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"How does a car work? Clever Cogz knows the answer! Join Cogz the robot dog and discover all about cars, trucks, and other amazing machines. Introducing physics and engineering topics in a fun and simple way, young readers will learn all about their favorite vehicles and how they work."--Back cover.
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Casting in concrete is an exciting project that is both enjoyable and practical. You can create all sorts of decorations and furniture for your home that are sure to be the envy of all your neighbors. But the fun doesn't have to stop there! Concrete lends itself to many unique and exquisite projects, and decorating these pieces with beautiful mosaic patterns makes them all the more impressive. Here, interior decorating journalists and stylists Sania...
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Inside Build it! Trains, you'll find a range of creative models to put together, created using the LEGO® Classic sets 10693 and 10695, or bricks that LEGO® obsessives may already have at home. Each book in this interactive series contains 3-5 "dioramas" featuring a diverse range of models. Full color, step-by-step diagrams guide you through the process, enhancing the fun.
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On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome... shall do so before the end of the month of September." The proposed dome was regarded far and wide as all but impossible to build. The dome would literally need to be erected over thin air.
Of the many plans submitted, one stood out. It was offered...
68) The big dig
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 9
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Boston's largest urban renewal undertaking in modern history draws Carlotta into an undercover gig at the site. It comes at the request of a disgruntled hardhat who suspects the multibillion-dollar project has set off a groundswell of graft, kickbacks, and fraud. The case hasn't unearthed anything but dirt, so Carlotta is tempted into moonlighting on another: a Beacon Street socialite who's deeply concerned about her vanishing tenant, a dog groomer...
69) Dragsters
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"Engaging images accompany information about dragsters. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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Carpenter Spike Carlsen, his wife, and their recently blended family of five kids set out to build a cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior. Part building guide and part memoir, Cabin Lessons tells the funny, wry, and heartwarming story of their eventful journey--from buying land on an eroding cliff to (finally) enjoying the hideaway of their dreams. Learning as they go, and learning about themselves and each other along the way, they find in the...
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"Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Baby Brontosaurus and more. This series of visually rich instruction books for LEGO® creations is perfect for children ages 5 and up. Inside Build it! Dinosaurs, you'll find a range of creative models from the prehistoric era to put together, created using the LEGO® Classic set 10697, or bricks that LEGO® obsessives may already have at home. Each book in this interactive series contains 3-5 dioramas...
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In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the builder of board games, Milton Bradley. Follow the story from Bradley's childhood, his early entrepreneurial work creating and selling stationery, his drafting education at Harvard, his first business creating and selling lithographs, and how these experiences came together when he formed the Milton Bradley Company and created the Game of Life. Bradley's family, retirement, and work producing...
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"In 1936 San Francisco, eighteen-year-old Willa MacCarthy is bound for the convent. But when she discovers her love of medicine, she will defy her family and work with a female doctor to care for those building the Golden Gate Bridge"--
1936. Wilhelmina 'Willa' MacCarthy Irish-Catholic family is counting on her to take vows as a nun. But Willa's found another calling: sneaking away to help Doctor Katherine Winston in her medical clinic in San Francisco's...
74) The solar food dryer: how to make and use your own high-performance, sun-powered food dehydrator
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The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long-with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography-wherever gardens grow-this well illustrated book includes:
• Complete step-by step plans for building a high-performance, low-cost...
75) 12 seconds of silence: how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
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"The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II-and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."--
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"When you live at the edge of the no-go desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe Mum is using it, maybe not), a bent bucket seat, and bashed tin-can handles. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for going bumpetty bump over the sand hills, past your fed-up mum, and right through your mud-for-walls home."--Back cover....
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This series of visually rich instruction books for Lego® creations is perfect for children ages 5 and up. Inside you'll find a range of creative models to put together--from animals to airplanes, street scenes to seascapes and much more, created using the Lego® Classic set 10693, or bricks you already have at home. Each book in this interactive series contains 3-5 “dioramas” featuring a diverse range of models. Full color, step-by-step diagrams...
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Firm volume 2
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a stunning new legal thriller that marks the return of Mitch McDeere, the brilliant hero of The Firm. What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of...