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"Margaret Atwood has established herself as a beloved cultural icon and one of the most visionary and canonical authors of her generation. In this collection comprised of fifteen extraordinary stories-some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine-Atwood speaks to our times with her characteristic wit and intellect. Of special significance are the seven works revolving around the long-term married couple Tig and Nell....
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Inspector Wexford mystery volume 19
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English
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Lovable, unflappable Chief Inspector Wexford must investigate when two teenagers and their babysitter disappear during a weekend of torrential rain.
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Cartoon Network
Pub. Date:
[2015]
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English
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From creator Patrick McHale, one of the minds behind Adventure Time. Cartoon Network's first every animated mini-series. It follows the story of two brothers, Greg and Wirt, who find themselves in a strange forest. Along the way, they meet a bluebird named Beatrice who helps them navigate the strange land in the hopes of making their way home.
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Baseball was different in earlier days-tougher, rawer, more intimate-when giants like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb ran the bases. In the monumental classic The Glory of Their Times, the golden era of our national pastime comes alive through the vibrant words of those who played and lived the game.
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Tatjana Nikolovska
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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The world has always loved a fairy tale. Both young and old have fallen captive to its spell; it suits every age and sage. Many long years have passed since fairy tales appeared, a great deal has changed, yet the tales remain.The world is full of fairy tales. But there are still insufficient to satisfy the need of children for fresh stories. Tales not just of old favorites like Babes in the Wood, but of modern children too.People normally hear and...
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DavidNiallWilson
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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(formerly published as Babe in the Woods)Angelo Chiari, is a fifty-something-year old news reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is sent to the C.T. Merriman Institute to do a week-long Open Door course and see if any of it is for real. He is skeptical of the assignment, figuring that of course it isn't for real, and somewhat dreading the prospect of spending a week among ungrounded New Age crazies. But although he doesn't suspect it, such an...
10. XSLT for Dummies
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Wiley
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2011
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English
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Restructuring information in an XML document so that it works in other formats used to be a time-consuming ordeal involving lots of blood, sweat, and tears. Now XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) makes the process nearly instantaneous. Just provide an example of the kind of information you'd like to see, and XSLT does the rest. With XSLT you can effortlessly transform XML documents into virtually any kind of output, including other...
11. Cold Case BC
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Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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Eve Lazarus (Cold Case Vancouver) investigates murder and missing persons cases that have perplexed and fascinated British Columbians for years. In her book "Cold Case Vancouver", crime historian and reporter Eve Lazarus used investigative skills to shine a light on the city's most baffing unsolved murders. In "Cold Case BC", Lazarus casts her gaze more widely on long forgotten and unsolved murder cases throughout the province of British Columbia,...
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Tales of the Jazz Age volume 6
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English
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In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse.
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Marques Vickers
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Avoid The Tourist Herds.What could be more uninspiring than seeing the identical attractions that everyone else has for decades?This Twisted Tour Guide escorts you to the places locals don't want to talk about anymore…the same places people once couldn't stop talking about. Long after the screaming headlines and sensationalism has subsided, these bizarre, infamous and obscure historical sites remain hidden awaiting rediscovery.Each visitation site...
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Everyman's library volume 321
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
[2009]
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English