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The Vietnam War continues to play itself out in fiction, autobiography, and history books, but no American author has captured the experiences of the Vietnamese themselves--and caught their voices--more tellingly than Robert Olen Butler, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain. The 15 stories collected here, all written in the first person, blend Vietnamese folklore, the terrible, lingering memories of war, American...
3) Pan's realm
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One moment in Spooksville, Adam and his friends would have quickly said that fairies, gnomes, leprechauns, and elves are just make-believe. Next moment, a horde of such magical creatures invade the town. What begin as childish pranks, which Adam, Sally, Watch, and Cindy love to see happen, quickly turn more serious, and the four friends find themselves fighting for their lives against the mischievous creatures, hoping to find a way to send the mythical...
5) Thirteens
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"Eleanor has just moved to the quiet, prosperous Eden Eld. When she awakes to discover an ancient grandfather clock that she's never seen before her new room, she's sure her eyes must be playing tricks on her. But then she spots a large bird, staring at her as she boards the school bus. And a black dog with glowing red eyes follows her around town. All she wants is to be normal, and these are far from normal. And worse--no one else can see them. Except...
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Theo and Polly host a party in Dream Park to celebrate their daughter Hermia's engagement to James, but when Xander, Hermia's true love, shows up to dispute the betrothal, it takes magical intervention to set things right. Peter Bowker adapts Shakespeare's unusual romantic comedy where the problems of mortal love are mirrored in interlocking plots between Fairyland and the modern world. Bill Patterson plays Theo, Imelda Staunton is Polly, and the...
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For twelve-year-old Neve, it's always been her and her older sister against the world, their lives entwined just like sisters in a fairy tale. If Rose loves tennis, Neve will play it too--even if secretly she'd rather be home turning cardboard boxes into offbeat art projects. Not even being moved to the piney woods outside Etters, South Carolina, can change what they are to each other--until a mysterious fog seems to swallow up Rose before Neve's...
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Eleven-year-old Scottish Play Doe--his friends call him Scott--is convinced that the Goodco Cereal Company is secretly run by evil fairies who plan to turn kids into a zombie army by injecting "NEW! Intellijuice" in all their cereals. Scott believes Goodco is also responsible for kidnapping the Queen of England and replacing her with two goblins in a queen suit. Scott, his friendly leprechaun Mick, twins Erno and Emily, and Biggs--their gargantuan...
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