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The botany of desire [playaway] : a plant's-eye view of the world
Michael Pollan.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Examines the relationship between humans and domesticated plants.
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Bridge to Terabithia [playaway]
Katherine Paterson.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
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A briefer history of time [playaway]
Stephen Hawking ; with Leonard Mlodinow.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
An accessible and up-to-date guide for nonscientists addressing the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe.
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Canterbury tales [playaway]
Geoffrey Chaucer
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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The case of the snowboarding superstar [playaway] ; and, The case of the Christmas snowman
by James Preller.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
In The case of the snowboarding superstar, Jigsaw and his family are going on a winter vacation. There will be snowboarding, sledding, and even a race! But great detectives like Jigsaw Jones never really take a break. When trouble hits the slopes, Jigsaw has to find a missing good luck charm. But will he solve the case without his partner, Mila? In The case of the Christmas snowman, Lucy is in trouble. She gave her father's rare coin to Bigs Maloney. Now the coin is missing! Jigsaw and Mila are on the hunt for clues.
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Charlie and the chocolate factory [playaway] ; Charlie and the great glass elevator
Roald Dahl.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Charlie and the chocolate factory: five children find entry tickets to Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory. The tour brings out the best and worst in them ; Charlie and the great glass elevator: taking up where Charlie and the chocolate factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.
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Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin and other stories [playaway]
Charles Perrault & the Brothers Grimm.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Through the ages children have been enthralled by Cinderella, the glass slipper, and the evil stepmother! Also includes: Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Little Tom Thumb, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and others.
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Classic nursery rhymes [playaway]
Narrated by Vanessa Maroney.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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Clouds of witness [playaway].
Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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Collected stories & poems [playaway]
Edgar Allan Poe.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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Digging to America [playaway] : a novel
Anne Tyler.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in.
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Disappearing act [playaway]
Sid Fleischman.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
After their archaeologist mother fails to return from Mexico and they discover that someone is stalking their Albuquerque house, twelve-year-old Kevin and his opera-singing older sister flee to Venice, California, where they hope that new identities will keep them safe.
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