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A band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree. Caps for Sale is a timeless classic, in print for over fifty years, and beloved by generations of readers. This easy-to-read story about a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with warmth, humor, and simplicity. Children will delight in following the peddler's efforts to outwit the monkeys, and will ask to read it again and again.
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An English army invades Scotland in order to put King James the Thirds renegade younger brother, the Duke of Albany, on the Scottish throne. Albany insists his old acquaintance, Roger the Chapman, be a member of his personal bodyguard. But during the march northwards, a series of sinister events, centered around the cult figure of the mythical Green Man, makes Roger question Albany's true motive for requesting his presence . . .
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Roger the traveling chapman should be on his way home to medieval Bristol after a nice summer's peddling. But, a request from his duke to escort a bride en route to her betrothed takes him toward Wells, where the groom and his brother have vanished.
Roger links the disappearances to the discovery of ancient scrolls written in a strange language. But, as he deciphers the archaic tongue, he concludes that a still-greater mystery lies at the heart...
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Roger the Chapman tales volume 15
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The latest title in the acclaimed Roger the Chapman series When Roger the Chapman discovers he has a hitherto unknown half-brother, he has mixed feelings about the matter. But when John Wedmore is accused of being the young page who, six years earlier, robbed his mistress and murdered a fellow servant, and is thrown into prison, Roger feels obliged to investigate the charge.
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Roger Chapman, the 15th Century English monk turned sleuth, investigates the case of a man convicted of murdering someone who is still alive. The story is set against a backdrop of heretical religious movements and raids by Irish slavers. By the author of the Plymouth Cloak.
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"Not long ago the streets of New York City were smelly, smoggy, sooty, and loud. There were so many trucks making deliveries that it might take an hour for a car to travel a few blocks. People blamed the truck owners and the truck owners blamed the little wooden pushcarts that traveled the city selling everything from flowers to hot dogs. Behind closed doors the truck owners declared war on the pushcart peddlers. Carts were smashed from Chinatown...
10) Caps for Sale
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A band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree.
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Spice and Wolf light novels volume 1
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"The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has pretty well settled into his routine-- that is, until the night Lawrence finds a wolf goddess asleep in his cart. Taking the form of a fetching girl with wolf ears and a tail, Holo has wearied of tending to harvests in the countryside and...
15) One fine trade
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Georgy Piney Woods, the best peddler who ever lived, makes several trades so his daughter can buy a wedding dress.
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Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville. When Israel Potter leaves his plow to fight in the American Revolution, he's immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds. However, this does not deter him, and after hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, he volunteers for further duty, this time at sea, where more ill fortune awaits him. Israel is...
19) New feet for old
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When a peddler who sells feet from town to town depletes his stock just before a crippled boy comes for new feet, he realizes there is only one thing to do.
20) The peddlers
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Describes the enterprise and commercial development that peddlers brought to the colonies before the establishment of general stores.