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1) Puss & boots
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A cat in his own handsome pair of boots defeats a monster and helps revive his master's failing business.
Author
Series
Valentine trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes shoe designer and businesswomen Valentine Roncalli from the winding streets of Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. Once unearthed, the truth rocks the Roncallis and Valentine is determined to hold her family together as she longs to create one of her own.
3) The cobbler
Language
English
Formats
Description
Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A clever leprechaun who has amassed a pot of gold by making beautiful shoes for people decides to hide his money at the end of a rainbow, knowing that no one will find it there.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miguel's family has banned music from their home for generations, focusing on their successful family shoe business instead. All of his family wants him to join the family business, but Miguel wants to play guitar. In the Land of the Dead, Miguel goes on a journey to discover the truth behind his family's history, and find out if there is a way to get his family's blessing to be a musician.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional duties and rescue a young woman who believed his seductive...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
262 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hugh Collier in "The Danger Lover" feels he is living an empty life as little more than a competent bank employee in the town of Stanton. He decides to leave behind a life that for him was a "caricature and savage cartoon of the beautiful truth that life may be" and heads into the mountains alone, carrying only the essentials on his horse. Two things change course of his adventure: he sees a town from a hill, and a stranger, desperate to file on...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the island of Penang, Jimmy Choo is born into a family of shoemakers. At his father's side, he learns to make all kinds of shoes-loafers, stilettos, slippers, and more. After learning all he can at home, Jimmy immigrates to London, where he can study shoemaking by day and English by night. Nothing comes easy for newcomer Jimmy, but he works hard until he can launch his own business. At his Lucky Shoes, Jimmy specializes in shoes made just for...
Author
Series
Reardon Valley volume 1
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sabina Erhardt has been lost in a hand of poker. Now she has only two choices: face the brutal gambler who has won the right to marry her, or run for her life. Sabina chooses to run. Now, as she finds herself in Reardon Valley, taken in by a widower and his four children, Sabina faces an even harder choice. Will she lose her heart to Baxter Clay, the strong loving man who has given her a home, or will she deny her feelings and her past?
11) New shoes
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 590L
Physical Desc
204 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Francis the donkey is the best shoemaker in the village. He uses only the finest materials: coconut wood for the soles, goat's wool for the insoles, and wild tiger grass for the uppers. After he receives an order for new shoes from Miss Manatee, shoemaker Francis the donkey must journey through the jungle to find the materials he needs, meeting the variety of animals that live near him, including a capybara, jaguar, and three-toed sloth.
12) Love overboard
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
237 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
13) Hobson's choice
Series
Criterion collection volume 461
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop in England finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life.
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