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Rene's Our Mann in Current Crop of Biographies

Montreal, Quebec

A surveying article on the sales of political and historical non-fiction books. Desbarats's biography on Rene Levesque is showcased as the current best selling book, despite laments from Francophones regarding the book's…

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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A cutout book in which a caterpillar eats its way through a steadily increasing number of delectable foods and finally becomes a butterfly-a natural history lesson and a counting book as an added bonus. Burns, Mary M., and Ann A. Flowers. "The very…

Listen Up: take changes, make mistakes, get messy

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This zince includes a foreword, table of contents, personal essays related to LIS topics, illustrations, cartoons, advice columns, critical essays, lists, bookbinding and archival work information, colour photographs, jokes, and horoscopes.

Copyright: The Card Game

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Canadian Edition 2018

Players: 6 - 40 players

Playing time: Approx. 60 - 180 minutes

Age: 12+

Description: "As part of our work we have developed a new engaging approach to copyright education sessions. For those of you who have ever…

Mr. Grumpy's Outing

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"Mr. Gumpy lives by a river. One sunny day he decides to take a ride in his small boat. It is such a perfect idea, for such a perfect summer day, that he soon has company: first the children, then the rabbit, the cat, the dog, the pig, the sheep, the…

Citadels: A game of medieval cities, nobles and intrigue

Revised Edition

Players: 2-8
Playing time: 20-60 minutes
Age: 14+

Introduction: In Citadels, each player leads a city and seeks to increase its property by building new city districts. The game ends after one player has built his eighth…

Goodnight Moon

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"The rhyming simplicity of the text still brings comfort to both mother and child, even after 50 years. Brown's ability to describe just what a small child notices is the essence of this book. The black-and-white details interspersing Hurd's…

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…

Congratulations Letter from Monash University, Australia

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A congratulations letter for the SLIS 25th anniversary from Monash University in Australia

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Easton Ellis, Bret. American Psycho

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Told in first-person narrative, this book is set in Manhattan in the late 1980s and follows the life of the young and wealthy investment banker, Patrick Bateman. Bateman describes his daily life on Wall Street and recounts his evening outings in…