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2) The madman's library: the strangest books, manuscripts and other literary curiosities from history
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The Madman's Library reveals the fascinating stories behind some of the strangest and most beautiful books ever created in a highly illustrated tour through an eccentric "library" of literary curiosities and wonders"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged).
Language
English
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Description
Every day, Snail waits for Fish to return and tell him a story but their friendship is tested when Fish asks Snail to take a leap out of their book to actually see a new pirate book in the library.
4) Checkout 19
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles in the back pages of her exercise book, thrilling to the first sparks of her own inventiveness. As she grows, she becomes one on whom nothing is lost. Not the novels an eccentric customer slips her at the grocery store where she works as a checkout clerk, or the indelible outline of the careening creature himself. Not the growing heaps of books in which she loses--and finds--herself....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nina Hill's life may not seem like much, but for a person battling anxiety, it's more than enough. She enjoys her job at a bookstore and her small circle of friends. Until a visit from a lawyer changes everything...The father that Nina never knew existed has died, leaving behind an enormous extended family. Nina now has innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, and cousins all living within a twenty-mile radius--some welcoming and some not...
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