Lauren Ezzo
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Have you ever wondered how astronauts float in space, or how your pizza gets from your plate to your mouth? Basic principles of physics, including learning about distance, displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration, forces, friction, gravity, and Newton's laws of motion, are explored through diagrams, photos, and informative and engaging text in this newest addition to the How Do series. The How Do series is a great introduction to various STEM topics,...
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When Chicken Little runs into the Big Bad Wolf (literally), her first instinct is to fly, like the other chickens, but she decides to investigate instead--and finds that this particular wolf is not interested in eating chickens, he is just looking for a place to call home.
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Rhyming text describes how a young girl and her puppy try to practice self-control when her mother bakes a cake and instructs them not to eat it. The sweet treat proves too tempting and after eating it all, the young girl tries to make amends by baking another cake which ends in disaster.
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Free-spirited Grace Sheldon is used to living on a tight budget as a freelance photographer. But nothing short of a miracle could produce the thirty thousand dollars she owes on the house she's inherited. Without steady employment, the bank refuses to give her a loan. Working a temp job won't give her nearly enough, but she'll take any little bit she can get until she figures out a solution. Her first day, though, she realizes this is no ordinary...
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Give your best friend more purr and pounce with this whiskers-to-tail guide to the good life!
One reason we're wild for cats is that our cats are still wild at heart. On our laps, they're purring lovebugs, but on the prowl, they're fearsome hunters-with territorial instincts to match.
The Handbook for a Happy Cat takes us inside the feline mind to decode what our cats really want in life and how they try to tell us. You'll learn:
• Why a bigger...
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he only limits to what you can do are the ones you impose on yourself.
From fond memories of growing up in her native Romania and the social changes of the communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu to shocking captivity and abuse at the hands of her father in the United States, Dr. Kiprono details her eventual escape to freedom, independence, and success.
Once free of her father, Dr. Kiprono's hard work, determination, and positivity allowed her to...
9) Ex'd Out
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After their divorce, Visiting Nurse Melanie Bass must keep in contact with Dr. Artie Krapaneck, her philandering ex-husband as they share custody of her beloved dog, Bruno. When she arrives at a Connecticut highway rest stop to retrieve the dog for "her week" she discovers the body of her ex-husband along with that of an unknown woman. It seems that now Artie will finally be out of her life forever. He isn't.
Melanie soon has reason to suspect that...
10) Borrowed Trouble
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After the murder of her ex-husband is solved, visiting nurse Melanie Bass is confident she will never again cross paths with Detective Sunny Cody. She is shocked when the detective suddenly shows up on her doorstep to ask Melanie for a favor. What starts out as an assignment Detective Cody assures her will be quick and simple, instead soon puts Melanie, her dog Bruno, and Detective Cody herself in serious jeopardy. Melanie quickly becomes increasingly...
11) In the Dog House
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Ten years ago, Jackson Hardy joined the Marines, leaving behind a woman he still dreams about. When he's called home to care for his ten-year-old nephew, no one is more shocked than he to run into Emma again. Or to still have those same feelings. But Jackson isn't looking for love, and neither is Emma, especially not with him. His precocious nephew, though, and a retriever named Bandit, are about to change that.
So what if Emma Mercer is an overachiever?...
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First published in 1922 as part of Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age, this short story calls upon the author's innate sense to focus on the sense of disaster and is often regarded as one of his best short story works. Fitzgerald himself comments, Of this story I can say that it came to me in an irresistible form, crying to be written. It will be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality, but, as I saw it, it was a great deal more. If,...
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A French Woman and German Soldier Create a Truce
Full of intrigue, adventure, and romance, this new series celebrates the unsung heroes - the heroines of WWII.
With her father in a German POW camp and her home in Ste Mere Eglise, France, under Nazi occupation, Rosalie Barrieau will do anything to keep her younger brother safe... even from his desire to join the French resistance. Until she falls into the debt of a German solder - one who delivers...
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Shirley Davenport is as much a patriot as her four brothers. She, too, wants to aid her country in the war efforts and joins a new branch of the Coast Guard for single women called SPARs. At the end of basic training, Captain Webber commissions her back home in Maine under the ruse of a dishonorable discharge to help uncover a plot against the First Lady. Shirley soon discovers nothing is as it seems. Why do the people she loves want to harm the First...
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Have you ever wondered how astronauts float in space, or how your pizza gets from your plate to your mouth? Basic principles of physics, including learning about distance, displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration, forces, friction, gravity, and Newton's laws of motion, are explored through informative and engaging text in this newest addition to the How Do series.
The How Do series is a great introduction to various STEM topics, each written in...
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Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transformation that more and more Westerners are flocking to drink in a quest for greater self-knowledge, healing and reconnection with the natural world. This formerly esoteric, little-known brew is now a growth industry. But why?
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive tea that has a long history of ritual use among indigenous groups of the Upper Amazon. Made from the ayahuasca vine and the leaves of a shrub, ayahuasca is associated...
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A family of giants drops a crumb of chocolate yule log?but one crumb doesn't matter, does it? Join Pip and his mother, the mice, and the ants as everyone benefits from the giant Christmas bonanza. The audience will learn along with each of the characters that what might be a small thing for you can turn out to be a very big thing for someone else.
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A family of giants drops a crumb of chocolate yule log―but one crumb doesn't matter, does it?
Join Pip and his mother, the mice, and the ants as everyone benefits from the giant Christmas bonanza.
The audience will learn along with each of the characters that what might be a small thing for you can turn out to be a very big thing for someone else.
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A family of giants drops a crumb of chocolate yule log―but one crumb doesn't matter, does it?
Join Pip and his mother, the mice, and the ants as everyone benefits from the giant Christmas bonanza.
The audience will learn along with each of the characters that what might be a small thing for you can turn out to be a very big thing for someone else.
20) Three Viewings
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There's a story behind every farewell. In Three Viewings, award-winning playwright Jeffrey Hatcher explores love, money, and loss in a trio of mordantly witty narratives.
In a small-town funeral parlor, three stories portray the extent to which we all hold on to memories, money, life, and love.
"Tell-Tale" is Emil, a mild-mannered undertaker burning with unspoken passion for a local realtor who frequents his funerals. Emil plots to confess his true...