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One and only Ivan stories volume 1
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When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
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The most fatal virus known to science, rabies -- a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans -- kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. Journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years of the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving...
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"In Amanda Skenandore's provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging. On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry--or Asku, as...
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"Alba Elliot is tired of being crazy. In and out of Abenaki Mental Hospital more than a dozen times in ten years, fed up with diagnoses that come without cures and a life organized by a days-of-the-week pill case, the twenty-five-year-old children's book writer is waiting for a miracle." "Oscar Jameson, a thirty-year-old drug addict enrolled in the rehab program by his frustrated brother, is not looking for anything so profound. Oscar doesn't believe...
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"On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare. After young sailors began suddenly dying with mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant...
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"Calla Hammond has always been a loner-a product of the foster system and avoided by others because of a skin condition. When doctors discover her immune system holds the key to curing cancer, she struggles to advance lifesaving research in a world that sees her only as a means to an end. Yet along the way, Calla gains the one thing she has always longed for: a chosen family. When a group of unscrupulous people join forces to sell Calla's blood to...
8) Shiloh
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Shiloh quartet volume 3
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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
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Developing a drug addiction is a dangerous, harmful, and life-changing experience that happens to thousands of young people every year. Discover what it is like to be addicted to drugs through the heartfelt stories of survivors. Learn how it "happened to them," read their journeys to recovery, and find out more about the causes and treatments of drug addiction in this open, sensitive, and informative exploration.
10) Soda pop head
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This book teaches children to manage their thoughts and words without interrupting.
11) The sea unicorn
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Sea keepers volume 2
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As the siren Effluvia tries to melt the Artic ice palace and destroy the sea animal sanctuary, the Sea Keepers and a friendly narwhal search for the magical pearl that will stop Effluvia. Includes tips for being a real-life sea keeper.
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Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation -- the 1,800-mile journey made by Chief Joseph and eight hundred Nez Perce men, women, and children from their homelands in what is now eastern Oregon through the most difficult, mountainous country in western America to the high, wintry...
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FIBROMYALGIA
This book aims to serve as a guide to Fibromyalgia, educating you on the condition and helping you to better understand how it can be treated. Being considered a chronic disease, there is no current cure for Fibromyalgia. However, there are many ways to improve the condition, and reduce associated symptoms.
Throughout this book, you will learn about how Fibromyalgia is diagnosed, what the different symptoms are, how it is currently...
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Sea keepers volume 1
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Chosen by water magic to become Sea Keepers, new friends Emily, Grace, and Layla are charged with finding magical Golden Pearls before the Siren Efflvia can, and protecting all sea creatures--including merfolk. Includes tips for being a real-life sea keeper.
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"Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous...
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"This true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time--Lyme disease--and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying questions about the genesis of the epidemic of tick-borne diseases affecting millions of Americans today. While on vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Kris...
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"From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. Lindsey Fitzharris's The Facemaker tells...