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Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people (human or otherwise), teenaged Elliott, a human transported to a fantasy world where he attends a school for warriors and diplomatic advisers, finds that two unlikely ideas, friendship and world peace, may actually be possbile.
"The Borderlands aren't like anywhere else. Don't try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border -- unless you enjoy a fireworks...
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When Willa Cathcart Wilmerding, the bravest girl in the world, is told she must stop her nightly tradition of howling at the moon, she decides to run away. High in the mountains, she meets Buttercup the Bigfoot, a friend unlike any other! Willa and Buttercup do everything together. They leap up and down the mountains, soar over mighty crevasses, and make each other crowns of flowers--but their favorite thing to do is climb a high peak and HOWL at...
24) Path of night
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"Half-witch, half-mortal 16-year-old Sabrina Spellman has made her choice: She's embraced her witchy roots, and her power is growing daily. But will it come at too high a price?" --
"It's not easy being half-mortal, half-witch. At least, not for Sabrina Spellman. She just discovered that her dad is Satan... and that it's her destiny to rule Hell. As usual, Sabrina's got other plans for her future. She's figured out a way to trap her father... but...
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With her powers growing daily, Sabrina Spellman must find her way among the witches and warlocks at the Academy of Unseen Arts, and determine if her new classmates are friends or foes.
Half-witch, half-mortal Sabrina Spellman has embraced her dark side and her witchy roots. Now her power is growing daily. She's leaving her friends at Baxter High to find her way among the witches and warlocks at the Academy of Unseen Arts. Prudence is the cruelest,...
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"Sarah Rees Brennan writes with fine control and wit, and I suspect that word of this magical thriller will pass through the populace with the energy of wind, of fire." —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Egg and Spoon
In a city divided between opulent luxury in the Light and fierce privations in the Dark, a determined young woman survives by guarding her secrets.
Lucie Manette was born in the Dark half of the city,
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An understanding of biodiversity is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including biology, zoology, wildlife conservation and environmental science.
This book is a study and revision guide for students following such programmes in which biodiversity is an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels-foundation, intermediate and advanced-and grouped into 10 major topic...
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Regularly described as New Brunswick's greatest scholar, William Francis Ganong (1864–1941) wrote more than many people have ever read. His range of interests is reflected in his vast body of work: botany, zoology, physiography, cartography, and native languages were all within his reach. But his greatest interest, subsuming all others, was New Brunswick. Ganong endeavoured to write even his most scholarly papers for the general reader, and that...
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Rod Rees's riveting dystopian saga continues with The Shadow Wars, the spellbinding sequel to The Demi-Monde: Winter.
First Daughter Norma Williams finds herself stranded in the sinister cyber-world of the not-so-distant future that's inhabited by some of history's most menacing villains. Betrayed by those she thought were friends, she must lead the resistance against a terrifying force if she wants to survive.
Skillfully written and highly imaginative,...
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Honeymoon search for a killer. Stephanie Plum meets Alex Cross in rural Kentucky racehorse country.
FBI Agent Reggie Montgomery searches for a missing child. U. S. Marshal Shea Montgomery unearths bodies buried beside secluded magnolia trees. Their honeymoon turns into a search for a serial killer.
On their honeymoon, FBI Agent Reggie Montgomery gets pulled into a search for a missing child. While deer hunting, hubby, U. S. Marshal Shea Montgomery...
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An understanding of applied ecology and conservation is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including applied biology, ecology, environmental science and wildlife conservation.
This book is a study and revision guide for students following such programmes. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels-foundation, intermediate and advanced-and grouped into 10 major topic areas:
History and...
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At the start of 1963, The Beatles were a successful local Liverpool band with one hit single; twelve months, two albums and the arrival of Beatlemania later, they were on the cusp of world domination.
Featuring daily entries covering every pivotal event, The Beatles – 1963 draws on hundreds of new eyewitness accounts and provides numerous unseen photographs.
Meticulously researched, this is the definitive account of the momentous year that sent...
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An understanding of animal behaviour and welfare is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including biology, zoology, animal welfare, animal behaviour, psychology and zoo biology.
This book is intended as a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which animal behaviour and welfare are an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels-foundation,...
35) Lethal Exposure
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Navy SEAL defenders volume 1
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UNDER THE NAVY SEAL'S PROTECTION
When single mother and photographer Rebecca Grey's home is invaded, she calls former navy SEAL Conrad "Jack" Jackson. Though she'd never betray her late husband's memory by falling for his fellow soldier, she's desperate for Jack's help. Rebecca is in possession of photos that can expose a plot to sell priceless artwork stolen from a Middle Eastern palace. Now a dangerous enemy wants her to either surrender the pictures...or...
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En Caballos en compañía, la famosa etóloga equina Lucy Rees recoge las conclusiones de un exhaustivo estudio realizado sobre las relaciones sociales de los caballos en la naturaleza desmontando muchos de los paradigmas que se manejan en la actualidad.
Este libro presenta una visión radicalmente nueva de las relaciones sociales y la organización de los caballos, una visión que inevitablemente afecta a la forma en que interpretamos nuestras interacciones...
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In Sights is one man's journey from boyhood to manhood, ultimately finding himself in the theatre of war. It is a journey littered with colourful anecdotes that offer insight into male bonding. Few paths have included such diverse experience. From military training in the Guards Depot to Trooping the Colour, from academic failure to intelligence work in Northern Ireland; from helping Rudolf Hess out of an ambulance to being tasked with taking the...
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Martin Rees is Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a former director of the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy and author, most recently, of the bestselling Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe.
Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic,'' or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another...
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A Lot More EQ, and a Lot Less Compliance? The role of an auditor is not for the faint hearted. Some people fear us for the changes we may advocate, the costs sometimes associated with picking up inconsistencies and errors in how things are done according to 'what's right', and others may see us as nothing more than a terrible nuisance. In whatever way, we are viewed whether, by managers, junior staff members, or trainers, our role is increasingly...
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Unravel the meaning, origin, and usage of over 6,000 phrases from book and film titles, idioms and clichés, to nicknames, slogans and quotations with this modern and entertaining guide to wonderful phrases by one of the world's best-known wordsmiths. The ideal replacement or complement to that tatty old copy of Brewer's Phrase and Fable most of us have about the house, A Word in Your Shell-Like is an entertaining look at both familiar and unfamiliar...