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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - QUOTES COLLECTION
BIOGRAPHY, ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIFE LESSONS
ABOUT WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare, often referred to as the Bard of Avon, is widely regarded as the greatest playwright and poet in the English language. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in April 1564, Shakespeare's life and works have left an indelible mark on literature, drama, and the arts. Despite the passage of centuries, his plays continue...
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To go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep connectedness, a realm where we finally find life's meaning - experiences for which all spiritual seekers seek. Dr Rupert Sheldrake – best-selling author of "Morphic Resonance" – examines seven areas of spiritual practice that are personally transformative and have scientifically measurable effects. He combines his extensive...
4) Lili
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Warner Bros
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1953.
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English
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Leslie Caron stars as an innocent young girl, a vulnerable orphan waif who finds a home with the puppet show in a traveling circus--and the love of a man who, at first, can only open his heart through the deeds and words of his marionettes--LILI.Set adrift in life at the age of 16, young Lili (Caron) finds a home and a job with the circus … and loses her heart to a dashing magician (Jean Pierre Aumont). But Lili is just another conquest for the...
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In the years following his disappearance near the summit of Mount Everest in June 1924 at the age of thirty-seven, George Mallory was elevated into a legendary international hero. Dubbed "the Galahad of Everest," he was lionized by the media as the greatest mountaineer of his generation--a man who had died while taking the ultimate challenge. His body was only recovered in 1999 and there is still speculation about whether he made it to the summit....
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2024.
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English
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"When Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years, she wanted to deliver it to him before it was too late. She did not expect that her father, Nick, would choose not to open it, so she and her brother finally did. Nick, an absent father, was a hippie and would-be Beat writer who lived off the grid in Northern California. Nick's own father, Gawen-also absent-had been a well-born Englishman who...
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Penguin Workshop
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[2024]
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English
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"Katie Ledecky began swimming competitively at age six after watching her mother and brother in the pool. By age fifteen, she was setting records and winning gold medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics. And with each year, Katie improved her skills and her times in the water! The Summer 2024 Olympics in Paris will be Katie's fourth, and the world will be watching. With over seven Olympic gold medals, nineteen world championship gold medals, and twenty-two...
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth-century America. Duke Ellington, the grandson of slaves who was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, was a man whose story is as layered and nuanced as his name suggests and whose music transcended category. Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in a New Orleans slum so tough it was called The Battlefield and,...
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"Freakishly smart. That's the unwelcome box Ru Evans has been put into her whole life. After all, she taught herself euclidean geometry at age seven, has an eidetic memory, and is about to enter college at thirteen years old. Boarding at a house near campus 150 miles from home, Ru meets seventeen-year-old Gabriel, an outsider himself who, like Ru, has trouble making friends -- until they form a fast sibling-like bond. Finding a relatable someone in...
11) Liar's test
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Alfred A. Knopf
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[2024]
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English
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In a competition where seven girls from different guilds vie for the throne, Bell Silverleaf, a reluctant fifteen-year-old contender with a hidden talent for deception, intends to win and overthrow the kingdom, but finds she is not the only competitor with secret plans.
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"The wait is over! Decades in the making, Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and Mark Buckingham's (Fables) MIRACLEMAN continues the groundbreaking saga touted as the greatest super-hero story of all time! In THE SILVER AGE, Miracleman has created a utopia on Earth where gods walk among men and men have become gods. But when his long-dead friend Young Miracleman is resurrected, Miracleman finds that not everyone is ready for his brave new world! The story that...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Four hundred years after its publication, Shakespeare's First Folio has found a brand-new crop of enthusiasts. This gorgeous collection comprises all the plays in the original volume -- fourteen comedies, ten histories, and twelve tragedies -- each edited so it can be performed by eight to twelve children age seven and up in under twenty minutes.
14) Just add water
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Simon & Schuster
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2024.
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English
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"I never imagined I would make it to the Olympics, or be at this level, or write a book about this unlikely career that I've had. But I've really enjoyed the ride, this journey." Katie Ledecky is one of the best swimmers ever to compete. She has won more individual Olympic races than any female swimmer in history. A three-time Olympian, a seven-time gold medalist, a twenty-one-time world champion, eight-time NCAA Champion, and world record-holder...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been puttering--breaking out as writers, selling out concert halls, attempting to set land-speed...
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TMW Media Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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We will travel to Cairo and rent a camel to visit the ancient and ancient famous, we will see the Pyramids, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and we will travel to the other side of the world to Buenos Aires; where we will visit San Telmo, one of the oldest and most picturesque neighborhoods of the city. From there we will depart to Bora Bora, one of the French Polynesian islands and we will finish this unforgettable trip visiting some...
17) X-Men '97
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Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
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[2024]
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English
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Born with amazing mutant abilities and trained by Dr. Charles Xavier, the X-Men stand ready to defend the world even though that world doesn't always trust them. These action-packed full-color pages will introduce Wolverine, Rogue, Storm, Cyclops and the other mutants on their team as well as their friends and foes.
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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"With careers spanning eight decades, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were two of the most prolific animation producers in American history. In 1940, the two met at MGM and the result was the infamous Tom and Jerry duo, whose antics made up for whatever words weren't actually spoken. The incredibly popular cat and mouse creation earned 14 Academy Award nominations and seven wins. The emergence of television led to the founding of Hanna-Barbera's...
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"I Make Envy on Your Disco is the story of an art advisor who, fed up with his life in New York, flies to Berlin for a gallery opening and finds a once-divided city brimming with excitement and possibility"--
"It's the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a thirty-seven-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening. There he finds a once-divided...
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Conundrum Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"At age 21, Alison hitchhiked to the Yukon and spent the summer living in a tent.10 years later, in the deep of winter and seven months pregnant, she returns. Degrees of Separation is about what happened in between.Over the course of a decade, artist Alison McCreesh lived, worked, and travelled north of the 60th parallel. Through a combination of autobiographical stories, drawings and sketches, Degrees of Separation offers an intimate and understated...
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