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1) If: a mind-bending new way of looking at big ideas and numbers

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Author has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls).

2) Yoga for beginners: with Patricia Walden

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Contemporary, easy-to-follow approach to hatha yoga, enabling viewers to learn basic moves including standing, seated, inverted and relaxation poses.

3) The boy who wanted to cook

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Whelan, Gloria

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Ten-year-old Pierre dreams of being a chef at his parents' restaurant, La Bonne Vache, in the south of France and is told he is too young, but when an important guest comes Pierre sees a chance to prove himself. Includes notes about dining in France and a glossary.

4) Lost boy: the story of the man who created Peter Pan

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Yolen, Jane

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An introduction to the life of J. M. Barrie reveals his sorrow-marked childhood and the healing he experienced through a relationship with the Davies family, who inspired his creation of the Peter Pan classic.

5) The boy who grew flowers

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Wojtowicz, Jennifer

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Shunned at school because he sprouts flowers every full moon, Rink Bowagon makes a special pair of shoes for a classmate who is able to appreciate his unique abilities.

6) Envy

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Tim and Nick, best friends, neighbors and co-workers, are suddenly tripped up when one of Nick's harebrained, get-rich-quick schemes actually succeeds. VaPooRizer is a spray that literally makes dog poop, or any other kind of poop for that matter, evaporate into thin air. Tim, who had no faith in Nick's idea, passed on an opportunity to get in on the deal, can only watch as Nick's fortune -- and Tim's own envy -- grow to equally outrageous proportions....

7) Dead silence

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After receiving a strange package with the doll named Billy, Jamie's wife is murdered. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair where the ventriloquist Mary Shaw used to perform and is buried. After she went mad in the 1940s, Mary was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople, who in the ultimate act of revenge,...