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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snoggingby Louise RennisonISBN 0060521848 (0-06-052184-8)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging'Book summary:She has a precocious 3-year-old sister who tends to leave wet nappies at the foot of her bed, an insane cat who is prone to leg-shredding "Call of the Wild" episodes, and embarrassing parents who make her want to escape to Stonehenge and dance with the Druids. No wonder 14-year-old Georgia Nicolson laments, "Honestly, what is the point?" A Bridget Jones for the younger set, Georgia records the momentous events of her life--and they are all momentous--in her diary, which serves as a truly hilarious account of what it means to be a modern girl on the cusp of womanhood. No matter that her particular story takes place in England, the account of her experiences rings true across the ocean (and besides, "Georgia's Glossary" swiftly eradicates any language barriers).
The author, Louise Rennison, is a British comedy writer and it shows. Whether Georgia is dealing with wearing a bra ("OK, it's a bit on the loose side and does ride up round my neck if I run for the bus"), pondering kissing and how to know which way to turn your head ("You don't want to be bobbing around like pigeons for hours"), or managing the results of an overzealous eyebrow-plucking episode ("Obviously, now I have to stay in forever"), she always cracks us up. Georgia struggles with the myriad issues facing teen girls--boys, of course being at the forefront--but she does it with such humor and honesty it almost seems like a good time. This refreshingly funny book is ripe for a sequel, which readers will await in droves. (Ages 11 and older). --Brangien Davis [via]
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- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: ISBN 0064472272 (0-06-447227-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: ISBN 0060288140 (0-06-028814-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: ISBN 006028871X (0-06-028871-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: ISBN 0060521848 (0-06-052184-8)
Softcover, Avon Books
- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: ISBN 0064472272 (0-06-447227-2)
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Laura F. MarshISBN 0060791470 (0-06-079147-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Of Green Gables'Book summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0140367411 (0-14-036741-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0140324623 (0-14-032462-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0140351485 (0-14-035148-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Anne Of Green Gables: ISBN 0060791470 (0-06-079147-0)
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- Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0140367411 (0-14-036741-1)
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Blubberby Judy BlumeISBN 0027110109 (0-02-711010-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blubber'Book summary:Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target. [via]
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Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonISBN 0030850746 (0-03-085074-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluest Eye'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to the Nobel laureate's impossibly high standards of quality control. In any case, her debut is nothing if not sophisticated, in terms of both narrative ingenuity and rhetorical sweep. It also shows the young author drawing a bead on the subjects that would dominate much of her career: racial hatred, historical memory, and the dazzling or degrading power of language itself.
Set in Lorain, Ohio, in 1941, The Bluest Eye is something of an ensemble piece. The point of view is passed like a baton from one character to the next, with Morrison's own voice functioning as a kind of gold standard throughout. The focus, though, is on an 11-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove, whose entire family has been given a cosmetic cross to bear:
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.... And they took the ugliness in their hands, threw it as a mantle over them, and went about the world with it.
There are far uglier things in the world than, well, ugliness, and poor Pecola is subjected to most of them. She's spat upon, ridiculed, and ultimately raped and impregnated by her own father. No wonder she yearns to be the very opposite of what she is--yearns, in other words, to be a white child, possessed of the blondest hair and the bluest eye.This vein of self-hatred is exactly what keeps Morrison's novel from devolving into a cut-and-dried scenario of victimization. She may in fact pin too much of the blame on the beauty myth: "Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion." Yet the destructive power of these ideas is essentially colorblind, which gives The Bluest Eye the sort of universal reach that Morrison's imitators can only dream of. And that, combined with the novel's modulated pathos and musical, fine-grained language, makes for not merely a sophisticated debut but a permanent one. --James Marcus [via]
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 0140089179 (0-14-008917-9)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes -- some funny, some painful, all interesting -- this is a book that's sure to please. [via]
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The Buddha of Suburbiaby Hanif KureishiISBN 014013168X (0-14-013168-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Buddha of Suburbia'Book summary:There's quite a bit of activity in Buddha of Suburbia. A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. All the while, Hanif Kureishi keeps the tone lively with wry wit. On the description of suburban life: "We were proud of never learning anything except the names of footballers, the personnel of rock groups and the lyrics to 'I Am the Walrus.'" He also bends cultures, classes and genders while blasting the racism of British life in this 1990 Whitbread Prize winner. [via]
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 9685957002 (968-5957-00-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Catherine, Called Birdyby Karen CushmanISBN 0064405842 (0-06-440584-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catherine, Called Birdy'Book summary:The hilarious diary of Catherine (called Birdy) in the year 1291. Catherine is 14. It's high time she was married - or that's what her father thinks. But Catherine is going to do everything she can to get rid of Shaggy Beard, the most disgusting suitor, 'whose breath smells like the mouth of Hell, who makes wind like others make music, who is ugly and old'. And she has no intention of becoming the perfect medieval lady like her mother wants, either. Whether she's grappling with spinning, or giving tips on flea removal, Catherine's fight for freedom is as funny as it is poignant. But can she find a better life for herself? [via]
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The Cement Gardenby Ian McEwanISBN 0140112820 (0-14-011282-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Changeoverby Margaret MahyISBN 0140365990 (0-14-036599-0)
Softcover, Puffin
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The Cheese Monkeysby Chip KiddISBN 0060507403 (0-06-050740-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cheese Monkeys'Book summary:After 15 years of designing more than 1,500 book jackets at Knopf for such authors as Anne Rice and Michael Chrichton, Kidd has crafted an affecting an entertaining novel set at a state university in the late 1950s that is both slap-happily funny and heartbreakingly sad. The Cheese Monkeys is a college novel that takes place over a tightly written two semesters. The book is set in the late 1950s at State U, where the young narrator, has decided to major in art, much to his parents dismay. It is an autobiographical, coming-of-age novel which tells universally appealing stories of maturity, finding a calling in life, and being inspired by a loving, demanding, and highly eccentric teacher.
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0091683815 (0-09-168381-5)
Softcover, Hutchinson
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Confessions of Georgia Nicolsonby Louise RennisonISBN 0060575905 (0-06-057590-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of Georgia Nicolson'Book summary:Georgia Nicolson's in turmoil. Her cat, Angus (the size of a small labrador), is terrorizing the neighborhood. She went to a party dressed as a stuffed olive. And she's madly in love with Robbie the Sex God, who (sometimes) thinks she's too young for him. In these first two volumes in the hilarious #1 New York Times best-selling series, Georgia needs to change her life from Ergghhhlack to Fabbity-fab-fab!
The hysterically funny first two Georgia Nicolson diaries: angus, thongs and full -- frontal snogging and on the bright side, i#146;m now the girlfriend of a sex god. [via]
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Corazones En La Atlantida / Hearts in Atlantisby Stephen KingISBN 9871138504 (987-1138-50-4)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Dancing in My Nuddypantsby Louise RennisonISBN 0060097469 (0-06-009746-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing in My Nuddypants'Book summary:Dancing in My Nuddy Pants takes up Georgia Nicolson's tale of red bottomosity, continuing her diary just the day after the third instalment, Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas. The Ace gang and the Bummers make strong appearances alongside the essential Sex God (SG) and Dave the Laugh, while little sister Libby has the most laugh-out-loud moments. A school trip to Paris with "gorgey Henri" is one highlight of the winter months, even resulting in Georgia coming top in French. However, her attitude to school and boys remains the same as ever:
8.00 pm I am so worried about school. I have so much to do tomorrow. 8.10 pm I can do my nails and foundation and eye stuff during RE--Miss Wilson won't notice ... But I suppose even she might notice if I took my curling tongs into class...
We are introduced to some new concepts, such as the "General Horn" and the "Cosmic Horn" (from the one and only Dave the Laugh, who of course gave us "nunga-nungas" and "nippy noodles"); learn about unplanned pregnancy with Angus' "trouser snake addendums" and Naomi the sex kitten (literally); ponder whether it is better to love someone for their maturiosity or their lip-nibbling; and reluctantly make a stand for the less popular girls.This instalment of Georgia's diary is "THE OFFICIAL AND PROPER END PROBABLY". All that any fan of Georgia's is likely to say when they hear this is "Erlack", and beg Louise Rennison for more hilariosity. --Olivia Dickinson [via]
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Diarioby Ana FrankISBN 9871138679 (987-1138-67-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Antoine De ExuperyISBN 9870000746 (987-00-0074-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 9500400480 (950-04-0048-0)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Principito / The Little Prince'Book summary:Uno de los clásicos de la literatura para niños, que en el criterio de muchos debe ser leído y comentado por un adulto, pero también un indiscutible libro para adultos. Mediante la figura de un principito que vive en su propio asteroide, el autor trata sobre los valores humanos y enseñanzas para la vida. [via]
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Saint-ExuperyISBN 9562014320 (956-201-432-0)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Emily of Deep Valleyby Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera NevilleISBN 0064408582 (0-06-440858-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily of Deep Valley'Book summary:Welcome back to Deep Valley!
Emily Webster, an orphan living with her grandfather, is not like the other girls her age in Deep Valley, Minnesota. The gulf between Emily and her classmates widens even more when they graduate from Deep Valley High School in 1912. Emily longs to go off to college with everyone else, but she can't leave her grandfather.
Emily resigns herself to facing a "lost winter," but soon decides to stop feeling sorry for herself. And with a new program of study, a growing interest in the Syrian community, and handsome new teacher at the high school to fill her days, Emily gains more than she ever dreamed...
In addition to her beloved Betsy-Tacy books, Maud Hart Lovelace wrote three more stories set in the fictional town of Deep Valley: Winona's Pony Cart, Carney's House Party, and Emily of Deep Valley. Longtime fans and new readers alike will be delighted to find the Deep Valley books available again for the first time in many years.
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Fifteenby Beverly Cleary, Eileen McKeatingISBN 0060533005 (0-06-053300-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fifteen'Book summary:Jane Purdy tells herself this as she begins an afternoon of babysitting. Luck is on her side, too -- for whom should she meet but Stan Crandall: good-looking, friendly, and brand-new in town. And he wants to take Jane out! But Jane, just an ordinary girl, is filled with doubts. Suppose her parents won't let her go? What if she makes a fool of herself? Or worse -- what if her father embarrasses her in front of Stan? Jane has finally met the boy of her dreams. Is she ready for him?
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's a Little Princessby Barbara McClintock, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mary CollierISBN 0060278919 (0-06-027891-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's a Little Princess'Book summary:In this first-ever picture book adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess, Sara Crewe and nineteenth-century London come brilliantly alive under the expert hand of award-winning author and illustrator Barbara McClintock.
When kindhearted Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin's boarding school, she seems just like a teal little princess. Then a sudden misfortune turns her life upside down, and Sara is banished to the school's dreary attic and must work for her living. It takes all of Sara's imagination and a little bit of magic to turn her misfortune around and prove she is, at heart, a little princess.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's story of how Sara Crewe survives hardship and finds happiness again was originally published in 1905 and has won the hearts of children the world over. Now Barbara McClintock has captured the very essence of this unforgettable story in her lovingly detailed adaptation,
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's a Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0060290102 (0-06-029010-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's a Little Princess'Book summary:In this first-ever picture book adaptation of frances hodgson burnett's a little princess, sara crewe and nineteenth-century london come brilliantly alive under the expert hand of award-winning author and illustrator barbara mcclintock.when kindhearted sara crewe arrives at miss minchin's boarding school, she seems just like a teal little princess. Then a sudden misfortune turns her life upside down, and sara is banished to the school's dreary attic and must work for her living. It takes all of sara's imagination and a little bit of magic to turn her misfortune around and prove she is, at heart, a little princess. Frances hodgson burnett's story of how sara crewe survives hardship and finds happiness again was originally published in 1905 and has won the hearts of children the world over. Now barbara mcclintock has captured the very essence of this unforgettable story in her lovingly detailed adaptation [via]
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God of Small Thingsby Arundhati RoyISBN 0060977493 (0-06-097749-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God of Small Things'Book summary:The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family -- their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin and her mother arrive on a Christmas visit, the twins learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. [via]
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Holesby Louis Sachar, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, inc.ISBN 0030664128 (0-03-066412-8)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0072435178 (0-07-243517-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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How Green Was My Valleyby Richard LlewellynISBN 0020223722 (0-02-022372-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Icy Sparks: Library Editionby Gwyn Hyman RubioISBN 0140280146 (0-14-028014-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Icy Sparks: Library Edition'Book summary:The eponymous heroine of Gwyn Rubio's Icy Sparks is only 10 years old the first time it happens. The sudden itching, the pressure squeezing her skull, and the "little invisible rubber bands" attached to her eyelids are all symptoms of Tourette's syndrome. At this point, of course, Icy doesn't yet have a name for these unsettling impulses. But whenever they become too much to resist, she runs down to her grandparents' root cellar, and there she gives in, croaking, jerking, cursing, and popping her eyes. Nicknamed the "frog child" by her classmates, Icy soon becomes "a little girl who had to keep all of her compulsions inside." Only a brief confinement at the Bluegrass State Hospital persuades her that there are actually children more "different" than she.
As a first novel about growing up poor, orphaned, and prone to fits in a small Appalachian town, Icy Sparks tells a fascinating story. By the time the epilogue rolls around, Icy has prevailed over her disorder and become a therapist: "Children silent as stone sing for me. Children who cannot speak create music for me." For readers familiar with this particular brand of coming-of-age novel--affliction fiction?--Icy's triumph should come as no great surprise. That's one problem. Another is Rubio's tendency to lapse into overheated prose: this is a novel in which the characters would sooner yell, pout, whine, moan, or sass a sentence than simply say it. But the real drawback to Icy Sparks is that some of the characters--especially the bad ones--are drawn with very broad strokes indeed, and the moral principles tend to be equally elementary: embrace your difference, none of us is alone, and so on. When Icy gets saved at a tent revival, even Jesus takes on the accents of a self-help guru: "You must love yourself!" With insights like these, this is one Southern novel that's more Wally Lamb than Harper Lee. --Mary Park [via]
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Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140367144 (0-14-036714-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jo's Boys'Book summary:Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school. Sequel to "Little Men". [via]
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LA Isla Del Tesoro / Treasure Islandby Lewis StevensonISBN 9583007455 (958-30-0745-5)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc
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Last Days of Summerby Steve KlugerISBN 0060821442 (0-06-082144-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Liar's Clubby Mary KarrISBN 0140179836 (0-14-017983-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Liar's Club'Book summary:In this funny, razor-edged memoir, Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her upbringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town with a volatile, defiantly loving family. She recalls her painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip into psychosis; a fist swinging father who spun tales with his cronies - dubbed the Liars' Club; and a neighborhood rape when she was eight. An inheritance was squandered, endless bottles emptied, and guns leveled at the deserving and undeserving. With a row authenticity stripped of self pity,and a poet's eye for the lyrical detail, Karr shows us a "terrific family of liars and drunks...redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth." [via]
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha TudorISBN 0064401871 (0-06-440187-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:When Sara Crewe's father is made bankrupt, she is reduced to poverty. At Miss Minchin's school, where she had been a privileged student, she is now forced to work as a servant. But Sara has a loving heart, and she knows that with the right spirit she can remain a princess inside. [via]
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Kevin McIntyreISBN 0020412401 (0-02-041240-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping, their souls into their father's; and to both parents ... they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death. Pretty Meg, tomboy Jo, shy Beth, and vain Amy, the four March sisters, are as different as sisters can be, but more devoted and loyal sisters you'll never find. For though the March girls fight, tease, nag, and scold as all sisters do, they do so with the knowledge that nothing is as precious as a sister's love. Discover the magic of family in the first part of this classic novel cherished by young girls everywhere.
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Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Little Women: ISBN 0140380221 (0-14-038022-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Little Women: ISBN 0140390693 (0-14-039069-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Little Women: ISBN 0140366687 (0-14-036668-7)
Softcover, Puffin - Little Women: ISBN 0020412304 (0-02-041230-4)
Hardcover, Collier Books, a division of Macmillan Pub Co, inc. - Little Women: ISBN 0020412401 (0-02-041240-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- Little Women: ISBN 006051180X (0-06-051180-X)
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Making the Runby Heather HensonISBN 0064473392 (0-06-447339-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making the Run'Book summary:All her life Lulu McClellan has heard the names. Growing up in a small Kentucky town, Lu has forever felt like she's on the outside looking in. Maybe that's why she takes pictures to make sense of what she sees and feels but doesn't always understand.
Now that graduation is almost here, Lu and her friend Ginny are moving in a quick blur of drugs and drink. Lu thinks she's just marking time, waiting for the moment when life will begin for real.
But the road is full of unmarked twists and turns. Without warning, Lu freefalls into first love, white Ginny begins a deadly spiral into oblivion.
In stark, poetic prose, Heather Henson writes about what it means to come to a crucial crossroads and find the courage to make a run for the unknown.
Ages 12+
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Management Training and Development in Nigeriaby Usman A. Zahradeen, Nigerian Association of Schools of Management Education and Training, Lagos Centre for Management DevelopmentISBN 9781400064 (978-140-006-4)
Softcover, Centre for Management Development in collaboration with Nigerian Association of Schools of Management Education
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0140185224 (0-14-018522-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 9706437320 (970-643-732-0)
Softcover, Selector S.A. De C.V.
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The Outsidersby S. E. HintonISBN 014038572X (0-14-038572-X)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outsiders'Book summary:According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser. This classic, written by S. E. Hinton when she was 16 years old, is as profound today as it was when it was first published in 1967. [via]
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Haby Roddy DoyleISBN 0140233903 (0-14-023390-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha'Book summary:In this national bestseller and winner of the Booker Prize, Roddy Doyle , author of the " Barrytown Trilogy ," takes us to a new level of emotional richness with the story of ten-year-old Padraic Clarke. Witty and poignant--and adored by critics and readers alike-- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha charts the trumphs, indignities, and bewilderment of Paddy as he tries to make sense of his changing world. [via]
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Pigmanby Paul ZindelISBN 0060757353 (0-06-075735-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pigman'Book summary:For sophomores John and Lorraine, the world feels meaningless; nothing is important. They certainly can never please their parents, and school is a chore. To pass the time, they play pranks on unsuspecting people. It's during one of these pranks that they meet the "Pigman"--a fat, balding old man with a zany smile plastered on his face. In spite of themselves, John and Lorraine soon find that they're caught up in Mr. Pignati's zest for life. In fact, they become so involved that they begin to destroy the only corner of the world that's ever mattered to them. Originally published in 1968, this novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Zindel still sings with sharp emotion as John and Lorraine come to realize that "Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less." [via]
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060512822 (0-06-051282-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel: ISBN 0060930535 (0-06-093053-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers - The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel: ISBN 0060512822 (0-06-051282-2)
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 0060931736 (0-06-093173-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Edition'Book summary:The classic bestselling bookthe subject of a play, a movie, and a songthat tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special, and ultimately dangerous, relationship with six of her students. [via]
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Red Sky at Morningby Richard BradfordISBN 0060931906 (0-06-093190-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Sky at Morning : A Novel'Book summary:Over a half million copies have been sold of this timeless novel, "a sort of Catcher in the Rye out West."Book World Undoubtedly ranks as one of our most treasured coming-of-age stories. [via]
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4by Sue TownsendISBN 0060533994 (0-06-053399-4)
Softcover, Avon Tempest
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Siddhartaby Hermann HesseISBN 9872074828 (987-20748-2-8)
Softcover, LA Marca Editura
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddharta'Book summary:Spanish Edition SIDDHARTA by Herman Hesse 2002 Softcover 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches 94 pages Arenal publishers [via]
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Siddharthaby Hermann HesseISBN 9706660739 (970-666-073-9)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Tomo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:Novela de aprendizaje espiritual del hijo de un brahman. Se trata mas de una novela de evolucion interior que de una novela de accion. A traves del encuentro con diferentes personajes, asistimos al desarrollo personal del protagonista hacia la pureza espiritual y la paz interior. [via]
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Stardustby Neil GaimanISBN 0060934719 (0-06-093471-9)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stardust'Book summary:De Féerie, le pays magique, les habitants du petit village de Wall savent peu de choses. Il faut dire qu'un grand mur les en séparent. Un mur dans lequel est ouvert une brèche, une brèche bien gardée, par laquelle ils n'ont droit de passer qu'une fois l'an, le jour de la grande foire de Wall. C'est ce jour-là, justement, que le jeune Tristram Thorn, décidé à conquérir le cSur de sa belle, part pour le pays de fée afin de lui ramener une étoile filante. Mais dans un pays magique, rien n'est comme ailleurs. Les distances sont immenses, on y croise nains et licornes, des chasseurs d'éclairs naviguent sur des bateaux volants et l'on est jamais à l'abri d'un mauvais sort qui pourra vous transformer en arbre, en chèvre ou en rat. Un monde plein de dangers et de merveilles que Tristram est loin d'imaginer, comme il est loin d'imaginer que son étoile filante est une belle et pure jeune fille, dont la présence ici-bas va éveiller la concupiscence des sept seigneurs de Sromhold comme de quelques vilaines sorcières...
Neil Gaiman est aussi à l'aise dans la BD (Sandman), que dans le roman (Neverwhere). Un talent inépuisable qu'il confirme une fois de plus ici en revisitant avec bonheur l'univers des contes de fées. À la fois drôle, merveilleux et volontairement naïf, Stardust est une réussite. --Georges Louhans [via]
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A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty SmithISBN 0060736267 (0-06-073626-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'Book summary:Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published over 50 years ago. Her frank writing about life's squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book's humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics--and in the hearts of readers, young and old. (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: ISBN 0060801263 (0-06-080126-3)
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Softcover, Harpercollins - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: ISBN 0060995289 (0-06-099528-9)
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Where the Red Fern Growsby Wilson RawlsISBN 0030547741 (0-03-054774-1)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Red Fern Grows'Book summary:Author Wilson Rawls spent his boyhood much like the character of this book, Billy Colman, roaming the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma with his bluetick hound. A straightforward, shoot-from-the-hip storyteller with a searingly honest voice, Rawls is well-loved for this powerful 1961 classic and the award-winning novel Summer of the Monkeys. In Where the Red Fern Grows, Billy and his precious coonhound pups romp relentlessly through the Ozarks, trying to "tree" the elusive raccoon. In time, the inseparable trio wins the coveted gold cup in the annual coon-hunt contest, captures the wily ghost coon, and bravely fights with a mountain lion. When the victory over the mountain lion turns to tragedy, Billy grieves, but learns the beautiful old Native American legend of the sacred red fern that grows over the graves of his dogs. This unforgettable classic belongs on every child's bookshelf. (Ages 9 and up) [via]
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Diario De Ana Frank/Diary of Anne Frankby Anne FrankISBN 9681500555 (968-15-0055-5)
Softcover, Editores Mexicanos Unidos-Mex
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diario De Ana Frank/Diary of Anne Frank'Book summary:Tras la invasion de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judios alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Ana tenia sus oficinas. Estas ocho personas permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidos y enviados a diversos campos de concentracion. En esta buhardilla y en las mas precarias condiciones, Ana, a la sazon una nina de trece anos, escribio un estremecedor Diario: un testimonio unico en su genero sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la propia Ana y de sus acompanantes. Ana murio en el campo de Bergen-Belsen en marzo de 1945. Su Diario nunca morira. [via]
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Fushigi Yugi #12by Yu WataseISBN 9875620505 (987-562-050-5)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Fushigi Yugi 11by Yu WataseISBN 9875620319 (987-562-031-9)
Softcover, Editorial Ivrea
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Fushigi Yugi 13by Yu WataseISBN 9875621382 (987-562-138-2)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Fushigi Yugi 9by Yu WataseISBN 987107199X (987-1071-99-X)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Antonie De SaintISBN 9681500830 (968-15-0083-0)
Softcover, Editores Mexicanos Unidos-Mex
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Principito / The Little Prince'Book summary:Uno de los clásicos de la literatura para niños, que en el criterio de muchos debe ser leído y comentado por un adulto, pero también un indiscutible libro para adultos. Mediante la figura de un principito que vive en su propio asteroide, el autor trata sobre los valores humanos y enseñanzas para la vida. [via]
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El principito/ The Little Princeby Antoine De ExuperyISBN 9706660984 (970-666-098-4)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Tomo
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Siddhartaby Hermann Hesse, Carmen GrossiISBN 9681501225 (968-15-0122-5)
Softcover, Editores Mexicanos Unidos-Mex
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Hari Butor Wa Hajar Al-fayasuf / Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneby J. K. RowlingISBN 9771418815 (977-14-1881-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hari Butor Wa Hajar Al-fayasuf / Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'Book summary:The Arabic Edition of the fascinating English thriller Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone [via]
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Hari Butor Wa Ka's An-nar / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireby J. K. RowlingISBN 9771426974 (977-14-2697-4)
Softcover, Naufal
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hari Butor Wa Ka's An-nar / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'Book summary:The Arabic Edition of the fascinating English thriller Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [via]
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Hari Butor Wa Sajin Azkaban / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. RowlingISBN 9771423738 (977-14-2373-8)
Softcover, Naufal
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Il Piccolo Principeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 8845247414 (88-452-4741-4)
Softcover, Rl Libri
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Piccolo Principe'Book summary:«Gli uomini hanno delle stelle che non sono le stesse. Per gli uni, quelli che viaggiano, le stelle sono delle guide. Per altri non sono che delle piccole luci. Per altri, che sono dei sapienti, sono dei problemi. Per il mio uomo daffari erano delloro. Ma tutte queste stelle stanno zitte. Tu, tu avrai delle stelle come nessuno haÉ» «Che cosa vuoi dire?» «Quando tu guarderai il cielo, la notte, visto che io abiterò in una di esse, visto che io riderò in una di esse, allora sarà per te come se tutte le stelle ridessero. Tu avrai, tu solo, delle stelle che sanno ridere!» [via]
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Sorstalansag: Regenyby Imre KerteszISBN 9631502929 (963-15-0292-9)
Hardcover, Szepirodalmi Konyvkiado
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Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942-1 Augustus 1944by Anne Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Otto FrankISBN 9035125622 (90-351-2562-2)
Hardcover, B. Bakker
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