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"'The Divine Comedy' begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Allen Mandelbaum's astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece that genius whom...
62) The dark library
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[2020]
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167 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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"Libraries are magical places. But what if they're even more magical than we know? In Cyrille Martinez's library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. Meet the Angry Young Book, who has strong opinions about who reads what and why. He's tired of people reading bestsellers, so he places himself on the desks of those who might appreciate him. Meet the Old Historian who mysteriously vanished from the stacks....
66) The wayward bus
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English
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The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the backroads of California.
67) Kingdom's call
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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 4
Pub. Date
2007.
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152 pages : map ; 21 cm.
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English
69) Thinner
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English
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Billy Halleck, good husband, loving father, is both beneficiary and victim of the American Good Life: he has an expensive home, a nice family, and a rewarding career as a lawyer ... but he is also fifty pounds overweight and, as his doctor keeps reminding him, edging into heart attack country.
70) Kingdom's quest
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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 5
Pub. Date
2007.
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167 pages : map ; 21 cm.
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English
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[1999]
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xxvi, 276 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka's death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth...
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[1989]
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32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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In this allegory, the author's reaction to the Holocaust, the animals of the forest are carried away, one type after another, by the Terrible Things, not realizing that if perhaps they would all stick together and not look the other way, such terrible things might not happen.
73) Animal farm
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[2002]
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1 videodisc (69 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Animated allegory. After enduring years of abuse from Farmer Jones, the animals decide to take over the farm. Old Major, the prize boar hog, holds a secret meeting and proclaims that all animals are created equal. They should be rewarded for their hard work, so Boxer the horse, Benjamin the donkey, and Snowball the pig band together with the other animals to overthrow the farmer and create a new society. They dictate a new social structure that seems...
74) Kingdom's reign
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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 6
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[2007]
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168 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 21 cm.
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English
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The final book in the Kingdom series wraps you up in the ultimate clash between good and evil. It's the final battle between the Dark Knight and the King himself.
77) Godhanger
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1999.
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154 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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When a mysterious bird arrives in Godhanger Wood to protect the frightened animals from the cruel gamekeeper, this Christ-figure deliberately sacrifices himself to save them from death.
79) The candy dish
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[2022]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"What happens when something truly miraculous shows up in your life? Do you recognize it? Do you appreciate it? Do you see it for what it really is? This is a story of a child and a curious little candy dish that holds a special treat every day. But it comes with its fair share of frustrations too. Written by New York Times best-selling author Kobi Yamada, it is a story for readers of all ages about finding wonder in simple delights. And it is an...
80) The presence
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[1990]
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349 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A small-town lawyer and politician from North Carolina is propelled into the middle of big-time politics in Washington, D.C. There, special interests and the underworld severely test his faith.
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