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The Tale of Desperaux

by Kate DiCamillo

Published: 2006-01-01

Paperback: 269 pages

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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

by Kate DiCamillo

Published: 2009-08-30

Kindle Edition: 272 pages

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Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who...

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* * * * Insightful,
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread

by Kate DiCamillo

Published: 2006-04-11

Paperback: 272 pages

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"Forgiveness, light, love, and soup. These essential ingredients combine into a tale that is as soul-stirring as it is delicious." — BOOKLIST (starred review)Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the s...

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The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

Published: 1990-06-16

Paperback: 360 pages

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The Tale of HALCYON CRANE (Chinese Edition)

by wei bo

Published: 2012-04-01

Paperback: 199 pages

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This book a novel of suspense type of reasoning started by a mysterious letter. When Harriet read this letter, her life was completely subverted. She was brought up by her kind father who told her that her mother was died from a fire disaster 30 years ago. But she discovered later that her mother was...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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The Tale of Halcyon Crane: A Novel

by Wendy Webb

Published: 2010-03-30

Paperback: 328 pages

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A young woman travels alone to a remote island to uncover a past she never knew was hers in this thrilling modern ghost storyWhen a mysterious letter lands in Hallie James's mailbox, her life is upended. Hallie was raised by her loving father, having been told her mother died in a fire dec...

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The Tale of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix P)

by Susan Wittig Albert

Published: 2005-10-04

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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The author of Peter Rabbit and other tales, Beatrix Potter is still, after a century, beloved by children and adults worldwide. In this first Cottage Tale, Albert introduces Beatrix, an animal lover and Good Samaritan with a knack for solving mysteries. With help from her entourage of talking animal...

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A Tale of Love and Darkness

by Amos Oz

Published: 2005-11-01

Paperback: 554 pages

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Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardInternational Bestseller "[An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother, a boy’s creation of a new self." — The New YorkerA family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth ...

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The Tale of the Unknown Island

by Jose Saramago

Published: 2000-10-05

Paperback: 51 pages

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A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting at the door for favors (favors being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocki...

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A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2003-05-27

Paperback: 0 pages

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'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging D...