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HarperTeen
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English
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When fourteen-year-old Viola is sent from her beloved Brooklyn to boarding school in Indiana for ninth grade, she overcomes her initial reservations as she makes friends with her roommates, goes on a real date, and uses the unsettling ghost she keeps seeing as the subject of a short film--her first.
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2014.
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English
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"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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2014.
Language
English
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A survey of current research into the human mind reveals how top international laboratories have innovated unique technologies for recording profound mental capabilities and enabling controversial opportunities in the field of cognition enhancement.
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English
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"A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the "soul" is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would...
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2006.
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English
Description
Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike, thinking when he took a sabbatical from his job with NBC News so he could pile these two...
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2014.
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English
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When the body of a year-missing Ojibwa girl washes up on a Lake Superior island, rekindling Native American superstitions about mythical monsters, Cork O'Connor struggles to obtain information from reluctant witnesses to a brutal sex-trafficking operation.
"When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a mythical beast,...
Series
Weight Reduction volume 2
Publisher
Infinite Human
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Designed for people who would like to exercise in the comfort of their own home. The exercises will help increase energy levels while strengthening muscles and boosting the imune system. Includes a combination of stretches, light resistance, and more.
Series
Weight Reduction volume 1
Publisher
Infinite Human
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Kristin Subryan, MHt, MNLP ~ Master Practioner & trainer of hypnotherapy and MLP presents this audio presentation for weight loss. Designed for people who would like to exercise in the comfort of their own home. The exercises will help increase energy levels while strengthening muscles and boosting the imune system. Includes a combination of stretches, light resistance, and more.
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Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This set of twenty-four lectures examines aspects of elite and popular culture in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, focusing on the way in which men and women seeking to explain, order, and escape the terrors of their lives embraced transcendental religious experiences, dreamed of and worked for the coming of the apocalypse, and seized on a widespread belief in witchcraft and Satanism.
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Madeline: "In an old house in Paris all covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines..." Thus begins this adaptation of the classic 1930's children's book about Madeline, the smallest and bravest of the twelve little girls.
Madeline's rescue: As we know well by now, no one knows better "how to frighten Miss Clavel" than Madeline. But this time, in the process of clowning around, she almost dies except for the intercession of...