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  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Joanne Mattern

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  Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), a German composer and pianist, bridged the Classical and Romantic eras. 
  Known for his emotionally charged and groundbreaking compositions, including the Ninth Symphony and “Moonlight Sonata,” Beethoven overcame deafness to create some of the most influential and best-loved works in the history of Western classical music.

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  The Daring Book for Girls

  Anonymous

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  For every girl with an independent spirit and a nose for trouble, here is the no-boys-allowed guide to everything from school yard games to great women in history! 
  The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! 
  Audio includes: 
  Fourteen Games of Tag • Queens of the Ancient World • Every Girl's Toolbox • The Daring Girls Guide to Danger • Slumber Party Games • Climbing • First Aid • Boys • How to Change a Tire • Jacks 
  Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl's invitation to adventure.

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  The Good Monsters

  Theodore Lowry, Majik Kids

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  Marlin lives a resourceful life on the edge of a bustling port town, relying on his wits and the loyal companionship of Marlimon—a magical, purple-furred monster who can only be seen by Marlin. Together, they scavenge the market, share secret games, and fend off loneliness. But when Marlin’s world is turned upside down, he is forced to leave his hidden treehouse and, with his few remaining magical clamshells, embarks on a journey to reconnect with Marlimon and find his true family. Along the way, he discovers a mysterious girl, Coral, who also has a magical monster and shares Marlin’s silver-eyed, sea-born heritage. Guided by clues, the two uncover their underwater roots and face a choice between their land-bound life and a mystical world of belonging below the waves. The Good Monsters is a captivating tale of courage, friendship, and discovering home in the most unexpected places.

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  The Occupied City - How Israel...

  Davis Truman

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  East Jerusalem is more than a city; it is a battleground of maps, walls, and blueprints. In The Occupied City: How Israel Shapes Palestinian Life, readers are taken inside one of the world’s most contested urban landscapes, where every building permit, zoning law, and planning decision becomes a tool of power. 
  Drawing on years of research and first-hand interviews with Palestinian residents, urban planners, and human rights experts, this book exposes how Israeli urban planning policies restrict Palestinian access to housing, fracture communities, and rewrite the very geography of Jerusalem. It reveals how control is exercised not only through military presence but through bureaucratic procedures, economic pressures, and cultural erasure—quiet mechanisms that determine who gets to build, who is forced to leave, and whose story is allowed to endure. 
  At once rigorous and deeply human, The Occupied City gives voice to those living under the daily weight of planning systems designed to dispossess them. It uncovers the hidden architecture of occupation while also spotlighting acts of resilience, resistance, and visions for a more just future. 
  Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Israeli–Palestinian conflict beyond headlines, this book demonstrates how urban planning—often regarded as technical or neutral—is, in fact, one of the most powerful weapons in the struggle over land, rights, and survival.

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  Mark T-W-A-I-N! - A Story About...

  David R. Collins

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  Samuel Clemens grew up in a child's paradise--Hannibal, Missouri. There, mischief added humor to everyday events as Sam encountered the folks who would one day reappear as Huck Finn, Aunt Polly, and Becky Thatcher in his books, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At eighteen, Sam left Hannibal to seek his fortune. He became a newspaperman and story writer. Then, always a restless spirit, he tried his hand as a steamboat pilot (where he took a liking to the riverboat call "mark twain"), a soldier, and a gold prospector. All the while, Sam collected tales to tell on stage and recount in his many books. David Collins invites readers into the fabulously exciting, endlessly entertaining world of "America's Greatest Humorist"--the beloved Mark Twain.

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  Original Method Actors The: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  It would be no exaggeration to say that James Dean has been more mythologized than any other actor in history, a development due more to his off-screen personality and conduct than the films he actually starred in. Much of Dean’s appeal derives from his humble and ordinary origins, and audiences are drawn to the romance of the Indiana farm boy who catapulted to the top of the motion picture industry in a single year — the same year that would see him die. 	Of course, James Dean remains well-known for being anything but humble and ordinary. As famous as his films are, Dean’s story is inextricably tied to his love for racing cars and his death in a high speed car crash.  
  Marlon Brando. Few names in the acting profession evoke such a strong, almost visceral reaction. Over the course of his long, prolific career, he was considered perhaps the greatest actor of the 20th century as well as one of the most complicated and misunderstood. Uniquely able to be both emotionally charged and technically constrained in the same performance, he single-handedly changed the direction of not only the American style of acting, influencing successors such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and even Johnny Depp, but the acting profession on a global scale. His iconic interpretations of characters such as Stanley Kowalski (A Streetcar Named Desire), Terry Malloy (On the Waterfront) and Vito Corleone (The Godfather) have been forever burned into the collective memory of film and theatre aficionados, scholars and critics for their immense passion, rage, love, defiance, vulnerability, cruelty and tenderness – basically, the full spectrum of the human condition. With several Oscars and Golden Globes to his name, Brando’s contributions remain the gold standard of the acting craft, and the American Film Institute has listed him as the 4th greatest screen legend in history.  

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