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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
They are a living laboratory, a geological conveyor belt that has given birth to and seen the death of may species of plants and animals. Nowhere else on the Earth are the twin processes of creation and extinction of species so apparent.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet. Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to sleep. When James and Bob meet, they forge a never-to-be-forgotten friendship that has been charming readers from Thailand to Turkey. A Street Cat Named Bob is an international sensation, landing on the bestseller list in England for 52 consecutive weeks and selling in 26 countries around the world. Now, James and Bob are ready to share their...
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Language
English
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"Ryan's journalistic ability to unearth historical details and mix them into a compelling story is first-class! While balancing accuracy and fairness, he reveals a man whose life demonstrated enormous talent and creativity, celebrity and human frailty." - Debbi Wilkes, Olympic Silver Medallist, author and figure skating commentatorThe definitive biography of Jackson Haines, The Father of Figure Skating.The legend of The Skating King has been one of...
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English
Appears on list
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When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, 11-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to...
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Series
Hurricane wars volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The heart is a battlefield. War has raged for a decade in Lir, and orphaned soldier Talasyn has learned to keep her powers hidden to survive. As the last known Lightweaver on the continent, she can create radiant weapons that cut through the invading Shadowforged warriors' dark magic. But all that changes when she is forced to reveal her abilities on the battlefield to defend herself from the Shadowforged prince himself, Alaric Ossinast. In a clash...
6) After death
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Language
English
Description
"Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he--or anyone else--has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John,...
7) Life-size
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
"Tale of a young girl's toy that turns out to be a truly living doll! Sad and lonely after the death of her mother, Casey would do anything to see her again. But when a series of mystic mishaps mistakenly brings her fashion doll 'Eve' to life instead, it changes Casey's world forever!"--Container.
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English
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Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they'll meet it together. Hope appears in the form of the SS St. Louis , a transatlantic...
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Series
28 summers (Elin Hilderbrand) volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he's not sure what to expect. But he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer. It's the late spring of 2020 and Jake's wife, Ursula DeGournsey, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Presidential election. There must be a mistake, Link thinks. How do Mallory and Jake know each other? Flash back to the sweet...
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English
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"In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer - Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real...
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Publisher
Tfutza Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In middle of their birthday, there's a knock on the door. Who could it be? Did someone inform on them? Or see them? What will happen now? In just one minute, the world of the Del-Mendala family changes completely and their life of comfort and luxury is exchanged for a life of fear and worry. The men are taken away and nobody knows what happened to them and the women and girls are worried that someone's spying on them. Meanwhile, their grandmother...