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Oliver Tearle
The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers' Journey Through Curiosities of Literature
A fascinating tour of literature through the medium of its most emblematic invention - the book. How much do you know about the Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens ? Or the woman who became the first published poet in America ? Do you know what connects Homer's Iliad to Aesop's Fables? The...
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Anne H. Groton
From Alpha to Omega: A Beginning Course in Classical Greek
From Alpha to Omega  offers an encouraging and accessible introduction to Classical Greek for today’s students. Its fifty brief lessons, each typically focused on one or two grammatical topics, reinforce students’ learning through exercises that offer practice with the target vocabulary and—b...
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W. H. Auden
The Portable Greek Reader (Portable Library)
It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy. Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contain...
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Jane Austen
Persuasion (Chartwell Classics)
This elegantly designed hardcover edition of Jane Austen’s Persuasion offers a portable tale of love, loss, and redemption and a stirring critique of the rigid social barriers of Regency-era Britain. Published after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, Persuasion tells the story of twenty-seven-year...
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Simon Brooks
Under the Oaken Bough: Folk and Fairy Tales
Uncommon folktales and a few old favorites revived and retold for young people and tradition keepers. Folk and fairy tales celebrate different cultures and ways to see the world. A collection of the author’s favorite folktales from his professional storytelling repertoire, retold in contempora...
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Robert Djed Snead
Stories I've Told!: A collection of tellable tales
"Stories I've Told" is the latest book from author, storyteller, playwright, and historical reenactor Robert Djed Snead. This collection consists of original and retold stories, and Aesop fables transformed into folktales. Keeping as close to the rhythm and cadence of the story as when it is told Dj...
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Jean de La Fontaine
Children coloring Fable of La Fontaine Bilingual English/French: The Raven and the Fox to study and understand and also to color in English and French
This bilingual coloring book , English-French, is designed to bring you clarifications and explanations on one of the most famous fables of Jean de La Fontaine . You will find a small bibliography, an explanation of the moral, the original text of Aesop translated into English and French, as w...
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Garrison Keillor
Good Poems
A selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems to inspire and be enjoyed by everyone Here is an anthology of poems, chosen by Garrison Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems incl...
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Michael Pietrack
Legacy: The Saga Begins
A mysterious illness plagues the Queen at Primdale Hive. Her cure resides deep within a treacherous forest, where few meadow-bees have ever dared to go. She organizes a race to find the fastest bee in the hive, but the unexpected victor, Abelbee, is a mere adolescent. Should the future of the hive b...
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Neil Philip Neil Philip
Folktales of America: Stockings Of Buttermilk, and Other Traditional Stories from the United States of America
This exhilarating book brings together some of the best classic stories told in the United States. Many of the tales were brought to the USA from Europe, and their origins can be traced in English, Scottish, Irish, French, Spanish or German tradition. But wherever they spring from, the tales are fil...
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Matt Dembicki
District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington, DC
District Comics is a graphic anthology featuring lesser-known stories about Washington, DC, from its earliest days as a rustic settlement along the swampy banks of the Potomac to the modern-day metropolis. Spanning 1794–2009, District Comics stops along the way for a duel, a drink in the Senate...
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Songling Pu
Strange Tales from Liaozhai (2)
The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will enco...
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Alan Moore
Do Design: Why beauty is key to everything. (Do Books, 13)
The bestselling book on beauty and enduring design – with over 35,000 copies sold worldwide. So much goes unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully-made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spi...
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Luke Villermin
On Your Mark, Get Set, INVEST: A Kid's Guide to Saving Money, Spending Wisely, and Investing in the Stock Market (Invest Now Play Later Series)
Slow and steady wins the race―an intro to personal finance and investing for kids ages 8 to 12 Feet thumping and arms swinging, Thrifty Tortoise and Ritzy Rabbit set off on a race to the finish line. At the end awaits a brand-new bike! Follow this competition to see who can earn, save, and invest ...
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ISABELLE GIORGIS
Life Lessons for Brags and Bullies: Five Fables Written and Illustrated by Five Boys
This is a compilation of five fables clearly written and boldly illustrated by five boys of the Gilman Lower School. There are three adaptations of famous Aesop's fables: The Lion and the Rat, The Bull and the Frog, and the Crow and the Fox, and two original tales: The Two Airplane Racers, and The G...
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Sarah Conover
Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents
A rich and vibrant collection of stories that will be treasured by all who wish to broaden their understanding of Islamic tales and traditions. Winner of the 2004 Aesop Prize, Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs draws from the core of Islamic spirituality and ethics, the Qur’an and the hadiths, and a...
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Michael Mish
OLIVER: and other short stories
An eclectic collection of short stories whimsically covering our connection to nature and nature's connection to itself. Each story is quirky, extremely short and slightly left of center with an Aesop's Fables-like moral. OLIVER is a cat. He is able to help identify the thieves that broke into his h...
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Unknown
E'Ti Anbesa'n E'ta Anchiwa - The Lion and the Mouse - Tigrinya Children Book (Tigrinya Edition)
The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables, retold in Tigrinya language. A lion caught a tiny mouse to kill her but he finally spared the tiny creature. The mouse later came to rescue the troubled lion by freeing him from a poacher's trap. The moral of the story: A good act gets its return. The...
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Jane Yolen
Gracie Feeds the Birds
Can a handful of birdseed teach kids about kindness? Gracie thinks so--and she's got a gentle way of showing it. From beloved author Jane Yolen and educator Peter Tacy, Gracie Feeds the Birds is a quiet, heartfelt story that helps children understand the power of gratitude, empathy, and noticin...
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Peddar Panga
Tales of the Mirrors: Book 1 (Fables of Panga)
When author Peddar Panga was young, his parents and grandparents shared animal stories with him. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, these entertaining fables always came with lessons illustrating the universal truths of life. Tales of the Mirrors gathers fifty such tales, rewritten with a modern audie...
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