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1341) Recitation
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"The meeting between a group of emigrants and a mysterious, wandering actress in an empty train station sets the stage for Bae Suah's fragmentary yet lyrical meditation on language, travel, and memory. As the actress recounts the fascinating story of her stateless existence, an unreliable narrator and the interruptions of her audience challenge traditional notions of storytelling and identity"--Publisher.
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Maire is a baker with an extraordinary gift: she can infuse her treats with emotions and abilities, which are then passed on to those who eat them. She doesn't know why she can do this and remembers nothing of who she is or where she came from. When marauders raid her town, Maire is captured and sold to the eccentric Allemas, who enslave her and demand that she produce sinister confections, including a witch's gingerbread cottage, a living cookie...
1343) Matty Mouse
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Matty Mouse, who spends most of his time forgetting things like turning off the water and shutting the door, learns that his thinking cap is closer than he realizes.
1344) The goodbye world poem
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"While Turner (author of Here, Bullet) grieves the loss of his wife to cancer, The Goodbye World Poem is a series of poetic meditations that sit quietly in the silent "afterward" of someone's death. Losing his wife, his father, and his best friend in quick succession, Turner explores those relationships through the complicated lenses of moments in time, weaving in and out of memory to explore the disparate history that fuses together to form ones...
1345) Cierra el portón!
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Alphakids Spanish volume Level 5
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Español
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Cierra el portón! es una divertida innovación a una canción de cuna conocida
1351) Octav
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Romanian
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An elderly man returns to his childhood villa in Romania with the intention of selling it. Arriving there after a decades-long absence, Octav wanders through the atmospheric house and undulating grounds that surround it, and is confronted and transformed by the memories of his youth.
1352) What's never said
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It's dangerous to search for an old flame you never got over. What if you find him-and he doesn't remember you? In her captivating new novel, Susan Shapiro explores the perils of revisiting past passion. Lila Penn leaves Wisconsin for graduate school in the big city, where she falls for her professor Daniel Wildman. Decades after their tangled link, she arranges a tête-à-tête in downtown Manhattan. But the shocking encounter blindsides Lila, causing...
1353) Hide and seek beehive
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Object permanence--- the idea that an object exists even when it is out of sight, sound, or touch---is an important, developmental milestone. Hide and seek beehive will help reach this milestone while reinforcing other fundamental skills.
1355) The Saracen maid
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After being captured by pirates and sold as a slave, a forgetful young Englishman faces a long imprisonment because he can't remember where the ransom note should be sent.
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"How to encapsulate a life, in all its messiness, epiphanies, misunderstandings, disappointments, and joys? With George Sprott 1894-1975, Seth offers one tragicomic answer. Page by page, we learn about George--outmoded television host, creature of habit, charming if pompous old man, selfish lover, man about to die--and though this is ultimately the story of one man's death, Seth leavens it with humor and restraint. The book's omniscient narrator offers...
1358) Painkillers
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A mercenary group is sent into Afghanistan for a highly secretive mission, only to wake up in a mental asylum with no memory of what happened, and half of their team dead. Fed a new PTSD medication to help trigger their memories, a secret comes to light, that threatens their lives if they tell.
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"Simple tools, extraordinary results. Everything we're learning about how we function best as humans in the digital age is pointing towards one of our oldest technologies: the pen and the page. Exploratory writing - writing for ourselves, not for others, writing when we don't know exactly what it is we want to say - is one of the most powerful and lightweight thinking tools we have at our disposal. It's also been, until now, one of the most overlooked....
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"Meredith Maran lived a daughter's nightmare: she accused her father of sexual abuse, then realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent. During the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands of Americans became convinced that they had repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, and then, decades later, recovered those memories in therapy. Journalist, mother, and daughter Meredith Maran was one of them. Her accusation and estrangement from her father...
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