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"In a little town in the south of France in the 1960s, a dazzling encounter with Love itself changes the life of little Marie-Jeanne forever. As a girl, Marie-Jeanne realizes she can see the marks Love has left on the people around her--little glowing lights on the faces and hands that shimmer more brightly when the one meant for them is near. Before long, Marie-Jeanne is playing matchmaker, bringing true loves together in her little town. As she...
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"The Library Local" was born as a poem and remains so in this newly minted Book Seven of Kelly Anne Manuel's Essentials Series. In this story the Child is invited on a fantastical journey to their local library. The adventure that the library offers is brought to life in this story. Magic, creativity, and imagination, are a few elements embodied by libraries and they are celebrated in this book.
"The Library Local" offers a standing invitation to...
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A magical story about Boris cat as Father Christmas comes to visit him on Christmas eve and sweeps down his chimney.
Boris has been a very good cat all year and Father Christmas would like Boris to help him to give presents to all good children and pets around the world.
Can this be a night of magic and surprises or will Zeus his little kitten brother spoil everything by being a mischievous little kitten
A magical story of Christmas, cats and kittens...
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"Capture the allure of life and reading for beginning bookworms ... Highly recommended."
-Midwest Book Review
Of course all books are alive. Why would you ever think otherwise?
And this book would be honored to be invited into your home, be grateful for your hospitality, and truly treasure your companionship.
After all, the one thing all books have in common (besides being alive) is that they want to be opened, read, considered-all the better if they're...
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As bombs rain down on Warsaw and Hitler's forces surround the city, childhood friends Marta and Janina join the war effort using one of the only weapons that still feel safe to them: literature, fighting to preserve their culture and community and finding hope in each other in order to survive.
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"Each turn of the page provides a surprise ... Spark a love for books and reading in a fun way." -LoveReading4Kids
This book loves to tell jokes, to chuckle, to make its readers SMILE.
This book also happens to have a super secret plan. Do you want to know what it is?
Then, you'll have to open its pages, read what it has to say, take the time to get to know it, and you can help make this book's biggest dream a reality-just by sitting together for...
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"Briar Creek Public Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular archivist conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey...
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