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  • Around the World in Eighty Days

    New Translation, illutrated by Ross Collins

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    Having learnt that a new railway in India has made it theoretically possible to travel all the way around the globe in no more than eighty days, Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and fastidious London gentleman, makes a wager of £20,000 with his Reform Club associates that he can achieve this hitherto unheard-of feat, and, accompanied by his French valet Jean Passepartout, boards a train for Dover the very ... Read more

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  • The Mysterious Librarian

    When the mysterious and eccentric Miss Charlotte arrives in the village of Saint-Anatole to take over the tiny library, the locals are surprised to find out that she does things differently. Wearing a long blue dress and a giant hat, she takes her books out for a walk in a wheelbarrow and shows the children that reading can be fun and useful. Sometimes she is so caught up in the magic of the ... Read more

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  • The New Teacher

    Mademoiselle Charlotte, the new teacher, is not like the others: she wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that make her look like a scarecrow, and she talks to a rock. The children think she is crazy at first, but soon realize she makes school more fun than ever, getting them to measure the room with cooked spaghetti in maths class, telling fascinating stories about a gorilla and even taking the ... Read more

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  • The New Football Coach

    Translated by Berg, Sander ...
    Miss Charlotte the new coach of a children’s football team has some odd methods to prepare them for the big match, including talking to the ball and drinking a special potion, smalalamiam. Also, she teaches them how to lose! And to have fun. Incredibly, it seems to work but will their hopes of victory be dashed when their star player decides to join the other team?The latest instalment in ... Read more

    $8.29 USD

  • A Funny Sort of Minister

    Translated by Berg, Sander ...
    Series series The Adventures of Mademoiselle Charlotte
    At a train station on her way to meet her friends Marie and Leo to recover her pet rock, Madame Charlotte accidentally picks up the Prime Minister's elephant-hide bag instead of her own. As it contains important documents and the politician is due to make an important speech on children's education, Miss Charlotte - hoping that she might get a ministerial job out of this - embarks on a quest to ... Read more

    $8.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    Silicon City

    San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    The tech boom of our time is changing San Francisco at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been transformed by Silicon Valley. But the richer the region gets, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes, and the cracks in the city's facade begin to show. Inspired by Studs Terkel ... Read more

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  • The Doodles - a children's story

    by Pilar Orti ...
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  • I am Rosa Parks

    by Brad Meltzer ...
    Illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos ...
    Series series Ordinary People Change the World
    Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks is the 3rd hero in in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8.Each picture book in this series is a biography of a significant historical figure, told in a simple, conversational, vivacious way, and always focusing on a character trait that made the person heroic. The heros are depicted as children throughout, telling their life ... Read more

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  • Single, Carefree, Mellow

    Stories

    For the commitment-averse women in these eleven sublime laugh-out-loud stories, falling in love is never easy and always inconvenient.“Single, Carefree, Mellow is a lot like the women who populate it: smart and sexy and a little bit ruthless.” —Entertainment Weekly“Something like Cheever mixed with Ephron.” —The New York Times Book Review**Maya is in love with both her boyfriend and her boss. ... Read more

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