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1) Oranges
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This book introduces early readers to oranges. Simple text and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading! Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
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It has been over three years since ex-Police Detective, James Gordon and his family moved to the beautiful mountain village of Fornalutx in Mallorca, for a better way of life and to open a small boutique hotel.
His arrival had been a baptism of fire, becoming caught up in a criminal feud which resulted in two attempts on his life. With that now all behind him, James' life in rural Mallorca is idyllic, until a chance encounter with a 'drugs mule' sets...
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Oranges and Lemons is a captivating novel by Mary C.E. Wemyss that intricately weaves together the lives of two families, the Richards and the Westons, against the backdrop of early 20th-century England. Set amidst the lush countryside and the bustling streets of London, the story unfolds with a blend of romance, mystery, and the complexities of human relationships. (Amazon)
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A vibrant history of Florida's horticultural heritage and the colorful personalities who made the state synonymous with citrus.
In the 16th-century, Ponce de León planted the first orange groves in St. Augustine, Florida. They were the precursor to what would become an integral part of Florida's identity. Orange groves slowly spread across the state, inspiring agricultural innovations and manufacturing ingenuity. Now Florida food writer Erin Thursby...
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There's one thing Lisa loves more than anything and that's fruit. As owner of a small juice business, she attends a yearly food festival to share her passion with the world. But this time, she's not the only fruit fanatic on the block and the competition is about to get fierce. Who knew juice could be so exciting? Reading suggestion: If you're easily influenced by descriptions of food, put some (orange) juice in the fridge before you start this story!...
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Now a major film, the book that exposed the scandal of Britain's forgotten and abused child migrants.
In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children's...
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Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.
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"Winner of the 2011 Robert Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America" "Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center" Charles Simic (1938–2023) was a poet, essayist, and translator who won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. From 2007 to 2008 he was U.S. Poet Laureate. A native Serbian speaker, he published English translations...
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Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining the practice of comparison across the study of history, language, religion, and culture, distinguished scholar of religion Bruce Lincoln argues in Apples...
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To be sure, some brothers and sisters have relationships that are easy. But oh, some relationships can be fraught. Confusing, too: How can two people share the same parents and turn out to be entirely different?
Marie Brenner's brother, Carl-yin to her yang, red state to her blue state-lived in Texas and in the apple country of Washington state, cultivating his orchards, polishing his guns, and (no doubt causing their grandfather Isidor to turn in...
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 18
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Bantam Books
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[2021]
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"The brilliant duo of Arthur Bryant and John May uncover a nefarious plot behind the seemingly innocuous death of an old lady--and when the case leads them to the London Bridge, it all comes down on the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Ninety-one-year-old Alice Hoffman died alone in her top-floor flat. Social services say she slipped through the cracks in a failing system. But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their suspicions....
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