Susan Hill
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Ruby Raccoon asks her friends for advice on making a cake. Annotation. Ruby Raccoon wants to bake a cake, but she doesn't know how. Her friends offer some interesting suggestions: "I always enjoy snails," says Dan Duck; "Don't forget wiggly worms," says Jenny Wren. Ruby listens carefully to her friends, but when she tries to mix their advice all together, the results are, well, rather surprising. Ruby knows how to make the best of it in this delightful...
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"Meet the Harcourts of Chevy Chase, Maryland. A respectable middle-class, middle-age, mixed-race couple, Harold and Forsythia have four eminently marriageable daughters-or so their mother believes. Forsythia named her girls after Windsor royals in the hopes that one day each would find her true prince. But princes are far from the mind of their second-born daughter, Elizabeth (AKA Bliss), who, in the aftermath of a messy divorce, has moved back home...
34) Stuart hides out
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When Stuart Little and Snowbell the cat are left alone for the afternoon, they discover that the game of hide-and-seek can be dangerous.
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"Misty Copeland made history as the first African-American principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre. Her talent, passion, and perseverance enabled her to make strides no one had accomplished before. But as she will tell you, achievement never happens in a void. Behind her, supporting her rise was her mentor, Raven Wilkinson, who had been virtually alone in her quest to breach the all-white ballet world when she fought to be taken seriously...
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From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it is just like any other place. It suffers from the same kinds of crime, is subject to the same pressures from a rapidly changing world, and has the same hopes and fears as any number of towns up and down the land. When Simon Serrailler is called in by Lafferton's new Chief Constable, Kieran Bright, he is met by two plainclothes officers, who ask him to take the principal...