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Duke the dog and his owner Santi are best friends. Duke loves to go for walks, chase squirrels, and swim. Emerging readers will be excited to join Duke and Santi on their adventures around the neighborhood. Fun text and corresponding illustrations will instill in readers the basics of pet care all kids should know. This book is sure to be enjoyed by both emerging readers and younger children who have not yet started reading.
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A teacher's guide to empowering students with modern thinking skills that will help them throughout life.
Design thinking is a wonderful teaching strategy to inspire your students and boost creativity and problem solving. With tips and techniques for teachers K through 12, this book provides all the resources you need to implement Design Thinking concepts and activities in your classroom right away. These new techniques will empower your students...
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This gripping book is about what it was really like to fight at the sharp end in World War II. In 1947, US General S. L. A Marshall controversially wrote that out of every one hundred combat soldiers only fifteen to twenty-five actually fired their weapons at the enemy, because of the innate human reluctance to take another's life. Others maintained the opposite view that soldiers enjoyed killing. David Lee demonstrates that the situation was far...
4) Jackals
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This book brings readers face-to-face with a wild dog that's straight out of Africa-the jackal! Readers will love reading about this big-eared predator and its hunting techniques, as well as its life cycle, anatomy, and habitat. The book covers jackal family systems and behavior, as well as their interactions with humans. Readers will enjoy fact-filled text and amazing color photographs as they get a glimpse of the wild world of jackals.
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The Royal Naval Commandos had one of the most dangerous and the most important tasks of any in World War II - they were first onto the invasion beaches and they were the last to leave. Formed in 1941 as the Royal Naval Beach Parties, many lost their lives in the Dieppe raid. After Dieppe they became fully fledged fighting commandos with their legendary Fairbairn Sykes commando knives, organized into units from a commando through to the all Canadian...
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Introduce your readers to the great culture of the Comanche, a Great Plains tribe. Readers will learn about traditional Comanche ways of life, and how they changed after European contact. This book explains the Comanche migration, conflicts, and the importance of horses to their culture. The captivating narrative is supported by brilliant photographs, which help readers grasp the Comanche's past and present. This exciting book provides a scope through...
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David Lee is a major figure in American letters: the author of fifteen books of poetry, a celebrated teacher, a legendary reader in classrooms, bookstores, and taverns; and the first poet laureate of Utah. His work is full of the most various qualities: soul-crushing tragedy, lyrical celebration, high comedy, storytelling ebullience. Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems, now with us at last, brings to the community of readers raw power and radical beauty....
8) Duke the Dog
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Duke the dog and his owner Santi are best friends. Duke loves to go for walks, chase squirrels, and swim. Emerging readers will be excited to join Duke and Santi on their adventures around the neighborhood. Fun text and corresponding illustrations will instill in readers the basics of pet care all kids should know. This book is sure to be enjoyed by both emerging readers and younger children who have not yet started reading.
9) Comanche
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This book explores the great culture of the Comanche, a Great Plains tribe. Readers will learn about traditional Comanche ways of life, and how they changed after European contact. This book also teaches readers about the Comanche migration, conflicts, and the importance of horses to their culture. Captivating text is brought to life through photographs, which help readers grasp the Comanche's past and present. This exciting book provides a scope...
10) Primrose Courier
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Primrose Courier
By David Lee
The Purity of the Primrose
The different paths of two childhood, best friends merge when army courier Mitchell Montigarde finds that the safety of his lifelong friend, civilian Belinda Rusco, may be at stake because of him. As the young courier's task of carrying top-secret information to military personnel increases in danger, so too does his need to distance himself from loved ones to protect their safety, but Mitchell...
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A delightful example of one of East Anglia's minor railways: A 3ft gauge railway, single track, just over 8 miles long from Halesworth (connections to London) across the heathland and marshes of East Suffolk to the seaside resort and harbor of Southwold. This book collates the research and memories of one of the last surviving passengers with maps and pictures to tell a fascinating tale of immaculate passenger service, management from a distant London...
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Some say it never should happen, but it does. Any Christian, church leader, or Christian organization head can, from no apparent cause, suddenly find their soul in a desert place. It is confusing, frustrating, causes doubts, and feels like being saved and lost simultaneously. What generates this standstill in faith? How can motivation disappear in serving Christ? This book examines reasons for the desert dilemma, takes one through the strides to understanding...
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Off the shore of Hatteras Island, where the inner edge of the Gulf Stream flows northward over the outer continental shelf, the marine life is unlike that of any other area in the Atlantic. Here the powerful ocean river helps foster an extraordinarily rich diversity of life, including Sargassum mats concealing strange creatures and exotic sea beans, whales and sea turtles, sunfish and flying fish, and shearwaters and Bermuda petrels. During his long...
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The Ends of Modernization studies the relations between Nicaragua and the United States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War. David Johnson Lee charts the transformation of the ideals of modernization, national autonomy, and planned development as they gave way to human rights protection, neoliberalism, and sustainability. Using archival material, newspapers, literature, and interviews with historical actors in countries across Latin...
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Alvin C. York went out on a routine patrol an ordinary, unknown American doughboy of the First World War. He came back from no-man's-land a hero. In a brief encounter on October 8, 1918, during the Argonne offensive, York had killed 25 German soldiers and, almost singlehandedly, effected the capture of 132 others. Returning to the United States the following spring, he received a tumultuous public welcome and a flood of offers from businessmen eager...
16) Orphan, Indiana
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Orphan, Indiana is a collection of spontaneous outbursts framed by reticence and the guiding mania of the subconscious. Profane and poignant, accidental-seeming but soaring with satirical intent, David Dodd Lee's poems capture a verisimilitude that's phenomenological, and yet of the moment.
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No one ever adequately prepares for the death of a loved one. Grieving can stun the soul and turn one's world upside down. This book is specifically sculpted to walk the grief journey alongside the sufferer. It highlights spousal loss but covers a gamut of other situations. The answers are not swift and easy, but the book will lead to the place of safety and rest. There is One who understands the turmoil of pain, and He died in the loneliest place...
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Early in his life, John Walsh made a commitment that he would do whatever the Lord told him to do, even if he didn't understand why. This commitment provided a foundation for his life. He has followed God's direction from the heartland of America to a bustling market in Cambodia, from a bus in Jerusalem to a water taxi in Bangkok.
John doesn't seek God's direction in every decision he makes, but he has found that God steps in whenever he needs to...
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Jesus Christ is the most written about and proclaimed figure of all of history. Why, then, are people so confused as to who He is? Why are Christian churches redefining Him to suit the culture and their own preferences? This book challenges the idea of a Jesus remake. It is the author's understanding of Him from well over sixty-five years of a personal relationship and study. It aims toward those who have given up on Jesus, because the portrayal of...
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Written by the creator of MacGyver, The MacGyver Secret book details everything you need to experience breakthroughs in your creative problem solving. It teaches you the 3 simple steps to connect with your Inner MacGyver, guides you through the science by co-author Colleen Seifert, Ph.D. of why it works so well, shares tips about how to apply it in both personal and work situations, and gives you real world examples of how people like you are using...