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42) More rootabagas
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A selection of Sandburg's fanciful, humorous short stories peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Susan Slackentwist, and Dippy the Wisp.
Publisher
Activision
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Play as one of the 10 celebrity couples including Joey Fatone, Apolo Ohno, and Mel B and join one of the shows professional dancers to show the judges how you get your dance on! Includes 40 new songs including Mony Mony, Push it, Lady Marmalade, She bangs, Bootylicious, Black Horse and the Cherry Tree. New stars including Apolo Anton Ohno, Drew Lachey, Jennie Garth. New professional dancers including two-time champion Julianne Hough and 7 others....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world. For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a beacon of prosperity where people, money, and technology flowed freely, and residents enjoyed many civil liberties. In preparation for handing the territory over to China in 1997, Deng Xiaoping promised that it would remain highly autonomous for fifty years. An international treaty...
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of world literature; the samurai saga of pride, romance, and warfare of medieval Japan, with a reflection on the fleeting nature of power and glory begins "The Tale of the Heike," an epic from twelfth-century Japan. Comparable in stature to "The Tale of Genji," "The Tale of the Heike" narrates with wit, energy, and compassion the stories of such unforgettable characters as the ruthless warlord Kiyomori, who dies still burning with such...
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Since The Metropolitan Museum of Art's founding in New York City nearly 150 years ago, generations of artists have found boundless inspiration in its galleries. "The Artist Project" celebrates the role that great art plays in spurring creativity in the twenty-first century. Interviews with 120 international contemporary artists discussing works from The Met's collection that spark their imagination offer new insights into art, museums, and the creative...
Author
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this may really have meant to the men and women of the time. This book examines the...