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Elephant and Piggie books volume 21
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Gerald the elephant and Snake fear that Piggie and Brian Bat will have so much fun together they will no longer need their best friends.
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 4
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Attending her first party, Piggie follows "party expert" Gerald the elephant's advice on what to wear, with surprising results.
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 16
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Piggie celebrates her favorite day of the year, but Gerald the elephant is sad, thinking that he cannot join the fun.
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 19
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Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 7
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Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do.
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 14
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Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 6
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Best friends Elephant and Piggie decide that they will try to surprise each other, with unexpected results.
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 15
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Gerald the elephant has a big decision to make, but will he make it in time?
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 17
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When Piggie plays her new trumpet for Gerald, the elephant decides he must be honest in his response.
10) I'm a frog!
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 20
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English
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Piggie introduces her reluctant friend, Gerald the elephant, to the wonderful world of pretend.
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When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. [This book] was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell's family's experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs,...
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America, " the letter began, "I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book." The man went on to tell Talese an astonishing secret, that he had bought a motel...
14) Złamałem trąbę!
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Leon wszystkim się przejmuje, a Malinka wcale. Świnka jest rozbrykana, a słoń zadaje dużo pytań. Oboje świetnie się ze sobą bawią i bardzo się przyjaźnią. Jak Flip i Flap czy Asterix i Obelix zabawnie się uzupełniają i wzajemnie rozśmieszają.
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"When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together-one that they couldn't find within the confines of society life in New York City. They packed up their children and moved to the South of France, where they immediately fell in with a group of expats, including Hemingway, Picasso, and Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.On the coast of Antibes they built Villa America, a fragrant paradise where they invented...
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Train enthusiast Francis Humphreys was drawing his last breath while his relatives and neighbors were over for tea. But Inspector Witherspoon wonders: If everyone was downstairs, who could have stolen into Uncle Francis' second-story study, killed him, and escaped? Mrs. Jeffries will have to lend her downstairs common sense to this upstairs murder mystery - and hope that she and the Inspector don't get derailed...
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Sir George Braxton was found lying face down in a frozen fountain with the back of his skull bashed to bits. The case is complicated by a distinct lack of holiday cheer in the victim’s three argumentative middle-aged daughters and their sullen houseguests. Even the cranky cat hates everyone. To top it all off, the Home Secretary has called in Inspector Witherspoon over the heads of some touchy local lads, making matters stickier...
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Just as Inspector Witherspoon's staff prepares for the long-awaited wedding of Betsy and Smythe, a Yuletide murder falls in the Inspector's lap. A middle-aged spinster has been killed and Mrs. Jeffries' household will have to put aside its holiday spirit until the case is solved.
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For many Americans, President Gerald Ford was the genial accident of history who controversially pardoned his Watergate-tarnished predecessor, presided over the fall of Saigon, and became a punching bag on Saturday Night Live. Yet as Richard Norton Smith reveals in a book full of surprises, Ford was an underrated leader whose tough decisions and personal decency look better with the passage of time. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands...