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"Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian theatre and examines how Akan trickster tales were adapted as the basis of a modern national theatre. This performance style tied Accra's evolving urban...
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Iktomi, the Plains Indian trickster, interrupts a powwow of the Mouse People and gets his head stuck in a buffalo skull. Asides and questions printed in italics may be addressed by the storyteller to listeners, encouraging them to make their own remarks about the action.
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Scooby-Doo! and the goblin king: The Amazing Krudsky uses his carnival tricks to steal the light magic from Princess Fairy Willow. It's up to Scooby-Doo and Shaggy to stop him or everyone will be turned into horrible Halloween monsters. Our heroes board the Grim Reaper Railroad bound for the fantastic world of Halloween Land to retrieve the powerful Goblin Scepter from the Goblin King before Krudsky can. Along the way, the Mystery Inc. crew encounters...
68) Friendly day
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"Children will laugh out loud at this amusing story of a clever mouse who tricks a hungry cat into sparing his life by telling the cat that it's Friendly Day, the one day in the year when all animals must share, care, and be nice to one another. Bright illustrations and sparkling rhyme follow suit as the cat imagines all the world's animals getting along--from a rhino who knits kitten mittens to a shark having a friendly game of chess with a school...
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In this folktale from the Andes, a clever guinea pig repeatedly outsmarts the fox that wants to eat him for dinner.
Sumario en español: En esta folklore de los Andes, un conejillo de Indias muy listo engañe en varios ocasiones el zorro que desea comer lo para la cena.
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The gruffalo: Forced to rely on his wits for survival, Mouse invents an imaginary monster ... but what happens when he becomes face-to-face with his own creation?
The gruffalo's child : One wild and windy night, the gruffalo's child ignores her father's warnings and bravely tiptoes out into the snow in search of the Big Bad Mouse. She meets snake, owl and fox but no sign of the fabled mouse. He doesn't really exist ... or does he?
72) Silly Goose
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When Fox tricks Goose into believing she has lost her ears and needs a new pair, Rabbit catches on and summons the other animals of Frog Jump Pond to help rescue her.
74) Afterglow
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Wildefire series volume 3
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Ashline Wilde, her sister Eve, and new boyfriend Wes set out to stop Ash's trickster-god ex-boyfriend, Colt, once and for all when they learn he plans to kill the Cloak, the benevolent beings that oversee the gods, and merge Ash and her two sisters back into the too-powerful goddess, Pele.
75) Coco: la novela
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Miguel wants to be a musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Wanting to prove his talent, he finds himself in the Land of the Dead, where he begins an adventure with a trickster he meets along the way.
"Miguel sueña con volverse un músico famoso como su ídolo, Ernesto de la Cruz. ... En el camino se encuentra con Héctor y juntos emprenden un viaje extraordinario."--Page [4] of cover.
76) Huevos rancheros
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Marcelina la gallina vence contra el coyote, su adversario natural, valiendose de sus encantos pero sobre todo de sus dotes culinarios.
A clever hen outsmarts her coyote adversary through charm and her culinary arts. Includes recipes for salsa ranchera and fried eggs.
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Diabolical do-badder Dick Dastardly, his snickering canine cohort Muttley and their Mean Machine takes on all for the fast and furious fun of the complete animated series Wacky Races. Gear up to keep pace with this dimwitted duo as well as their rivals: Peter Perfect in his Turbo Terrific, Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chucgabug, the Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb and glamorous Penelope Pitstop in her pink Compact Pussycat.
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"It lurks in the shadows. It lives in your worst nightmares. It feeds on your deepest fears. And it's coming to get you. When she loses her parents in a car accident in Boston, Diya Mathur's world collapses around her. As far as she knows, she's a young woman alone in the world now, her parents having been her only living relatives. Until a mysterious letter arrives from India, claiming to be from her extended family that she'd never heard of. Suddenly,...