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Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction

By: Liza Knapp

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Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction

By: Liza Knapp

War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of consciousness; and as a genius at using fiction to reveal the mysteries of love and death. At the time of his death in 1910, Tolstoy was known the world over as both a great writer and as a merciless critic of institutions that perpetrated, bred, or tolerated injustice and violence in any form. Yet among literary critics and rival writers, it has become a commonplace to disparage Tolstoy's “thought” while praising his “art.” In this Very Short Intorduction Liza Knapp explores the heart of Tolstoy's work. Focussing on his masterpieces of fiction which have stood the test of time, she analyses his works of non-fiction alongside them, and sketches out the core themes in Tolstoy's art and thought, and the interplay between them. Tracing the continuing influence of Tolstoy's work on modern literature, Knapp highlights those aspects of his writings that remain relevant today. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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Oxford University Press

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0192543547

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Lifetime

A Novel

By: Liza Marklund

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Lifetime

A Novel

By: Liza Marklund

When a man is murdered and his son abducted, it looks like his wife is guilty…but Annika Bengtzon sets off for the truth in this thriller by the #1 internationally bestselling author Liza Marklund. The inspiration for the hit film series, Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter, now available on Netflix. NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS . . . Police officer Nina Hoffman is called to the scene of a grisly crime. There she finds fellow officer and friend David Lindholm naked on his bed, shot through the head and stomach. His traumatized wife, Julia, is in shock, and can barely form a coherent sentence. She hovers near the body, rambling on about a woman entering the house, killing David, and running off with their son—but all the evidence points to her guilt. Annika Bengtzon is drawn headfirst into the case, because she believes that Julia is about to be falsely charged. But will anyone else believe it? Chilling and complex, this thriller will have you guessing until the shocking end.

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385

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Simon and Schuster

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1451607067

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9781451607062

The Use and Abuse of Political Asylum in Britain and Germany

By: Liza Schuster

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The Use and Abuse of Political Asylum in Britain and Germany

By: Liza Schuster

All European states have the legal right to grant asylum but only Germany is obliged by law to do so. Liza Schuster contributes to the asylum debate primarily in the area of comparative politics in this study of British and German policies on asylum practice.

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Routledge

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1135761833

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9781135761837

More Than Words

Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

By: Liza Kirwin

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More Than Words

Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

By: Liza Kirwin

Words speak volumes, but, as every letter writer knows, there are times when they simply won't do. When the author happens to be a visual artist, he has an added advantage - one that transforms ordinary stationery into a canvas. This book chronicles those occasions when words were not enough, and some of America's most revered artists turned their talents to illustrating their most intimate thoughts and feelings. Writing to wives, lovers, friends, patrons, clients, and confidants, premiere artists such as Frederick Edwin Church, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Rockwell Kent, Lyonel Feininger, John Sloan, Alfred Frueh, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Dorothea Tanning, Gio Ponti, Andy Warhol, and Frida Kahlo picture the world around them in charming vignettes, caricatures, portraits, and landscapes. Together, the words and images of these autobiographical works of art, created for private consumption, reveal the joys and successes, loves and longings, triumphs and frustrations of their distinguished authors' personal lives and professional careers."--Jacket.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568985231

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9781568985237

When Disease Came to this Country

Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America

By: Liza Piper

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When Disease Came to this Country

Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America

By: Liza Piper

A revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern Indigenous peoples in present day Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940. Liza Piper connects the history of epidemics in northern North America to persistent health disparities arising from settler colonialism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009320874

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9781009320870

Art of the State

Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina

By: Liza Roberts

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Art of the State

Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina

By: Liza Roberts

This beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina's contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richness and diversity. Featuring profiles of individual artists, compelling interviews, and beautiful full-color photography, this book tells the story of the state's evolution through the lens of its art world and some of its most compelling figures. Liza Roberts introduces readers to painters, photographers, sculptors, and other artists who live and work in North Carolina and who contribute to its growing reputation in the visual arts. Roberts also provides fascinating historical context, such as the influence of Black Mountain College, the birth and growth of Penland School of Crafts, and short histories of North Carolina's art museums, including Charlotte's Mint Museum, Raleigh's North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem's Reynolda House, and those flourishing at universities. Artists featured include Stephen Hayes, Mel Chin, Cristina Cordova, Beverly McIver, and Scott Avett. The result is the most comprehensive, informative, and visually rich story of contemporary art in North Carolina.

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UNC Press Books

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146967176X

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9781469671765

The Postcard Killers

By: James Patterson,Liza Marklund

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The Postcard Killers

By: James Patterson,Liza Marklund

Now the #1 movie on Netflix titled The Postcard Killings! Europe is stunning in the summer . . . but NYPD detective Jacob Kanon isn't there for the beauty. He's on a mission: to track down his daughter's killer. NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him-he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer. Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm-and they think they know where the next victims will be. With relentless twists and unstoppable action, The Postcard Killers may be James Patterson's most vivid and compelling thriller yet.

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Little, Brown

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031612771X

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9780316127714

Lists

To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art

By: Liza Kirwin

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Lists

To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art

By: Liza Kirwin

From the weekly shopping list to the Ten Commandments, our lives are shaped by lists. Whether dashed off as a quick reminder, or carefully constructed as an inventory, this humble form of documentation provides insight into its maker's personal habits and decision-making processes. This is especially true for artists, whose day-to-day acts of living and art-making overlap and inform each other. Artists' lists shed uncover a host of unbeknownst motivations, attitudes, and opinions about their work and the work of others. Lists presents almost seventy artifacts, including "to do" lists, membership lists, lists of paintings sold, lists of books to read, lists of appointments made and met, lists of supplies to get, lists of places to see, and lists of people who are "in." At times introspective, humorous, and resolute, but always revealing and engaging, Lists is a unique firsthand account of American cultural history that augments the personal biographies of some of the most celebrated and revered artists of thelast two centuries. Many of the lists are historically important, throwing a flood of light on a moment, movement, or event; others are private, providing an intimate view of an artist's personal life: Pablo Picasso itemized his recommendations for the Armory Show in 1912; architect Eero Saarinen enumerated the good qualities of the then New York Times art editor and critic Aline Bernstein, his second wife; sculptor Alexander Calder's address book reveals the whos who of the Parisian avant-garde in the early twentieth century. In the hands of their creators, these artifacts become works of art in and of themselves. Lists includes rarely seen specimens by Vito Acconci, Leo Castelli, Joseph Cornell, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, H. L. Mencken, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Andrew Wyeth.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568988885

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9781568988887

The Long Shadow

A Novel

By: Liza Marklund

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The Long Shadow

A Novel

By: Liza Marklund

A violent robbery has killed an entire family on the Costa Del Sol. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story for the Evening Post. But when she arrives in Spain she discovers there is a third child who is unaccounted for. Annika makes it her mission to find the missing girl. But as she delves into the mystery she becomes embroiled in a far darker side of Spanish life than she'd envisioned, as she begins to piece together a terrifying story of violence, abuse and murder.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451607032

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9781451607031

New York for New Yorkers

A Historical Treasury and Guide to the Buildings and Monuments of Manhattan

By: Liza M. Greene

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New York for New Yorkers

A Historical Treasury and Guide to the Buildings and Monuments of Manhattan

By: Liza M. Greene

Updated to include major new buildings of the last five years, this volume is a celebration of the buildings of New York City and their history with over 600 color photos.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393020061

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9780393020069

The Things That Fly in the Night

Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora

By: Giselle Liza Anatol

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The Things That Fly in the Night

Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora

By: Giselle Liza Anatol

The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag—an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night’s darkest hours in order to fly about her community and suck the blood of her unwitting victims. In contrast to the glitz, glamour, and seductiveness of conventional depictions of the European vampire, the soucouyant triggers unease about old age and female power. Tracing relevant folklore through the English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the U.S. Deep South, and parts of West Africa, Anatol shows how tales of the nocturnal female bloodsuckers not only entertain and encourage obedience in pre-adolescent listeners, but also work to instill particular values about women’s “proper” place and behaviors in society at large. Alongside traditional legends, Anatol considers the explosion of soucouyant and other vampire narratives among writers of Caribbean and African heritage who in the past twenty years have rejected the demonic image of the character and used her instead to urge for female mobility, racial and cultural empowerment, and anti colonial resistance. Texts include work by authors as diverse as Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, U.S. National Book Award winner Edwidge Danticat, and science fiction/fantasy writers Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813565758

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9780813565750

How Do Hurricane Katrina's Winds Blow?

Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans

By: Liza Treadwell

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How Do Hurricane Katrina's Winds Blow?

Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans

By: Liza Treadwell

The disproportionate effect of Hurricane Katrina on African Americans was an outcome created by law and societal construct, not chance. This book takes a hard look at racial stratification in American today and debunks the myth that segregation is a thing of the past. An outstanding resource for students of African American history, government policy, sociology, and human rights, as well as readers interested in socioeconomics in the United States today, this book examines why the divisions between the areas heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina and those left unscathed largely coincided with the color lines in New Orleans neighborhoods; and establishes how African Americans have suffered for 400 years under an oppressive system that has created a permanent underclass of second-class citizenship. Rather than focusing on the Katrina disaster itself, the author presents significant evidence of how government policy and structure, as well as societal mores, permitted and sanctioned the dehumanization of African Americans, purposefully placing them in disaster-prone areas—particularly, those in New Orleans. The historical context is framed within the construct of Hurricane Katrina and other hurricane catastrophes in New Orleans, demonstrating that Katrina was not an anomaly. For readers unfamiliar with the ugly existence of segregation in modern-day America, this book will likely shock and outrage as it sounds a call to both citizens and government to undertake the challenges we still face as a nation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216099154

Everyday Folklore

An almanac for the ritual year

By: Liza Frank

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Everyday Folklore

An almanac for the ritual year

By: Liza Frank

Daily folklore ideas to guide you through the ritual year. For the curious and the adventurous! Turn to any date and you'll find something to learn or do suggested by folklore of the day, the month, or the season. Some suggestions will take no more effort than sticking your head out the window to look at the clouds, while others might involve knee pads and scouring giant chalk horses cut into hillsides. Taking inspiration from folklore found around the world, each daily entry is a tiny snapshot of what goes on – be it animal or plant lore, love predictions, the zodiac, the supernatural, food, festivals, divination, anniversaries, the weather or luck. By following the customs and traditions of the ritual year, you'll find yourself becoming more engaged with what's happening about you and discover how every month and season creates its own identity. Dip into this fascinating book at any time of the year and discover something new and intriguing about the world around you. Just beware of the hare... "An inspiring way to start every day with more joy and fascination." Robin Ince

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Allen & Unwin

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1761187945

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9781761187940

A Charmed Life

Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle

By: Liza Campbell

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A Charmed Life

Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle

By: Liza Campbell

In this heartbreaking, haunting, yet ultimately forgiving memoir of a damaged childhood, the author, the daughter of the last Thane of Cawdor in Scotland, recalls growing up in a fractured fairytale Scottish castle (featured in Shakespeares "Macbeth"). Photos.

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Macmillan

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0312384963

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9780312384968

BLUE'S CLUES BLUE AND THE COLOR DETECTIVES.

By: Lisa Alexander,Liza Alexander,Angela C. Santomero

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BLUE'S CLUES BLUE AND THE COLOR DETECTIVES.

By: Lisa Alexander,Liza Alexander,Angela C. Santomero

A story book with 53 stickers. The stickers are to be used to advance the educational concepts of associations and matching: identifying and sorting colors.

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0439050022

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9780439050029

When Oscar was a Little Grouch, and Other Good-night Stories

By: Liza Alexander

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When Oscar was a Little Grouch, and Other Good-night Stories

By: Liza Alexander

A collection of three stories featuring the Sesame Street Muppets.

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Golden Books

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0307120937

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9780307120939

Bounce Along with Big Bird

By: Liza Alexander

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Bounce Along with Big Bird

By: Liza Alexander

Big Bird presents an exercise program for children and parents.

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0307141837

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9780307141835

Surprise, Mommy!

By: Liza Alexander

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Surprise, Mommy!

By: Liza Alexander

Elmo's mommy does so many things that show how much she loves Elmo. What can Elmo do to show her that he loves her back? Elmo thinks hard and comes up with just the right surprise. Full color.

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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0679894233

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9780679894230

Animals, Animals

Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets

By: Liza Alexander

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Animals, Animals

Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets

By: Liza Alexander

The Sesame Street characters explore animals and natural science through stories, crafts, and other things to do.

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Golden Books

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0834300788

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9780834300781

A Day in the Country

An Alphabet Story

By: Liza Alexander

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A Day in the Country

An Alphabet Story

By: Liza Alexander

An alphabet book featuring alliterative sentences about the Sesame Street characters.

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Golden Books

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0307631060

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9780307631060

I Want to Go to School, Too

By: Liza Alexander

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I Want to Go to School, Too

By: Liza Alexander

Herry's little brother is jealous of Herry going to school and all the fun activities there. He wants to go when he turns five.

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0307631133

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9780307631138

Meet Mr. Snuffle-upagus

By: Liza Alexander

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Meet Mr. Snuffle-upagus

By: Liza Alexander

Big Bird tries hard to convince the grownups on Sesame Street that his "imaginary" friend the Snuffle-upagus really exists.

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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0394894332

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9780394894331

Big Bird the Artist

A Story about Addition and Subtraction

By: Liza Alexander,Jim Henson

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Big Bird the Artist

A Story about Addition and Subtraction

By: Liza Alexander,Jim Henson

Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets." Big Bird adds up his works of art and then subtracts them as he gives them away.

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Western Publishing Company

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0307631109

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9780307631107

Grover's Amazing Dream

A Storybook Introducing New Words

By: Liza Alexander

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Grover's Amazing Dream

A Storybook Introducing New Words

By: Liza Alexander

When Grover is awakened by his mother in the morning, he tells her about his amazing dream.

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Golden Books

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0307131084

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9780307131089

Find the Seashell

By: Liza Alexander

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Find the Seashell

By: Liza Alexander

Elmo is at the beach, searching for the perfect seashell. Soon his bucket is full of all kinds of interesting things--except the perfect seashell. Elmo is disappointed, until he meets up with friends whose sand castle needs decorating. Now Elmo's bucket is full of treasures!

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