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  1. Myron's magic cow
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Barefoot Books, Bath

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    53 BB 4896
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1841484954
    Subjects: Cows; Wishes
    Other subjects: Array
    Scope: [19] Bl, überw. Ill
  2. The Christmas tree fairy
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London

    Stadtbibliothek Braunschweig
    w e a
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 074757569X
    Subjects: Christmas; Fairies; Wishes
    Scope: [30] S, überw. Ill, 31 cm
  3. Ideas of heaven
    a ring of stories
    Author: Silber, Joan
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  W.W. Norton & Company, New York

    My shape --The high road --Gaspara stampa --Ashes of love --Ideas of heaven --The same ground. A collection of linked short stories, ranging in setting from modern-day America and France to Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China.-- back cover... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
    SIL | Ide
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    My shape --The high road --Gaspara stampa --Ashes of love --Ideas of heaven --The same ground. A collection of linked short stories, ranging in setting from modern-day America and France to Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China.-- back cover Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings often held for years and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next. In "My Shape", a woman is taunted by her dance coach, who later suffers his own heartache. A Venetian poet of the 1500s, another storyteller, is introduced to a modern traveler reading Rilke. His story precedes a mesmerizing narrative of missionaries in China. In the final story, Giles, born to a priesthood family, leans toward Buddhism after a grievous loss, and in time falls in love with the dancer of the first story

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 039332687X; 9780393326871
    Subjects: Wishes; Short stories, American; Short stories, American; Wishes; Fiction; Specimens; Short stories
    Scope: 250 pages, 21 cm
    Notes:

    "First published as a Norton paperback 2005"--Title page verso

    Includes bibliographical references

  4. Myron's magic cow
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Barefoot Books, Bath

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1841484954
    Subjects: Cows; Wishes
    Other subjects: Array
    Scope: [19] Bl, überw. Ill
  5. Sylvester and the magic pebble
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Simon & Schuster, London [u.a.]

    Bibliothek der Pädagogischen Hochschule Freiburg/Breisgau
    ED 5540 S818 S9
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1416904891
    RVK Categories: DX 4060 ; ED 5540
    Edition: Paperback ed.
    Subjects: Donkeys; Wishes
    Other subjects: Array
    Scope: [32] p., chiefly col. ill, 28cm
    Notes:

    Caldecott Medal. - Originally published : New York : Windmill, 1969; London : Abelard-Schuman, 1972. - Formerly CIP