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Summary of Marco Borges's The 22-Day Revolution outlines a plant-based diet plan for weight loss and disease prevention. Plant-based, vegan and vegetarian diets are one of the healthiest, most popular, and historical diets in the world. Plant-based diets benefit the environment because they require less land to feed an individual and produce fewer greenhouse emissions. A plant-based diet is accessible and beneficial to everyone. And, contrary to popular...
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The death of her English father left Francesca alone and unprotected, with nowhere to turn but to the noble Italian family of her late mother. Adrift in a strange land, surrounded by cold and suspicious relatives who had disowned her mother on her wedding day, Francesca is determined to make the best of a bad situation. But nothing could have prepared her for the nest of dark secrets and oppressive cruelty she has been cast into. And her fate now...
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Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 4
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When Olivia learns that there will be no band at the evening's fireworks display, she decides to form one of her own, with herself as the only musician and some rather unusual instruments.
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Heirs of Acadia volume 5
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Davis and Isabella Bunn combine their complementary skills and experiences in crafting the compelling stories of the HEIRS OF ACADIA historical fiction series. John Falconer, a hero readers can believe in, was introduced in Book 3, The Noble Fugitive. Along with Book 4, The Night Angel, these last three novels of the series can be appreciated on their own. John Falconer, known to most as simply Falconer, is a large, powerfully built man whose gentle...
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A widow attempts to fulfill her dead husband's last request-to enter his prize horse in the Derby-and plunges into a deadly world of blackmail, revenge, and murder Less than a year after arriving at his sprawling ancestral estate as his secretary, Isabel Cunningham marries the much-older Charles Schriber. But now Charles is gravely ill, and before he dies, he asks one last thing of his wife. Determined to honor her husband's deathbed wish, Isabel...
6) Olivia
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Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 1
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Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good.
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IN LOVE AND WAR, SOME OATHS ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN... Riding into the arena under the furling blazon of the blue falcon, Sir Conan de Corbney accepts a token from the young beauty, Lady Chandra, sparking a romance foretold long ago. That is, unless Conan's mother can help it. Colluding with her son's rival, Sir Tedric, Lady Udele secretly arranges a more lucrative marriage for her son and weds him to Edwina--Chandra's older sister--while Sir Tedric...
8) Shadows reel
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"Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett and his wife Marybeth make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair of killers' crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series"--
"A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Marybeth Pickett finds an unmarked package at the front door of the library where she works. When she opens the package she finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official....
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My weird school volume 17
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Famous children's author Suki Kabuki and her pet raptor, Rappy, wreak havoc during a visit to Ella Mentry School.
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Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 5
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As she impatiently waits for Santa's arrival, Olivia the pig tries to help with family preparations on the day before Christmas.
11) The Falconer
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In 1844 Edinburgh eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameron is neither an ordinary debutante, nor a murderess--she is a Falconer, a female warrior born with the gift for hunting and killing the faeries who prey on mankind and who killed her mother.
12) Lemons never lie
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Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker universe, starring Alan Grofield, an occasional colleague of Parker. While he shares events and characters with several Parker novels, Grofield is less calculating...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 13
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While on an archaeological dig in Egypt, David is accused of selling artifacts and Amelia and company find themselves in trouble trying to flush out the real culprit.
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Hardy Boys adventures volume 24
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During their Alaskan vacation, Frank and Joe Hardy help falconer Kate when her beloved peregrine goes missing.
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The history of the USAF, how pilots are trained, and some of the fighting and bomber planes in use today.
Examines the most modern air force in the world, the US Air Force. Readers will also learn about various aircraft, such as the F-16 fighting falcon, the F-22 raptor, the B-52 bomber, and predator drones.
16) Flip the bird
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"A teenage falconer in training runs up against trouble when he finds himself falling for a girl who is part of a radical animal rights group"--
17) Full disclosure
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A car wreck and a suspicious death offer a lead on a hired shooter FBI agent Paul Falcon is tracking. Midwest homicide investigator Ann Silver has his attention when she passes the case to him. Is he prepared for both the case's and her secrets?
18) How to break up with your friends: finding meaning, connection, and boundaries in modern friendships
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"In How to Break Up with Your Friends, this celebrated life mentor explores the qualities of genuine friendships-and the deeper principles, assessments, and practices for nurturing them. With clear-eyed guidance, you'll learn how to take stock of those currently in your life, see exactly how you are serving each other, deepen your essential friendships, and, ultimately, have the courageous conversations needed when it's time to "break up" with others."--...
19) Speak
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A traumatic event near the end of the summers has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
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Aileana Kameron, faery huntress, has been resurrected by ancient magic and given the dark powers of the Cailleach in an attempt to break the curse that pits the two factions of the Fae against each other in a war that could destroy both the Fae and the human world--but as she gathers her allies for the final battle, her new powers are slowly destroying her.--Adapted from dust jacket.