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"Cast out of his coalition, Stride the cheetah embarks on a perilous mission for the Great Parent, accompanied by a honey badger burdened with a dark and mysterious past. Whisper the water buffalo has been searching desperately for her brother Echo, presumed dead after a terrible fall. And the hyena now known as Breathstealer finds herself courted by the Great Spirit at one moment and other times tempted by the Great Devourer...The balance of power...
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"She's not here to make friends. She's here to make trouble. With her piercings, tattoos and spiky blond hair, Ellen Truesdale doesn't quite fit in with the other folks in Coyote Canyon--and that's just fine with her. She's only here to put her father out of business, as payback for abandoning her when she was young. Or is she more interested in finally proving that she was worth keeping? Either way, she's struggling to keep her rival well-drilling...
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Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many ways that water is essential to our lives and the existence of life on Earth. But it doesn't stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of water -- and the environmental danger to water posed by pollution and lack of respect for this precious resource. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to one another, but to the environment as well.
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"Some dogs were born to lend a helping hand (or paw!). Zeus, a chocolate lab puppy, is one of them. With his courage, smarts, and strength his purpose seems clear: he'll become a water rescue dog! When a young boy named Kimo is tasked with training Zeus, they quickly become best friends. But Zeus's excitement makes training hard, and worse yet, becoming a working dog means being separated from Kimo. Can Zeus and his boy figure out how to stay together...
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Samuel Watkins has a dream: he wants to be a World Champion in the sport of barefoot water skiing. His mentor is Kevin Langston, the 2X World Barefoot Champion. As Samuel learns how to excel in the sport, Kevin teaches Samuel the Champion Rules. One by one, the rules contain lessons which help Samuel on the rocky road to achieving his dreams.
In life, the Champion Rules apply to all of us. Use the Rules to guide you on your own path to transformative...
9) Watershed
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A rediscovered classic of politics, murder, espionage, for the first time in paperback On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights.