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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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English
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4 stars
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The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.
David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees...
David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees...
3. The birds
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1410L
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English
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The Birds is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia where it won second place. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs. Unlike the author's other early plays, it includes no direct mention of the Peloponnesian War and there are few references to Athenian politics, and yet it was staged...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 680L
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English
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"Welcome to Cloud Cuckoo Land, the wacky home of Princess Unikitty! She and her friends must go on a zany quest to stop the evil Lord Business from taking over the universe. Read about their exciting adventure as they head underwater, over rainbows, and work together to save the world!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious novel yet--an elegant, multi-layered work, rich in imagination and exquisitely told, that interweaves a quartet of journeys across continents and centuries. As emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, as inspired as Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, as inventive as Louisa Hall's Speak, and as visionary as David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas,...
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Andrews UK
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Humerous rhymes for 6-12 year olds including How best to avoid monsters who visit at night, the curious habits of Hippos, Vegetarian T-Rexes, life in Cloud Cuckoo Land, exotic creatures in Aunt Emily's garden, and what to do with Grandpa's False teeth…
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Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang's debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang's Babel, epic in scope like Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, interweaving four complex yet entertaining stories as they shape and create a nation's literary narrative through the themes of love and grief. A history professor...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2011
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English
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"'A change of environment will bring you new business and personal interests,' said Cousin Percy. Pegasus was glad to hear this." Whether Pegasus Baines would have been so glad had he foreseen the outcome of his hasty decision to abandon the career of potential Nobel-prize winning nutrition scientist in favour of that world famous chef is less certain. The change of environment from North London with its deafening traffic to East Anglia with its menacing...