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"Meet Sun: He's a star! And not just any star--he's one in a billion. He lights up our solar system and makes life possible. With characteristic humor and charm, Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Sun in this next celestial "autobiography." Rich with kid-friendly facts and beautifully illustrated, this is an equally charming and irresistible companion to Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years."--Amazon.com.
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"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby...
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"Their name? The objectors. Their job? To break off weddings as hired. Their dilemma? They might just be in love with each other. When Sophie Steinbeck finds out just before her wedding that her fiancé has cheated yet again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because her future father-in-law is her dad's cutthroat boss, she doesn't want to be the one to do it. Her savior comes in the form of a professional objector, whose purpose is to show...
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"The unlikely true story of why we know the name William Shakespeare today, and the four-hundred-year-old book that made it possible. Four hundred years ago, no one bothered to write down the exact words of stage plays. Characters' lines were scribbled on small rolls of paper (as in, an actor's role) and passed around, but no master script was saved for the future. The main reason we've heard of Romeo, Juliet, Hamlet, and Shakespeare himself is that...
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From REMINGTON KANE - The author of The TAKEN! Series
YOUNG GUNS 4 - Ryker's Raiders - A TANNER Series - Book 4
The boys help Spenser go after three targets at the same time, then find themselves being hunted by a group of mercenaries working for Vince Ryker. Tanner discovers Tang's connection with Dalton Geary.
YOUNG GUNS - Legends aren't born, they're made.
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From REMINGTON KANE - The author of The TAKEN! Series
YOUNG GUNS 3 - A TANNER Series - Book 3
In 1998, Cody and Romeo train hard, then face tests that will decide their fate. In the present, Tanner seeks vengeance on a man who once tried to kill him.
YOUNG GUNS - Legends aren't born, they're made.
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This book is for you if you ever...
Wanted to change a law.
Thought a law was unfair or unjust.
Felt confused by bureaucracy.
Thibault provides a better understanding of policy change and political persuasion (also known as lobbying). Once you understand the power of lobbying, you will be able to improve your community, influence leaders, and impact the world.
How To Change A Law offers insight, actionable tools, and strategies that will lead you...
10) We're Pregnant!
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Being a great first-time dad doesn't mean being perfect. It means having the tools you need to be a supportive partner during and after pregnancy - which is exactly what We're Pregnant! The First-Time Dad's Pregnancy Handbook is all about.
From heartburn and headaches to birth and breastfeeding, We're Pregnant! features practical, action-oriented pregnancy advice from the author of the Dad or Alive blog, Adrian Kulp, a (once clueless) dad who's been...
11) Young Guns
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From REMINGTON KANE, the author of The TAKEN! Series
YOUNG GUNS - A TANNER Series - Book 1
As Tanner rips apart a drug gang in Arizona, he thinks back on an episode from his past.
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From REMINGTON KANE, the author of The TAKEN! Series
YOUNG GUNS 6: CONTRACT TO KILL - A Tanner Series - Book 6
Young assassins Cody and Romeo seek to kill the leader of a cult who has taken refuge inside the impregnable fortress known as the Citadel.
Tanner and Sara help a friend after he and his mother become targets of a street gang.
13) Smoke & Mirrors
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From REMINGTON KANE, the author of The TAKEN! Series
YOUNG GUNS 2 - A TANNER Series - Book 2
Cody and Romeo help Spenser fulfill a contract while in Tucson, Arizona in 1998. Twenty years later, in New York City, Tanner believes he's seen a man whom he and Romeo killed long ago.
YOUNG GUNS - Legends aren't born, they're made.
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During Ombrazia's Second War of Saints, former friends Rossana Lacertosa and Damian Venturi--she is a rebel who wants to dismantle the corrupt system responsible for her father's death while he is the young head of security who serves the city and the saints with unswerving devotion--must work together to investigate murders within the city.
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"In 1947, an unusual object crashed in the New Mexico desert and was recovered by the Roswell Army Air Field officers. People everywhere began to speculate what the object could be. Could it possibly be a flying saucer? Would that be proof of aliens and life beyond Earth? Even decades later, some people still believe that the Roswell Incident is the most famous UFO sighting ever. Still, those who worked at the airfield insist it was just a weather...
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When Clarissa Kelly inherits an Irish castle, the only one thing standing in her way is the devilishly handsome man living there.
Ian
The American girl thinks she can take my castle?
Wildheath is rightly mine. The old man promised it to me.
Then here comes this gorgeous girl who thinks she can just land on my doorstep with her windswept hair, bat those pretty green eyes at me, and I'll just give in.
No matter how much she distracts me with those...
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Each house has a history. Each person has a secret. Each turn of events leads to danger.
Come back to me.
Cole Dalton's wife, Caroline, had the words etched onto a pendant for him. Each time he deployed overseas as a military bomb tech, she stitched the pendant into his uniform. Cole returned safely from the battlefield . . . only to bury his wife after a tragic car accident.
Cole moves into their beachside cottage to both heal and find closure after...
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"On January 20, 2021, standing where only two weeks earlier police officers had battled with right-wing paramilitaries, Joe Biden took his oath of office. The American people were still sick with COVID-19, his economists were already warning him of an imminent financial crisis, and his party, the Democrats, had the barest of majorities in the Senate. Yet, faced with an unprecedented set of crises, Joe Biden decided he would not play defense. Instead,...
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"Wanting is a groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires. As an undergraduate studying philosophy at Stanford, Peter Thiel met French polymath René Girard and was introduced to his theory of "mimetic desire"-the idea that most human wanting comes from imitating what other people desire, rather than from an innate sense of need. Inducted into the Académie Française...