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"Badger cannot wait one more minute for it to snow. When his friend Hedgehog explains that everything comes in its time, Badger is unconvinced and impatient as ever. But Badger's friends have a few tricks up their sleeves to try and get the snow's attention and distract their pal in the meantime"--
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A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbor's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers...
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A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbor's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact.Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers...
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A stranger in a strange land, Eire (Waiting for Snow in Havana), one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba in Operation Peter Pan in 1962, describes the classic American immigrant experience in Miami, Fla., with a mix of insightful observation, humor, and heartfelt emotion.
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From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land, a "dazzling" (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) memoir about art and adventures in Rome.
Anthony Doerr has received many awards—from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome...
Anthony Doerr has received many awards—from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010" Carlos Eire is the author of the memoirs Waiting for Snow in Havana, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2003, and Learning to Die in Miami. His other books include War Against the Idols and From Madrid to Purgatory. He is the Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University.
From the author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a brilliant cultural history of the...
11) Blow, Snow, Blow
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Splat the Cat wants it to snow-but why is it so slow? A hilarious tale for beginning readers by the New York Times–bestselling author-illustrator!
Splat the Cat can't wait for it to snow. All he wants to do is make a snowcat and throw snowballs! When he can't wait any longer, Splat decides to take matters into his own paws.
Beginning readers will delight at Splat's hilarious attempts to make snow-and won't even know that they're learning...
12) Eternity
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What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations?
In “A Very Brief History of Eternity”, Carlos Eire, the Award—winning author of “Waiting for Snow in Havana”, has written a brilliant history of eternity in Western culture. Tracing...
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Magic Animal Friends Special volume 3
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2017.
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It's time for the Frost Festival in Friendship Forest, and all the little animals are waiting for snow, food and presents! Baby bunny Mia Floppyear is the most excited of all, as she's going to perform in the Winter Show ... Until wicked witch Grizelda casts a spell to ruin the fun for everyone! Can Jess and Lily find the three Winter Wonders and stop Grizelda?
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Carlos Eire is the T. L. Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. His many books include the bestselling memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction; Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650; and A Very Brief History of Eternity (Princeton). He lives in Guilford, Connecticut.
The life and many afterlives of one of the most...
15) 20 snowy stories
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[2018]
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Join your favorite PBS KIDS characters on 20 exciting winter adventures. Watch as Pinkalicious and her friend Jasmine spend the day building a snow fairy, Chris and Martin Kratt search for lost hares in a wintery forest, and Daniel, Dad, and his friends go sledding together down one very tall hill! Learn all about the winter solstice with Nature Cat and Daisy, build a snowman with Caillou, and lots more!
Includes 10 series. Arthur -- Caillou -- Daniel...
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I survived volume 22
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"The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after...
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A collection of nine stories about love and life featuring best friends, princes, trolls, imaginary boys, and Simon Snow.
Girl meets boy camping outside a movie theater. Best friends debate the merits of high school dances. In these nine stories, Rowell's characters explore love, life, friendship, and Simon Snow. -- adapted from back cover
18) Waiting
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Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something unexpected?--Publisher.
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Nothing is as fun as snow, except maybe all the craziness happening right outside this little boy's window! Will he even notice? When the forecast calls for snow, one little boy is thrilled. He keeps peeking outside to see if it's snowing - but he only looks up! His single-minded focus on the sky makes him completely miss the increasingly comical chaos occurring outside his door, which includes a monster truck, a firetruck, escaped monkeys, and carousing...
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When Charlie wakes up to a world covered in snow, he can't wait to get outside and see what's going on around the ranch. He even takes a break from patrol duty to take a fun sled ride with Walter and Sister down the snowy slopes--whee! One ride is enough fun for Charlie, but Walter can't wait to go again and again. That is, until Walter goes missing! It's up to Charlie to take control of the situation and bring his buddy back, before anything bad...
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