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On All Other Nights is a joyful middle-grade anthology centered around Passover-from an exciting array of bestselling and award-winning Jewish creators!
Welcome to Passover, a Jewish holiday that has been celebrated for thousands of years. The heart of Passover is the seder-a meal full of rituals, special foods, and songs-where we gather together to retell the story of the Exodus, when the Jewish people achieved freedom from Egypt.
And...
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from the giants of speculative fiction, including R. L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Asimov.
Marking a century of uniquely peculiar storytelling, each part of this anthology features a different genre from...
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Les auteurs de La Boîte à bulles et leurs invités, inconnus ou déjà confirmés, mettent en image ce thème, accrocheur s'il en est, chacun à leur manière… Il y a ceux pour qui cela se passe de mots, ceux qui parlent de leurs enfants, ceux qui jouent la carte de l'érotisme, ceux qui jouent la carte de la pudeur, de l'autobiographie…
Un collectif riche de sa seule diversité (35 histoires, 36 auteurs dont 10 femmes), sur un thème propre...
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Les auteurs de La Boîte à bulles et leurs invités, inconnus ou déjà confirmés, mettent en image ce thème, accrocheur s'il en est, chacun à leur manière… Il y a ceux pour qui cela se passe de mots, ceux qui parlent de leurs enfants, ceux qui jouent la carte de l'érotisme, ceux qui jouent la carte de la pudeur, de l'autobiographie…
Un collectif riche de sa seule diversité (35 histoires, 36 auteurs dont 10 femmes), sur un thème propre...
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Red Sonja Black White Red volume 5
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It's Red Sonja as you've never seen before...all presented in beautiful black, white, and red, in stories written and illustrated by some of comics' top talents!
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Introduce your children to four information books about animals around the world, touching on topics such as migration and animal welfare, plus a bonus animal-themed poetry collection.
· Coral Reefs
· Volcanoes
· Changing Land
· Oceans Alive Bonus track: Mighty Mountains, Swirling Seas
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Immerse your children in the fascinating world of Ancient Greece with three classic Greek Myths, written especially for children, and one non-fiction history about the Ancient Greeks.
· Great Greek Myths· Pandora's Box
· The Journey of Odysseus Bonus track: Ancient Greeks and Why They Matter to Us
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Introduce your family to a selection of folk tales from around the world, written especially for children. Filled with sound effects and fun, these stories will introduce your children to a wider world of classic stories.
· How the Elephant Got His Trunk
· East of the Sun
· West of the Moon
· Full Moon Night in Silk Cotton Tree Village
· Little Bear
· The Boy with Wings
· The Boy Who Cried Wolf
· The Firebird
· The King Who Thought he was...
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Introduce your children to a selection of folk tales from around the world, written especially for children. Filled with sound effects and fun, these stories will introduce your children to a wider world of classic stories.
· George and the Dragon
· Greedy Anansi and his Three Cunning Plans
· How the Birds got their Colours
The Golden Turtle
· The Rat-Catcher of Hamelin
· The Honey-Guide Bird
· The Story of Nian
· The Hairy Flip-Flops
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The compelling true story of one young nurse's heroism, heartache and happiness in wartime. The second world war could not have been won without the bravery and selflessness of women on the Home Front. Women like Kathleen Johnstone. This first-hand story of one extraordinary but unheralded member of Britain's 'Greatest Generation' brings home with extraordinary lucidity and compassion the realities of wartime Lancashire. In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty,...
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Introduce your children to six inspirational true stories about real life explorers and adventurers around the world, from Captain Scott of the Antarctic and Christopher Columbus to modern-day Mount Everest ice climbers.
· Captain Scott: Journey to the South Pole
· Everest Ice Climbers
· Four Desert Challenge
· Great Explorers: Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong
· Himalayas: Bottom to the Top
· My Journey Across the Indian Ocean
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Die hier vereinten transzendenten Haupttexte der religiösen Geheimlehre der Kabbala, die Bücher Jezira, Bahir und Sohar, sind uralte mystische Deutungen der göttlichen Offenbarung und haben über die Jahrhunderte hinweg Juden und auch Angehörige anderer Religionen immer wieder spirituell inspiriert und in ihren Bann gezogen. Mit einer ausführlichen Einleitung.
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Introduce your children to a selection of classic fairy tales written especially for children. Filled with sound effects and fun, your children will come away with a newfound love for these classic stories!
· Hansel & Gretel
· Jack and the Beanstalk
· The Hare and the Tortoise
· Rumpelstiltskin
· Snow White and Rose Red
· The Selfish Giant
· The Tinderbox
· The Twelve Dancing Princesses
· Dick Whittington
· Puss in Boots
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What better way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the She-Devil With a Sword than to revisit her greatest tales in an all-new hardcover collection? Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these storied sagas trace the legendary exploits of the Hyboria's favorite daughter over five skull-smashing, tavern-wrecking decades!
. "The Temple of Abomination!" - Roy Thomas & Dick Giordano
. "Red Sonja" - Roy Thomas & Esteban Maroto
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Introduce your children to six true stories about inspirational women in history, from Boudica to the Suffragettes and the world's first female pilots.
· Boudica· Brave Nurses: Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell
· The Story of the Suffragettes
· The World's First Women Doctors
· Women in the Skies
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"Al Unísono. Voces literarias de mujeres con palabra" es una antología sonora de escritoras que dan voz a sus propias historias, reflexiones más personales, sus encuentros privados y comunitarios, cuestionamientos que abanderan desde sus trincheras cotidianas y sus diversas publicaciones. Doce autoras que han triunfado en diversos géneros literarios se unen en este audiolibro que suma 12 ensayos alrededor del cuestionamiento de ser mujer en este...
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Twelve authors shed new light on the true history and enduring mythology of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century pirates in this anthology of scholarly essays.
The twelve entries in The Golden Age of Piracy discuss why pirates thrived in the seas of the New World, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined. Separating Hollywood myth from historical fact, these essays bring the...
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In the late '60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium ― but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen's Comix. Within two years the Wimmen's Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading...