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From the Publisher: Kate DiCamillo's beloved, best-selling story is now one of the biggest family movie events of 2005-celebrate with this irresistible movie tie-in! One summer day, Opal goes into a supermarket and comes out with a scraggly dog that she names Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, her preacher father finally tells her ten things about her absentee mother, and Opal makes lots of unusual friends in her quirky Florida town. And because...
2) Smolder
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"The wedding of the century between vampire hunter Anita Blake and the vampire king of America Jean-Claude is almost here, but an ancient evil arrives in St. Louis and even Jean-Claude's unmatched power isn't enough to save them. Only with the return of a lost love can they hope to combat the monster and save their loved ones and every vampire in the country from being consumed by darkness"--
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Documents the post-September 11 mission during which a small band of Special Forces soldiers captured the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif as part of an effort to defeat the Taliban, in a dramatic account that includes testimonies by Afghanistan citizens whose lives were changed by the war.
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Paradox Press
Pub. Date
c1994
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English
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You know these stories. You've heard them all before. At parties. On the train to work. They're supposed to be true stories. But as you hear them unfold, you get the sneaking suspicion that they're too good, too perfect, too outrageous to be true. They're all here: from standards like "the microwave pet" and "alligators in the sewer" to campfire classics like "the hook" and "the roommates death."
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LittleRock
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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Folktales are not the exclusive domain of the past. They are alive and kicking in urban legends, those stories that are told as true, but always as happening to a friend of a friend. We hear them in conversation and recognize them on the internet. This is a collection of the most common ones told.
