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|  | Birthday by Andrews & McMeel Staff
Everyone will want to celebrate their natal day with this delightful book. AUTHOR: Andrews & McMeel Staff
PUBLISHER: Andrews McMeel Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Darkest England
Faith, courage and a way with the natives, these gifts carried the great African explorers-Livingstone, Stanley & Mungo Park-through the dark continent. They also helped David Mungo Booi on one his journey through Darkest England.
Darkest England
Christopher Hope
Hardcover
1996
Little, Brown, and Co
Booi is the descendant of the San or Bushmen who onced lived in the distnt African Karoo. Chosen by a conclave of elders, travelling on funds raised by public subscription, sponsered by The Society For Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of England, David Mungo Booi embarks on a mission never before attempted by civilized people: to explore England as a site suitable for settlement and to assess if the natives are friendly and capable. He sets out to answer ancient qustions about this strange island race: why do they always believe there will always be an England? Did they build Jerusalem in their green and pleasant land? Above all, will their queen redeem the promise made by Victoria to save her loyal Red People of the Karoo?
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CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Essential Haiku by Robert Hass
Description not available.Gathers selected poems by three Japanese haiku masters AUTHOR: Robert Hass
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Family by Carol Gino, Mario Puzo
In this historical novel set in Renaissance Venice, Puzo tells the bloody, dramatic, and intrigue-filled story of the famous Borgia family. AUTHOR: Carol Gino, Mario Puzo
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Reflections in a Looking Glass by Charles Dodgson, Mark Haworth-Booth, Morton N. Cohen, Roy Flukinger
Collected to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Charles Dodgson's death, this book contains 130 of the photographs that made Dodgson (also known as Lewis Carroll) both a famous photographer of children and a bit of a scandal within his Victorian circle. Along with the formal portraits and scenes collected here are the only known nude photographs of children that Dodgson took. AUTHOR: Charles Dodgson, Mark Haworth-Booth, Morton N. Cohen, Roy Flukinger
PUBLISHER: Aperture Foundation, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Seasons by Charlotte Zolotow
Description not available.An easy reader captures the feelings of children as they experience the beauty of each season through lyrical words and gentle pen-and-ink illustrations. Reprint. AUTHOR: Charlotte Zolotow
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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