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"These lucid, information-packed lectures convey the excitement of scientific discovery and trace the connections between discoveries over time. In this course, veteran science educator Robert Hazen renders the most complex ideas simple and memorable, without ever being simplistic"--Www.teach12.com.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 3-4
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In "It's a dog's life" Hank goes to visit his sister in town. There he enjoys the garbage patrol of a lifetime and faces down a brood of sassy town cats. Hank contracts a case of "soap hydrophobia" and ends up imprisoned in the dog pound! Is there any hope of escape for everyone's favorite cowdog? In "Murder in the Middle Pasture" Hank investigates a brutal murder on the ranch. Only problem, no one's talking! After a dangerous fact-finding mission,...
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Front lines novel volume 1
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World War II, 1942. A court decision makes women subject to the draft and eligible for service. The unproven American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled, the armed forces of Nazi Germany. Three girls sign up to fight. Rio Richlin, Frangie Marr, and Rainy Schulterman are average girls, girls with dreams and aspirations, at the start of their lives, at the start of their loves. Each has her own reasons for volunteering:...
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It is 2555, more than two years after the Master Chief went missing-in-action following a decisive conflict on Installation 00, the massive, extragalactic Forerunner construct known as the Ark. Now, as a tenuous peace exists between the humans and the Elites, a startling scientific discovery is made. And the riddle behind its Forerunner origins could very well seal the fate of the entire galaxy within a matter of weeks.
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The disappearing staircase mystery: When the Alden children join a group of volunteers to fix up an old house for senior citizens, they try to explain the puzzling behavior of their coworkers as well as investigate some unusual events.
The mystery on Blizzard Mountain: When the Alden children go camping on Blizzard Mountain, a place said to be inhabited by a ghost looking for buried treasure, they begin to think someone or something is trying to...
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Schoolhouse mystery : The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in a tiny, quiet New England fishing village, and the Alden's are teaching! Caboose mystery : When the Alden's spend the summer riding on a train, they get to live in a train car once again and this time, they're staying in caboose No. 777. Houseboat mystery : The Alden's are spending the summer traveling on a houseboat, but someone is watching them and wants something on the boat.
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The woodshed mystery: The Alden children are staying at the New England farmhouse where their grandfather grew up and find a surprising secret. The lighthouse mystery: When the Alden's take a summer trip to the New England coast, they have a fun place to stay: a lighthouse! Mountain top mystery: The Alden's climb a mountain and find a mystery.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 17-18
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#17: After a brilliant use of the Syruptishus Loaderation maneuver, Hank wins a free ride into town. But when the ticket turns out to be one-way, the trouble begins. #18: When Sally May and Loper head out of town for a wedding, Hank knows it's up to him to keep things under control. After subjecting strawberry ice cream to rigorous product testing, test-driving a mysterious spaceship, and thwarting a sneak attack from a couch monster, Hank faces the...
197) Dead stop
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Sydney Rose Parnell volume 2
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"The search for a missing child leads a courageous railway cop down a twisted trail of murder. It's been five months since Special Agent Sydney Parnell survived a violent confrontation with a gang of brutal thugs, an encounter that left her physically and emotionally scarred. Deep down, Sydney fears she isn't ready for another investigation. But when a woman is murdered on the train tracks and a child goes missing, she knows she's the only one who...