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"'Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?' This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it behind in Monica's Café. When Monica discovers Julian's abandoned notebook, not only does she add her own story to the book, she is determined to find a way to help Julian feel less lonely....
145) Jackpot
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Aldo Zelnick comic novel volume 10
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Aldo and his friend, Jack, find a fossil in the neighborhood ditch.
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"Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense: and before The Price of Salt became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith? Focused on her formative years in Manhattan, this condensed edition of Highsmith's monumental Diaries and Notebooks reveals "Pat" at her most passionate...
147) The beautiful ones
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"The ... coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of [Prince], in his own words--featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks, and lyric sheets, and the ... memoir he began writing before his ... death"--English-language version, Amazon.com.
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"Late for school, a young cartoonist accidentally microwaves his notebook while trying to heat his breakfast. This releases a radioactive cloud of awesomeness that makes the drawings in his notebook come to life. Now he has to make it through a typical teenage day of schoolwork, bullies, and general awkwardness while trying to hold onto his sanity. Dud, a character he has drawn, becomes the boy's nemesis as they spar on the page through algebra, English,...
152) Ignoramus
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Aldo's birthday is on February 14th, and this year he is determined to have a party with no reminders of the Valentine's Day holiday.
"When your parents name you Aldo Valentine Zelnick because you were born on February 14th, you know you've got a boyhood of Valentine's misery ahead. But this year when my 11th birthday rolled around, I decided to pretend Valentine's Day didn't exist. At my party there would be no pink, no hearts, no girls, no dancing,...
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Intended by Mohieddine Ellabbad as a way to explore different ways of seeing things through illustration, learn about how Arabic writing is an integral part of the image in the Arabic pictorial tradition. Reads right-to-left as the original Egyptian version, and includes all of the original Arabic calligraphy, with English translations in the margins.
154) Posibilidades
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"Óscar utiliza el metro de la ciudad a menudo y hace meses que coincide con una chica que siempre está dibujando en un cuaderno amarillo. Le intriga el cuaderno, sus ojos, cómo sujeta el lápiz y lo que siente cada vez que se cruzan sin decirse nada.Valentina viaja de vez en cuando en metro y siempre dibuja a las personas que le gustan y cuyas historias querría conocer. Ha dibujado a multitud de desconocidos, pero hay uno al que encuentra especial,...
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"For more than forty years, the philosopher Martin Heidegger logged ideas and opinions in a series of notebooks, known as the "Black Notebooks" after the black oilcloth booklets into which he first transcribed his thoughts. In 2014, the notebooks from 1931-1941 were published, sparking immediate controversy. It has long been acknowledged that Heidegger was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazi Party in the early 1930s. But the notebooks contain a...
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A revealing insight into the life and method of one of the most influential filmmaking talents of the modern era. Featuring the very best excerpts from many of Jarman's rarely or never seen sketchbooks, each page is layered with drawings, photographs, cuttings, letters - even pressed flowers - and accompanied by scrawled ideas, beautifully penned poetry and working scripts.
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A young orphan boy puts his secret life in the walls of a Paris train station in jeopardy when he begins stealing parts from the man who runs the toy shop in the station in order to finish rebuilding an automaton that he and his father had started; strange things start happening when the Grace family moves into the Spiderwick house, and when Jared Grace finds Arthur Spiderwick's field guide, he discovers the truth behind the magical estate; after...
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At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live on, beloved by millions of pianists young and old. Yet the pedagogical utility of this music--long associated with the sound of children practicing and mothers listening--has encouraged a rosy...
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