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After surviving a divorce that turned her life upside down, Sophie was about to lose the baking business she ran from her tiny studio apartment. Her choices were: move her business to a commercial kitchen or lose her business license and her only source of income.Winning the $5000 prize in a gingerbread contest would provide the cash to secure a commercial space. She hadn't counted on falling for Gareth Haskins, the lead singer of the band Safe Haven....
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How Do You Know a Politician is Lying? His Lips Are Moving!
The President for Life has the Brawn; the young woman he must kidnap has the BrainTrust. Game On!
Many years ago, the President for Life expelled all the foreign engineers from Silicon Valley, promising those jobs for Americans. But his lips were moving. Instead, the Valley companies moved their people to a fleet of cruise liners off the coast, giving birth to the BrainTrust.
Now Dash,...
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A remarkable history of the Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland who altered the American landscape from New York to Hollywood The wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who swept into New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by way of Ellis Island were not welcomed by the Jews who had arrived decades before. These refugees from czarist Russia and the Polish shtetls who came to America to escape pogroms and persecution...
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On 15 March 1945 three crew members of a Bomber Command Lancaster baled from their crippled aircraft over the eastern Rhur. The author of this book was the navigator and one of those men. All three found themselves in quiet countryside but were soon captured and imprisoned in a village jail. After a short time they were moved and now unfolds the tale of how two German guards led them over 120 miles to their eventual PoW destination. Since they were...
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Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about the Salem Witch Trials, a dark chapter in Massachusetts history, where the unexplained was attributed to witchcraft and those that did not conform to Puritan ideals were witches. Understand the theories as to why children and adults accused others of witchcraft and were complicit in their being hanged as witches. In the guilt-ridden aftermath of the trials, the community of Salem searched for...
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Wonderscape Entertainment
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[2018]
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English
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Learn all about immigration and the historical significance of Ellis Island to the immigration process. What is an immigrant? What were the reasons immigrants left their homelands? The answers to these questions are covered with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment that reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
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"Mikaela Kadono is bummed when her parents move the family to a creepy, old, fixer-upper house, leaving behind her friends, school and familiar neighborhood. But things quickly look up when she meets her new neighbor, George, who invites her to join a cool club called Drone Legends. Little does Mikaela know that this will be the first step in a life-changing adventure! On The Drone Legends very first mission, a nearly tragic accident brings a mysterious,...
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"This treasure trove for book lovers explores fifteen classic novels with memorable maternal figures, and examines how our cultural notions of motherhood have been shaped by literature. Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from-and, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie's...
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2024.
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"A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--from the foothills of Appalachia all the way to the White House. New York Times bestselling ghostwriter Nancy French is coming out of the shadows to tell her own incredible story. Nancy's family hails from the foothills of the Appalachians, where life was dominated by coal mining, violence, abuse, and poverty. Longing for an adventure, she married a stranger,...
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360 Sound and Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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The history of automata can be traced back to ancient Egypt, where it was used to create statues that could move. Ancient Greeks also created automata, such as mechanical birds that could flap their wings and make sounds. In the Middle Ages, automata were used to create music boxes and clocks. Later, during the Industrial Revolution, automata were used to create machines that could automate various tasks. In the 20th century, computers and robots...
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W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
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[2024]
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English
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"We're trying to "get it together" in areas we have no control over. We keep trying, but we'll never move the needle to a better future because it has nothing to do with us or anything we can do. You don't always have to give in to what the world, your family, or your own self declares is the way things are "supposed" to be. God desires goodness and joy for us. God, Jesus, and the Spirit went to great lengths to offer you and me the best good news...
12) Stegosaurus
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Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of the plant-eating Stegosaurus.
13) The alone time
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Fiona and Violet Seng were just children when their family's Cessna crash-landed in the Washington wilderness, claiming the lives of their parents. For twelve harrowing weeks, the girls fended for themselves before being rescued. Twenty-five years later, they're still trying to move on from the trauma. Fiona repurposes it into controversial works of art. Violet has battled addiction and failed relationships to finally progress toward normalcy as...
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Menucha Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Sarah Chinn, Naomi Kaufman, Rivky Segal, and Melissa Farber are inseparable. At least they were until Rivky got moved into the other fourth grade class in the Bais Yaakov of Bloomfield. Will the Treehouse Kids be able to stay friends? Rivky misses her friends. Sarah is too involved with her birthday to come to the treehouse. Can Melissa's secret plan patch things up? Join Sarah, Rivky, Naomi, and Melissa as they learn about Growing up."--Page 4 of...
15) Fly with me
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a prescription for birth control. Becoming a "stewardess," as they were called, offered unheard-of opportunities for travel, glamour, adventure and independence. Although often maligned as feminist sellouts, these women were on the frontlines of the battle...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In this deeply researched, immersive history, Adam Kuper tells the story of how foreign and prehistoric peoples and cultures were represented in Western museums of anthropology. Originally created as colonial enterprises, their halls were populated by displays of plundered art, artifacts, dioramas, bones, and relics. Kuper reveals the politics and struggles of trying to build these museums in Germany, France, and England in the mid-19th century,...
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Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"What can we do to stop climate change? It's time to call in some superheroes! We have elephants protecting our forests by trampling trees. Whales contributing to ocean health with their massive poo-nados. Sea otters fighting climate change by guarding kelp forests. And spiny anteaters moving 8 tons of soil each year, feeding plants as it goes. So when we protect the habitats of our climate heroes? We're protecting our planet. Get ready to learn all...
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Center Street
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Carrie Sheffield grew up fifth of eight children with a violent, mentally ill, street-musician father who believed he was a modern-day Mormon prophet destined to become U.S. president someday. She and her seven siblings were often forced to live as vagabonds, remaining on the move across the country. They frequently subsisted in sheds, tents, and, most notably, motorhomes. They often lived a dysfunctional drifter existence, camping out in their motorhome...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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At the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, and then exploded worldwide, killing as many as 100 million people. It killed more in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. It killed many more people than COVID-19, especially those who were young and otherwise healthy. This book, adapted...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin-a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch-delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame. By age seven, Rebecca Quin, now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, was already defying what the world expected of her. Raised in Dublin, Ireland in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca constantly invented new ways to make her mother worry-roughhousing...