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1) Stone soup
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Pub. Date
[2003]
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Three wise monks trick a poor,frightened community into finding happiness by teaching them the magic of generosity.
3) The only
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Endling volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The thrilling conclusion to the epic middle grade fantasy trilogy from Katherine Applegate. In the beginning, Byx's original quest was to discover if there were more of her kind, or if she was destined to become an endling--the last dairne alive. She did indeed find more dairnes, and along the way she also created allies among other creatures in her world, including humans, felivets, raptidons, and wobbyks. But Byx and her new friends soon learned...
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Imagine growing up among wolves, being friends with a panther and a bear, and hunting the most fearsome animal in the wild-the man-killing tiger Shere Khan. These are the stories of Mowgli ""the frog,"" a man-cub raised by wolves, and his journey to adulthood with the help of Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The Jungle Book is collections of short stories. Each story begins with a few lines of poetry. The best known of these jungle...
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Chase and Laine head to the Horror Hound festival where Laine begins to experience unexplained premonitions and disturbing visions associated with the town's past, and in particular, local legend The Creeper. As the festival gets underway and the blood-soaked entertainment builds to a frenzy, Laine believes that something unearthly has been summoned and that for the first time in 23 years…The Creeper is back.
6) Ondine
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Tells the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true.
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When Saoirse and Ben's mother mysteriously disappears into the ocean, the two children go on an epic journey to find out the truth about her, and in the process, discover mystical secrets about both their mother and Saoirse herself. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.
10) The dark
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
When Sarah drowns off the rocky coast of Wales, James and Adele search in vain for their child's missing body. So when a mysterious young girl tells her she's looking in the wrong place, Adele recalls a legend about The Dark, the Celtic land of the dead.
12) Ancient secrets of the Bible : Tower of Babel ; Shroud of Turin: Tower of Babel ; Shroud of Turin
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Examines the Bible story of the Tower of Babel and the Shroud of Turin to try to determine if the story is true and the Shroud is real. Join Biblical scholars and skeptics as they examine two of the Bible's most challenging mysteries.
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The new journey begins when young adventurer Sean receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist, a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter, they set out to find the island.
Pub. Date
p2006 2003
Description
Does the Holy Grail really exist ? Could it have survived for so long ? There are five chalices spread across the globe which claim to be the one, true Grail, but are they ? Documentarian Bruce Burgess follows the clues of this story, one of the history's great mysteries.
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