#hardcover #animal #animals #penguin #homeschool #nature #nonfiction #elephant 2 in one book with both animals 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Getting to Know Nature’s Children: Penguins & Elephants 

#hardcover #Elementary #Students #Children’s #Biomes #Birds #Tropical #Puffin #Penguin  #Science￼￼￼ box 3 please note that this is like a giant board book. There are different categories. See the pictures. The bottom right hand side has been bent a bit but is still ok. 

Texas

At your fingertips

Birds

#hardcover #seabirds #penguin #pelican #gull #duck #swans

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

Based on the television series Wild, wild world animals.

Birds of the Sea, Shore and Stream

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#paperback #new #bookclub #heavenandearth #penguin

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Iowa

A Novel


A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire, youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"Perfect, moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who feel like old friends."
--Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less    

"Heaven and Earth is a stunning achievement and confirms him as an electrifying presence in contemporary fiction."
--André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me   

Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat, centuries-old olive groves and families who have lived there for generations. She spends long afternoons enveloped in a sunstruck stupor, reading her grandmother's paperbacks.

Everything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door: Nicola, Tommaso and Bern--the man Teresa will love for the rest of her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate, and seemingly unassailable bond.

But no bond is unbreakable and no summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers.

Because there is resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern--the enigmatic, restless gravitational center of the group--commits a brutal act of revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of the world will be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours in the shadow of the olive trees.

An unforgettable story of enduring love, the bonds between men, and the all-too-human search for meaning, Heaven and Earth is Paolo Giordano at his best: an author capable of unveiling the depths of the human soul, who has now given us the old-fashioned pleasure of a big, sprawling novel in which to lose ourselves.

Heaven and Earth

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#paperback #math #zero #science #educational #penguin 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Math

The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Zero

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#paperback #heartfelt #funny #sad #tragicomedy #Dublin #Ireland #humor #penguin #blackcomedy

New Jersey

Paul Murray's Skippy Dies is a tragicomic masterpiece about a Dublin boarding school

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010

Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lori, the frisbee-playing siren from the girls' school next door, suddenly all kinds of people take an interest - including Carl, part-time drug-dealer and official school psychopath. . .

A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies scours the corners of the human heart and wrings every drop of pathos, humour and hopelessness out of life, love, Robert Graves, mermaids, M-theory, and everything in between.

'That rare thing, a comic epic. . . Murray is a brilliant comic writer, but also humane and touching, and he captures the misery and elation, joy and anxiety of teenage life' David Nicholls, Guardian

'Novels rarely come as funny and as moving as this utterly brilliant exploration of teenhood and the anticlimax of becoming an adult . . . one of the finest comic novels written anywhere' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

'I loved Skippy Dies . . . three novels fused into one ignited tragicomic tour de force' Ali Smith, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year

'An unforgettably exuberant saga set in an Irish boys' school. The insulting repartee is Shakespearean, the minor characters hilarious, and Murray captures the fleeting joys and lasting sorrows of adolescence perfectly' Emma Donoghue, Daily Telegraph

'A triumph . . . brimful of wit and narrative energy' Sunday Times

'The sprawling brilliance of Paul Murray's darkly comic second novel works on many different levels . . . When you finish the last page, you may be tempted to start all over again' Metro

Paul Murray is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2005, and Skippy Dies, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010.

Skippy Dies

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#audiobook #5cds #6hours #jackryan #cia #ira #pope #kgb #randomhouse #penguin 

Virginia

Audiobook, 5 CDS, 6 hours 

Tom Clancy reveals the details of Jack Ryan's first days with the CIA in this #1 New York Times bestseller.

It's the early 1980s--and historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine Jack Ryan is now a CIA officer on loan to the British SIS. On his very first day, an extraordinary document crosses his desk. Because of government repression in Poland, the new Pope, John Paul II, has threatened to resign his papacy.
 
In Moscow, another man is contemplating the very same document. Yuriy Andropov, the chairman of the KGB, does not like what he reads, does not like what it means for him or for his nation. All it takes is one man to cause everything he has worked for to crumble. All it takes is one man to stop him. The Pope is very powerful, but he is also mortal....

Red Rabbit

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Annotated throughout. #paperback #poetry #penguin #penguinclassics #annotated #poem #classic #persian #religion #mythology

Arkansas

Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to find him they must undertake an arduous journey, the birds soon express their reservations to their leader, the hoopoe. With eloquence and insight, however, the hoopoe calms their fears, using a series of riddling parables to provide guidance in the search for spiritual truth. By turns witty and profound, The Conference of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry.

♻️ The Conference of the Birds

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Ohio

A Life in a New Language

“A marvelously thoughtful book . . . It is not just about emigrants and refugees. It is about us all.” –The New York Times When her parents brought her from the war-ravaged, faded elegance of her native Cracow in 1959 to settle in well-manicured, suburban Vancouver, Eva Hoffman was thirteen years old. Entering into adolescence, she endured the painful pull of nostalgia and struggled to express herself in a strange unyielding new language. Her spiritual and intellectual odyssey continued in college and led her ultimately to New York’s literary world yet still she felt caught between two languages, two cultures. But her perspective also made her a keen observer of an America in the flux of change. A classically American chronicle of upward mobility and assimilation. Lost in Translation is also an incisive meditation on coming to terms with one’s own uniqueness, on learning how deeply culture affects the mind and body, and finally, on what it means to accomplish a translation of one’s self.

Lost in Translation

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The Root Worker

Ex-library copy #vintage #childrens #penguin #puffin #paperback #fiction #historical #ww2

It is the summer of 1940, and all of England fears an invasion by Hitler's army. Norah lies in bed listening to the anxious voices of her parents downstairs.

Then Norah is told that she and her brother, Gavin, are being sent to Canada. The voyage across the ocean is exciting, but at the end of it Norah is miserable. The rich woman who takes them in prefers Gavin to her, the children at school taunt her, and as the news from England becomes worse, she longs for home.

As Norah begins to make friends, she discovers a surprising responsibility that helps her to accept her new country.

The Sky Is Falling

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#children #penguin #winter #snow #fiction #hardcover 

A newly hatched Emperor penguin wants more than anything to look like his tall, strong father. But when his own fluffy gray feathers start to fall out, Little Penguin is sure his wish will never come true. It takes a long ocean journey and some gentle words of wisdom from his mother before he realizes that he has become what he most wanted to be after all.

Nature lovers of all ages will delight in the captivating illustrations and the reassuring story about growing up. On every page, lavish embossing illuminates the frosty beauty of the Antarctic setting and adds intriguing texture to the feathers and footprints of the creatures that live there.

The Little Penguin

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#paperback #naturalhistory #microhistory #penguin #environment #science #penguinpaperback 

New York

A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

An unexpected, energetic look at world history via the humble cod fish from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World Cod, Mark Kurlansky’s third work of nonfiction and winner of the 1999 James Beard Award, is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod, frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. As we make our way through the centuries of cod history, we also find a delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once their numbers were legendary. In this lovely, thoughtful history, Mark Kurlansky ponders the question: Is the fish that changed the world forever changed by the world's folly? “Every once in a while a writer of particular skill takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight. Such is the case of Mark Kurlansky and the codfish.” –David McCullough, author of The Wright Brothers and 1776

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#paperback #youngadult #starwars #theclonewars #youngreaders #jedi #penguin #grossetanddunlap #lucasbooks #lucasfilm ISBN 9780448457451. This book is in very good condition. There is some gloss peeling on part of the UPC due to a previously poor job removing a sticker. 160 pages.

The Clone Wars Secret Missions Series Book #4 of 4

When Jedi Padawan Nuru Kungurama returns to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and an alien escape pod is missing from the Jedi Archives, he is forced into a fight with Ring-Sol Ambase.

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Guardians of the Chiss Key #4 (Secret Missions)

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Do the Windows Open? is a series of hilarious linked tales documenting the mania of the modern day in devastating detail-tales that have had readers of The New Yorker laughing out loud for years.

The beguiling and alienated narrator-who finds nearly everything interesting and almost nothing clear-has set herself the never-ending goal of photographing a world-renowned reproductive surgeon, Walden Pond, the ponds of Nantucket, and all the houses Anne Sexton ever lived in.

On the way, she searches for organically grown vegetables, windows that open, and an endodontist who acts like a normal person. She sometimes compares herself unfavorably to Jacqueline Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, and Princess Diana.

What emerges is a unique sensibility under siege. This is a remarkably original literary performance, one that speaks to anyone looking for the refuge laughter offers from life in an absurd world.

Do the Windows Open?

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#penguin I had to read it for school, but I enjoyed it. #nonfiction

Illinois

One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

Three Cups of Tea

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Some marks/marginalia on pages; cover/pages show some shelf wear. #fiction #paperback #penguin #classic #classics #requiredreading 

Kansas

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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Louisiana

Palaki the penguin blogs his journey as he tries to swim south, but swims in the wrong direction and ends up in New Zealand! Luckily, a group of humans at the Wellington Zoo nurse Palaki back to health and help him make his journey back home to Antarctica. Readers will have fun reading this exciting story told through blog posts. Children will be exposed to blogging while learning the importance of nurturing wildlife.

The Lonely Penguin's Blog

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#paperback #childrens #penguin #winter #scholastic 

Massachusetts

Little Penguin’s Tale 

#paperback #fiction #childrens #inventor #kids #penguin 

Chilly Da Vinci

#paperback #burnett #franceshodgsonburnett #secretgarden #tiein #lwt #magic #penguin

The Story of Sara Crewe

Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

A Little Princess

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Centennial Edition. Loose binding. #paperback #joyce #jamesjoyce #fiction #dubliners #classic #penguin #irish #literature #vintage 

Dubliners is arguably the best-known and most influential collection of short stories written in English, and has been since its publication in 1914.

Dubliners

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#paperback #fiction #classics #classic #penguin #general

California

A young Englishman embarks on a humorous crusade against traditional class structures

Lucky Jim

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#paperback #vintage #fiction #classics #poetry #poems #romantic #shelley #penguin

Scholastic

Getting to Know Nature’s Children: Penguins & Elephants

Judy nayer

Birds

Wilbur Bradbury

Birds of the Sea, Shore and Stream

Paolo Giordano; Anne Milano Appel (Translator)

Heaven and Earth

Charles Seife

Zero

Paul Murray

Skippy Dies

Tom Clancy; Dennis Boutsikaris (Read by)

Red Rabbit

Farid ud-Din Attar; Afkham Darbandi (Translator); Dick Davis (Translator, Introduction by)

♻️ The Conference of the Birds

Eva Hoffman

Lost in Translation

Rainelle Burton

The Root Worker

Kit Pearson

The Sky Is Falling

A. J. Wood; Stephanie Boey (Illustrator)

The Little Penguin

Mark Kurlansky

Cod

Ryder Windham; Wayne Lo (Illustrator)

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Guardians of the Chiss Key #4 (Secret Missions)

Julie Hecht

Do the Windows Open?

Greg Mortenson; David Oliver Relin

Three Cups of Tea

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Alan Trussell-Cullen

The Lonely Penguin's Blog

Audrey Wood

Little Penguin’s Tale

J. Rutland

Chilly Da Vinci

Francis Hodgson Burnett; Margery Gill (Illustrator)

A Little Princess

James Joyce

Dubliners

Kingsley Amis; David Lodge (Introduction by); Kingsley Amis

Lucky Jim

Percy Bysshe Shelley; Isabel Quigly

Shelley