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"When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight... Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her...
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On the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers is building an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage in another empty white room. These two remote places will be linked by the power of the imagination.
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In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Danger is imminent in every direction, yet the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known and start over from scratch. Destiny is unwritten. Time and history are forgotten....
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While at dinner, Joel and Olivia point out all of the wonderful things their dinosaurs can do--Joel's has teeth that sometimes glow in the dark and Olivia's can play the trumpet while riding a bicycle--until their mother ends the argument by declaring a winner.
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Dory Fantasmagory volume 6
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Dory's separation anxiety from her mother turns into a ghostly, goofy escapade.
8) Case study
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"The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination. London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks....
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A dual narrative in which a woman finds a cookbook buried in the basement of her new home and becomes captivated with the cookbook's previous owner, a 1950s housewife. Dissatisfied with her own life, she becomes absorbed in learning the story--and the secrets--of the last woman who lived in her house.
Alice Hale left a career in publicity to become a writer and follow her husband to the New York suburbs. Unaccustomed to filling her days alone in...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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"Miggy Brenneman is a wild and reckless seven-year-old with a fierce imagination ... Ellen is polite, cautious, and drawn to her friend's bright flame. While the adults around them adjust to unstable times and fractured relationships, the girls respond with increasingly dangerous play. When tragedy strikes, all the novel's characters grapple with questions of fate and individual responsibility, none more so than Miggy, who must make sense of a swiftly...
12) Imaginalis
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Devastated that her favorite fantasy book series will not be completed, twelve-year-old Mehera discovers that only her belief, imagination, and courage will save the land of Imaginalis and its inhabitants from being lost forever.
13) Faraway friends
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Sheldon's best friend has moved away, possibly to Jupiter, so Sheldon and his dog, Space Cadet Jet, build a spaceship to go for a visit but things go awry until they spy an alien life form, ready to help.
14) Sloth slept on
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Sterling Children's Books
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2015.
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English
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When three children find a mysterious creature sleeping in a tree in their backyard, they search through books and use their imagination to find out what it is.
15) Let's play!
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Handprint Books
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A lively yellow dot leads the reader through a journey through color, shape, and a child's imagination.
16) How I did it
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"How I did it! Curious and inspired, I was full of ideas. This encouraging tale about a daring letter I who wants to break free uses a clever play of words to deliver a message about creativity, individuality, and following your dreams!" -- back cover.
18) Like a windy day
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A young girl discovers all the things the wind can do, by playing and dancing along with it.
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