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After his father loses his job and the family decides they will have to sell their house, Nicholas--a music and math genius--learns that his grandfather has hidden treasure all around town, enough to save the family. Together with a few classmates and two grandfathers--who will have to first be broken out of their nursing home--Nicholas sets out to solve the biggest problem of his life.
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"The citizens of Plainfield, Texas have had it with the broke-down United States. So they vote to secede, rename themselves America in memory of our former country, and happily set themselves up to receive tourists from their closest neighbor: America. Couldn't happen? Well, it might, and so it goes in the thirteen stories in Matthew Baker's brilliantly illuminating, incisive, and heartbreaking collection WHY VISIT AMERICA"--
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Start the Rain is about how we respond to hardship brought about by one of the worst droughts in the last one hundred years. Read and be inspired!
In Australia's Outback, the land is dry and dusty. The rainclouds are few and far between. The land suffers, as do the crops, so to the people on the land. It's time to make a change to save the farms, but who will answer the "call to arms"? Who will start the rain?
Outback Australia is drought country....
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This is a children's book, written for children between the ages of 2 to 4 years old. It is about a cat called Tam-Tam, a bird called Lulu, and a man called Sam. The story is about Tam-Tam the cat befriending Lulu the bird, who she meets in her backyard. Tam-Tam and Lulu seems to like each other at the start, so much so that Lulu decides that she does not want to leave Tam-Tam and Sam when he tried to encourage the bird to leave. Sam welcomed the...
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Set in a quiet backstreet in a small English town is a beautiful vintage store, selling curious discs which contain music from bygone days. Strange as this may seem -- there are yet stranger happenings beyond the frontage of this charming old-world shop.
Nevertheless, only those who know the special code are allowed to pass through its secret side door. While waiting on the other side is a far off world: Filled with hidden secrets, exciting adventures,...
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Love and Honour? Marriage for Peace exposes the ongoing phenomenon of Romeo and Juliet style romance tragedy, families killing their own and other families' daughters, sons, sisters and brothers in the name of family 'honour". Focused on Northern India and Nepal, the stories illustrate that despite India adopting a democratic constitution in 1950, the public murder of forbidden lovers continues. Media reports of this phenomenon did not surface until...
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Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."