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  All Creatures Great & Small: Book 1

  All Creatures Great and Small

  by James Herriot

  Take an unforgettable journey through the English countryside and into the homes of its inhabitants-- four-legged and otherwise-- with the world's best-loved animal doctor. For over 25 years-- since All Creatures Great and Small was first published-- readers have delighted to the storytelling genius of James Herriot, the Yorkshire veterinarian whose fascinating vignettes brim with the wonder of life, animal and... (more)
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  James Herriot's Dog Stories

  by James Herriot

  An anthology of the complete dog stories, from Herriot's much-beloved memoirs, about the dogs that have always fascinated him the most.
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  All Creatures Great & Small: Book 4

  The Lord God Made Them All

  by James Herriot

  With each book more embraceable than the last, James Herriot once again brings us the magical beauty of Yorkshire through his heartwarming experiences as a country veterinarian. These new stories provide a grand finale to the wonderful books that began with all Creatures Great and Small. It is just after World War II, and James has returned from the R.A.F. to do battle with the diseases and injuries that befall... (more)
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  All Creatures Great & Small: Book 3

  All Things Wise and Wonderful

  by James Herriot

  The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series Readers adored James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful. Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of humor, insight, and wisdom. In the midst of World War II, James is training for the Royal Air Force, while going home... (more)
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  If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

  by Erma Bombeck

  "See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud." Art Buchwald The enchanting lady of laughter has done it again--this time taking a hilarious swipe at husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, marriage, lettuce, the national anthem, and a host of other domestic dilemmas. "It's fun from cover to cover." THE HARTFORD COURANT
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  Dewey

  The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

  by Vicki Myron, Bret Witter

  How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa. Dewey's story starts in the worst... (more)
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  All Creatures Great & Small: Book 2

  All Things Bright and Beautiful

  by James Herriot

  All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small , and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants---both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his... (more)
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  Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!

  by Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane

  "She goes a long way with her book to prove that humor is the best -- possibly the only -- way to keep the world on an even keel." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Remember the things Mother used to say? Erma Bombeck remembers them all and now she's using them on her own kids! With clever illustrations by Bob Keane, these really funny, too-true observations on family and kids and why it shouldn't work but does, is a wonderful... (more)
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  Oogy

  The Dog Only a Family Could Love

  by Larry Levin

  In the bestselling tradition of "Rescuing Sprite" comes the story of a puppy brought back from the brink of death, and the family he adopted. In 2002, Larry Levin and his twin sons, Dan and Noah, took their terminally ill cat to the Ardmore Animal Hospital outside Philadelphia to have the beloved pet put to sleep. What would begin as a terrible day suddenly got brighter as the ugliest dog they had ever seen -- one... (more)
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  Sense and Sensibility (Norton Critical Editions)

  by Jane Austen

  Sense and Sensibility is Austen's first published novel and the one now most scrutinized by historicist and feminist scholars, who offer new, complex readings of the work. The text is that of the 1813 Second Edition (the origins of which can be traced back to 1795). The text is fully annotated and is accompanied by a map of nineteenth-century England. "Contexts" explores the personal and social issues that loom... (more)
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  Quiet

  The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  by Susan Cain

  At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who invent and create but prefer not to pitch their own ideas; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled “quiet,” it is to introverts we owe many of the great contributions to society — from Van Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the... (more)
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  Serengeti Spy

  Views from a Hidden Camera on the Plains of East Africa

  by Anup Shah

  In these spectacular photographs taken in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and the Maasai Mara Natural Reserve in Kenya, Anup Shah reveals African wildlife as never before, through the use of remote hidden cameras planted across the plains. Organized by season from January through December, here is life on the plains in all its dynamism and vitality. Readers find themselves literally face-to-face with hyenas... (more)
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  At Wit's End

  by Erma Bombeck

  "America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire." THE BOSTON GLOBE Madcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's treading water. What do you mean you're a participle in the school play and you need a costume? Those rotten kids. If only they'd... (more)
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  When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home

  by Erma Bombeck

  The popular humorist offers tips and truisms on travel, discussing oddly named food, Asian bus drivers in Germany, plumbing around the world, and more. Reprint. NYT. K.
• Clabbered Dirt, Sweet GrassGary, Illustrated by Ruth Wright Paulsen Paulsen

  

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  Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass

  by Gary, Illustrated by Ruth Wright Paulsen Paulsen

• Stressing and Unstressing in a Tent: A Narrative ReminiscenceStuart L. Burns

  

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  Stressing and Unstressing in a Tent: A Narrative Reminiscence

  by Stuart L. Burns

• ENOCH ARDEN.Alfred [1809 - 1892]. Tennyson

  

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  ENOCH ARDEN.

  by Alfred [1809 - 1892]. Tennyson

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  Great Expectations

  by Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender,” may be called Charles Dickens' finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career. Written in the last decade of his life, Great Expectations reveals Dickens’ dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickens’ most... (more)
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  Who Gets the Drumstick?: the Story of the Beardsley Family

  by Helen BEARDSLEY

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• All I Really need to Know I learned in KindergartenRobert Fulgham

  

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  All I Really need to Know I learned in Kindergarten

  by Robert Fulgham