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Avez-vous déjà vu quelqu'un kidnapper la mort?
Avez-vous déjà vu quelqu'un kidnapper la mort? Une bande d'enfants mexicains l'a fait! Voici leur histoire: Moïra, la mort européenne, va rendre visite à sa cousine mexicaine, Catrina, qui s'apprête à fêter avec faste et exubérance la Fête de Morts chez elle, au Mexique. Un groupe d'amis âgés d'une dizaine d'années, concocte un plan terrible qui consiste à séquestrer la mort en la personne...
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When it's not just a drill, you need to get it right the first time. If an emergency alert sounds, are you ready to take charge and get everyone out of the office, theatre, classroom, or store safely? In Introduction to Emergency Evacuation: Getting Everybody Out When it Counts, Jim Burtles explains the practical basics of understanding your site, planning escape routes, and providing for people with special needs. When minutes count, you will be...
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"In this fascinating book, you will learn about a part of our country's history that has not been thoroughly documented. I guarantee you will be proud of what these 'grandmas' did to serve America in a time of great need. In so doing, they carved a path that other women for many generations have since benefitted from. I include myself in that very grateful group of women who today stand on the shoulders of these awe-inspiring pioneers."
-Gen. Janet...
19984) Me and My Memory
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Me and My Memory, 2nd edition, explores the mystery of our minds and memory: How do we remember? And how do we forget? In it, readers will discover all that scientists and researchers know and explore questions yet to be answered. Readers will begin to notice how their own and other people's memories work. They'll learn to understand why memory is powerful but not perfect and will uncover some strategies for improving memory. Throughout the book,...
19985) Death at Fair Havens
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"Here's small town life portrayed with humor and affection, peopled with quirky characters you'll care about."--James Patrick Kelly, winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards Wanda Duff is an unconventional New England clergywoman, addicted to chicken wings, high-octane ice cream, and saying yes to anyone in need of a prayer, even the folks her town might think don't deserve one.When parishioner Niels Pond dies unexpectedly at the Fair Havens assisted...
19986) On the Potter's Wheel
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When God asked Valerie Limmer to go to Japan, she jumped at the chance to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a missionary. But obstacle upon obstacle blocked her path. Just after arriving, she encountered a debilitating injury that plunged her into a world where God seemed to delight in toying with her shattered dreams and broken heart.
Valerie offers a raw look at love, suffering, betrayal, and broken faith. Her true story about God's sustaining...
19987) Sister Lucy II: Kip & Lucy
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Sister Lucy II (Kip and Lucy) is a novel about the struggles, triumphs, victories, obstacles and faith of the saved and the not so saved. It is, centered on the handsome and charming Pastor Kip Mitchell and his lovely wife Lucy, as they continue their lives together in love and happiness, with trouble lurking behind every nook and cranny.
Kip and Lucy quickly find out that the devil doesn't have new tricks, just new people. Dr. Robin Bonner has set...
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A single dad, who's in over his head, and an event planner running from her past, are drawn together on charming Bluestar Island by a determined seven-year-old and her escape-artist goat.Event planner, Charlotte "Aster" Smith, has fled the only life she has ever known. The situation has left her questioning her own judgment as she cautiously tries to create a new life for herself on Bluestar Island. Taking the job of event coordinator for the small...
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A touching memoir recounting the journey of a young Cuban immigrant to the US who went on to become a professor and university dean.
In February 1962, three years into Fidel Castro's rule of their Cuban homeland, the González family-an auto mechanic, his wife, and two young children-landed in Miami with a few personal possessions and two bottles of Cuban rum. As his parents struggled to find work, eleven-year-old Gerardo struggled to fit in at school,...
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According to many government statistics, America's education system is failing due to lower expectations and the shift in focus from academic excellence in mathematics, science, reading, and history toward the implementation of social constructs like critical race theory equals fewer literate graduates.
"Public records and other evidence show that state-level and some local education officials are no longer focused on maintaining high academic standards...
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We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to intelligent young Americans a coherent, persuasive, and inspiring narrative of their own country. Such an account will shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit, and by making them understand that land's roots, will equip them for the privileges and responsibilities...
19992) The Briefcase
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Laughton Donnell Fairchild, Donnie, is a family man, a decorated war veteran, and he wants his past to remain where it belongs. He is CEO of Fairchild Interests Ltd., the rising star of the high-tech industry world, but his jealous joint venture partner, David Street, a mathematical genius, wants to literally destroy him and steal some long-lost enigmatic documents Donnie has. Mercenaries hired by David fail to kill Donnie and his wife, so on a fateful...
19993) Unexpected Love Trilogy
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Is it Love…or is it Lust? Three women, one family. Three times the passion, three times the fun! (Sweet insta-love romances with a touch of heat and three HEA's.) Nothing to Lose: Bailey Montgomery travels to small town Perry, Illinois with one purpose in mind: settle her late mother's affairs and leave as quickly as possible. She doesn't want nosy neighbors poking into her business, and she doesn't need the help of the incredibly sexy handyman...
19994) The Tale of Christmas Eve
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David Kelsey the third was tired of the jet set life he had been living. His newest goal was to try and connect with the father who abandoned him and his brother to a nanny when their mother died. It was a big change for David as he went from a college party animal like his brother Matthew to being a part of his Grandfathers legacy. Working in the mega bookstore business was definitely not his heart's desire. It just happened to be the only way to...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Confession: My life is soooo not sprinkles and sunshine...Hayley's world is far from perfect: Her parents have divorced, her mom has lost her job, and she and her sister Chloe are stuck sharing a bedroom in their grandmother's apartment. Luckily, Hayley has a knack for baking cupcakes -- and cupcakes always make life just a little sweeter! But when she and her best friend Artie start drifting apart, she realizes that it's going to take more than sugar...
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Whether you're looking for your first job, changing fields or replacing a lost job, job hunting is a frustrating process that can make even the most confident and qualified among us a little nutty. Often, competition is fierce and patience, thin. Every possible edge job seekers can gain becomes critical.Written by prominent marketing and communications specialist, E. Corinne Byrd, Me. Pick Me, Marketing Yourself for a Job is a dynamic step-by-step...
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Randy Grimes quickly learned one important truth as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' top draft pick: play through pain, or get cut. This is just part of being a pro athlete, he told himself. Growing up in Tyler, Texas, Grimes's life was very much on center. A childhood spent in church on Sundays and on the gridiron all week turned into a football scholarship to Baylor, marriage to his college sweetheart, and a coveted NFL roster spot. When the Bucs' starting...
19998) The French Cook: Sauces
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Master the art of classic French sauces. The French Cook: Sauces is the first in a series of French cookbooks that will simplify and demystify French cuisine for all of those who love it and would like to bring it home to their American kitchens without traveling outside their homes. In her latest book, Holly Herrick creates a kind of French cooking course all about sauces, filled with beautiful how-to photography and step-by-step technqiques that...
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"WHO DO YOU SAY I AM" seeks to bridge the gap between the reader who reads for empowerment and the reader who reads for knowledge. Both groups will receive what they seek, and possible spiritual insight into the earthly life of Jesus, whose short ministry spawned a worldwide, life-changing movement that grows stronger with each soul saved. Readers are invited to travel back in time with the author and take a look at this itinerant teacher and preacher...
20000) Sensual Sounds
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Lust. Lies. Double lives.
The rock and roll industry is full of people who are looking out for themselves, and willing to do anything to rise to the top. Those who are in the thick of it know what it's like to stab someone in the back, and they know what it's like to be stabbed.
For five brothers, the rise to fame has been filled with trouble and hardship, but they have persevered. Now they're at the top of their game and the top of the charts too....
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