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Inkdeath
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Cornelia Funke, Allan Corduner (Read by)
The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of ...
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Igraine the Brave
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Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell (Translator)
Igraine dreams of becoming a famous knight. When the nefarious nephew of the baroness shows up with plans to capture the castle, its up to Igraine to be brave and save the day. Illustrations.
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Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary
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Traudl Junge, Melissa Muller (Editor), Anthea Bell (Translator)
By its description of the outwardly very normal, almost mundane quality of day-to-day life with Adolf Hitler, this journal by his secretary confirms the perceptive notation of "the banality of evil." of photos.
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Asterix and the Falling Sky
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Albert Uderzo (Illustrator), Anthea Bell (Translator), Derek Hockridge (Translator)
The Gauls have only one fear: that the sky may fall on their heads tomorrow. But tomorrow never comes, says Chief Vitalstatistix. Or does it? It looks as if it's come at last for Asterix, Obelix and the other villagers. And some surprising new characters fall along with the sky. Our friends soon find themselves in the middle of a space race.. ...
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History of Food
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Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, Anthea Bell (Translator)
The story of cuisine and the social history of eating. The author looks at the transition from a vegetable to an increasingly meat-based diet; the relationship between people and what they eat; between particular foods and social behavior; and between dietary habits and methods of cooking.
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Asterix and the golden sickle
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Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Anthea Bell, Derek Hockridge
Gaul was divided into three parts. No, four parts -- for one small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the Roman invaders. BOOK 2 Getafix has broken his golden sickle, so Asterix and Obelix visit Lutetia to buy a new one. Unfortunately the sicklesmith (a cousin of Obelix's) has mysteriously gone missing...
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Cinderella
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Charles Perrault
In this traditional version of the story, Cinderella attends the ball and dances with the prince for two nights in a row. It is only after the second party that she leaves her glass slipper behind as the only clue to her true identity. The illustrations were created by using fine-line pen and color ink and dyes.
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Asterix and the Vikings: The Book of the Film
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Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Anthea Bell (Translator)
When the Vikings kidnap Justforkix, the timid but very trendy son of one of Chief Vitalstatistix' closest and most powerful friends, believing he has the key to the secret of the magic potion, Asterix and Obelix are sent on one of their most dangerous missions. For they must voyage north to the Vikings' home territory and rescue Justforkix, ...
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Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the RAF
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Stefan Aust, Anthea Bell (Translator)
The Baader-Meinhof Group--later known as the Red Army Faction (RAF)--was a violent urban guerilla group which terrorized Germany in the 1970s and '80s, killing 47 people, wounding 93, taking 162 hostages, and robbing 35 banks--all in an attempt to bring revolution to the Federal Republic. Stefan Aust's masterful history of the Group presents the ...
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Nicholas on Vacation
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Rene Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempe, Anthea Bell (Translator)
Fishing trips, miniature golf, and a whole new gang of friends figure in the third book in the classic series about the cheeky French schoolboy, Nicholas. 120 illustrations.
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Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
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Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator)
The dramatic disappearance of the wife of a wealthy businessman from a small hotel on the French Riviera prompts a distinguished English widow to recount her fleeting encounter with a young aristocrat many years before in Monte Carlo. Impulsively following the broken man as he stumbles from the roulette table, she embarks on twenty-four hours of ...
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In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS
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Uwe Timm, Anthea Bell (Translator)
Uwe Timm's much older brother, Karl Heinz, was a soldier with the SS in Hitler's Germany. In 1943, he was badly wounded, and then died, devastating the family--and leaving Uwe with only one hazy memory of his brother. After the death of his parents and his sister, Timm was able to write about Karl Heinz at last, and in this moving memoir he ...
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Nicholas in Trouble
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Rene Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempe, Anthea Bell (Translator)
In the fifth title in this beloved series of books, Nicholas and the gang sell raffle tickets for a good cause, learn how to cross the road safely, and bring all kinds of interesting things to school to the surprise and consternation of their long-suffering teacher. Illustrations.
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Amok and Other Stories
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Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator)
A doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death; and a First World War POW longing to be home again ...
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The Bremen Town Musicians
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Brothers Grimm, Lisbeth Zwerger (Illustrator), Anthea Bell (Translator)
Lisbeth Zwerger is one of the preeminent interpreters of classic fairy tales, and now she brings her brush to The Grimm Brothers Bremen Town Musicians, the tale of four beleaguered animals who outwit some frightful robbers. In this lesser-known but equally important tale, theres a donkey who can no longer work, a hound who can no longer hunt, a ...
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Dwarf Nose
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Wilhelm Hauff, Lisbeth Zwerger (Illustrator), Anthea Bell (Translator)
A tale rich in unforgettable characters and fantastic settings and events, Dwarf Nose tells the story of a little boy whose complaining so angers a wicked fairy that she casts a spell on him. Zwerger's illustrations evoke all the magic, mystery, and drama of this German classic. Full color.
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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
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E T A Hoffmann, Anthea Bell (Translator), Jeremy Adler (Introduction by)
Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the ...
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On Love and Death
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Patrick Suskind, Anthea Bell (Translator)
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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
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Sasa Stanisic, Anthea Bell (Translator)
For young Aleksandar Krsmanoviae, his grandfather Slavko's credo--"the most valuable gift of all is invention, imagination is your greatest wealth"--endows life in Visegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina with a mythic quality, a kaleidoscopic brilliance. So when his grandfather dies suddenly, Aleks summons this gift of storytelling to see him through his ...
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Nicholas and the Gang
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Rene Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempe (Illustrator), Anthea Bell (Translator)
In this fourth book of Goscinnys series about a cheeky French schoolboy, Nicholas and his friends always finds exciting new things to do. Max does magic tricks, Jeremy wants to go camping, and Geoffrey invents a secret code that only the gang will understand. Illustrations.
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Little Hobbin
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Theodor Storm, Lisbeth Zwerger (Illustrator), Anthea Bell (Translator)
After his mother becomes exhausted wheeling him around the room, Little Hobbin devises a way to keep his crib rolling and, with the help of the moon, rolls out of the house, into the street, to the end of the world, and into the sky.
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Asterix in Corsica
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Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo (Illustrator), Anthea Bell (Translator)
Gaul was divided into three parts. No, four parts - for one small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the Roman invaders. BOOK 20 Asterix and Obelix meet a Corsican chieftain who has been taken prisoner and accompany their new friend Boneywasawarriorwayayix back to Corsica to help him foil the evil designs of the corrupt Roman ...
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Love Today
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Maxim Biller, Anthea Bell (Translator)
Following the remarkable appearance of two separate stories in "The New Yorker" within only two months, acclaimed German writer Biller makes his highly anticipated English-language debut with a collection of beautifully wrought stories.
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Fantastic Night and Other Stories
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Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator), Cedar Paul (Translator)
Five of Stefan Zweig's most compelling novellas are presented together in this powerful volume. "Fantastic Night" is the story of one transforming evening in the life of a rich and bored young man. He spends a day at the races and an evening in the seedy but thrilling company of the dregs of society. His experiences jolt him out of his languor and ...
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Berlin
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Pierre Frei, Anthea Bell (Translator)
Set in a devastated Berlin one month after the close of the Second World War, Berlin has been acclaimed as "ambitious . . . filled with brilliantly drawn characters, mesmerizingly readable, and disturbingly convincing" by the "Sunday Telegraph." An electrifying thriller in the tradition of Joseph Kanon and Alan Furst, "Berlin" is a page-turner and ...
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