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Louselette is a female head louse. Conscious about her short life, she will do whatever it takes to make her dreams real, which she defined since she was still an egg. To accomplish this she will have to be determined, plan her path and walk it.
While you accompany her in her adventures, you will discover interesting information about her nature. This story is based on real-life events, combined with fiction and scientific data.
You will find three...
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Journey with Bernie and Babs on a self-healing visualization. Bang those baddies on the head and send them to waste disposal.
Bernie and Babs take on the virus with magic hammers and some serious hi-tech know-how. Adventure awaits in this charming and useful book that gives you a visual that can be used to imagine your own healing. See you in the cranial control center for bug and bot deployment.
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Step into the bright blue webbed feet of Bryony; who will show you the world from a blue-footed booby's point of view.The action takes place in the Galapagos Islands; through Bryony's eyes you meet the different characters and creatures that make this island rich in variety. From Eloise and Maceo the Sally Lightfoot crabs, Ignacio the Iguana, Otto the Octopus through to Bryony's only enemy on the island; Greta the Galapagos Hawk, you are taken on...
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Tu vida anterior ya no existe más.
Una nueva se ha iniciado.
Recuerda. Corre. Sobrevive.
Al despertar dentro de un oscuro elevador en movimiento, lo único que Thomas logra recordar es su nombre. No sabe quién es. Tampoco hacia dónde va. Pero no está solo: cuando la caja llega a su destino, las puertas se abren y se ve rodeado por un grupo de jóvenes. "Bienvenido al Área, Novicio."
El Área. Un espacio abierto cercado por muros gigantescos....
85) One Bad Spell
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When four friends are pulled through a video game portal, they find themselves on a mystical adventure they never saw coming. They are all granted special powers after the transportation but find them difficult to use. It's comical, really. They are driven to utilize their powers in creative ways in order to solve puzzles and sneak past their enemies. Will they make it back to their normal lives? Do they even want to return?Featuring thrilling action...
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La heroína de este cuento es Mariella, una joven sirena. Vive con su familia en el fondo marino del que nunca se ha ido. Un día, expresa el deseo de ir a explorar el mundo desconocido del que siempre le han contado sin siquiera acercarse a ella. Después de mucha preparación, deja a sus padres. Durante su viaje, conoce a animales mucho más entrañables que los demás. Gracias a ellos, encontrará las respuestas a sus muchas preguntas. Regresará...
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The clan face a dilemma - Billy doesn't want to go on his Walkabout yet and besides, he hasn't even been initiated into a man. Can hardly blame him, they want to use the slice of a knife where no boy wants a knife to go. The spirit of his mother forces the issue with a violent attack by a giant Red kangaroo. She's good like that - helpful. The old Magic Man wants to seal Billy's horrific injuries under the coals of a fire, exactly as he would initiate...
90) Stormteller
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This bewitching drama for young adults set in the very near future entwines Celtic myth and climate-changed destinies to answer the fundamental question: can we escape our apparent fate? If our lives are governed by forces outside our control, where can we find hope? When a storm surge destroys Tomos' luxury home and his parents die, and Bryn's eco-home is torched and his parents killed by starving marauders, these two rivals for the same girl, Eira...
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Final Straw takes a step back in time to reveal what led to Amber seeking shelter in a cardboard box down a rat–infested alley wearing nothing more than a bloodied pair of pink pyjamas.
Her idyllic life is turned on its head in a horrible twist of fate. She comes face to face with a cruel murderer in the bush forcing her to decide - kill him now or later? And should she fight for a life of her own or remain a victim at the hands of her mother.
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The team has more than a base now. They have a fortress, a thriving farm, and a road to the village, where they can trade for items with the villagers. However, all four of them will have to leave their comfort zones, as Dave and Kayla venture into the jungle and Matt and Jaz search for obsidian in the depths of the earth. Their adventures will bring them deeper than ever into the wider Minecraft world.
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After finally escaping the mines, Lakely and her friends find themselves face to face with Herobrine. Desperate for answers and unsure of what to do, the brave heroes fight Herobrine as best as they can. The heroes fight with everything they have. It's their first fight together, and its a tough battle. No one knows who will win or what will happen. Finally, as the friends do what they can can win, they come to a amazing conclusion...and discover...
95) Matando al amor
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La otrora locuaz y simpática Laura cierra los ojos para recordar aquellos lejanos días cuando su felicidad era plena; cuando conoció por primera vez el amor, antes de que todo cambiara de repente en su pueblo y en su propia vida.
Una novela corta en donde el autor narra las vicisitudes de un país en guerra con el narcotráfico como protagonista. Un pueblo dominado por la delincuencia que toca la puerta de niños y adolescentes que ignoran lo que...
96) The Lost Cipher
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Lucas has just lost his father in Afghanistan and to help him cope, his grandmother sends him to Camp Kawani. While there, he learns of the lost treasure of Thomas Jefferson Beale, a local legend of a hoard of gold buried in the mountains 200-years ago. The location is encrypted in a set of codes no one has ever been able to decipher. Lucas becomes obsessed with finding the gold to save his home and leads his newfound friends into a dangerous mission...
97) The Boar
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An Adventure Inspired by True Story
Do you believe that a man can kill a fear of himself?
The man was telling his childhood story
The childhood can never be compare with other children nowadays whose living in convenient place
How he's been through an adventure which changed his path forever
Wondering is his path is the right choice he never be regret.
The story which happened years ago in an island. It was in a small village isolated the deep...
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"Krik? Krak! Haitian Storytelling Session - Short Story Reading in Creole and English" is a book of stories written in Haitian Creole and English. It was designed to help the Creole and English learners familiarize themselves with Haitian storytelling, culture, and way of life. In Haiti, each storytelling session starts with Krik?. The audience answers Krak! Not so long ago, parents used to make time to narrate and make up stories specially after...
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Marte, 2628. Olympus es una gran corporación que se extiende por la galaxia y divide a la sociedad en trece Servicios basados en las funciones de los antiguos dioses olímpicos. Asha es una hades y lleva toda la vida rodeada de muerte. Ianthe es una deméter y lleva toda la vida enraizada en la soledad. Cuando ambas entran en la Akademeia, ya saben lo que les espera: tres años de internamiento y la Odisea, la prueba por grupos donde se elige a los...
100) Story of a chicken
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This story you are going to read was told to me by a chicken I met from a battery egg stand. The poor woman was locked in a cage with the lights on twenty-four hours a day. They did that with the intention of deceiving her, so she wouldn't fall asleep and lay eggs and more eggs without stopping. That hen was not alone on the floor: hundreds of them, by their side, laid an egg behind another, clumping extraordinary stories that only the initiated hens...