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When the wind blows volume 2
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English
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The six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity and frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by and overpowering fear that the kids are about to face a danger greater than any they've ever known. All that the children want is to return to the one place...
2) Matilda Bone
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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When the wind blows volume 1
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English
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Frannie O'Neill, a young and talented veterinarian whose husband was recently murdered, comes across an amazing discovery in the woods near her animal hospital. Soon after, Kit Harrison, an unconventional FBI agent, arrives on Frannie's doorstep. And then there's the child loose in the back woods, 11 year-old Max, one of the most unforgettable and startling creations in thriller fiction.
5) Checked
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English
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To help his dog through cancer treatment, Conor gives up hockey and finds himself considering who he is without the sport that has defined him, and connecting more with his family and best friend.
7) Fear nothing
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Bantam Books
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English
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While investigating the death of his mother who was a scientist, Chris Snow discovers she was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters. The next he knows, the monsters come visiting and they are not friendly
8) Intervention
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English
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When his newborn son by his second wife is diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma, New York City forensic pathologist Jack Stapleton seeks to find a cure for his son while at the same time being drawn into a battle between the archbishop of New York and an archeologist--a battle involving what some people believe to be the skeletal remains the Virgin Mary.
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
This fascinating reference answers those "How in the world do they do that?" questions with engrossing explanations of the principles behind the most important technological achievements of the past and present. Twelve absorbing sections and over 1,200 illustrations, cover the full range of man's ingenuity, the heights of his inventiveness.
10) I am legend
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Warner Home Video
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English
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Follows the last man on Earth as he struggles to survive while fending off the infected survivors of a devastating vampiric plague. A brilliant scientist who raced to discover a cure for the man-made virus as humanity came crumbling down all around him, Robert Neville was inexplicably immune to the highly contagious superbug. Now the entire population of New York City -- and perhaps the world -- has been transformed into carnivorous bloodsuckers that...
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Rowe Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
If you have ever wondered how veterinarians interact with your pets, follow the travels of a house call practitioner as she visits them in their own environment. In 101 'Tails' of a House Call Veterinarian, see how Dr. K. puts them at ease, so that a cat visits the food dish shortly after being examined, and a dog simply wants more attention. But along the way, Dr. K. finds herself in many funny, precarious, and sad situations. This book captures...
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Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A young reader's adaptation of the story of the youngest American to ever orbit the Earth - cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux - who shows us all that when we face our fears with hope and faith, the extraordinary is possible. "It may be hard to believe while I'm gravity-bound on my bedroom floor, but if there's one thing I've learned in my time on Earth, it's that as long as you keep saying yes, everything is possible," says Arceneaux. In this adaptation...