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Offers clear and straightforward information on computer science, covering such topics as hardware, software, coding languages, social media, and troubleshooting.…
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Go Together : How The Concept Of Ubuntu Will Change How You Live, Work, And Lead
"Workplace positivity expert Shola Richards (Making Work Work) explores a radical new concept for rethinking our personal, professional, and social lives: togetherness."--…
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Reminds us how powerful the Church can be and calls this generation to passionately pursue God's vision for His beloved Bride.…
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The Red And The Blue : The 1990s And The Birth Of Political Tribalism
"From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s--one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscape"--…
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Examines big-game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa and the consequences of treating animals as commodities.…
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"From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of America's wartime chief executives"--…
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Provides a comprehensive guide to the universe, from craters on the Moon to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and includes maps of the night sky, profiles of constellations, and tips on using binoculars and telescopes.…
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Beauty From The Inside Out : Makeup, Wellness, Confidence
"Building on her lifelong philosophy, bestselling author and world-renowned makeup artist Bobbi Brown provides a total lifestyle makeover for a better, healthier, more confident, beautiful you"--…
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Herbal Remedies Handbook : More Than 140 Plant Profiles : Remedies For Over 50 Common Conditions
An experienced medical herbalist explores the health properties and practical uses of over one hundred and forty medicinal herbs that can be used to create home remedies for more than fifty common conditions.…
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Pure, natural essential oils are an amazing way to improve your mood and add fragrance to your home.…
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Mexican Slow Cooker Cookbook : Easy, Flavorful Mexican Dishes That Cook Themselves
Packed with authentic south-of-the-border recipes that require minimal active cooking time. The Mexican Slow Cooker cookbook presents recipes for classic and innovative dishes.…
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"Jane Nelsen, coauthor of the popular Positive Discipline series, along with Joy Marchese and Kristina Bill, put forth a new volume for parents looking to make their overburdened lives a little easier"--…
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Writers : Their Lives And Works
Presents profiles of the world's greatest writers throughout history, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Mary Shelley, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Maya Angelous, and Haruki Murakami.…
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Lovelace explores the memory of being in an abusive relationship. She poses the eternal question: Can you heal once you've been marked by a monster, or will the sun always sting? -- from goodreads.com…
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The Death Of Hitler : The Final Word
Answers the lingering questions surrounding Hitler's death in his bunker using unprecedented access to secret Russian archives that also detail the layout of the bunker and offer eyewitness accounts of the dictator's final days.…
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Draws on five decades of scholarship to offer an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership as demonstrated by Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson.…
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Wishing to join the elite Hunter class like his father who abandoned him years ago, twelve-year-old Gon faces the challenging examination, making new friends along the way.…
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Rising Out Of Hatred : The Awakening Of A Former White Nationalist
Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism, then he went to college. When his supremacist views were confronted, Derek first opened his eyes, then his heart and mind, to reality.…
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All You Can Ever Know : A Memoir
Chung investigates the mysteries and complexities of her transracial adoption in this chronicle of unexpected family for anyone who has struggled to figure out where they belong.…
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Recounts how the author, after realizing the daunting state of his health at age forty, overcame physical challenges and alcoholism over the course of two years while training for Hawaii's elite Ultraman competition.…
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Storyteller's Secret : A Novel
An epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.…
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Former exotic dancer Alyssa Deveraux returns to old flame Luc Traverson's life, rekindling their lust for one another as Luc becomes the guest chef at Alyssa's new restaurant.…
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Ellen travels to Hawaii to help her best friend, but quickly finds herself torn between a new love and her family in Indiana.…
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In the aftermath of a young archaeologist's discovery of human remains that may be modern, Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate a case that is further complicated by the subsequent murder of an elderly woman.…
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After two bodies are found in a quiet Florida community, old secrets and deadly grudges are exposed, prompting retired novelist Sara Medlar, her niece Kate, and long-term houseguest Jackson to team up to try to unmask the killer.…
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Daniel Ahearn, a man living a solitary existence in seaside New England, travels to a quaint Florida community in search of his traumatized, estranged daughter.…
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A young girl wakes her father by informing him that she is Queen Alice, then draws him and other family members into her imaginative activities, from writing a book to a sleepover with fairies.…
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When Lisa takes Corduroy to the theater for the first time, Corduroy heads out on his own to explore the whole building, including the dressing rooms, orchestra pit, and prop table.…
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The Pout-pout Fish And The Bully-bully Shark
Mr. Fish finds the courage to speak up for his friends when a shark comes to the park and bullies them.…
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This is a richly illustrated story of a man, a bowl of soup and the man's operatic and frustrating quest to eat it.…
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce such basic concepts as adjectives, adverbs, daytime, and nighttime as they follow five elephants marching from dawn to dusk.…
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Lizzie meets an elderly man and his companion, Cecile, at the park, but Lizzie is afraid of dogs, so she relies on her new friend to help her take things one step at a time.…
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Farmer Evan and his dog do everything together and, especially, in the garden but when his dog passes away Evan lets his garden fill with weeds until a pumpkin vine brings new hope.…
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A little girl and her family go hiking up a nearby mountain for the very first time.…
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Not My Idea : A Book About Whiteness
"A necessary children's book about whiteness, white supremacy, and resistance. Important, accessible, needed." --…
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Memphis, Martin, And The Mountaintop : The Sanitation Strike Of 1968
Recounts the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his final speech to strikers the night before his assassination, and details the perseverance of strikers before and after his death.…
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Sir Cumference And The First Round Table : A Math Adventure
Assisted by his knight, Sir Cumference, and using ideas offered by his wife and son, King Arthur finds the perfect shape for his table.…
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"An exploration of all the different kinds of dens animals build for their babies."--…
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The Lacemaker's Secret : A Chloe Ellefson Mystery
Chloe discovers a body on a farm outside Green Bay while she's visiting a historic site and conferring with a friend about Belgian lacemaking.…
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A semi-autobiographical film of Fellini about a film director (Mastroianni) who finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. He fantasizes at a resort to get away from the pressures of wife and staff.…
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Middle-schoolers Nico, Tyler, Ella, and Opal discover a hidden island in a forbidden cove that appears uninhabited, but something ancient has awakened knowing their wishes, dreams, and darkest secrets.…
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Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night and tells her they need to leave home immediately, and this time Granny intends for them never to return.…
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Lulu's parents refuse to give in when she demands a brontosaurus for her birthday and so she sets out to find her own, but while the brontosaurus she finally meets approves of pets, he does not intend to be Lulu's.…
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"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--…
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Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!)
Discusses the physical changes that girls undergo during puberty, along with advice on maintaining good health and dealing with emotions and relationships with friends.…
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When a New York City police commissioner confronts a killer, he discovers a terrorist plot that threatens to bring the worst destruction to the city since the September 11th attacks.…
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Avalon : The Return Of King Arthur
King Arthur rises from the dead to save the British monarchy. It happens after a future English king with no heirs commits suicide and a prime minister schemes to establish a republic with himself as president.…
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On Desperate Ground : The Marines At The Reservoir, The Korean War's Greatest Battle
"A chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War."--Provided by publisher.…
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"In New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray's novel of suspense in her Amish of Hart County series, an EMT falls for a woman with ties to an Amish community where people are dying similar, suspicious deaths"--…
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A Forgotten Place : A Bess Crawford Mystery
"Though the Great War has ended, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland in this tenth entry from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author"--…
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When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.…
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After a deadly virus wipes out the entire population of the Earth, Phil Miller is the only man left alive and he desperately tries to find other survivors.…
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Dramatizes the life of Moe Berg, a baseball player and spy who became an OSS operative in World War II gathering information about Germany's progress towards the development of an atomic bomb.…
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Hunting The Saturday Night Strangler
Former homicide detective Arn Anderson joins forces with TV reporter Ana Maria Villarreal to track down a killer terrorizing the ranches and local watering holes of Cheyenne.…
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With war in Westmark and the assumption of the throne by Mickle, all Theo's talents are needed, as well as those of his former companions.…
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A Heart In A Body In The World
Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.…
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Lies You Never Told Me : A Novel
Told in alternating voices, two teenagers, one in Austin, Texas, and the other in Portland, Oregon, enter dangerous romantic relationships.…
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Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.…
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After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.…
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Told through flashbacks, best friends Jule and Imogen are orphaned outcasts who will do almost anything to attain a happy, wealthy life.…
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Twins Kylee and Brysen must fight for survival in a remote valley called Six Villages as war approaches, she by rejecting her ancient gifts for falconry and Brysen by striving to find greatness.…
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This Impossible Light : A Novel
Fifteen-year-old Ivy, feeling a lot of stress about her expanding body, her parents' divorce, and her best friend's distance, develops an eating disorder.…
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Presents a twist on themes from Moby Dick in the story of a proud warrior whale pod that attacks a ship before pursuing a near-mythical adversary on a vengeful hunt that risks the worlds of both whales and humans.…
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Neanderthal Opens The Door To The Universe
Nearly a year after his brother's suicide, sixteen-year-old Cliff "Neanderthal" Hubbard gets recruited to make life better at Happy Valley High by the school's quarterback, who claims he had a vision from God.…
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Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend after becoming obsessed and delusional over a novel, but on the anniversary of their friend's death a discovery pulls them back together to find out what actually happened that night.…
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Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old alchemy student Nedra turns to dark magic when a deadly plague sweeps through her homeland leaving her new friend, Grey, to pull her from the darkness.…
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"After having saved the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida with his peculiar friends, where they set out on a journey across America to discover the truth about Jacob's grandfather"--…
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Poppy swears she will seek revenge against Jack's cruel prank that humiliated her in front of all her friends, so when classmates start turning up dead, everyone believes it is Poppy's doing.…
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A collection of illustrated short stories, each one about the relationship of humans and the animals, both wild and domestic, that share the urban environment of the inner city.…
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"As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected"--…
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Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.…
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After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.…
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Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.…
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