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80661) Ride
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Scenes & Interludes ... from an Improbable End. Atticus, meanwhile, had been counting down. "Three … two … one." He sighed and lowered the megaphone-then lifted it to his mouth again. "The problem with you, Jaime, is that you just-don't-listen. Now I just explained to you what was going to happen if I reached 'one' and you hadn't come out, and goddamned if you didn't come out. So. What's going to happen now is that we're going to kill one of these...
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Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous Kingmaker, Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century Britain England.
Mythologically rumored to have been known as the Rose of Raby because of her beauty and her birth at Raby Castle, and as Proud Cis because of her vanity and fiery temper, Cecilys personality and temperament have actually been highly...
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This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth and quality of their ethnographic writing and for their...
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Découvrez la suite tant attendue de la saga La 10ème planète!
1945: Encore loin dans l'espace, les Annunakins s'apprêtent à revenir une fois de plus sur Terre après des milliers d'années.
2008: Une explosion sous-marine envoie par le fond la plate-forme pétrolière Endeavour.
2012: Seule rescapée, Joanne Priestley est maintenue recluse en attendant de mettre au monde le futur héritier de l'empire économique de son mari, alors qu'un...
80665) Sins of Commission
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SINS OF COMMISSION
While on a misssion to save the planet Lessenar from environmental collapse, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise is crippled by an emotional onslaught as the surviving aliens respond in anger and pain to the death of their comrade.
Worf must overcome this alien influence and find the true killer with the destruction of the Starship Enterprise, the survival of Lessenar, and his Klingon honor hanging in the balance...
80666) Eldritch Manor
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Are those cranky old folks at the retirement home really what they seem? Twelve-year-old Willa Fuller is convinced that the old folks in the shabby boarding house down the street are prisoners of their sinister landlady, Miss Trang. Only when Willa is hired on as housekeeper does she discover the truth, which is far more fascinating. Eldritch Manor is a retirement home for some very strange beings indeed. All have stories to tell – and petty grievances...
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On 19 February 1927, the city of Shanghai fell silent as a general strike gripped the factories of the industrial district. A magnet for foreign traders and businessmen (British, French, American, then later Japanese), by the 1920s the pursuit of profit had produced one of the most cosmopolitan cities that the world has ever seen. Known as the Whore of the Orient, Shanghai was a melting pot where every imaginable experience or luxury from East or...
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Un recueil de contes pour enfants, en hommage à la Nature. Ce livret de petits contes qui se veut empli de sagesse est un hymne à la beauté de la nature et à la noblesse des animaux. Que ces 18 contes puissent apporter la douceur au monde des enfants. Découvrez, en famille, les beautés de la nature au travers de ces contes inspirants.
EXTRAIT DE Yohann et la biche diva. Voici l'histoire de Diva la biche qui vivait dans la forêt de Saint-Amour...
80670) Valley of Pretenders: Classic Pulp Science Fiction Stories in the Vein of Stanley G. Weinbaum
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Science fiction author Stanley G. Weinbaum died from cancer at 33 in December 1935. Short though his career was, his scientific imagination, smooth characterizations, and pervasive humor completely revolutionized the field, and profoundly influenced his contemporaries. Among his many imitators was English writer John Russell Fearn. Although his own distinctive work was very popular in the SF magazines of the time, the ambitious Fearn wanted to increase...
80671) The Korea Story
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This is nation-building made riveting, the largely unknown story of the years between the end of Japanese rule in 1945 and the surprise Communist invasion of South Korea in the summer of 1950. Outspoken author John Caldwell recounts his adventures and frustrations in South Korea with the U.S. Information Service from 1947 until his resignation in early 1950. Caldwell played a vital role in the landmark constitutional assembly and presidential elections...
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The story is all too-familiar: On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing eleven workers and creating the largest oil spill in the history of U.S. offshore drilling. But, this wasn't the first time British Petroleum and its cost-cutting practices destroyed parts of the natural world. It also was not the first time that BP's negligence resulted in the loss of human life, ruined family businesses or shattered dreams. Journalist...
80673) 50 Below Zero
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Jason's sleepwalking father is snoring all around the house! In the bathtub, in the kitchen, even on top of the car in the garage. But when the front door is opened and Jason's father sleepwalks outside into the frozen night, Jason has to take special action.
A newly designed Classic Munsch picture book introduces this charming tale of a noisily napping parent to a new generation of young readers.
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Addresses the importance of Haudenosaunee women in the rebuilding of the Iroquois nation.
Indigenous communities around the world are gathering to both reclaim and share their ancestral wisdom. Aware of and drawing from these social movements, A Clan Mother's Call articulates Haudenosaunee women's worldview that honors women, clanship, and the earth. Over successive generations, First Nation people around the globe have experienced and survived trauma...
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Valentinian tries to do the right thing, for the clients who hire his spaceship for charter, for his mysterious new crewman Dave, as well as for the variants and aliens he deals with past the worlds in Dominion control, out into Wildspace. But the Dominion casts a long shadow. Sometimes you can never truly escape your past. Particularly when it comes to hunt you down. Read the first three books in the Shadow of the Dominion series! Collected together...
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Are you one of many who are skeptical about the spiritual aspects of recovery? If so, then you are in good company. For many, the leap of faith required to fully participate in 12-Step programs exceeds their athletic ability, and for valid reasons.
In his debut book, Andrew G. Pierce, MCAP, unpacks his clinical model, the Unified Theory of Recovery. He offers a unique solution that will help you replace the judgmentalism inherent to many religions...
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Only the strongest survive... A grand prize...
Transported to a foreign world against his will, a young man enters a deadly game orchestrated by forces far beyond his comprehension, for reasons far beyond his understanding. Time and space is rendered meaningless in a world where only the strongest survive, and where the grand prize is unspeakable riches or a leap into the future.
The words of the mysterious GM rings out -
"Players! The Realm of...
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When his father died, award-winning poet and curator Gil McElroy was given a box of photographs that documented his father's military career. Beginning in the Second World War and continuing right through to the end of the Cold War, the senior McElroy staffed Canada's network of electronic defence, including the Distant Early Warning Line – a network of radar stations stretching along the Arctic coast from Alaska to Baffin Island. Established in...
80679) Surviving a Tsunami
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As tsunami waves tower over real people, readers will hold their breath to discover how they survived.
80680) ¿Cómo se gestó el peronismo?: Iglesia, Ejército y sindicatos en la génesis del peronismo (1943-1944)
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El peronismo es protagonista central de la realidad nacional desde hace casi ochenta años. El origen del movimiento político más importante de la historia argentina se encuentra en la Revolución de 1943. Una equivocación corriente es atribuir al levantamiento militar cierta afinidad con el nazismo o el fascismo. Lejos de ser una copia de experiencias foráneas, fue producto de una combinación de causas ligadas a particularidades de la realidad...
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