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The Book for My Brother - Tomaz Salamun

The Book for My Brother - Tomaz Salamun

This newest collection of poems from Toma? ?alamun is exuberant, ambitious, and full of surprises. Here the devil is encountered and understood-I see the devil's head, people, I see his whole body . . . he longs for innocence, as we do. Here the poet juggles many tones, languages, and countries. Desire is evoked as both frustrating and exhilarating-I'm watered by longing, knocking myhead into the wall, on the ground, or I burn, burn,folded up on the couch.And memory comes back to remind us of the..

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Zathura - Chris Van Allsburg

Zathura - Chris Van Allsburg

Acclaimed author Chris Van Allsburg's daring companion to his Caldecott Medal-winning Jumanji. This tale of intergalactic adventure and sibling rivalry features a beautifully refreshed cover.In a story that picks up where Jumanji leaves off, older brother Walter warns his pesky little brother, Danny, not to bring home a mysterious board game they find at the park. But when Danny's curiosity gets the better of him, the brothers have to battle homicidal robots, Zyborg pirates, and giant meteors in..

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House of Abraham - Stephen Berry

House of Abraham - Stephen Berry

For all the talk of the Civil War's pitting brother against brother, no book has told fully the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family better illustrates the personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between the Confederacy and the Union. Three of her brothers fought, and two died, for the South. Several Todds ? including Mary herself ? bedeviled Lincoln's administration with their scandalous behavior. Their struggles..

DKK 223.95
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My Vicksburg - Ann Rinaldi

My Vicksburg - Ann Rinaldi

Claire Louise Corbett and her Confederate family flee their home as Union soldiers shell their town of Vicksburg, Mississippi. They venture out from the safety of a cave only three times a day, when the Union army takes their meals at eight in the morning, noon, and eight at night. Although many of the townspeople suffer from a lack of food, the Corbetts receive extra rations from Claire Louise's brother, Landon, a doctor with the Union army. When Claire Louise discovers her brother tending to a..

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Egg-Drop Blues - Jacqueline Turner Banks

Egg-Drop Blues - Jacqueline Turner Banks

Judge is desperate. His mother has threatened to send him to a different school next year—away from his twin brother and “posse” of friends. To prove he can succeed at his current school, Judge needs to bring up his grades. After weeks of hard work—all while dealing with his sometimes difficult brother, his dyslexia, and the news that his divorced father has decided to remarry—Judge’s hopes depend on winning a science competition. Soon it all comes down to the egg-drop . . .

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One True Friend - Joyce Hansen

One True Friend - Joyce Hansen

Amir has finally landed in a good place. His new foster parents, the Smiths, are loving and kind, and he has been reunited with his youngest brother, whom the Smiths have raised since babyhood. Amir knows he should be happy, but he is uncomfortable around the Smiths, and his little brother doesn’t even remember him. If only Amir could find the rest of the siblings he was separated from when his parents died, perhaps he would feel more at ease. Luckily, he has someone he can open his heart to—his..

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Patience, Princess Catherine - Carolyn Meyer

Patience, Princess Catherine - Carolyn Meyer

England anxiously awaits Prince Arthur's betrothed-the Spanish princess who will be its future queen. But when Arthur dies not long after the wedding, Catherine of Aragon's fate becomes uncertain. Will the king and Catherine's parents arrange a marriage with Arthur's brother, Henry, or will she return to Spain a widow? Through all this turmoil, the young princess's resolve remains unshaken. She will one day be England's queen . . . no matter how long it takes.

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Song and Dance - Alan Shapiro

Song and Dance - Alan Shapiro

The poems in Alan Shapiro's seventh collection, Song and Dance, intimately describe the complicated feelings that attend the catastrophic loss of a loved one. In 1998, Shapiro's brother, David, an actor on Broadway, was diagnosed with an incurable form of brain cancer. Song and Dance recounts the poet's emotional journey through the last months of his brother's life, exploring feelings too often ignored in official accounts of grief: horror, relief, impatience, exhaustion, exhilaration, fear, self-criticism,..

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Columbus Slaughters Braves - Mark Friedman

Columbus Slaughters Braves - Mark Friedman

Mark Friedman's debut novel is an unflinchingly honest portrait of the relationship between siblings, the heartbreaking tale of two brothers whose lives lead to vastly different fates. The narrator, Joe Columbus, tells the story of his brother CJ's remarkable success as a professional baseball player in an effort to explain not only CJ's apparently charmed life but also his own failures - his envy, his crumbling marriage, his missteps and cowardice. A richly imagined story that explores both the..

DKK 168.95
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City Below Pa - James Carroll

City Below Pa - James Carroll

A New York Times Notable Book\A rich, seductive meld of characters real and fictive, of history and fancy.\  — New York Times Book ReviewIn this compelling family saga set during a tumultuous era in Boston history, 1960-1984, acclaimed author James Carroll chronicles the lives of two brothers, Nick and Terry Doyle, as they strive to move beyond the strictures of their working-class Charlestown neighborhood to \the city below.\ Though one brother is drawn to the worlds of politics and real..

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The Vanishing Moon - Joseph Coulson

The Vanishing Moon - Joseph Coulson

A chorus of candid and poignant voices narrates this novel about a working-class American family who struggles to succeed through five turbulent decades, from the Depression to the Vietnam War. First, Stephen Tollman looks back on his early adventures with his older brother, Philip, as the boys try to shield their younger siblings from the vulnerability of financial ruin. Years later, the vibrant and ambitious Katherine Lennox mesmerizes Stephen and Philip as they both tragically fall in love with..

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Funny Little Monkey - Andrew Auseon

Funny Little Monkey - Andrew Auseon

Arty may be shorter--much shorter--than your average teen, but that doesn't mean his problems are small. If anything, they're huge. Whether he is dodging the fists of his hulking twin brother, dealing with the other misfits in his school, or falling in love for the first time, Arty lives his life looking up--and gives readers unusual perspective on becoming a man. This acclaimed debut novel is hilarious, offbeat, surprisingly moving, and sure to appeal to teens of all sizes.

DKK 198.95
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Okay for Now - Schmidt Gary D. Schmidt

Okay for Now - Schmidt Gary D. Schmidt

Beloved author Gary D. Schmidt expertly blends comedy and tragedy in the story of Doug Swieteck, an unhappy \teenage thug\ first introduced in The Wednesday Wars, who finds consolation and a sense of possibility in friendship and art. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, this absorbing novel centers on Doug, 14, who has an abusive father, a bully for a brother, a bad reputation, and shameful secrets to keep. Teachers and police and his relatives think he's worthless, and he believes them, holding..

DKK 113.95
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A Book of Reasons - John Vernon

A Book of Reasons - John Vernon

In this \heartwarming tale of brotherly love\ (WALL STREET JOURNAL), John Vernon \lifts us high, confronting basic questions about the nature of existence itself and the peculiar objects that sustain this transient life\ (Jay Parini). When his reclusive brother Paul died, Vernon came face to face with a life he had never suspected. He found his brother's house in a state of squalid disrepair: piled high with a lifetime of trash, littered with animal corpses and excrement, unheated and decrepit...

DKK 234.00
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Lombardo's Law - ELLEN WITTLINGER

Lombardo's Law - ELLEN WITTLINGER

When the Lombardos arrive, Justine secretly hopes her new neighbor and classmate, Heather, will be a slightly off-center movie lover like herself. As it turns out, it’s Heather’s younger brother, Mike, who shares Justine’s enthusiasm for film, as well as some of her daydreamer’s moodiness. Fast friends, Mike and Justine begin to make a movie together, but Justine soon has feelings she doesn’t care to admit to anyone . . . especially herself. Is she falling for an eighth-grader? Do two lousy..

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Friendly Fire - Abraham B Yehoshua

Friendly Fire - Abraham B Yehoshua

A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Ya'ari, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniela, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by friendly fire.\ Yirmiyahu is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones..

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Senderos Fronterizos - Jimenez

Senderos Fronterizos - Jimenez

Sin amargura ni sentimentalismo, Francisco Jiménez termina de contar la historia de su juventud en esta conmovedora secuela a Cajas de cartón. At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jimenez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months and years that follow, Francisco, his mother and father, and his seven..

DKK 107.95
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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell

A special large-format edition of George Orwell's classic, illustrated in full color by legendary gonzo artist Ralph Steadman ?Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.??The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger..

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Oxygen - Andrew Miller

Oxygen - Andrew Miller

It is the summer of 1997. Alec Valentine is returning to England to care for his ailing mother, Alice, a task that only reinforces his deep sense of inadequacy. In San Francisco, his older brother Larry prepares to come home as well, preoccupied with an acting career that is sliding toward sleaze and a marriage that is faltering. In Paris, on the other hand, the Hungarian playwright Lászlo Lázár seems to have it all--critical acclaim, a loving boyfriend, and a close circle of friends--yet even..

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It's a Baby, Andy Russell - David A. Adler

It's a Baby, Andy Russell - David A. Adler

While Andy Russell's parents are at the hospital with his newborn brother, Andy is having big problems at home. His strange aunt Janet has come to babysit, and she's on a mission to rid the house of germs in preparation for the baby. Andy is convinced his aunt wants him to clean all of his \germy\ pets . . . right out of the house! The sixth book in the Andy Russell series is filled with hilarious misunderstandings, warm reunions, and a sweet new addition to the Russell family.

DKK 113.95
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Angel in Charge - Judy Delton

Angel in Charge - Judy Delton

Angel and her little brother have to cope with an incompetent babysitter and several crises while their mother is away. These tales of the trials and tribulations of ten-year-old Angel O'Leary are guaranteed to win many fans. A master at creating short, amusing episodes, Judy Delton writes about ordinary children in a manner often compared to Beverly Cleary, and Carolyn Haywood. Booklist described Angel as, \a flesh-and-blood child whom readers will take to their hearts. Each little jewel of a chapter..

DKK 123.95
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