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Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Launchpad tablet : digital, sound, color ; 20 x 13 cm + 1 USB cable and 1 AC power adapter (in case 22 x 16 cm).
Language
English
Description
The fascinating story of the life cycle of a flower told through the adventures of a tiny seed. Young readers will cheer at the happy outcome of this exciting tale.
In this classic story from Eric Carle, Hermit Crab has outgrown his snug little shell so he finds himself a larger one. And along the way he finds many new friends to decorate and protect it.
About Hermit Crab & His Friends from A House for Hermit Crab.
A young boy and his dog decide...
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 3 hr., 42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Twenty tales perfect for kids and families who love to watch classic storybooks come to life! Stories includes: The Night Before Christmas; Fletcher and the Snowflake; Little Drummer Boy; Bear Has a Story to Tell; and many more.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball...
Author
Series
Six Tudor queens volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII, desperate to be rid of his queen, Anna of Kleve, first sets eyes on the enchanting Katheryn Howard. Although the king is now an ailing forty-nine-year-old measuring fifty-four inches around his waist,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's been a year--a year of missing Nina. A year of milestones--holidays, birthdays, everything without her. Leo feels like she should remember what happened that night. But all she knows is that she left the party and got into a car with Nina and Nina's boyfriend, East. East, who once promised Nina he'd watch out for her younger sister. East, who has been trying to keep that promise every day since. But East won't give Leo the one thing she wants--the...
Author
Series
Polar Bear Explorers' Club volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stella Starflake Pearl knows, without a doubt, that she was born to be an adventurer. It's too bad girls are forbidden from becoming explorers. But Stella's father has never been one to play by the rules. Leaving behind her pet polar bear, Gruff, and beloved unicorn, Magic, Stella and Felix set off on an expedition to the snowy Icelands. There, Stella plans to prove herself as a junior explorer, worthy of membership in the Polar Bear Explorers' Club....
Author
Language
English
Description
"A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar...
12) The worry box
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Murray Bear has so many worries! Luckily, his sister, Molly, knows just what to do. "Sharing worries always makes them feel smaller," she says. She also tells him about her worry box. "When I'm worried about something," she says, "I write it down, then put it inside." Then Molly offers to help make one for Murray, and he takes it on their journey to the waterfall--but will it really help? --Back cover.
13) Ava & Lala
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ava is a mischievous young girl and martial arts student who really knows how to pack a punch! One day she meets Lala, a cuddly and kind tiger-like creature, and they discover they can talk to each other. She runs away from her village to join Lala in a mystical kingdom of wonderful animals, all specially chosen to live there, safe from humans. They befriend a huge bear who has a heart of gold, Uncle Bear, who tells them that Lala must leave the kingdom...
Publisher
Playaway View
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 video media player (approximately 2 hr.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Humpty Dumpty: Pig has climbed to the top of his brand new slide and he's afraid to come down. The Super Readers fly into the Humpty Dumpty book to figure out how he can safely get down from that wall.
Goldilocks & the three bears: Whyatt accidentally messes up Jack's room and is in BIG trouble with his big brother! The Super Readers pay a storybook visit to Goldilocks & the Three Bears!
Tom Thumb: Pig is ready for an adventure, but his brothers...
Publisher
Playaway View
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 video media player (39 min.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
The bears we know: Does anyone really know the bears next door? Every neighborhood has its black sheep... but this one has bears. Well, nobody has actually seen the inhabitants of the house at the end of the road, but that doesn't stop the gossip about The Bears We Know.
Big or little: Sometimes Matthew feels little and sometimes Matthew feels BIG! This story will delight young children, and show them that, big or little, they're all special in their...
16) Violeta: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. As the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known, Violeta's family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. She...
Publisher
Playaway View
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 video media player (approximately 60 min.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Honey-- honey-- lion!: After working together to obtain honey, the African honey badger always shares it with his partner, the honeyguide bird, until one day when the honey badger becomes greedy and his feathered friend decides to teach him a lesson. When greedy Badger decides to keep the honeycomb all to himself, instead of sharing it with Honeyguide bird, he is chased through the pond, over an anthill, and through a landscape of many exotic animals...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xii, 349 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG. From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis-that of AIG-has until now remained largely untold. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide tells the inside story of what really went on inside AIG that caused it to choke on risk and nearly bringing...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
vii, 454 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged. Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war in 1948. He traveled on foot to Lebanon and returned a year later to find his village destroyed. An autodidact, he has since run a souvenir shop in Nazareth, at the same...
20) Outsider
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder's past comes back to haunt her when she receives a call from Amish widower Adam Lengacher. While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, he discovered a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. Kate arrives at his farm and is shocked to discover the driver is a woman she hasn't seen in ten years: fellow cop Gina Colorosa. Ten years ago, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy, graduating...
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