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781) Silver spoon
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Defying the expectations of family and teachers, Yuugo Hachiken chooses to leave the city and enroll at Ooezo Agricultural High School where he is surrounded by endless fields, fresh air, and a new connection to the land and to life.
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In the small English village of Edgecombe St. Mary, retired war hero Major Ernest Pettigrew is enjoying the quiet life. However, when his brother's death coincidentally sparks a friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the village's only Pakistani shopkeeper, Major Pettigrew finds himself falling in love. But when small-town bigotry taboos his relationship, Major Pettigrew is left to decide if happiness is worth a ruined reputation
786) Disney dogs 2
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Benji, the hunted: Benji is left in the wilderness after an accident. Rascal: A boy, a dog, and a pet raccoon provide merriment for the family. Where the red fern grows: A young boy longs for his own red-bone hunting dogs. The journey of Natty Gann: In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away.
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"In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being...
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"Therese, Lady Osbaldestone, and her household again welcome her younger daughter's children, Jamie, George, and Lottie, plus their cousins Melissa and Mandy, all of whom have insisted on spending the three weeks prior to Christmas at Therese's house, Hartington Manor, in the village of Little Moseley. The children are looking forward to the village's traditional events, and this year, Therese has arranged a new distraction--the plum puddings she...
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El verano de 1914 es uno de los m⡳ bellos que se recuerdan en la id⩬ica ciudad inglesa de Rye. All⩠acaba de llegar Beatrice Nash con un gran ba de libros, ansia de independencia y nuevas ideas que pocos en Rye asocian a una profesora de lat⩮. En un descanso de sus estudios de medicina, Hugh Grange se encuentra tambi⥮ en la ciudad visitando a su t⩡ Agatha, una verdadera instituci⯮ local que se ha jugado su cuidadosamente construida...
799) Anno's counting book
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A counting book depicting the growth in a village and surrounding countryside during twelve months.