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1) Bonanza
Series
Publisher
c2002
Pub. Date
uuuu
Language
English
Description
Episodes of the television show Bonanza, which focused on Ben Cartwright, owner of a the Ponderosa ranch in Virginia City, Nevada, and his three sons, Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories. The old miser Ebenezer Scrooge cares nothing for family, friends, love or Christmas. All he cares about is money. Then one Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts: Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet To Come. These encounters leave Scrooge deeply moved and forever changed. Historians believe that A Christmas
...3) Classic Kids
Series
Classic Kids volume Book 1
Publisher
Universal Yarn
Pub. Date
28 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Website- "Book Information Some of the most gratifying knitting can be the projects we make for our families, but knitting for kids is sometimes tricky. There's the thing about garments being comfortable enough for them to actually wear. There's the thing about the colors they like. There's the thing about the little 5-year old budding fashionista not liking anything that doesn't suit her eclectic taste in fashion. Well, we've got your back....
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans—mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer—whose...
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans—mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer—whose...
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Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Language
English
Description
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
For out-starting upstarts of all ages, here is a wonderfully wise and blessedly brief graduation speech from the one and only Dr. Seuss. In his inimitable, humorous verse he addresses the Great Balancing Act (life itself, and the ups and downs it presents) while encouraging us to find the success that lies within us.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent...guaranteed.)
The...
For out-starting upstarts of all ages, here is a wonderfully wise and blessedly brief graduation speech from the one and only Dr. Seuss. In his inimitable, humorous verse he addresses the Great Balancing Act (life itself, and the ups and downs it presents) while encouraging us to find the success that lies within us.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent...guaranteed.)
The...
9) The Outlaw
Series
Pub. Date
200u
Language
English
Description
Loosely-based on the historic saga of the life and crimes of Billy the Kid, this film tells of Billy's meeting with Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett at a way station where they quarrel over a half-breed girl.
16) Emma
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Emma's opening sentence, which describes the titular heroine's many advantages, is loaded with foreboding. Discomfort and vexation lie on the horizon, triggered by her penchant for matchmaking. Emma's latest scheme involves finding a suitable husband for ingenue Harriet Smith, and to that end she persuades the latter to reject good-natured farmer Robert Martin, despite a mutual attraction. Harriet must set her sights higher, she exhorts, fixing on...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
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Description
In Uncle Tom's Cabin , Harriet Beecher Stowe created America's first black literary hero as well as the nation's antecedent protest novel. The novel's vast influence on attitudes towards African American slavery was considered an incitation towards the American Civil War; conjointly, its powerful anti-slavery message resonated with readers around the world at its time of publication. With unashamed sentimentality and expressions of faith, Harriet...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Published in 1839, Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens' third novel. In it, Nicholas Nickleby must earn a living to support his mother and sister after his father dies unexpectedly. Turning to a wealthy uncle in London for help, Nicholas is hired on as assistant to Wackford Squeers, a sadistic and small-minded schoolmaster. Meanwhile, his sister must take a job in a milliner's studio and is occasionally pressed into service by their uncle who exploits...
20) The Golden Bowl
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Series
Language
English
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The Golden Bowl comes in the first years of the 20th-century: the publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, decided never to serialise it and published it in New York in December 1904 in two volumes. After just a few months, in February 1905, also Methuen published the novel in London in a one-volume edition.
In 1909, a revised edition appeared as volumes 23 and 24 of the New York edition, and James this time also prepared the preface, in which he reflected...
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