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3) Ancient Rome
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"Step into the world of ancient Rome and meet its emperors, gods, soldiers, and gladiators. Who were Rome's most famous emperors? What was everyday life like for a soldier in the Roman army? How did the citizens of ancient Rome live? Did gladiators really fight to the death in the mighty Colosseum? Find out the answers to all these questions, and many more, in Eyewitness Ancient Rome. Photographs of real artefacts and detailed illustrations will help...
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They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is the month-by month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their first year in the remote country of the Luberon restoring a two-centuries-old stone farmhouse that they bought on sight. From coping in January with the first mistral,...
6) Ready or not
Pub. Date
2019
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A young bride joins her new husband's rich, eccentric family in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival
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Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
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159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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A Geek in Thailand is a lighthearted look at Thailand from a young foreign visitor and resident's perspective. This alternative guide to Thailand offers a smart and concise take on Thai culture, entertainment, daily life--covering all the classics--but also revealing the path less traveled. In short articles accompanied by sidebars and numerous, colorful photographs, it paints a revealing picture of Asia's most popular travel destination. A Geek in...
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A guide to the culture and society of Slovakia for tourists and business travelers, providing information about the country's land and people, values and attitudes, customs and traditions, home life, and entertainment, with advice on making friends, communicating, travel, and conducting business
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Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be--if her husband would just come and claim her. Bollywood's favorite director, Samir Rathod, has...
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Algar
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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El monstruo del armario existe, y necesita que nuestro protagonista lo eduque porque siempre está haciendo travesuras. Enseñar a un monstruo a lavarse los dientes, a peinarse, a no tocar los enchufes y a no decir palabrotas... no es un trabajo nada fácil.
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Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic...
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Sadiq volume 14
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Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
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57 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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When Sadiq and his classmates host a festival celebrating their own cultures, they find a way to make sure everyone in their class has traditions to share.
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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When etiquette coach Ms. Picklepop teeters off her stool and spills a bucket of paint, a creature emerges. Not a scary one, or an evil one, or anything of the sort. Instead, what comes alive is ... BLURP! She'll have to carry on with her lesson, despite Blurp's many, messy distractions. But paint splotches and burps aren't all that disrupt Ms. Picklepop's decorous class. Perhaps through an unlikely friendship, Ms. Picklepop will learn a thing or two...
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PBS
Pub. Date
2015
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1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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What goes on behind-the-scenes to get the manners of 1900s Britain exactly right on Downton Abbey? Discover the secrets of how the aristocratic set dined and dressed, how they married and made money, how they interacted with the servants, and above all why they behaved as they did. Includes revealing interviews with leading cast members.
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Genius Products
Pub. Date
2009
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1 DVD (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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It's Dorothy's birthday on Sesame Street! Elmo is excited to celebrate his friends birthday and he has planned a big birthday party. Abby wants to help, but she has never been to a Sesame Street birthday party before, only Fairy Tale birthday parties! Elmo teaches Abby all about games like pinning the tail on a donkey, playing the piñata game, and opening presents. Then Abby magically takes Elmo on an adventure to Fairyland, where they celebrate...
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Craven Street Books
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[2015]
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ix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
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"If you grew up in Fresno, California, there are people and places you will never forget: Al Radka. Christmas Tree Lane. Fulton Street?before it was the Fulton Mall. Harpain?s Dairy. The Sunnyside Drive-In. Dean and Don and The Breakfast Club. Gottschalks. The Tower District ? and so many more parts of Old Fresno, some still with us and some long forgotten. “Fresno Growing Up: A City Comes of Age 1945-1985” is the first book to tell the story...
19) The last midwife
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2015.
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"It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. She is a gifted and important resource for the women of her hardscrabble community, a position earned through wisdom and trust. Most women in Swandyke couldn't even imagine getting through their pregnancy and labor without Gracy by their sides. But everything changes when a baby is found dead...and...
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