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Author
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Every morning is beautiful when Noah visits his Grandparents. When Grandpa and Noah wake up, they take off singing and hardly stop: walking the dog, splashing through puddles, and eating French toast with cinnamon. But one summer Grandpa seems to have forgotten how to do the things they love. Does he even know who Noah is? Grandma steps in energetically, filling in as best she can. But it is Noah who finds the way back to something he can share with...
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English
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This is The Story of Santa Claus!!! The story begins with Nicholas becoming a carpenter, just like his father and grandfather. As he became older, he decided one Christmas to make toys for his 11 brothers and sisters! What a beautiful morning that was. Soon, he was making presents for everyone in his village and then farther and farther...until Santa Claus, as he was now called, convinced his brother, sisters and their families to "go to the North...
3) George Balanchine: The Life and Legacy of One of the 20th Century's Most Influential Choreographers
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English
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By the turn of the 20th century, American entertainment was still preoccupied with European-style operetta, as embodied in the works of cellist-composer Victor Herbert. Traditional dance forms moved from European stories to the American prairie in Oklahoma by the late 1940s, and what was once the property of Bavarian princes became the singing standards of cowboys riding through the corn fields in Oh What a Beautiful Morning and Out of My Dreams.
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English
Description
By the turn of the 20th century, American entertainment was still preoccupied with European-style operetta, as embodied in the works of cellist-composer Victor Herbert. Traditional dance forms moved from European stories to the American prairie in Oklahoma by the late 1940s, and what was once the property of Bavarian princes became the singing standards of cowboys riding through the corn fields in Oh What a Beautiful Morning and Out of My Dreams....
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Language
English
Description
"The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel." – Bob Fosse
By the turn of the 20th century, American entertainment was still preoccupied with European-style operetta, as embodied in the works of cellist-composer Victor Herbert. Traditional dance forms moved from European stories to the American prairie in Oklahoma...
12) Broadway Jazz
Publisher
Putumayo World Music
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Jazz takes the stage with swinging versions of classic Broadway show tunes performed by Emilie-Claire Barlow, Coleman Hawkins, Leroy Jones, Kermit Ruffins, Sonny Rollins, and more.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed thather work "draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty...
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English
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"Every morning, Nuri the beekeeper rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the countryside. On weekends, his wife Afra, a gifted artist, sells her paintings at the open-air market in the square. They live simply, rich in family and friends, in the hills of the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo -- until the unthinkable happens. When all they love is destroyed by war, Nuri knows they have no choice except to leave their home....
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. The disaster left thousands dead, and Pompeii was no more than a memory for almost 1,700 years. In 1748, explorers rediscovered the port city with intact buildings and beautiful mosaics. This easy-to-read account is gripping and includes...
20) One step too far
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English
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A woman leaves her happy family and home to reinvent herself as a completely different person, with no trace of her former self, working in a hip London ad agency, until a shocking revelation makes her face what she has done.