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Harper Horizon
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English
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"Look for me there," news legend Tim Russert would tell his son, Luke, when confirming a pickup spot at an airport, sporting event, or rock concert. After Tim died unexpectedly, Luke kept looking for his father, following in Tim's footsteps and carving out a highly successful career at NBC News. After eight years covering politics on television, Luke realized he had no good answer as to why he was chasing his father's legacy. As the son of two accomplished...
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"J.H. "Billy" Williams always had an affinity for animals. So, when he responded to job offer with the East India Company to work with logging elephants his family wasn't surprised, though worried that he had already come back from World War I in one piece, would he be so lucky with India? Not only did he find his calling with the elephants in India, Billy and his elephants became war heroes. At the onset of World War II, Williams formed Elephant...
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English
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"Blending a fascinating personal history with dramatic historical events, this book brings long-overdue attention to a brilliant woman whose work proved essential for America's early space program. This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist. Told by her son, it describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to launching America's first satellite and the author's labyrinthine journey to uncover his mother's...
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English
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Hit the Target introduces readers to those who made the Eighth Air Force the formidable juggernaut it soon became. Men of all ranks, from General Tooey Spaatz, the hard driving founding commander, to Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, the hero who led the first air raid on Japan, to Maynard "Snuffy" Smith, the irascible first airman in Europe to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and Robert Rosie Rosenthal, who survived his time with the "Bloody Hundredth,"...
6) Polar bears
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Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Did you know that polar bears have transparent fur that only looks whiteor that these giant carnivores are excellent swimmers? These top predators are also at risk due to climate change and loss of habitat. Learn fascinating facts like theseand moreall in the pages of this book!
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Publisher
Omnigraphics
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
4th ed.
Language
English
Description
"Provides basic consumer health information about dental hygiene, preventive care, and oral health concerns for children and adults, with facts about surgical, orthodontic, and cosmetic dental procedures, and diseases of the mouth and jaw. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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English
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"From a woman known as "the Bill Belichick of cheerleading" (The Cut)-the breakout star of the Netflix series, CHEER-a motivational and inspiring guide to becoming a champion in all areas of your life. In FULL OUT, the breakout star of Netflix's CHEER, Monica Aldama, shows how she built one of the most successful, beloved-and now also the most famous-cheerleading programs in the country. Coach Monica tells her story and shares her advice on leadership,...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Sixth edition.
Language
English
Description
"Being a parent is one of the most rewarding experiences in life, but every family faces challenges that can be frustrating and overwhelming. For more than twenty-five years, internationally renowned clinical psychologist Thomas W. Phelan's 1-2-3 Magic has helped millions of parents, teachers, and caregivers raise independent, emotionally intelligent children and build happier, healthier families-all through an easy-to-understand program that you'll...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The business world is moving away from "belly to belly" interactions and traditional advertising. The Conversion Code is a step-by-step blueprint for capturing Internet leads, converting them into appointments and closing prospects into sales. It will teach readers to generate thousands of leads from social media and turn those into closed sales. Much of the sales and marketing advice of yesterday does not apply today's techsavvy, mobilefirst, social...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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"An unflinching chronicle of Cusk's own recent separation and the upheaval that followed- 'a jigsaw dismantled'- it is also a vivid study of divorce's complex place in our society. Aftermath originally signified a second harvest, and in this book, unlike any other written on the subject, Cusk discovers opportunity as well as pain. With candor as fearless as it is affecting, Rachel Cusk maps a transformative chapter of her life with an acuity and wit...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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"Christine Pelosi presents leadership lessons from the campaign trail from a diverse array of over forty public figures, lending advice for anyone who wants to run for office, advocate for a cause, or win a public policy issue. This book draws from her leadership "boot camps" conducted in over thirty American states and in three foreign countries, working with thousands of volunteers and dozens of successful candidates for office from city council...
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English
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Scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history. Tracing how these ideas evolved, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as: "Thanksgiving Proves the Indians Welcomed Pilgrims", "Indians Were Savage and Warlike", "Europeans Brought Civilization to Backward Indians", "Sports Mascots Honor Native Americans", "Most Indians Are on Government Welfare",...
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Series
Treehouse series volume 5
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Andy and Terry travel through time trying to save their treehouse from highly talented, angry ants and Inspector Bubblewrap the building inspector while rushing to meet their publisher's deadline.
16) One crazy summer
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English
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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English
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"An unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian. When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a 'Grammar Table' sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a hit— attracting the attention of the New York Times, NPR, and CBS Evening News— that Jovin...
18) Ragtime cowboys
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English
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"In prohibition-era Southern California, real life detectives Charles D. Siringo and Dashiell Hammett must solve a mystery involving a ruthless politician--Joseph P. Kennedy. With sharp dialogue and rich historical background, Ragtime Cowboys is an exciting, suspenseful tale in which the Old West and Hollywood collide. Los Angeles, 1921: Ex-Pinkerton Charlie Siringo is living in quiet retirement when Wyatt Earp knocks on his door and asks him to track...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Third edition.
Language
English
Description
Provides novice investors with time-tested advice, along with strategies that reflect today's market conditions. You'll get no-nonsense guidance on how to invest in stocks, bonds, funds, and even real estate-complete with definitions of all the must-know lingo.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 23
Osborne Mary Pope volume 51
Magic tree house series.Merlin missions volume 23
Osborne Mary Pope volume 51
Magic tree house series.Merlin missions volume 23
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English
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Jack and Annie travel back in time to Egypt and meet Florence Nightingale, who is on the trip that will influence her life and the decisions that will make her famous.
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