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"A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party at the lavish home of a baroness. A high-ranking officer in Germany's counter-intelligence agency, brings Oskar into the fold because of their mutual involvement in a patriotic youth...
6) Me want pet!
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When Cave Boy wants a pet, he tries a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, and a dodo bird, but none seems suitable.
9) Kali's song
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Thousands and thousands of years ago, a young boy gets his first hunting bow and learns to shoot, but he prefers to use the bow to make music.
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El típico niño de las cavernas conoce a una niña de las cavernas y... Cuando Neander conoce a Neana, su cabeza no puede pensar en otra cosa. Es bajita, es peluda... ¡Es perfecta! Decidido a ganarse su corazón, le lleva un regalo tras otro, cada uno más grande que el anterior. Neana no parece impresionada..., hasta que Neander llega con el mayor regalo de todos.
Will the caveboy's crush respond favorably to his grand, attention-getting...
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Up in the Old Hotel had its beginnings in the nineteen-thirties, in the hopelessness of the early days of the Great Depression, when Joseph Mitchell, at that time a young newspaper reporter in New York City, gradually became aware that the people be respected the most and got the most pleasure out of interviewing were really pretty strange. "Among them," he once wrote, were visionaries, obsessives, imposters, fanatics, lost souls, the-end-is-near...
15) Limestone caves
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Describes types of caves, particularly the formation and physical features of limestone caves, and provides information about the animal and plant life found in caves, as well as about human cave dwellers and their paintings.
16) Caves
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Introduces ten of the world's largest caves, including the Carlsbad Caverns, Lascaux, Mammoth Cave, and Waitomo, with information on their location, features, animal inhabitants, and more.
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Guy Maddin's ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins (after a prologue on how to take a bath) with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers. From here, Maddin and...
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