Author: Geeta Dharmarajan
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788189020675
Category : Children's stories, Indic (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780525479994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no inkling of the romance--and sorrow--that will ensue.

Author: Bill Dorfman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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The celebrity dentist featured on "Extreme Makeover" discusses the latest developments in cosmetic dentistry and describes the techniques used to achieve a healthier, more attractive smile.

Author: Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809042975
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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"Lincoln's Smile demonstrates why Alan Trachtenberg has been the leading scholar in American studies for more than four decades." --Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University. Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about them. Some of the most beloved ones--like the famous last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at the time of his second inaugural--are downright puzzling, and it is their obscure, riddlelike aspects that draw his attention in the scintillating essays of Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas. With matchless authority, Trachtenberg moves from daguerreotypes to literary texts to subjects as diverse as Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the early works of Lewis Mumford.

Author: Raina Telgemeier
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545780012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.

Author: Roddy Doyle
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224455
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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From the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past. "It's his bravest novel yet; it's also, by far, his best." -- npr.org “The closest thing he’s written to a psychological thriller."– The New York Times Book Review Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a pink shirt comes over and sits down. He seems to know Victor’s name and to remember him from secondary school. His name is Fitzpatrick. Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes, too, the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers. He prompts other memories—of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victor’s own small claim to fame, as the man who would say the unsayable on the radio. But it’s the memories of school, and of one particular brother, that Victor cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity. Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humor, the superb evocation of adolescence, but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged to reevaluate everything you think you remember so clearly.

Author: Rachel Isadora
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547544782
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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Sitting in the kitchen of his grandfather's Chinese restaurant, a young boy enjoys watching the chefs and waiters prepare and serve mouth-watering dishes.

Author: Kelle James
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442406259
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Kelle James ran away from an abusive home at the age of fifteen to the best place she could think of. New York City. She was going to be a model, rich, famous, and she was going to find people who treated her right. She had no idea what was in store for her and within three days she was homeless and broke. What follows is her exceptional story of trying to make it on her own with nothing to her name and no one to trust. She endures a string of people, mostly men, who take advantage of her youth and beauty, many disappointments and rejections, and the most famous murder trial of the 1970s. This is the story of a girl losing herself before finding her way in the city that never sleeps.

Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Henry Miller called The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder his "most singular story."

Author: J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher: The Creative Company
ISBN: 9781568461922
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Based on true events, this tale recounts the 1911 theft of history's most famous portrait, Leonardo da Vinci's MONA LISA, through the spririted narration of the proud thief himself.