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The Runaway Bunny

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"This is one of the nicest things Margaret Wise Brown has done, and Clement Hurd has made enchanting pictures, with line drawings and eight double spreads in four colors, beautifully reproduced. The text pattern is a successful dialogue with almost…

The Satanic Verses

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This book follows two protagonists, Gibreel Farishta, a Bollywood superstar who specializes in playing Hindu deities, and Saladin Chamcha, an emigrant who has broken with his Indian identity and works as a voiceover artist in England. The book opens…

The Shab-al-hiri Roach

The Shab-al-hiri Roach
Second Printing, April 2006

Introduction: This document concerns the discovery, collection, and accidental release of a new species of cockroach. The insect was named "Jenkins' Greasy Roach" by entomologist William Appleby-Jenkins. It escaped into…

The Silent Sleep [original]

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Protected in plastic bag ; leaves very good to near fine ; printed on 1 piece of paper watermarked: "CERTIFICATE Royale [9]6% COTTON [CONTENT]" ; evidence of light bending at bottom corners

Lyrics: "They sleep, they sleep the silent sleep. They…

The Snowy Day

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"The author brought bold, bright color and collage to the forefront of children's literature, winning the Caldecott Medal and introducing children to a young African American protagonist named Peter who romps in the snow in this first book and who…

The Speeches Stanfield Hasn't Made

Ottawa, Ontario

Desbarats explains why he believes that Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield has not been able to lead a very successful campaign. He feels as though Stanfield does not back up his claims or ambitions with concrete evidence or…

The St. Albans Psalter [facsimile]

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Binding: good to very good ; some staining ; bumped corners ; cracked hinge (back cover) ; three very small areas of damage that appear to be holes

Spine: good to very good ; cloth bound ; some fraying n side of front cover ; "THE ST. ALBANS…

The Three Pigs

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"David Wiesner's Caldecott award-winning book begins like countless other versions of this familiar tale, but readers soon encounter a strange twistwhen the wolf buffs and puffs, the pigs are blown right out of the book! They escape from the wolf, as…

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

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"Everybody knows the story of the three little pigs, right? Wrong. Only now has Alexander T. Wolf (known also as Al) chosen to tell his side of the story: and as it turns out, it's really about a sneeze and a cup of sugar. It seems that when…