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Children's & YAJanuary 2022Patron, the dog
by Zoryana Zhivka (Author), Bogdana Bondar (Illustrator)
Patron is a dog loved by children and adults alike, as he is the mascot of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the only goodwill ambassaDOG in the world, recognised by the UN Children's Fund UNICEF, and an awardee of Ukraine's Order of Courage medal for hiswork with sappers (military engineers) in defusing enemy explosive devices. This book is an autobiography as told by Patron, as Zoryana Zhivka and Bogdana Bondar translated dog language into human language for children of all nationalities - and Patron, the Dog is the result of their work. This little hero's story will inspire readers to dream, to believe, and to win! From 5 to 12 Years, 5112 words. Rightsholders: ladiscursus@gmail.com
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Children's & YAMarch 2022Der Wunderstürmer - Falsches Spiel beim großen Turnier (Band 7)
by Ocke Bandixen
The Ace Striker (Vol. 7) - Wrong Game at the Big Tournament Tim and his friends are going to the European Championship in France in their motor home. The Ace Striker has also traveled there with the Italian national team. In his luggage, Sergio Mavalli has his lucky charm Toto, a cheese made of cloth. Without him, Sergio can't score goals at tournaments. When Toto and the mascots of other players are suddenly stolen, the whole tournament is in danger! No one is lucky anymore... Tim's concentrated coaching knowledge is needed! He must give the star players self-confidence and at the same time chase after the thieves. The thieves turn out to be Sergio's old kicker cronies: they wanted to use the thefts to annoy the professional soccer players, who only seem to care about money. Due to Tim’s tracings, the situation is being resolved. Everyone gets their mascots back, the tournament can continue! World Champion Football Series for Kids - to be continued, and with different Spin-offs!
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Geography & the EnvironmentApril 2009The Charm of Folk Customs
by Hong Jiang
This volume gives an authentic introduction and brief explanation of Chinese folklore and customs from such aspects as mascots, zodiac, folk deities, birthday customs, traditional wedding and funeral ceremonies.
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March 2020Cousin Arrived
by Qin Wenjun
“Cousin Arrived" is an anthology of short stories. The story involves family love and friendship, as well as the children's little confusion when facing growth. This book contains small stories such as "Mysterious Mascot" full of spiritual inspiration, "Little Brother's Green Manor" that encourages children to choose their own growth path and etc. For children facing their own challenge of growth, this is a good interpretation book of mood and emotions that accompanies children’s growth.
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Adventure stories (Children's/YA)June 2021Bowlers
by Able, Duane
Bowlers, a kids cereal mascot, is leaving behind the world of TV commercials for a simpler life teaching children about the value of a healthy breakfast until two mean cereal mascots are sent to change his mind!
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November 2020El juguete que faltaba
by Mejía, Ana Delia
Santiago has a mascot, a great imagination and a great desire to play. With boxes, with chairs, with dirt, he is an expert at playing with everything... or almost everything, because one day he discovers that there is a toy that he needs. And he will not stop until he gets it. This book reminds us that play is a right that is exercised with freedom
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Children's & YAMarch 2018Bionics – Learning from Mother Nature
by Bernd Hill (Author & Illustrator)
Nature is full of miracles. Humans have always taken inspiration from it in order to find new and effective solutions for technological problems. Animals and plants show us how it is possible to live environmentally friendly without wasting energy and by using only the minimum amount of material. Follow our clever mascot Geckologo and be fascinated by the many secrets nature has to offer.
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2021The Short Life of Hughie McLoon
A True Story of Baseball, Magic and Murder
by Allen Abel
To be the luckiest kid in America, he first had to be the unluckiest It was a time of Prohibition, Jazz, and gangland murder, and it was baseball's Age of Magic, when even Hall of Fame players believed that rubbing the hump of a hunchback guaranteed a hit. Broken and deformed by a childhood fall from a seesaw, Hughie McLoon never grew taller than forty-nine inches but he grew up to be one of the lucky ones. He was chosen as the batboy and mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Although the team finished last in each of the three seasons that the A's rubbed his hump and Hughie tended their bats, he became a local celebrity. He loved the crowds and they loved him back. Graduating from batboy to boxing manager, and running his own speakeasy while serving as a secret agent for the Chief of Police, Hughie was the toast of Philly until one summer night in 1928 he was caught in a murderous crossfire outside his tavern. Twenty-six years old, he bled to death on Cuthbert Street. The next day, 15,000 admirers lined up to see his four-foot corpse. The age of magic was over. The Short Life of Hughie McLoon is Allen Abel's haunting and stylish biography of the most remarkable and beloved of the baseball mascots, and a new chapter in the complicated mythology of the American dream.
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Mystery2012Mr. Tea and the Traveling Teacup
A Madeline's Teahouse Mystery
by Leslie Matthews Stansfield
After the death of their mother, sisters Terry and Karen Sutter, turn their childhood home into a teahouse. It’s a dream come true, but the dream begins to resemble a nightmare when teacups start crashing to the floor in the middle of the night. Could the teahouse be haunted? There’s a list of possible ghostly candidates: the prior owner who is rumored to have left behind a buried treasure, two spinster neighbors who disappeared without a trace over forty years ago, or perhaps it’s Terry and Karen’s own mother trying to communicate with them. Karen, the older sister, thinks running a haunted teahouse might be fun, until the sisters come home one night to find the attic stairs covered in a trail of what appears to be blood. Is it a ghost or a warning? The teahouse’s new mascot, a psychic macaw, may provide some unexpected clues, but the sisters will encounter many more surprises before they solve this mystery.
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Mystery2015Deadly Diamond
A Murfy the Cat Mystery
by Anna Kern
A thief making his get-away from a jewelry store heist, runs into an antiques shop and hides a priceless loose-cut diamond in one of the little drawers of an old slant-front desk, unaware that he has been observed by the store’s mascot, Murfy the cat, and his female feline friend––Misty. Unfortunately, Murfy has no way to inform his mistress and the store’s owner, Alyx Hille, of what he’s seen. That same day the desk is delivered to Althea Burns, an elderly customer, who is later found murdered in her condominium. Could her death be connected to the diamond hidden in the desk? Murfy decides he must let his mistress, Alyx, know what he knows. But how? He can communicate perfectly well with his cat friends––but not so well with humans. Murfy enlists the help of his other feline housemate, Pooky, and they quickly embark on a mission to discover the story behind the hidden diamond and how it might be connected to the killing of Althea Burns. Will Murfy get his message across to Alyx so she can discover who killed her friend? Will he be able to protect Alyx from a wily murderer who is not yet done killing? And will he be able to uncover the true story of the DEADLY DIAMOND?
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Mystery2014Mr. Tea and the Bobbin' Body
A Madeline's Teahouse Mystery
by Leslie Matthews Stansfield
Mr. Tea, a supposedly psychic macaw, who serves as the mascot at Madeline’s Teahouse, is all a twitter about the upcoming high school reunion. “Watch out!” he says. His owners––sisters Terry and Karen–– are in high gear preparing for the event, anxious to see all of their old friends and much too busy to listen to their bird’s warnings. But the festivities at a local hotel are interupted when one of the guests––a former football player––is found bludgeoned to death in the swimming pool. Terry’s boyfriend Greg, a local detective, is quickly on the case, along with his partner Tom. The sisters, not to be deterred from all their efforts, decide to continue the reunion the next evening, when suddenly the lights go out and another guest, and buddy of the first victim, winds up dead. What is going on? The girls and the detectives put their heads together along with the sisters’ friendly neighbors––Uncle Henry and Aunt Rose––and jump into detecting mode with great enthusiasm. What the sisters uncover is a terrifying story of brutality, revenge, and deceit––that appears to have come back to haunt its victims in the present. Did Mr. Tea know what would happen all along? Will he help the sisters solve the mystery?
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September 2020Black Water
Family, Legacy and Blood Memory: A Memoir
by David A. Robertson
David A. Robertson, the son of a Cree father and a white mother, grew up with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family’s Indigenous roots. Without his father’s teachings or any knowledge of his life experiences, he has spent a lifetime putting together the pieces of his identity. This is the memoir of his search for understanding, a search that culminates in a father-son journey to the northern trapline where his father was raised. As father and son travel to the past to create a new future, they revive a story nearly erased by the designs of history, reclaiming their connection not only to the land but also to each other.
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Media studiesJuly 2020A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet
by E.J. White
How cats became the undisputed mascot of the internet. The advertising slogan of the social news site Reddit is "Come for the cats. Stay for the empathy." Journalists and their readers seem to need no explanation for the line, "The internet is made of cats." Everyone understands the joke, but few know how it started. A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet is the first book to explore the history of how the cat became the internet's best friend. Internet cats can differ in dramatic ways, from the goth cats of Twitter to the glamourpusses of Instagram to the giddy, nonsensical silliness of Nyan Cat. But they all share common traits and values. Bringing together fun anecdotes, thoughtful analyses, and hidden histories of the communities that built the internet, Elyse White shows how japonisme, punk culture, cute culture, and the battle among different communities for the soul of the internet informed the sensibility of online felines. Internet cats offer a playful—and useful—way to understand how culture shapes and is shaped by technology. Western culture has used cats for centuries as symbols of darkness, pathos, and alienation, and the communities that helped build the internet explicitly constructed themselves as outsiders, with snark and alienation at the core of their identity. Thus cats became the sine qua non of cultural literacy for the Extremely Online, not to mention an everyday medium of expression for the rest of us. Whatever direction the internet takes next, the "series of tubes" is likely to remain cat-shaped.
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Children's & YAOctober 2020The Bongles - Pet Washing Machine
by Oscar van Heek, Dean Queazy
A washing machine washes up on shore. Bubba climbs in and gets stuck on the spin cycle and Brainy comes to the rescue. After endless tinkering, he turns the washing machine into a Pet Robot for Bubba. The first thing Pet sees is the adoring eyes of Bubba and thinks Bubba is his dad. Pet follows Bubba everywhere. When Bubba goes for a swim, Pet joins but nearly drowns. Bubba saves Pet and the two have now bonded for life.
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2020REVIVED FAILURE: IRAN'S REALITY AFTER THE AMERICAN WITHDRAWAL OF THE NUCLEAR DEAL
by Fazle Chowdhury
Iran's Reality After the American Withdrawal of the Nuclear Deal ―a holistic view to explore the devastating effects of the withdrawal and how it has affected not only Iran's relationship with other countries but the impacts on its economy.
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Above and Beyond
Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
by Bill Livingston (author)
“Above and Beyond is a treat. Livingston’s knowledge and love of the sport shines through.”—David Maraniss, author of Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the WorldTwo Olympic medalists were recognized at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, days before Christmas 2004. One was the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James, the “Chosen One” of the NBA. He had a bronze medal from the Athens games that summer. The other was a Cleveland homeboy too, a gold medalist who had flown higher than anyone before on the Olympic stage. Hardly anyone knew his name. He was Tim Mack.His high school coach did not see anything particularly promising in the young pole–vaulter. Mack never made it to the state meet, and he was the first to admit he had a fear of heights. But thanks to his unflinching determination and confidence, Mack went on to prove that he was anything but mediocre. In 2004 the young athlete won the Olympic gold medal for pole vaulting. His jump of 19 feet 6–1/4 inches was not only Mack’s personal best but the highest in Olympic history.Award-winning sports columnist Bill Livingston follows Mack as he practices one of the world’s most dangerous and demanding sports. Livingston reveals the fascinating subculture of pole vaulting—from Bob Richards, the only man to win Olympic gold twice in pole vaulting; to Sergey Bubka, the most controversial pole vaulter ever; to Don Bragg, a rowdy Tarzan-like character who swung on ropes in his backyard to build upper-body strength; to the stirring duel between Mack and Toby Stevenson as they battled for gold in Athens.Readers will discover how Mack struggled and endured, while working in a factory, as a mascot in a bumblebee costume, and as a janitor, and how Mack changed his training and revamped his body and mind in a three-year program that made his AOL username, Goldnathens, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Football (Soccer, Association football)August 2015Sky Blue Heroes
The Inside Story of Coventry City's 1987 FA Cup Win
by Steve Phelps
On 16th May 1987 Coventry City won the first major trophy in their 104-year history. It was an extraordinary period for the city and its football club as they united to celebrate a fabulous success. Victories over Bolton, Manchester United, Stoke City, Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United took 'George and John's Sky Blue Army' to Wembley, where they overturned the form book to inflict Tottenham's first ever FA Cup final defeat. For the first time, the cast of '87 are reunited to tell their stories. Sky Blue Heroes: The Inside Story of Coventry City's 1987 FA Cup Win features exclusive interviews with players, management, media, mascots, songwriters, club staff and supporters, documenting a magical time in Coventry City's history. Contemporary media reports appear alongside memories and retrospectives - and the first interview for 28 years with the 'mystery man' who appeared on the Wembley pitch photograph with the jubilant players.
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Dance & other performing artsFebruary 2012Indigenous Dance & Dancing Indian
Contested Representation in the Global Era
by Matthew Krystal
Book & CD. Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices. Considering four genres of dance in which indigenous people are represented -- K'iche Maya traditional dance, powwow, folkloric dance, and dancing sports mascots -- the book addresses both the ideational and behavioural dimensions of identity. Each dance is examined as a unique cultural expression in individual chapters, and then all are compared in the conclusion, where striking parallels and important divergences are revealed. Ultimately, Krystal describes how dancers and audiences work to construct and consume satisfying and meaningful identities through dance by either challenging social inequality or reinforcing the present social order. Detailed ethnographic work, thorough case studies, and an insightful narrative voice make this a substantial addition to scholarly literature on dance in the Americas. It will be of interest to scholars of Native American studies, social sciences, and performing arts.
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Science & MathematicsJune 2023Quiz Champs: Matter and Its States
by Manisha Nayak
Great for classroom and home use! Are you ready to take the ultimate quiz on matter? Have you ever wanted to know ... how snow is formed? why we can compress gases but not solids? what happens to fish when lakes freeze? what would happen if there was no water cycle? Join Quiz Champs host Isaac Ice Cube as you find answers to intriguing questions such as these. Test your mastery of the topic, learn fun facts and crack up at silly jokes along the way! The Quiz Champs series has been specially crafted to be a fun and educational learning experience for young learners. The series is aligned with the Singapore primary Science syllabus and the Cambridge primary Science curriculum, and also includes enrichment questions to stretch curious minds. Answers and additional information have been provided to aid in learning, revision and preparation for testing. Series distinctives: Aligned with the latest 2023 Singapore primary Science syllabus and the Cambridge primary Science curriculum Engaging quiz questions and jokes Fun, playful look and feel Simple language for young readers Mascot hidden in 25 pages of the book Humour infused where possible Additional information on the topics
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Travel & TransportMarch 2022Uniquely Japan: A Comic Book Artist Shares Her Personal Faves
Discover What Makes Japan The Coolest Place on Earth!
by Abby Denson
Lavishly decorated manhole covers, pink polka-dotted backhoes, toilets with warmable seats, blow dryers (and other bells and whistles). It's just another day in Japan, where the futuristic and zany stands side-by-side with the rooted and the venerable, and there's a festival going on somewhere almost every day of the year.In Uniquely Japan, Abby Denson—author of Cool Japan Guide and Cool Tokyo Guide—uses her own personal drawings and photos to highlight the things that make Japan truly different from every other place on the planet. From the ramen and sushi we've all come to love to the fantastic creatures who now star in their own video games and anime, the comic artist takes you on a romp through Japan's distinctive popular and traditional culture.Here are just a few of the favorite bits and pieces Abby presents: Vending machines for everything from eggs to electronics Tiny alleyways where you may come across a shrine—or a hip-hop bar Silly mascots promoting serious businesses Whimsical architecture for neighborhood police stations Stamps for your name (no signature is complete without one), or to collect at railway stations and castles Colorfully painted, hardworking construction vehicles that beep and talk as you pass by And, of course, the ridiculously delicious food: noodles, bento boxes, and gorgeous sweets
