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This annual publication is a showcase for the prestigious Housing Awards, presented by the Master Builders Association of NSW. MBA Housing Awards Annual displays myriad new home ideas, designs, products and services with colour photographs, floorplans, prices and a brief description of each project and builder details. Essential for anyone about to buy or build a new home.
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Explore the Classics - YOUTH
National Picture Book Month - November 2022
OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
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National Picture Book Month - November 2022
OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
OBD Caldecott Medal Winners - YOUTH
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Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.
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Athenaeum literary award volume 1954
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"The bestselling, National Book Award-finalist novel that inspired Charles Laughton's expressionist horror classic starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. Two young children, Pearl and John Harper, are being raised alone by their mother in Cresap's Landing, Ohio. Their father Ben has just been executed for killing two men in the course of an armed robbery. Ben never told anyone where he hid the ten thousand dollars he stole; not his widow Willa,...
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Cindrella is abused and exploited by her stepmother and stepsisters after her father's remarriage, but she is able to attend a royal ball with the help of her fairy godmother. The king's son falls in love with her, and when she is forced to flee at midnight, the prince is able to locate her with the glass slipper she left behind. Because she is good, Cinderella accepts her stepsisters' apologies and forgives them, allowing them to share her good fortune....
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Christopher award volume 1991
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The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.
9) The wanderer
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Ballantine Books science fiction Hugo award winner volume 24907
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The Wanderer inspires feelings of pure terror in the hearts of the five billion human beings inhabiting Planet Earth. The presence of an alien planet causes increasingly severe tragedies and chaos. However, one man stands apart from the mass of frightened humanity. For him, the legendary Wanderer is a mere tale of bizarre alien domination and human submission. His conception of the Wanderer bleeds into unrequited love for the mysterious "she" who...
14) Alien
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Alien: Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind.
Species: A beautiful human-alien hybrid escapes from observation to mate with unsuspecting men and produce offspring that could destroy mankind.
17) Diego
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Discusses the childhood of Diego Rivera and how it influenced his art.
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FBI trainee Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman and save her from 'Buffalo Bill, ' a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath, Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal' Lecter, as he used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent-in-charge Jack Crawford believes that the mind manipulator Lecter may have the answers to their...
20) Forrest Gump
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Forrest Gump is a low-intelligence man who has good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army and heads off to Vietnam where he becomes friends with Dan and Bubba. He wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, writes bumper stickers...
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