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A small New York apartment was a favorite location for an O. Henry story. He is reported to have said, "I would like to live a lifetime in each street in New York. Every house has a drama in it." Here, just around the corner from the turn of the century, in Greenwich Village, we find two young struggling artists who've become the best of friends only to have one stricken with deadly pneumonia. And she is convinced that when the last leaf falls from...
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Wubbzy stays up late watching scary movies and believes he sees the monsters from the movies in real life./Walden waits for the last leaf from the Figgity-Fig tree to fall. When Wubbzy and Widget come back they find Walden taking is nap. When the leaf falls Wubbzy and Widget try to catch it before Walden wakes up.
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Hazel has gathered, sorted, polished and stacked enough acorns to fill her hidey-hole, even though winter is months away and now she's feeling a little down. Rabbit decides to plan a surprise to cheer her up that includes special fluffy-lovin' from the Gibble Girls, cloud watching on a lollygagging lily pad with Jasper and a special demonstration of Thunder's Thump-thumpa dance. But it's only when the friends all work together that they are able...
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Groomed for power by the Dowager Empress, three-year-old Aisin-Gioro Puyi ascended China's imperial throne in 1908. This program illustrates the early years of his sporadic reign, his education under Scottish tutor Reginald Johnston, and the shifting of his political fortunes at the mercy of international events. Puyi's eviction from the Forbidden City during his teenage years, his Westernized playboy lifestyle, and his manifold marriages and liaisons...
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Gift of the Magi and Other New York Stories" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: The Voice Of The City The Making Of A New Yorker A Retrieved Reformation The Cop And The Anthem The Duplicity Of Hargraves The Gift Of The Magi The Last Leaf The Ransom Of Red Chief The Skylight Room The Trimmed Lamp The Whirligig Of Life A Harlem Tragedy Biography of O....
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What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories -- about both good times and bad -- are sometimes sad, and sometimes funny. But all of them are sure to make you...