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Jake Baked the Cake
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Jake Baked the Cake

Will Jake bake the cake in time for the wedding? Hennessy's rhyming text captures all the fun of the joyful celebration. And Mary Morgan has created a homey cast of characters, including flower girls with all their curls and ushers whose ties are all the wrong size.
 
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Hiss of Death
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Hiss of DeathHiss of Death

Rita Mae Brown - Hiss of Death

Beloved authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-conspirator, Sneaky Pie Brown, sow the seeds of an all-new mystery featuring Mary Minor 'Harry' Haristeen, sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and that incorrigible corgi Tee Tucker. This time around, the onset of spring ushers in more than hay fever as the animal friends must come to the aid of an ailing Harry to sniff out the season's first blossom of murder.

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Tags: Brown, Harry, Death, ushers, spring, fever, animal
The Summoners' Tale ( Canterbury Tales)
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The summoners' tale ( canterbury tales)The summoners' tale ( canterbury tales)
The Summoner's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The tale is a fierce counterpunch to the preceding tale by The Friar which had been an offensive attack on summoners. Summoners were officials in ecclesiastical courts who summoned people to attend and worked in a similar way to ushers. The Friar had accused them of corruption and taking bribes and the Summoner seeks redress through his own story.
 
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Tags: Summoner, summoners, Friar, ushers, canterbury, Tales, Summoners, Summoner, Canterbury, Friar
Edgar Allen Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher
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Edgar Allen Poe - The Fall of the House of UsherThe Fall of the House of Usher is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe.

The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his comfort. Although Poe wrote this short story before the invention of modern psychological science, Usher's symptoms can be described according to its terminology. They include hyperesthesia (extreme hypersensitivity to light, sounds, smells, and tastes), hypochondria, and acute anxiety. It is revealed that Usher's twin sister, Madeline, is also ill, suffering from catalepsy. The narrator is impressed with Usher's paintings, and attempts to cheer him by reading with him and listening to his improvised musical compositions on the guitar. Usher sings "The Haunted Palace", then tells the narrator that he believes the house he lives in to be sentient, and that this sentience arises from the arrangement of the masonry and vegetation surrounding it.

 
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