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  If You Give

  If You Take a Mouse to the Movies

  by Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond

  Format: Easy Reader Genre: Modern FantasySummary: In this story a young boy takes a mouse to the movies. Once inside the theatre the mouse asks for favors of the boy. The mouse exhausts the boy with activities and eventually they end up back at their home, where the mouse asks to be taken to the movies.High Quality Characteristics: The ease of which children can relate to this easy... (more)
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  The Popcorn Book

  by Tomie dePaola

  Presents a variety of facts about popcorn and includes two recipes.
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  I (heart) Justin Bieber

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  Bear (Asch, Frank): Book 2

  Popcorn

  by Frank Asch

  Join Sam at his costume party, but don't forget to bring the popcorn! Today's parents and grandparents gravitate toward this book, a well-loved favorite written and illustrated by Frank Asch. This amusing children's book classic is sure to put a smile on everyone's face! This mini edition is the perfect take-along size; ideal for stocking stuffers, diaper bags, and car companions!
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  Snooze-a-Palooza!

  More Than 100 Slumber Party Ideas

  A super book for girls-full of super slumber parties! From invitations to breakfast and everything in between-girls get step-by-step ideas for planning eight dream sleepovers. The slumber party experts at American Girl have outlined super soirees, including Spa, Scrapbook, Chocolate, and Monkey-themed parties. Each chapter includes instructions for themed invitations, favors, games, snack recipes, activities, and... (more)
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  Popcorn (Green Light Readers. All Levels)

  by Alex Moran

  A big pot, some heat, and lots of popcorn. . . . When the corn starts popping, the fun gets hopping for a boy, a girl, and their grown-up pals, who tend the stove. But when will the popping stop? Betsy Everitt’s energetic illustrations add bold spice to this lighthearted rhyming recipe for a culinary adventure.
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  The Popcorn Shop (Hello Reader!-Level 3)

  by Alice Low

  A popcorn machine goes haywire in this rhyming, easy-to-read Level 3 book for beginning readers. A Hello Reader book. Full-color illustrations throughout.
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  Let's Read and Find Out Science

  Corn Is Maize

  The Gift of the Indians

  by Aliki Brandenberg

  What's so great about corn? Popcorn, corn on the cob, cornbread, tacos, tamales, and tortillas. All of these and many other good things come from one amazing plant. Aliki tells the story of corn: How Native American farmers thousands of years ago found and nourished a wild grass plant and made it an important part of their lives. They learned the best ways to grow and store and use its fat yellow kernels. And... (more)
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  From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video (Inside Technology)

  by Joshua M. Greenberg

  The first video cassette recorders were promoted in the 1970s as an extension of broadcast television technology—a time-shifting device, a way to tape TV shows. Early advertising for Sony's Betamax told potential purchasers "You don't have to miss Kojak because you're watching Columbo. " But within a few years, the VCR had been transformed from a machine that recorded television into an extension of the movie... (more)
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  100 Pounds of Popcorn

  by Hazel Krantz

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  The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies

  by Edward Jay Epstein

  In a Freakonomics meets Hollywood saga, veteran investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein goes undercover to explore Hollywood’s “invisible money machine,” probing the dazzlingly complicated finances behind the hits and the flops, while he answers the surprisingly puzzling question: How do the studios make their money? Along the way we also learn much about star system and what makes the business tick: +... (more)
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  Corn: An American Indian Gift (Pair-It Books)

  by Gare Thompson

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  Water for Elephants

  by Sara Gruen

  Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of... (more)
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  Revelation Space: Book 1

  Revelation Space

  by Alastair Reynolds

  Dr Dan Sylveste, an archaeologist who has for years been fascinated with the long-dead alien race the Amarantin, is about to discover something that could change the course of mankind. But before he can act on anything his wife is killed and he is captured when a coup sweeps across the planet Resurgam. Meanwhile, an astonishing ship bearing a crew of militaristic cyborgs and a kidnapped Gunnery Officer is... (more)
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  Chasm City

  by Alastair Reynolds

  In a city overrun by a virus that attacks both man and machine, an agent pursues a lowlife postmortal-and uncovers a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget...
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  Redemption Ark

  by Alastair Reynolds

  This stunning sequel to Revelation Space begins late in the twenty-sixth century. The human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger alien machines designed to detect intelligent life--and destroy it.
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  Absolution Gap

  by Alastair Reynolds

  Mankind has endured centuries of horrific plague and a particularly brutal interstellar war ...but there is still no time for peace and quiet. Stirred from aeons of sleep, the Inhibitors - ancient alien killing machines - have begun the process of ridding the galaxy of its latest emergent intelligence: mankind. As a ragtag bag of refugees fleeing the first wave of the cull head towards an apparently insignificant... (more)
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  Phule's Company: Book 1

  Phule's Company

  by Robert Asprin

  Meet the soldiers of Captain Willard Phule's Company--a handful of military rejects able to do more damage before 9 A.M. than most people do all day. Threatened by an alien enemy, Earth's military sends Phule and his soldiers to a distant planet. But now, the aliens have chosen a new target of war . . . Phule's Company. Original.
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  The Funhouse

  by Owen West, Dean Koontz

  Years after leaving the carnival, her hated first husband, and the child she could never love, Ellen has a new life, a new husband, and two beautiful children, but now the carnival is coming back to town, and Ellen is going to have to pay for her sins. Reprint.
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  On the Street Where You Live

  by Mary Higgins Clark

  In the gripping new novel from the Queen of Suspense, a woman is haunted by two grisly murders separated by more than a century, yet somehow, inextricably linked... ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house in the seaside resort... (more)