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1) Quiz Master
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500 quizzes to test your general knowledge to the limit with 10,000 questions arranged in easy, medium and difficult categories. All quizzes and answers are hyperlinked for ease of use. You can choose to hide the answers or view them alongside each quiz; test yourself or be the quiz master!
Q: What's inside this book? A: 500 quizzes covering everything from pop stars to death stars. Each round is a mixture of themes and potluck, with the questions...
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2023
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In this "twisty, propulsive thriller" (Robyn Harding, internationally bestselling author) from Megan Collins, two sisters-in-law are at painful odds when the man who connects them—the brother of one, the husband of the other—is accused of a brutal crime.
Julia and Sienna Larkin are sisters-in-law, connected by Julia's husband and Sienna's brother, Jason. More than that, the two are devoted best friends and business partners,...
Julia and Sienna Larkin are sisters-in-law, connected by Julia's husband and Sienna's brother, Jason. More than that, the two are devoted best friends and business partners,...
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Heroes and monsters; gods and goddesses; adventure and excitement: all are to be found in this book, which contains four well-known myths and legends from Ancient Greece told in an accessible style. Find out how Theseus killed the minotaur, how Daedelus escaped from the maze and why Herakles longed for a rest! Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. A humorous...
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Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. Table of Contents: After The Dark The Ostler Mr. Wray's Cash Box The Queen of Hearts A House To Let The Haunted House ("The Ghost in the Cupboard Room") My Miscellanies No Thoroughfare Miss or Mrs? "Blow up with the Brig!" The Hidden Cash The Perils of Certain English Prisoners...
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Miniserie Bianca 198
De novia despechada a... ¡aventura prohibida!
Eden Bellamy debe casarse para salvar el negocio que acaba de heredar de su padre. Cuando la boda que pondría fin a sus problemas acaba convirtiéndose en una humillación pública para ella, decide salir huyendo con Remy Sylvain, el padrino de la boda. Pero elegirlo como chófer en su huida podría echar más leña al fuego, ya que años atrás compartieron un beso inolvidable…
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Rae Kelliher is an organizer of rituals and dance parties, a veteran environmental activist, and pioneer in the " death with dignity" movement. Her husband Reggie calls her a " instant party in a box." In 2023, facing down a diagnosis of terminal illness, Rae engages in a shocking suicide murder, taking the life of an oil company CEO for his role in delaying responses to climate disruption. Seven years later, Rae' s friends...
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Find out all about living in India as we follow Gini on a day in her life in Jaipur. Who's in her family, what does she like to eat and what's her school like? This non-fiction recount, written and beautifully photographed by Jonathan and Angela Scott, answers all these questions and more, telling us all about Gini's life. Orange/Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages. Text type: A non-fiction recount....
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Traversing across the world by train, boat and plane, the two children in this story poem encounter the extremes of sun and snow travelling to Africa, India and China. The book begins with a poem, before revealing their journey's details, and repetitive questions encourage the reader to turn the page and continue the voyage. Yellow/ Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language. Text type - A poem with predictable structure and...
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Can you imagine a world with whales that could walk and giant earth moles? They both lived on Earth long ago and their relatives still live here today. Explore the terrifying, giant, strange ancestors of everyday creatures, in this captivating information text, illustrated with realistic imagery from Jon Stuart. Can you imagine a world with whales that could walk and giant earth moles? They both lived on Earth long ago and their relatives still live...
10) Radiant Heat
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Penguin Publishing Group
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2024
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When a catastrophic wildfire suddenly rips through a woman’s hometown, she thinks she is lucky to have survived . . . until she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it. . . .
The blaze came out of nowhere one summer afternoon, a wall of fire fed by blustering wind. Yet, somehow, Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the damp tiles of her bathroom, her entire body swaddled in a wet woolen...
The blaze came out of nowhere one summer afternoon, a wall of fire fed by blustering wind. Yet, somehow, Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the damp tiles of her bathroom, her entire body swaddled in a wet woolen...
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TV star Misha Collins and his wife, journalist and historian Vicki Collins, show families how to be mealtime adventurers so that kids might have a lifelong relationship with real food.
Chicken nuggets. Hot dogs. Macaroni and cheese. These are just some of the greatest hits we offer kids at mealtime. Misha and Vicki Collins totally get it. When their son West was a toddler, he began refusing anything that wasn't bland and beige. At first, they succumbed,...
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Strike thrice upon the bone-white plate, call to home some bloodthirsty fate.
Do you believe in fairies?
What about baseball magic?
Opening day of senior season, and Emily DeWitt, star pitcher of the lowly Pattersonville High School Unicorns, despairs of ever winning a game, let alone attracting college scouts. Especially with archrival Callie McMasters showing her up at every base.
But Unicorn Field, built on an ancient fairy ring, has plans...
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Live Long and Prosper
#1 New Release in Diets & Nutrition, Gerontology, and Aging
One of America's top yoga and embodied mindfulness teachers reveals secrets and practices for optimal aging
Relationships matter. Super Ager has everything you need to know to "live long and prosper"; from movement, diet, fasting, brain, and memory health to the major impact of relationships on longevity.
Younger aging. Filled with science, suggestions for gentle...
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The Latter Rain Movement of the late 1940s and 1950s created a new breed of Pentecostalism that dramatically impacted Christianity in the United States as well as many other countries around the world. Initially viewed as a movement by God, a number of well-respected men and women participated in the movement during its early years. Over time, however, many of those same men and women came to realize that there were wolves among the sheep. Political...
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In an early example of detective fiction, this gothic mystery novel is a thrilling tale of mistaken identities, forbidden love, and a woman shrouded in mystery.
Walter Hartright is a young drawing master who finds himself unwittingly entangled in a web of intrigue when he encounters a mysterious woman dressed entirely in white. Little does he know that this chance meeting will set off a chain of events leading him into a labyrinth of secrets. As...
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Table of Contents:
Biographies:
Memoirs of the Life of William Collins (With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence)
Wilkie Collins' Charms (Biography by Olive Logan)
Letters and Literary Writings:
A Clause for the New Reform Bill
A Column to Burns
A Dramatic Author
A Fair Penitent
A Pictorial Tour to St George Bosherville
A Shy Scheme
Address from the Queen to Certain of Her Subjects in Office
Awful Warning to Bachelors
Books Necessary for...
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Natalie and Dean have lived together for eight years and been a couple longer than that. They have a nice home, are able to take a cruise most years and she knows he loves her just as much as she loves him. There's nothing she needs. No reason of her to feel jealous of Gladys who is celebrating her 50th wedding anniversary – but Natalie is jealous. Horribly, painfully jealous.
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My Journey to the Light is the story of Dave Collins' journey through life from childhood to old age. The story includes childhood and family experiences. Follow the impact of his education. See him start and grow a relationship with God and develop a life mission. See the beginning and growth of his family. Follow how all these things move Dave toward maturity and completeness in order to be a light for others. Life is filled with dark hard times...
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The dazzling debut novel from Kate Collins-a feminist gothic mystery spanning decades, in the vein of Mexican Gothic and The Essex Serpent.
Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want....
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A night of unrivalled passion results in pregnancy in this red-hot enemies to lovers romance by USA Today bestselling author Dani Collins. This billionaire was out for revenge…until Cami's beauty distracted him beyond all reason. But their amazing night will bind them together more tightly than either could have anticipated… Charismatic Sicilian Dante Gallo doesn't expect to desire Cami Fagan so intensely. Her father stole confidential information...