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Creative quips and sure-fire tips to spark your inner genius! "An idea without action is a notion with no motion." "Good ideas make an impression. Great ideas make an impact." "A tired body does not sleep enough. A tired mind does not dream enough." "A sure thing rarely becomes a great thing." "A new idea is discovered once. Be the first to find it."… .and hundreds more!
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Kiwi volume 19
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The Baby Crocodile: Twini gets kidnaped by a monkey on a swinging vine and is carried away! Twiki goes looking for his friend, and meets a mother crocodile. Be very quiet, Twiki, the baby is sleeping! Words learned: CROCODILE, LEOPARD, COCONUT, MANGO / Strawberry Pie: The Kiwis are going to bake a strawberry pie! What a great idea. Their friend, Penguin, won't stop taking their baking supplies. Words learned: FLOUR, SUGAR, BUTTER, STRAWBERRY
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Decarbonization = depopulation. Eliminating CO2 means eliminating the human race' - Period 2022 - 2024 will be crucial for all of us
CO2 is the "molecule of life" in our atmosphere. Without CO2, current life on our planet would not be possible. All climate propaganda notwithstanding - the level of CO2 in our atmosphere is still historically low (450-500 ppm), and is not far above the dangerous lower limit of 300 ppm. Below that level, everything...
5) Joker's Wild
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Just what does a manically depressed man do to alleviate his ongoing bouts of depression?
Seek professional counseling?
Been there.
Take medication?
Done that.
Yet unbelievably, there was another way to achieve the desired effect.
One-night stands ought to do the trick quite nicely. But wait. There's more. He would bring along his kinky suitcase stuffed with erotic women's uniforms for his newfound lady friend to wear!
But wild and lustful...
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A full-color, inspiring picture book about Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray's 3,452-mile run across America in 80 days!
As a teenager, Dave McGillivray heard a news story about a person biking across the United States. "What a great idea!" he thought. "But instead of a bike, I'll use my sneakers!"
This is the funny, touching, true story of McGillivray's 80-day, 3,452-mile run from Medford, Oregon, to his hometown of Medford, Massachusetts....
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Finally, a game leader's "dream" book that is thorough yet succinctly written that combines group games that actually have been played and that participants immensely enjoy. Here in one book are all the elements for effectively leading and participating in group games that are fun, that require little or moderate equipment, that range from high to low energy, and that can be played with players from all ages. The unique and consistent game template...
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Warner Home Video
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2012
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Daffy Duck frustrated fowl: My own superstar collection of cartoons starring me, Daffy Duck? What a great idea! Welcome to the duck side, 'toon fans, with this array of shorts that take to funny like a duck takes to water - out of the vaults and on DVD for the first time.
Tweety & Sylvester feline fwenzy: Fifteen never-before-on-DVD cartoons remastered from original film elements.
Porky & friends hilarious ham: He may be short, pink and pants-less,...
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All creatures great and small volume 1
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
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James Herriot shares stories of his years as a country veterinarian in Yorkshire, England.
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"The renowned Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant and concise explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. Hailed by Philip Pullman as "a great communicator" who is also "as distinguished a scientist as there could be," Paul Nurse writes with delight at life's richness and a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. With What Is Life? he delivers a brief but powerful work of popular science in the vein of Carlo...
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"Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising--on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible...
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..."Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. It was their natural ability to start with why that...
14) The last hours
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When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Educated by nuns, Anne is a rarity among women, being both literate and knowledgeable....
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Queen Elizabeth II's death ruptured the already-fractured foundations of the House of Windsor-and dismantled the protective shield around it. With an institution long plagued by antiquated ideas around race, class and money, the monarchy and those who prop it up are now exposed and at odds with a rapidly modernizing world. Relying on his vast experience as a royal reporter and over a decade of conversations and interviews with current and former Palace...
16) A column of fire
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International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and...
17) A thousand NO's
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"She has the most amazing, surperb, best idea ever! NO? Wait, what do you mean NO? NO again? NO NO NO! Stop it. Now what is she supposed to do? Sometimes we think we have a great idea, but it maytak a thousand NO's before it becomes a spectacular YES!"--back cover
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"We [heart] cats! Karen's best friend Hannie just got a new kitten. Now all her friends have cats. And Karen has a great idea. She can start a club like her big sister Kristy. It will be a Kittycat Club! Will will the club do? Karen can't baby-sit like Kristy . . . but she can cat-sit! Will anyone want Karen as a cat-sitter? They'd better - running a club is hard work!" --back cover.
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"In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country--a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets--among them a Tea Party activist whose...
20) Wolf Hall
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Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price. Employing a vast array of historical characters, and a story overflowing with incident, the author turns Tudor England into a compelling piece of fiction. Mantel re-creates an era when the personal and political...