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New York Times bestselling author Margaret Weis writes about her favorite character in this revealing and important tale that describes the early years of Raistlin, archmage of Krynn and one of the most popular characters of the Dragonlance setting. Reprint. AUTHOR: TSR Inc. Staff
PUBLISHER: T S R, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Leaving Home by Darlene Z. McCampbell, Hazel Rochman
A collection of stories about young people taking their first steps away from home and expressing their own independence. Selections include The First Day by Edward P. Jones, Zelzah: A Tale from Long Ago by Norma Fox Mazer, Rules of the Game by Amy Tan, and Saturday at the Canal by Gary Soto. AUTHOR: Darlene Z. McCampbell, Hazel Rochman
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Acid House by Clara Drechsler, Harald Hellmann, Irvine Welsh
These 21 stories and one novella are the American debut of Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. His world is populated by disembodied heads, rodents campaigning for world peace, junkies and newborn babies who switch souls; and all of them speak in working-class Scottish dialect, including a pint-swilling Almighty God who, thinking of Nietzsche, muses, Ah'm no deid, ah jist dinnae gie a fuck. AUTHOR: Clara Drechsler, Harald Hellmann, Irvine Welsh
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me and George's Marvelous Medicine by Richard E. Grant, Roald Dahl
Description not available.While Billy and the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company are cleaning the windows of the Duke of Hampshire's estate, they spot the most dangerous cat-burglar in the world stealing the Duchess's diamonds, and when George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch, he concocts some marvelous medicine to take care of her. AUTHOR: Richard E. Grant, Roald Dahl
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Looking after Murphy by Jamie Rix, John Bendall-Brunello
Granny Lally is quite a character, and kids who open this book are in for plenty of laughs. Granny Lally can't stop telling tall tales-and her grandchildren never know when to believe her. When the kids go off on vacation with their parents, Granny Lally promises to take care of their pet hamster. All goes well for several days-until Granny starts singing a song while taking her bath. It's all too awful for the hamster, who runs away. Granny searches high and low, but she can't find the hamster anywhere. What is she going to do? The wacky solution that Granny Lally finally dreams up brings this comical story to a super-hilarious climax. The full-color illustrations on every page are as funny as the story itself. AUTHOR: Jamie Rix, John Bendall-Brunello
PUBLISHER: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Kokopelli's Flute by Johnny Heller, Will Hobbs
Description not available.Exploring the ruins of the nearby Anasazi cliff dwellings, young Teppary Jones scares off some robbers and discovers an ancient flute that possesses strange powers beyond his control. Reprint. VY. AB. SLJ. AUTHOR: Johnny Heller, Will Hobbs
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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