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1) Dominoes
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Explores the history of dominoes, explains the basic rules of the game, and provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions for domino games from around the world. Includes a glossary and a list of resources.
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"The most elegant way to play one of the most classic games of all time. This set features 28 jumbo crystalline dominoes with brightly colored engraved dots. The selected colors are very distinctive from each other, making them easier to tell apart than other sets. This set also features a Mexican Train starter piece and instructions for this game and others.
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"Dominoes opens in London, twenty-nine days before the wedding of a young couple. Layla is a mixed-race woman--with a Black, Jamaican mother, and a white father she's never met--and Andy is a white man of Scottish descent. When they first meet at a party, they can't believe how instant their chemistry is, and how quickly their relationship unfolds. But the commonalities between the two outweigh their differences; funnily enough, they even share a...
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Dominoes at the Crossroads maps an alternate Canada-one crisscrossed by a Caribbean diaspora seeking music, futures, and portals to their past.
In this collection of stories, Kaie Kellough's characters navigate race, history, and coming-of-age by way of their confessions and dreams. Through the eyes of jazz musicians, hitchhikers, quiet suburbanites, student radicals, secret agents, historians, and their fugitive slave ancestors, Kellough guides...
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**Ruby Writes a Story:** Ruby needs absolute quiet while she tries to write a story. But Max wants to play cowboy. **Max's Dominoes:** Ruby and Louise want to earn their hospitality badge by hosting a Bunny Scout meeting. **Grandma's Attic:** In Grandma's attic, Ruby is delighted to try on old clothes, and Max finds an old chest that Grandma says nobody ever goes into. When he finds the key, they all get a surprise.
13) Deep trouble
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Deep Trouble is the story of Amy and Matt. They don't want to study for their exams. They want to have a good time. So they drive to the marina at West Palm Beach, and Matt jumps onto one of the boats. "We can go anywhere!" he jokes. But when the owners of the boat come back and find them, Amy and Matt are in deep trouble. Matt is a good swimmer and enjoys scuba-diving, but now he must dive for their lives.
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What happens when a man lives his life backwards, or a family owns a diamond as big as the Ritz Hotel? How can a boring girl become more popular, a careless young woman become more sensible, or a cut-glass bowl destroy a married woman's life? What does a young man do to save the girl that he likes from an evil ghost, or to forget old feelings for a woman when she marries another man? Read this collection of short stories by one of America's finest...
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What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories -- about both good times and bad -- are sometimes sad, and sometimes funny. But all of them are sure to make you...
16) V is for vampire
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When Viktor Sarav takes a job at Ballantine's, Angie and her brother Don -- the young owners of the New York fashion company -- are pleased. But soon there are strange deaths in the company. Is there a vampire at work at Ballantine's? Vera Donato, a company director with secrets to hide, is against Viktor. But Ed Valdemar, the company lawyer, trusts him. Who is right?
17) The skateboarder
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The skateboarder: When a skatepark opens near her house, Hannah is suddenly very interested in skateboarding. How do Mom, Dad, brother Evan, and cousin Justin feel about this/ Who helps her? Who laughs at her? And who teaches her to be a real skateboarder in the end?
Zombie attack: When an earthquake hits Professor Clark's California science lab, his new serum brings dead bodies in the cemetery to life.
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Pebbles on the beach: Abby is a teenager, and doesn't talk much to her parents. Abby's dad works hard for an oil company, and Abby's mom doesn't like her freinds. Then, one summer, Abby stays with her crazy Aunt May in California. Here, with Aunt May ahd her young neighbours Diego and Bianca, she learns to see things differently. But, one night, there's an oil spill on the beautiful beach near their home. What can Abby, her aunt, and the neighbours...
19) Mulan
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Mulan: When the Emperor calls every man to join the army and fight the enemy, Mulan's father is old and ill, and cannot go. Wearing men's clothes and riding a horse, Mulan leaves her family and fights bravely for the Emperor in her father's place. She is soon a hero for all the soldiers in the Chinese army. One of them, Ye Ming, is her best friend. But does he know that she is a woman? And can Mulan fall in love with a friend?
Changing places: Hal...
20) White Fang
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Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, the wolf cub White Fang soon learns the harsh laws of nature, growing fiercer and more independent in his struggle to survive. Yet buried deep inside him are distant memories of affection and love. Can he learn to trust man again?
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