrell, comes this new Christmas fantasy adventure. You would think that being the daughter of Santa would be a dream come true, but you would be wrong. Wynter Clause is miserable. She wants to get away, so she goes to the one place where she knows no one will look for her, the South Pole. Unfortunately, everyone in the South Pole hates the Clause's. Hiding her true-identity seems the only way...
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In 1987, the New York Times published their first front-page review of a science fiction anthology for a collection called In the Field of Fire, themed around the war in Vietnam. "Vietnam was science fiction," the reviewer wrote, and writing about it through that lens found meaning in a war few understood.
This idea, that speculative fiction is a vital tool to understanding the inexplicable, is just as relevant nearly thirty years later. Deserts...
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Short Story Day Africa presents its annual anthology. The stories explore true and alternative African culture through a competition on the theme of Water. This is the third in the SSDA collection of anthologies, which aim to break the one-dimensional view of African storytelling and fiction writing. Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers, and school children from all over the globe to write, submit,...
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Omnibus version of the first three books in the Synth Crisis futuristic detective series.-----------------------------------------------------------------------BOOK ONE: THE JUDAS CYPHERWhen machine murders man, one detective is the world's only hope of preventing an all-out-war...Dhata Mays has become used to living on the fringes. Unlike most of humanity, the detective treats the synth population with the respect they deserve. But when a gruesome...
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