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Rhino, rhino, sweet potato
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Francine Prose |
When hungry rhinos rampage the village eating all the sweet potatoes, Roy bravely goes and teaches them new ways to live. |
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You never know
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Francine Prose |
Though mocked by the rest of the villagers, poor Schmuel the shoemaker turns out to be a very special person. |
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Caravaggio
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Francine Prose |
Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary p… |
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Goldengrove
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Francine Prose |
A young girl faces the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward unders… |
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Burn This Book
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Paul Auster,Ed Park,Nadine Gordimer,Russell Banks,Salman Rushdie,John Updike,Francine Prose,Toni Morrison,David Grossman,Pico Iyer,Orhan Pamuk |
Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see th… |
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The turning
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Francine Prose |
"A teen boy becomes the babysitter for two very peculiar children on a haunted island in this modern retelling of The Turn of the Screw"-- |
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The way we cook
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James Oseland,Francine Prose |
Visually captivating, this stunning book is a photo journal of home cooks in their kitchens. Through arresting scenic photography, personal stories, and authentic recipes, see how individuals in diff… |
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Peggy Guggenheim
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Francine Prose |
Contains primary source material.
A biography of one of twentieth century America's most influential patrons of the arts that covers her personal life, uncompromising spirit, and relationships with … |
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Bullyville
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Francine Prose |
After the death of his estranged father in the World Trade Center on 9/11, thirteen-year-old Bart, still struggling with his feelings of guilt, sorrow and loss, wins a scholarship to the local prepar… |
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Anne Frank
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Francine Prose |
In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years… |
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(R)evolution
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Francine Prose |
"Inside these pages you will find poems, essays, and fiction from the next generation of women writers. Through the Girls Write Now program, each mentor-mentee pair develops and presents her best wor… |
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Bigfoot dreams
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Francine Prose |
Vera Perl, "star reporter of a sleazy supermarket tabloid ... conjures up stories about UFO sightings, miracle cures in garden vegetables, evidence of life after death, and the ever-popular Bigfoot .… |
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Household saints
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Francine Prose |
Tells the story of the Santangelos, a family in New York's Little Italy. |
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The Lives of the Muses
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Francine Prose |
Hester Thrale & Samuel Johnson. Yoko Ono & John Lennon. Alice Liddell & Lewis Carroll.... |
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Blue Angel
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Francine Prose |
It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel.It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a p… |
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A Changed Man
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Francine Prose |
On an unseasonably warm spring afternoon, a young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust … |
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