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How I became a pirate by Melinda Long
Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects …
White queer lady in San Francisco. Knitter, transit geek, and sometime editor and cyclist. Planting peas and potatoes to prefigure an anarchist future. I listen to a lot of nonfiction audiobooks.
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Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects …

An illustrated edition of more than 200 traditional tales collected from German folklore by the Brothers Grimm.

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In envelope 2 are directions to …

John Green: Fault in Our Stars (2015, Penguin Books, Limited)
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