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The Paper Bag Christmas

by Kevin Alan Milne

Published: 2008-10-29

Hardcover: 160 pages

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Dr. Christopher Ringle is the last person you'd expect to find moonlighting as Santa Claus at the mall on the day after Thanksgiving. But it is there that he meets a young man named Molar Alan, who desperately needs a new perspective on the underlying value of Christmas. Dr. Ringle recruits Mo and his...

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The Paper Bag Princess (Classic Munsch)

by Robert N. Munsch

Published: 1992-02-01

Paperback: 23 pages

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The Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacksthe castle and kidnaps Ronald. In resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabethfinds the dragon, outsmarts him, and rescues Ronald--who is less than pleasedat her un-princess-like appearance. Full color.Elizabeth, a...

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Paper Daughter: A Memoir

by M. Elaine Mar

Published: 2000-08-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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When she was five years old, M. Elaine Mar and her mother emigrated from Hong Kong to Denver to join her father in a community more Chinese than American, more hungry than hopeful. While working with her family in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant and living in the basement of her aunt...

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Paper Roses (Texas Dreams Trilogy #1)

by Amanda, Cabot

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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This historical romance will sweep you away with a tale of love and loss. The future stretches out in front of Sarah Dobbs like the pure blue Texas sky. Leaving the past behind in Philadelphia, mail-order bride Sarah arrives in San Antonio ready to greet her groom, Austin Canfield, a man she has never...

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Paper Towns

by John Green

Published: 2009-09-22

Paperback: 305 pages

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From the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery #1 New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly BestsellerNow a major motion picture   When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Que...

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The Paperbark Shoe

by Goldie Goldbloom

Published: 2011-03-29

Paperback: 384 pages

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Winner of the 2008 AWP Award for the Novel From 1941 to 1947, eighteen thousand Italian prisoners of war were sent to Australia. The Italian surrender that followed the downfall of Mussolini had created a novel circumstance: prisoners who theoretically were no longer enemies. Many of the...

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The Paperboy

by Pete Dexter

Published: 1996-01-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator.  A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry.Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a dea...

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The Paperboy

by Dav Pilkey

Published: 1999-09-01

Paperback: 32 pages

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A boy and his dog savour the silence of the early morning as they deliver papers.

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Papillon

by Henri Charrière

Published: 1973-12-01

Paperback: 458 pages

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Henri Charriere was a Frenchman who was convicted in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he spent 12 years in the penal colony of French Guiana. After eight unsuccessful attempts to escape, he finally got away to Venezuela. More than 20 years later, when he was 60, Charriere...

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Para Salvar el Mundo / Saving the World

by Julia Álvarez

Published: 2006-10-30

Paperback: 448 pages

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Álvarez's celebrated new novel takes us into the worlds of two women swept up in campaigns against the scourges of their day: Alma, a Latin American novelist relocated to the United States, who is having writer's block while writing her new bestselling family sagas, and Isabel's story many years before....