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It Happened in Pinsk
Arthur Yorinks
Paperback (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1987)When Irv Irving, a shoe salesman in Pinsk, loses his head, his practical wife, Irma, creates a makeshift one out of a pillowcase and old socks so that he can search for his own head
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Olson's Meat Pies
Peter Cohen, Olof Landström, Richard E. Fisher
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Oct. 1, 1989)Things are just not the same in Olsson's fabulous meat pie factory when a temporary lack of funds forces him to make substitutions for his usual quality ingredients.
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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
John Steinbeck
Paperback (Farrar Straus Giroux, March 15, 1977)None
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The Secret of Thut-Mouse III or Basil Beaudesert's Revenge
Mansfield Kirby, Mance Post
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Oct. 1, 1985)Basil Beaudesert and his nephew, Danny, two scholarly mice, must devise some scheme to save themselves from Pa-Ti-Paw, a Siamese cat brought in to inhabit their museum
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Journey for a Princess
Margaret Leighton
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1960)None
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Mouse Around
Pat Schories
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1991)A little mouse has a wonderful journey all around town when he falls from his nest into a plumber's back pocket.
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Two Piano Tuners
M. B. Goffstein
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Nov. 1, 1977)Rather than become a concert artist, Debbie Weinstock's great ambition is to be a piano tuner, just like her grandfather
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The Beast of Monsieur Racine
Tomi Ungerer
Paperback (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1, 1986)A strange beast descends on Monsieur Racine's crop of prize-winning pears
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Gift of the Sun: A Tale from South Africa
Dianne Stewart, Jude Daly
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1, 1996)Thulani wants to spend more time in the sun and less time doing chores around the farm, so he makes a series of lopsided exchanges in an attempt to simplify his life, until all he has left is pocketful of sunflower seeds that, once sown, prove surprisingly useful.
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The Cave
Kathleen Karr
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1, 1994)Twelve-year-old Christine discovers a wonderful secret on her father's South Dakota farm--an unexplored cave with a secret of its own--something that might save her family from the drought and Depression that threaten to destroy the farm.
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The Christmas Mystery
Jostein Gaarder, Rosemary Wells, Elizabeth Rokkan
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Nov. 1, 1996)The author of the critically acclaimed Sophie's World presents a Christmas adventure about a boy who discovers a magical Advent calendar in the corner of a dusty bookstore that takes him on an amazing holiday journey. 75,000 first printing.
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Gain
Richard Powers
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1998)When three Boston merchant brothers coax the secret of fine soapmaking from an Irish immigrant, they set in motion a chain of events that will spin a family cottage soap works into a multinational consumer-goods giant by the millennium's end. Set against this sweeping, 170-year rise of the Clare Soap and Chemical Company is the contemporary story of Laura Bodey, a real-estate broker. Laura, her two teenage children, and her ex-husband all live in Lacewood, Illinois, a place that owes its very existence to the regional Clare factories that have nursed the town from nothing. The Clare Agricultural Division now sponsors every aspect of Lacewood, from the corn boil to the college library. But when a cyst on Laura's ovary turns malignant and the local industry is implicated, the insignificant individual and the corporate behemoth collide, forever changing the shape of American life.