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61) Medicine walk
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When Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, he has mixed emotions. Raised by the old man he was entrusted to soon after his birth, Frank is haunted by the brief and troubling moments he has shared with his father, Eldon. When he finally travels by horseback to town, he finds Eldon on the edge of death, decimated from years of drinking. The two undertake difficult journey into the mountainous backcountry, in search of a place for Eldon to...
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2020.
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"Betty Sweet is still recovering from the loss of her husband when she becomes the temporary guardian of a five-year-old nephew she never knew she had. As they struggle to move forward, they build a relationship upon the foundation of storytelling and its special kind of magic."--Provided by publisher.
63) Zen ghosts
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[2010]
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On Halloween night, Stillwater the giant panda tells Karl, Addy, and Michael a spooky and unusual story. Based on a Zen koan.
65) Kamishibai man
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After many years of retirement, an old Kamishibai man--a Japanese street performer who tells stories and sells candies--decides to make his rounds once more even though such entertainment declined after the advent of television.
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Cleaner Janice knows that it is in people's stories that you really get to know them. From recently-widowed Fiona and her son Adam; to opera-singing Geordie; and the awful Mrs 'YeahYeahYeah' and her fox terrier, Decius, Janice has a unique insight into the community around her. When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs B - a shrewd and tricksy woman in her nineties - she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the...
69) Whoever tells the best story wins: how to use your own stories to communicate with power and impact
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[2015]
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"[This] book takes you step by step through the process of identifying and choosing stories from your own life, experience, and knowledge, and then linking them, fully and authentically, to the themes, messages, and goals of your workplace" -- Publisher.
70) Poison
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When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.
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"Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...
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Pig in a wig volume 1
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[2015]
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Illustrations and rhyming text introduce an increasing, then decreasing, cast of characters sharing a boat in a moat with a pig in an enormous wig.
74) Nightbooks
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Imprisoned by Natacha, a witch, in a New York apartment, Alex must tell her a new scary story every night in order to stay alive
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2019.
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"Gerald es cuidadoso. Piggie no lo es. Piggie no puede dejar de sonreír. Gerald puede. A Gerald le preocupa que Piggie no tenga que hacerlo. Gerald y Piggie son los mejores amigos. ¡En me rompí el trompa! Gerald le cuenta a Piggie la larga y loca historia de romper su baúl. ¿Terminará Piggie con una larga y loca historia propia?"--Libreriainternacional.com
Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke...
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Mother Bruce volume 10
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2023.
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"Bruce and the residents of Soggy Hollow tell a spooky story to get into the Halloween spirit"--
79) The end (almost)
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2014.
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When Donut the bear is told his story is over and he has to leave, he employs trickery so the story can go on.
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"August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and blackout curtains that she finds on her arrival were not what she expected. And she certainly never imagined she’d wind up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop nestled in the heart of London. Through blackouts and air raids as the Blitz intensifies, Grace discovers the power of storytelling...