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  • George Beasley’s Better Angel
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    George Beasley is widowed, his friend Eddie is divorced, and they’re both pushing eighty. Together they attempt to pick up the pieces of their lives by trying to open an Airbnb in George’s basement. In this story of aging, grief and loss that’s laced with laughter, George Beasley’s Better Angel celebrates the help we get from our friends, and the help that lies within, when we ...
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    15,43 €

  • Behaviour Problems in Schools
    Andreas Varlaam / Jean Davies / Peter Mortimore
    Published in 1983. One response to the recent concern about pupil discipline in schools has been the creation of support centres: off-site special units to which disruptive pupils are sent for varying periods of time for education and supervision. The Inner London Education Authority had a substantial network of such centres. Yet the concept of these units has aroused some crit...
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    42,49 €

  • Jake and Emma’s Island Getaway
    Jean Davies Okimoto / Jeremiah Trammell
    When Jake and Emma escape a Pacific Northwest sheepherding contest, little do they know they will find a place where they were always meant to be...A warm, funny story that shows competition is not for everyone, Jake and Emma's Island Getaway celebrates the quirkiness and beauty of the Pacific Northwest and the timeless value of friendship. ...
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    15,06 €

  • Behaviour Problems in Schools
    Andreas Varlaam / Jean Davies / Peter Mortimore
    Published in 1983. One response to the recent concern about pupil discipline in schools has been the creation of support centres: off-site special units to which disruptive pupils are sent for varying periods of time for education and supervision. The Inner London Education Authority had a substantial network of such centres. Yet the concept of these units has aroused some crit...
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    133,12 €

  • Blumpoe the Grumpoe Meets Arnold the Cat
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    A grumpy old man and a shy young cat form an unlikely friendship at a Minnesota inn which provides its guests with a cat for the night. An engaging offbeat story made even funnier by Schneider's cheerful, cartoon-like illustrations. ...
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    14,29 €

  • The Reinvention of Albert Paugh
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    The Reinvention of Albert Paugh is a sweet, funny love story about retirees that will delight readers (and dog lovers) of any age. Dr. Albert Paugh is flunking retirement. After selling his Vashon Island veterinary practice, he soon finds himself not only lost without his work, but suddenly single. His efforts to carve out a new life, both as a bachelor and a retiree, only lea...
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    15,86 €

  • The Reinvention of Albert Paugh
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    Dr. Albert Paugh is flunking retirement. After selling his Vashon Island veterinary practice, he soon finds himself not only lost without his work, but suddenly single.His efforts to carve out a new life, both as a bachelor and a retiree, only leave him feeling like his golden years are fast becoming years of gloom. His regrets pile up until he moves to Baker’s Beach where he g...
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    27,48 €

  • The White Swan Express
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    Many people from North America make the long journey to their children in China. But first the family has to complete all the adoption-agency paperwork, have interviews, fill out legal forms, and receive approvals. Then a tiny photograph of their child arrives. Finally, they travel to China to embrace their long-awaited child. ...
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    12,13 €

  • Five Famous Mice Meet Winston of Churchill
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    The mice are miffed... 'All creatures are endangered! Not just polar bears!' Nellie, Henrietta, Irene, Louise, and Emily embark on a quest across Canada to let people know climate change affects everyone...even mice! Rebuffed at Parliament, Nellie uses words of her famous namesake Nellie McClung to rally the mice. 'We will pester them and pester them until they realize that ...
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    12,52 €

  • Five Famous Mice Meet Winston of Churchill
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    The mice are miffed... 'All creatures are endangered! Not just polar bears!' Nellie, Henrietta, Irene, Louise, and Emily embark on a quest across Canada to let people know climate change affects everyone...even mice! Rebuffed at Parliament, Nellie uses words of her famous namesake Nellie McClung to rally the mice. 'We will pester them and pester them until they realize that ...
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    19,40 €

  • Winston of Churchill
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    Churchill, Manitoba is the polar bear capitol of the world. Every winter, tourists flock to the tiny town to watch the bears hunt and frolic on the frozen waters of the Hudson Bay. This year, though, the tourists are in for a big surprise...Winston! A smart, fierce, brave bear, Winston of Churchill has noticed that their icy home is slowly melting away. He explains to the other...
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    15,35 €

  • Jason's Women
    Jean Davies Davies
    In this nostalgic coming-of-age novel, 16-year-old Jason Kovak dreams of sexual encounters with older women who've placed ads in a newspaper personal column. But when he stumbles into a new after school job, he meets a beautiful refugee from Vietnam, Thao Nguyen, and her elderly sponsor, Bertha Jane Fillmore, and his life is changed forever. ...
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    9,92 €

  • The Weird World Rolls On
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    This poetry collection reflects a range of human experience and diverse poetic responses to timeless subjects: love, death, grief, loss, aging, illness, suicide, divorce, family, racism, war and peace, nature, longing, joy, and just trying to make sense of the world. There are twenty-eight poets (the work of two of the poets is published posthumously-one haiku having been dicta...
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    16,08 €

  • Walter's Muse
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    It's the first summer of her retirement and librarian Maggie Lewis is relishing the unfolding of sweet summer days on Vashon Island: walking on the beach, reading the classics, and kayaking. But in June when a sudden storm hits the island, Maggie's summer becomes about as peaceful as navigating white water. Not only does her wealthy sister arrive uninvited with a startling anno...
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    15,83 €

  • Walter’s Muse
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    It’s the first summer of her retirement and librarian Maggie Lewis is relishing the unfolding of sweet summer days on Vashon Island: walking on the beach, reading the classics, and kayaking. But in June when a sudden storm hits the island, Maggie’s summer becomes about as peaceful as navigating whitewater. Not only does her wealthy sister arrive uninvited with a startling annou...
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    26,21 €

  • Talent Night
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    Rodney Suyama has two impossible dreams... to be a rap star and to go out with gorgeous Ivy Ramos. Set in the nineties at the dawn of rap, a witty and determined young man gets in touch with his past while taking control of his future in this romantic, poignant and hilarious novel by Jean Davies Okimoto. 'A celebration of diversity.' -Signal 'A story of ethnic pride, first l...
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    8,02 €

  • Molly by Any Other Name
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    Where did she come from? Molly Jane Fletcher was adopted. She's known it for as long as she can remember. It's not something that usually bothers her, but lately, it's all she can think about. Now Molly has a chance to find her birthmother--a chance to understand where she came from, and why she was given away. But the Fletchers aren't happy about her decision to unearth the ...
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    9,05 €

  • Maya and the Cotton Candy Boy
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    Newly arrived from Kazakhstan, twelve-year-old Maya Alazova resents the way her mother babies her brother, but when she leaves her English Language Learner program for mainstream classes and has to deal with a boy, a bully, and conflict at home, she finds her brother can help with their new culture in ways their parents can't. ...
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    8,43 €

  • Dear Ichiro
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    Celebrating the diversity of baseball, Dear Ichiro is a warm, funny story that brings a universal message of healing and hope. Winner of the Children’s Peace Book Award. ...
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    11,93 €

  • Maya and the Cotton Candy Boy
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    Newly arrived from Kazakhstan, twelve-year-old Maya Alazova resents the way her mother babies her brother, but when she leaves her English Language Learner program for mainstream classes and has to deal with a boy, a bully, and conflict at home, she finds her brother can help with their new culture in ways their parents can’t. ...
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    17,45 €

  • The Love Ceiling
    Jean Davies Okimoto
    After the death of her Japanese American mother, sixty-four-year-old Anne Kuroda Duppstadt finds the courage to confront the toxic legacy of her father, a famous artist and cruel narcissist. When a former art professor invites her to his island art studio, she begins pursuing her lifelong dream to become an artist in her own right. But the needs of her family tug at her heart. ...
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    14,92 €