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Super Burp! #1 (George Brown, Class Clown)

by Nancy Krulik

Published: 2010-07-08

Paperback: 128 pages

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The first day at a new school is always the hardest, right? No, not always as George finds out the hard way. On the second day at…Sugarman Elementary School, he is suddenly seized by uncontrollable burps, burps so loud they practically break the sound barrier, burps that make him do wild...

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Wayside School Boxed Set: Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, Wayside School is Falling Down, Sideway Stories from Wayside School

by Louis Sachar

Published: 2004-10-26

Paperback: 496 pages

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A Crazy Mixed-up School.There'd been a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to be built with thirty classrooms one on top of the other...thirty stories tall! (The builder said he was very sorry.)That may be why all kinds of funny things happen at Wayside SChool...especially on the...

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Sideways Stories from Wayside School

by Louis Sachar, Julie Brinckloe

Published: 2004-12-28

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There was a terrible mistake-Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high! (The builder said he was sorry.) Maybe that's why all kinds of funny things happened at Wayside-especially on the thirteenth floor.

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The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (American Century Series)

by David Farber

Published: 1994-04-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in historical...

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16 Things I Thought Were True

by Janet Gurtler

Published: 2014-03-04

Paperback: 304 pages

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Heart attacks happen to other people #thingsIthoughtweretrue When Morgan's mom gets sick, it's hard not to panic. Without her mother, she would have no one—until she finds out the dad who walked out on her as a baby isn't as far away as she thought... Adam is a stuck-up, uptight jerk #th...

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The Secret Hum of a Daisy

by Tracy Holczer

Published: 2014-05-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Twelve-year-old Grace and her mother have always been their own family, traveling from place to place like gypsies. But Grace wants to finally have a home all their own. Just when she thinks she's found it her mother says it's time to move again. Grace summons the courage to tell her ...

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Brilliance

by Marcus Sakey

Published: 2013-07-16

Paperback: 439 pages

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In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called “brilliants,” and since 198...

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Midwife's Daughter

by Patricia Ferguson

Published: 2012-10-30

Paperback: 178 pages

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A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. The new novel from Orange Prize listed author Patricia Ferguson is a deeply moving tale about two sisters and the young black orphan who changes their lives - for anyone who loves Call the Midwife or Andrea Levy. Violet Dimond, the Holy Terror, has delivered many of the...

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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

by Stephen Kinzer

Published: 2013-10-01

Hardcover: 416 pages

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A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today’s worldDuring the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose ...

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Falling upwards: essays in defense of the imagination

by Lee Siegel

Published: 2006-09-05

Hardcover: 360 pages

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Sex and the City, Saul Bellow, Eyes Wide Shut, Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho, Angels in America, Jane Austen in the present, J.K. Rowling--nothing escapes Lee Siegel's incandescent eye. Siegel possesses an intellectual range a...