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Sam the Man volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Second-grader Sam Graham wants a cell phone to do research and share information but when his parents say no, he devises a new plan that starts a fad at school.
3) Cahoots
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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When they spend a week at their aunt and uncle's farm without any electronic entertainment, Aldo and his brother try to find other ways to occupy themselves while dealing with their twin cousins, in a book featuring vocabulary starting with C.
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Series
Aldo Zelnick comic novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Aldo and his friend, Jack, find a fossil in the neighborhood ditch.
5) Egghead
Author
Series
Aldo Zelnick comic novels volume 5
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Aldo envisions himself as Albert Einstein and plans to dress as the scientist for Halloween until he realizes that his performance in Spanish class may be jeopardizing his best friendship with his bilingual pal, Jack.
6) Ignoramus
Author
Series
Aldo Zelnick comic novels volume 9
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Aldo's birthday is on February 14th, and this year he is determined to have a party with no reminders of the Valentine's Day holiday.
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"A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love. "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine- year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it behind in Monica's Café. When Monica discovers Julian's abandoned...
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The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared is a curious, adventurous boy who quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His twin brother Simon is calm and reserved. He is the...
11) Oracle night
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Pub. Date
2003
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Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and puzzling events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality.
Why does his wife...
12) The red notebook
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might be from the contents of the bag. Especially a red notebook with her jottings, which really makes him want to meet her. Without even a name to go on, and only...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Publishing for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries "offer the most complete picture ever published" of the canonical author (New York Times). Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks--posthumously discovered behind...
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"Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper . . . Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it's...
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"One vital piece of equipment has been a constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure--the sketchbook or journal. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences, insight, and discovery, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. Here are carefully selected excerpts from 70 such sketchbooks from explorers through history to the present, records by men and women who journeyed into frozed wastelands,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Miranda Keeling notices ordinary things that she encounters on buses, in cafés, on walks in the park or down the street. The result is a joyful, poignant and familiar portrait of everday life. Inspired by her popular Twitter accout and accompanies by stunning water colour paintings from Luci Power, this book invites us to discover the magic of stopping to notice." -- Back cover.
Inspired by her popular Twitter account, The Year I Stopped to Notice...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
" 'How to Keep a Sketch Journal' is the essential guide to observational sketching, suitable for both new and experienced artists. 'How to Keep a Sketch Journal' is the essential travel-sized guide to keeping a visual diary of your surroundings. Whether you're a habitual sketcher or just starting out, this book will teach you how to improve your observational sketching, indoors or outdoors, whether you're drawing still lifes, environments, or scenes....
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