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10022) Speak now
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Big Machine
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Ever since her 2006 breakout single Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift has taken the music world by storm. Her last album, Fearless, debuted at #1 and was the best selling release of 2009. It also won Album of the Year at the American Music Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards, the Country Music Association Awards, and the Grammy Awards. Her third album, which features the single Mine, looks destined to be the biggest release of 2010.
10023) Bear hunting
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English
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Learn the special skills and techniques used to be safe and responsible while tracking the elusive grizzly bear. --
10024) Blue roses from the moons
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Elektra Entertainment
Pub. Date
p1997.
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English
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Français
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Adaptation d'un conte originaire du Botswana.
Masilo et sa femme cultivent leur champ, mais le soir, un bel oiseau commande au champ de se mélanger. Massilo et sa femme travaillent en pure perte, jusqu'au jour o Masilo capture l'oiseau. Celui-ci obtient la vie sauve; en échange, il donne du lait à la famille de Masilo...
Découvrez l'histoire surprenante de Masilo et sa femme, qui rencontrent un oiseau extaordinaire.
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L'oiseau leur fit...
10027) A Deal is a Deal
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English
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Would you sell your soul to save your skin?
The innkeeper's daughter dreams of a dashing knight and beautiful dresses, but her father marries her off to a lazy woodcutter. So she takes matters-and her husband's stolen guilders-into her own hands.
Little does she know that greed is contagious and his disease has woken the dragon.
Can she trick the dragon into leaving his treasure with her and taking back his scales or will this disease ruin even...
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This hilarious tale is redesigned, featuring revised illustrations and a new bilingual simplified Chinese translation. Long ago in old Beijing, a hungry ghost finds a boy, who doesn't want to become a midnight snack! What wackiness ensues when the child tempts the ghost to make the tricky Boy Dumplings recipe?Ying Chang Compestine, an award-winning author of cookbooks, novels, and picture books, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. James Yamasaki,...
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Séedimwé, affamé, avale les pots, les gens et les maisons.
Séedimwé est un grand animal qui vit avec les hommes. La nuit, il mange toute la viande qui est laissée dans des pots. Mais voilà qu'un soir, le lièvre le surveille et l'empêche de manger la viande. Le lendemain, Séedimwé, affamé, avale les pots, les gens et les maisons. Le lièvre réunit tous les animaux pour lui donner la chasse...
Découvrez un conte étonnant originaire...
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Un conte surprenant!
Des enfants, partis jouer aux champs, trouvent une courge, qui, après moult péripéties, grandit, grandit, et avale tous les gens du village, sauf une vieille dame. Celle-ci met au monde un garçon qui, devenu grand, part à la recherche de la courge.
Plongez dans ce conte tanzanien et découvrez l'histoire d'un jeune homme qui part à la recherche de la courge qui a dévoré tous les habitants de son village.
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La...
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Age : 6-11 ans - Niveau de lecture : CP-CM2
Il y a très longtemps, au XIVe siècle, un vieux petit bonhomme rondouillard, monté sur son âne a quitté l'Anatolie pour s'installer à Samarcande, en plein cœur de la Centrasie. Comme son célèbre cousin Hodja Nasreddine, Apeest un malin, un rusé, un roublard. On se demande des fois s'il n'est pas idiot, mais d'autres fois il est vraiment génial. Il n'a pas peur de s'opposer au khan, au sultan,...
10032) Uncle Wiggily's Fortune
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English
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Uncle Wiggily's Fortune is a children's book written by Howard Roger Garis, first published in 1928. The story follows the adventures of Uncle Wiggily, a rabbit, and his animal friends as they try to find the treasure of the old pirate, Captain Kidd. Uncle Wiggily and his friends set out on a journey to find the treasure, but they are pursued by the sly fox, who is determined to steal the treasure for himself. Along the way, they encounter several...
10033) Les Aventures de Compère Lapin: Un conte traditionnel des Antilles françaises plein d'aventures
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Age: 6-11 ans - Niveau de lecture: CP-CM2
Compilation de 18 contes originaires des Antilles françaises, mais également d'Haïti, de Guyane et même de Louisiane. Tous mettent en scène le personnage de Compère Lapin, rusé et malin, il s'amuse aux dépens des autres animaux et réussit toujours à se sortir des mauvais pas.
Un album coloré qui vous plongera au coeur des contes et légendes des Antilles françaises.
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Un jour, tandis...
10034) Environmentalist
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English
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Describes the requirements, education, and duties associated with becoming an environmentalist. Includes profiles of prominent environmentalists.
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Long before the Grammy nominations, sold-out performances at Carnegie Hall, and Hollywood friends and lovers, Ryan Adams fronted a Raleigh, North Carolina, outfit called Whiskeytown. Lumped into the burgeoning alt-country movement, the band soon landed a major label deal and recorded an instant classic: Strangers Almanac. That's when tour manager Thomas O'Keefe met the young musician. For the next three years, Thomas was at Ryan's side: on the tour...
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One boy's journey to see his favorite soccer player in action becomes an uplifting song to the South African spirit. A modern-day folktale set in the heart of South Africa, Bafana Bafana is the story of Pelé, an eleven-year-old village boy whose dream is to see his soccer team play. Such a dream is considered crazy for a boy from the distant outback, but Pelé is far from ordinary; determined to see his favorite player, Sibusiso Zuma, play live,...
10037) Once Upon A Time In Japan
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When wily animals, everyday people and magical beings come together in a collection of Japanese fairytales and stories, wonderful things are bound to happen! Each story is brilliantly illustrated by a talented Japanese artist. The tales recounted here are among Japan's oldest and most beloved stories. Entertaining and filled with subtle folk wisdom, these retold stories have been shared countless times in Japanese homes and schools for generations....
10038) Royal
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*Winner of the Book Buyer's Best Award* The USA Today bestselling Feyland series continues when a hotshot gamer meets a mysterious girl who challenges everything he thinks is real...
Rich-boy gamer Royal Lassiter lives on easy mode-until everything falls apart. Dark faeries are plotting to invade the mortal world, his controlling mom has turned home into enemy territory, and he can't deny his irresistible attraction to newcomer Brea, despite the...
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Les légendaires farces du lutin Sotré.
Le Sotré est un lutin malicieux bien connu dans les Vosges. Il est capable d'être charmant comme d'être méchant. Un certain nombre de ses farces sont devenues des légendes. Mais ce qu'on ne sait pas c'est que Le Sotré a rencontré et parfois même apporté une aide bien utile à d'autres célébrités de la Lorraine. Demandez donc à Saint Nicolas !
Un recueil de cinq contes à lire aux enfants et...
10040) On the Shoulder of a Giant
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This pan-Arctic Inuit legend, which tells the story of a friendly giant, is lightheartedly retold, featuring sweeping illustrations.
Inukpak was big, even for a giant. He loved to walk across the tundra, striding over the widest rivers and wading through the deepest lakes. He could walk across the Arctic in just a few days.
But being so big, and travelling so far, Inukpak was often alone. Until one day when he came across a little hunter on the tundra....
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