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Impunity Jane
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A tiny doll lives an adventurous life in a little boy's pocket and as a member of a gang of boys. |
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Great Short Stories of the World
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Максим Горький,Colette,Frank O'Connor,Max Aub,Henry Lawson,Albert Camus,Corrado Alvaro,Robert Benchley,H. G. Wells,Isak Dinesen,Ernest Hemingway,Nigel Balchin,Sholem Aleichem,Katherine Anne Porter,Santha Rama Rau,Rabindranath Tagore,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Leo Kennedy,Joseph Conrad,Антон Павлович Чехов,Dorothy L. Sayers,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Graham Greene,Nadine Gordimer,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,Alberto Moravia,O. Henry,Rumer Godden,John O'Hara,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Gabrielle Roy,Unknown,Sally Benson,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Doris Lessing,Wallace Stegner,Guy de Maupassat,James Joyce,Luigi Pirandello,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Mikhail Zoshchenko,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Montague Rhodes James,Paul Horgan,Saki,Thomas Head Raddall,Katherine Mansfield,Bertolt Brecht,Josh Gregory,Irwin Shaw,Marcel Aymé,Jean Stafford,Lilika Nakos,S. J. Perelman,Damon Runyon,Anatole France,Machado de Assis,Jessamyn West,Hjalmar Söderberg |
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck
Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham
Vanka / Anton Chekhov
The happy prince / Oscar Wilde
The old demon / Pearl S. Buck
The sailor-boy's tale / Isak … |
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Gypsy girl
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Rumer Godden |
After she is orphaned, seven-year-old Kizzy, who has lived as a Romany, or Gypsy, all her life, must face a small English town's intolerance and find herself a new home and family. |
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Listen to the nightingale
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Rumer Godden |
When she wins a scholarship to a famous ballet school, Lottie, an orphan reared by the costume mistress for a London ballet company, is torn between her lifelong dream and her love for a puppy. |
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Little Plum
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Rumer Godden,Gary Blythe |
The new girl who moves into the mansion next door is a mystery to her eight and nine-year-old neighbors who plot to become her friends when they learn she too owns a Japanese doll. |
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Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
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Rumer Godden |
After she leaves India to live with her cousins in England, eight-year-old Nona is overcome with homesickness until her great-aunt sends two Japanese dolls which need love and care. Includes construc… |
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Thursday's Children
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Rumer Godden |
*Thursday's Children* chronicles the rise of aspiring ballet dancer Doone Penny, whose story is as unorthodox as it is inspirational. Encompassing a world where dance, fame and family are as intricat… |
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The Butterfly Lions
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Rumer Godden |
The story of Lootie, a tiny morsel of life 'looted' from a Chinese palace at a culmination of the Opium War and given to Queen Victoria, is the starting point of Rumer Godden's enchanting story of th… |
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The valiant chatti-maker
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Rumer Godden |
When he inadvertently captures the tiger that has been terrorizing the neighborhood, a poor potter not only gains fame and fortune but the unwanted honor of leading the Raja's army against an invadin… |
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The Dragon of Og
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Rumer Godden |
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For centuries the Dragon of Og has taken for food two bullocks a month from the lord's herd, but a new lord declares the custom must end, and so begins a battle of wits.
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Great Grandfather's house
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Rumer Godden |
Seven-year-old Keiko, a careless and spoiled Japanese girl, spends three months in the country with Great Grandfather and her cousin Yôji and gradually becomes more gentle and sensible. |
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Candy Floss
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Rumer Godden |
A doll named Candy Floss is very happy serving as Jack's lucky charm at his stall at the fair, until a spoiled rich girl steals her. |
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Home is the sailor
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Rumer Godden |
Through a series of unusual circumstances the missing men of the doll family are reunited with their relatives. |
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Mr. McFadden's Hallowe'en
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Rumer Godden |
A young girl and her pony befriend a dour farmer on the Scottish border. |
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A candle for St. Jude
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Rumer Godden |
A Candle for St. Jude is the tender, evocative tale of a London ballet school, the heroic taskmistress who is its guiding force, and the young dancers whose passionate devotion to the dance fill the … |
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The Dark Horse
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Rumer Godden |
The dark horse of this touching and exciting novel is Dark Invader, a magnificent thoroughbred sold cheaply and exiled from England to race in Calcutta in the early 1930s. Almost all of the people ar… |
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Episode of Sparrows
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Rumer Godden |
In post-war London, two street-tough children attempt to build a hidden garden, an act that awakens hidden courage in the children and profoundly disrupts the neighborhood. |
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The kitchen Madonna
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Rumer Godden |
A boy's efforts to create an icon to please the family's new maid helps him to make new friends and discover an artistic talent. |
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Two under the Indian sun
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Jon Godden,Rumer Godden |
The autobiography of Jon and Rumer Godden, who spent the happiest years of their childhood in Narayanganj,India. |
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Doll's House
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Rumer Godden,Jane Ray |
Tottie is only a common wooden farthing doll, but she is one hundred years old and knows all about the power of wishing. When she and her doll-family wish for a new home, their wish is granted. But a… |
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