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Max’s Dragon

Author: Kate Banks
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Keywords: dragon, max
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-03-18
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0374399212
ISBN-13: 9780374399214

Max is looking for words that rhyme. His dragon is in his wagon or was, for now its tail has left a trail, which Max follows. He finds an umbrella on the ground Found, ground,” he says, while his older brothers mock him for believing in dragons and sitting under an umbrella when it isn’t even raining. But Max believes in possibilitiesand when he can show his brothers not only a dragon in the stormy clouds but also a dinosaur, they begin to come round. When Max demonstrates the power of his rhyming words to tame the dinosaur and the dragon and make the rain come, he wins them over

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Max’s Words

Authors:Kate Banks, Boris Kulikov,
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Keywords: words, max
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-08-08
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0374399492
ISBN-13: 9780374399498

Maxâ??s brothers have grand collections that everyone makes a big fuss over. Benjamin collects stamps and Karl collects coins, and neither one will share with their little brother. So Max decides to start a collection of his own. Heâ??s going to collect words. He starts with small words that he cuts out of newspapers and magazines, but soon his collection has spilled out into the hall. All the while, his brothers are watching. Benjamin brags that he has one thousand stamps. Karl is just a few coins short of five hundred. But a thousand stamps is really just a bunch of stamps, and a lot of co

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Corporate Legal Compliance Handbook

Authors:Theodore L. Banks, Frederick Z. Banks,
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Keywords: handbook, compliance, legal, corporate
Number of Pages: 1054
Published: 2002-05-24
List price: $270.00
ISBN-10: 0735533423
ISBN-13: 9780735533424

Corporate Legal Compliance Handbook covers compliance laws and regulations, and shows you how to design, implement, manage and monitor an efficient, effective legal compliance program. It will help you identify risks, assign those risks to job descriptions, create appropriate corporate policies, establish control programs, communicate effectively and prove the effectiveness of the program.Corporate Legal Compliance Handbook will show you... How to figure out what is really required for an effective legal compliance system. How to use the latest technology to develop a cost-effective complianc

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Whit, Or, Isis Amongst the Unsaved. Iain Banks

Authors:Banks, Iain M. Banks,
Publisher: Abacus Software
Keywords: iain, banks, unsaved, amongst, isis, whit
Number of Pages: 455
Published: 1996-09
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0349107688
ISBN-13: 9780349107684

A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian’s four- yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to ha