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From their big eyes to their long necks, baby giraffes are so cute! Discover more about these adorable animals with your own adorable little one. Filled with fun sound words and sweet photos, (human) babies will reach for “Hello Baby Giraffe!” again and again. From their big eyes to their long necks, baby giraffes are so cute! Discover more about these adorable animals with your own adorable little one. Filled with fun sound words and sweet photos,...
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From their furry ears to their furry tails, baby bears are so cute! Discover more about these adorable animals with your own adorable little one. Filled with fun sound words and sweet photos, (human) babies will reach for “Hello Baby Bear!” again and again. From their furry ears to their furry tails, baby bears are so cute! Discover more about these adorable animals with your own adorable little one. Filled with fun sound words and sweet photos,...
3) Easy Money
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A sweeping history of the American invention of modern money.
Economists endlessly debate the nature of legal tender monetary systems-coins and bills issued by a government or other authority. Yet the origins of these currencies have received little attention.
Dror Goldberg tells the story of modern money in North America through the Massachusetts colony during the seventeenth century. As the young settlement transitioned to self-governance and...
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Malta, 1943. The war in the air above Malta is over, but the battle for Europe is about to begin.
Margarita, a young singer in a Valletta nightclub, has seen her former lover Henry Dunn only once since breaking off their affair. His wife Vera, an enigmatic archaeologist, arrives at the club to tell her that Henry has disappeared, presumed dead. While investigating, Margarita stumbles upon the hunt for a notorious and dangerous spy: Nero.
As an...
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This thirty-one day devotional will remind you of the awesome power of the Lord to come through for us even when things seem hopeless.
The author, who has been a devoted Christian for more than thirty years, focuses on key themes from the Bible that will ignite your faith. Topics include:
• how to praise your way to victory;
• ways to make mountains flat;
• why Jesus is our multiplier;
• how to dress yourself for battle.
With God, all we need...
6) Renewal
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In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and the Holocaust, and troubled by missionaries' complicity with colonial regimes, they redirected their energies back home.
Renewal explores the rise and fall of this movement, which began as an effort to restore the church's standing but wound up as nothing...
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The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and '70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, and the environment. Bloom centers his story on the example...
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The first in a series highlighting mysteries solved by the Carolina Cousins, The Secret of Atalaya introduces the three main characters. At the oldest seaside resort in the United States (Pawleys Island, SC) during the month of July, the trio forges a bond, which will never be broken as they discover and solve mysterious clues from Anna Hyatt and Archer Huntington's summer home, Atalaya. History comes to life as the Carolina Cousins discover a connection...
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Odyssey of Nirvana
Adventure of a lifetime. Adventure of piety. A story about swashbuckling pirates trying to deliver immigrants to the holy land. A gripping tale that satisfies adventure enthusiasts, allowing you to escape into a new future, the emergence of man, machines, and computers.
Arlo's dream was to leave a system of oligarchy and turmoil in the lands of Boorish, where it's survival of the fittest. To escape war, he had to seek Nirvana....
10) City of Dignity
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ity of Dignity illuminates how liberal Protestants quietly, yet indelibly, shaped the progressive ethics of postwar Los Angeles.
Contemporary Los Angeles is commonly seen as an American bulwark of progressive secular politics, a place that values immigration, equity, diversity, and human rights. But what accounts for the city's embrace of such staunchly liberal values, which are more hotly contested in other parts of the country? The answer, Sean...