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"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 7
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Four United States presidents have been assassinated-in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963-each murder seemingly unrelated and separated by time. But what if those presidents were all killed for the same reason: a clause in the United States Constitution-contained within Article 1, Section 8-that would shock Americans? This question is what faces former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone.
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"Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text of Moore's original poem, illustrated with beautifully detailed LEGO brick scenes and characters. See the colorful stockings hung by the chimney in the fanciful brick house, and look on at the visions of dancing brick sugarplums. Turn the pages to reveal Saint Nicholas with his...
4) Black Beauty
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story. In our electronic age, children are more likely to dial up a website than curl up with a book. But in DK Classics, expert abridgments and retellings are matched with brilliant illustrations to create books which will capture the attention of today's visually sophisticated...
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Unofficial gamer's adventure volume 4
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Sky Pony Press
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[2015].
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Steve receives a distress call from his friends Max, Lucy, and Henry, who have found an abundance of treasure in a temple, but can't get it out! He immediately sets off for the temple to help, but saving his friends and helping them extract the treasure isn't as easy as he thinks it will be.
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Farrar Straus Giroux
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c2010
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In 1940, in the south of France, four boys decided to explore a deep hole in the ground, hoping for buried treasure. After squeezing through a narrow tunnel, they entered a cave and saw more than 2000 images of cows, bulls, bison, horses and reindeer, all painted nearly 17,000 years ago on the walls of the cave.
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Unofficial gamer's adventure volume 3
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Sky Pony Press
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2014.
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English
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"In this third installment of the Minecraft Gamer's Adventure series, Steve is invited to participate in an elite building competition on Mushroom Island. His friends Max, Lucy, and Henry are impressed and want to join their friend on a journey to the island. Yet not everyone is happy: Steve's neighbor Kyra is upset because she wasn't chosen as a contestant. Steve asks Kyra to come to the competition and help the gang build boats to get to Mushroom...
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