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33861) Rogue (#3): Croak series
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[2013]
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Uncle Mort rounds up sixteen-year-old Lex, the other Junior Grims, and Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time, for a journey to Necropolis, where only an impossible choice can save the Afterlife from destruction.
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Pub. Date
p2006
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"From Harold S. Kushner, the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a book that shows us how to be our best selves even when things dont turn out as we had hopedthat is, how we can overcome lifes disappointments. Kushner turns to the experience of Moses to find the requisite lessons of strength and faith. Moses towers over all others in the Old Testament: he is the man on the mountaintop to whom God speaks with unparalleled...
33864) 500 preguntas y respuestas
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Pub. Date
2010
Description
Questions and answers introduce the clothing, food, language, religion, and other aspects of daily life in Ancient Rome. Questions and answers introduce the clothing, food, weapons, religion, and other aspects of daily life in Ancient Greece. Questions and answers about the desert and animals and humans who live there. Question and answer format provides scientific information on volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters. Questions and answers...
33865) Picking up the pieces
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"As Nora and her British Army officer husband, Gordy, pack up yet another home and leave the sun of Cyprus for the drizzle of England, she can't shake a feeling of regret--at her failure to follow her own dreams, but also, if she's honest, at having ended up an officer's wife at all, drifting through a life of temporary homes and temporary relationships. Since losing her parents at a young age, Nora's life has been lacking an anchor: someone or something...
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[2001]
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In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned. By the time a rescue mission arrives, only the leader of the expedition is left alive. He is accused of murdering his crew and is taken into custody. As the rescue ship returns to earth, the real killer, a life-devouring monster that has stowed aboard, begins attacking the crew. The remaining crew must find some way to stop it before the ship returns to a panic-striken Earth
33867) Lord of thunder
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
Hosteen Storm, a Beast Master of the planet Arzor, is sent to investigate the activities of the native tribes that have gathered into the country of the Peaks.
33868) The beast master
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
Hosteen Storm, a Navajo from the American southwest, was a soldier in the Planetary Confederacy forces. He served as a Beast Master teamed with an African eagle (Baku), two meerkats (Hing and Ho), and a dune cat (Surra). Storm and his genetically enhanced animals served valiantly in the war that defeated the alien Xiks. However, that victory did not prevent the destruction of Earth. And so his search for a new home began.
33871) The silence between us
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Moving halfway across the country to Colorado right before senior year isn't Mayas idea of a good time. Leaving behind Pratt School for the Deaf where she's been a student for years only to attend a hearing school is even worse. Maya has dreams of breaking into the medical field and is determined to get the grades and a college degree to match, and she's never considered being Deaf a disability. But her teachers and classmates at Engelmann High don't...
33872) Tsu and the outliers
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Pub. Date
2018.
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Tsu, a non- verbal boy whose rural existence appears unbearable until rumors of a monstrous giant upend his mundane life. Tsu finds himself at the center of the mystery, as his strange metaphysical connection with the creature is revealed. As the dragnet closes in, Tsu is forced to choose between a dangerous path leading beyond the periphery of human perception or a life without his only friend.
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[2009]
Description
Miley Stewart leads a completely normal life, except for one factor. She's teen pop sensation Hannah Montana. She lives with her dad Robbie Ray and brother Jackson. She has fun with her two best friends Lilly Truscott and Oliver Oken. She goes through average teen problems and lands in the spotlight again and again. But through it all, she learns that what's most important is to be yourself.
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Pub. Date
2020.]
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"A young Princess Leia spends her days learning the ways of politics, aiding those in need and preparing for the traditional ceremony in which she declares her intention to one day rule Alderaan. But as Leia prepares herself to be named the heir of the throne, she becomes aware of the growing distance between her and her parents, who behind closed doors are leaders of the newly formed rebellion. Upon learning her parents' secrets, Leia must now make...
33875) Diary of a worm...and 4 more great animal tales: Anatole, Frog goes to dinner, I lost my bear
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[2006]
Description
Diary of a worm: This fun-filled chronicle of the daily ins and outs of a loveable underground dweller shows us that a worm's life is really not so different from ours.
Anatole: An honorable little French mouse anonymously reveals his remarkably good tast in cheese and helps a cheese factory to become the best.
Frog goes to dinner: Frog causes trouble and embarrassment for the family after popping out of a boy's pocket in a fancy restaurant.
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2021.
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"Abir Nasr es un adolescente que presencia, impotente, el asesinato de su familia durante una misión del ejército israelí en el sur de Líbano. Ante los cadáveres de su madre y hermana pequeña, jura que perseguirá a los culpables durante el resto de su vida. Noche tras noche la amenaza de Abir irrumpe en el sueño de Jacob Baudin, uno de los soldados que ha participado en la acción mientras cumplía con el servicio militar obligatorio, enfrentándose...
33877) Bloody Chester
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
In 1870 Dakota Territory, "Bloody" Chester Kates is in for some surprises when he agrees to burn down the town of Whale, believed to be inhabited by something wicked, in order for the Union Pacific to continue construction of the railroad.
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
The founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology makes a political as well as scientific case against GM foods, and discusses US and European attitudes and actions that consumers can take.
"Without knowing it, Americans eat genetically modified (GM) food everyday. While the food and chemical industries claim that GMO food is safe, a considerable amount of evidence shows otherwise. In Seeds of Deception, Jeffrey Smith, a former executive with...
33880) Delirium: #1Delirum trilogy
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Series
Delirium trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015], p2011
Description
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, she falls in love.