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Books published by publisher FarrarStrausGiroux

  • The 5 000-Year-Old Puzzle

    ClaudiaLogan

    Hardcover (FarrarStrausGiroux, May 31, 2002)
    Title: The 5 000-Year-Old Puzzle( Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: ClaudiaLogan <>Publisher: FarrarStrausGiroux
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    Hardcover (FarrarStrausGiroux, March 15, 2011)
    Title: Thinking Fast and Slow <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: DanielKahneman <>Publisher: FarrarStrausGiroux
  • Stories for Children

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Oct. 1, 1984)
    Tells the stories of a town's foolish elders, three wishes, a terrible blizzard, a witch, a miser, and war refugees
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  • A Penny a Look: An Old Story

    Harve Zemach, Margot Zemach

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1982)
    Two brothers set out to capture a one-eyed man to display in the marketplace.
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  • Tasting the Sky

    IbtisamBarakat

    Hardcover (FarrarStrausGiroux, Feb. 28, 2007)
    Title: Tasting the Sky( A Palestinian Childhood) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: IbtisamBarakat <>Publisher: FarrarStrausGiroux
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  • Cleopatra, Sister of the Moon,

    Margaret Leighton

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1969)
    The life of the Egyptian queen who gained and maintained power over her kingdom through her alliance with Julius Caesar and later Marc Antony.
  • A Wind in the Door

    Madeleine L'Engle

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus Giroux, Jan. 1, 1973)
    It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin's vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher (Blajeny) who explains that what they are seeing isn't a dragon at all, but a cherubim named Proginoskes. It turns out that C.W. is ill and that Blajeny and Proginoskes are there to make him well – by making him well, they will keep the balance of the universe in check and save it from the evil Echthros. Meg, Calvin and Mr. Jenkins (grade school principal) must travel inside C.W. to have this battle and save Charles' life as well as the balance of the universe.
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  • The Juniper Tree, and other tales from Grimm

    Maurice Sendak, Lore Segal, Grimm Brothers, Randall Jarrell

    Hardcover (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, March 15, 1973)
    The Juniper tree is distinguished first by the selections of stories itself. Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak have jointly chosen 27 from the 210 in the complete Grimm collection.Standards such as Hansel and Gretel, The Fisherman and His Wife and the frog king.
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  • The Cricket in Times Square

    George Selden, Garth Williams

    (Farrar Strauss giroux, Jan. 1, 1960)
    By George Selden - The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends) (1960-01-16) [Hardcover]
  • Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles

    Monika Beisner

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Oct. 1, 1983)
    One hundred one riddles include old favorites and new puzzles. Full-page, color illustrations provide clues.
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  • Toddlecreek Post Office

    Uri Shulevitz

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Oct. 1, 1990)
    Toddlecreek Post Office, presided over by postmaster Vernon Stamps, is a special place for friendship, sharing, and gossip, until a postal inspector arrives to impose official rules, changing the post office--and Toddlecreek--forever
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