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When Spider Met Shrew
When Spider meets Shrew, they are both down on their luck — can these quirky new friends help each other out?
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Town Is by the Sea
In a small mining town, a young boy enjoys a summer day, but his thoughts constantly return to his father, who is digging for coal deep under the sea.
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Night Street Repairs
An astonishing work by a master of the poetic form operating at the height of his powers.
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Oy, Feh, So?
In this hilarious story, three children turn their family's weekly Sunday visit from Aunt Essy, Aunt Chanah and Uncle Sam on its head!
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The Secret Life of Owen Skye
Owen Skye is skinny and quiet and has big ears. He does everything his older brother says, while trying to stay one step ahead of his little brother.
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Whether brought to a baby shower or given to a graduate, this story of steadfast parent-child bonds may become a perennial gift favorite.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From award winning author Bill Richardson, a beautiful story about the love between a mother and daughter where a promise makes the perfect gift.","ProductFormDescription":"Kindle, Fixed Layout","PublicationDate":"2019-08-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"From award winning author Bill Richardson, a beautiful story about the love between a mother and daughter where a promise makes the perfect gift.","Width":"7.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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to 8
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The Promise Basket
From award winning author Bill Richardson, a beautiful story about the love between a mother and daughter where a promise makes the perfect gift.
Lessons from the Front Lines
After three decades as an activist, Syrus Marcus Ware reflects on his experiences and impact in various momentous movements
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The poems in her third collection continue to explore what she has called “implicit questions about fullness of life or lives somehow thwarted, diminished, ended too early.” Through formal technique, painterly detail or her signature compressed directness, Partridge’s poems explore the past, present and future with compassion and grief, bearing witness to our not-so-still, all-too-brief lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of celebration. In these restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension — whether by a candid glance backward at childhood or through tributes to friends — Partridge’s arresting images and diction give shape to the complexity and abundance of experience, made more luminous and gilt-edged by the corridor of encroaching shadows. 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The Exiles' Gallery
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection The Exiles' Gallery is limited to 50 copies.
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All That Grows
From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Jack Wong, a story of a boy who discovers that the more he learns, the more there is to know!
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Eighteen Below
Gritty and chilling, Eighteen Below Zero is the third stand-alone thriller in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series.
