Will
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2022.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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"Based on the amazing true story of "the world's most valuable dog," a fun adventure about a famous big-city poodle named Masterpiece who finds a new life alongside a small-town girl named Joanie. When Joanie first encounters Masterpiece, he's curled up in an alley and she mistakes him for (of all things!) a cat. Soon, though, she cleans him up and shows him home and discovers he is, in fact, a poodle. What Joanie doesn't know is that Masterpiece...
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"The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers" is a 1926 book by Will Durant, in which he profiles several prominent Western philosophers and their ideas, beginning with Socrates and Plato and on through Friedrich Nietzsche. Durant attempts to show the interconnection of their ideas and how one philosopher's ideas informed the next. There are nine chapters each focused on one philosopher, and two more chapters each...
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From the author of funny classics like "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes" and "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody." Here in "How to Be a Hermit" are humorous essays and stories discussing house cleaning, cooking, sardines, spinach, clams, lettuce, cabbage, beans, coffee, budgets, entertaining, and the holidays. Will Cuppy (1884-1949) wrote extensively on his life as a hermit, the natural world, and just about anything else that proved...
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Interweaves personal memoir and investigative journalism with the latest neuroscience and experimental psychology research to reveal how the stories individuals tell themselves about the world shape their beliefs, leading to self-deception, toxic partisanship, and science denial.
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Author Will Millard and illustrator Rachel Qiuqi's In the Tide Pool: A Magic Flaps Book is an interactive first introduction to sea stars, anemone, and other ocean life features double-layer lift-the-flaps for fun and surprises.
Explore life in a tide pool with five interactive nature stories. Each simple "story" is set across a double-page spread and is revealed through double-layer lift-the-flaps. Watch an anemone hide from a seagull, a hermit...
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Author Will Millard and illustrator Rachel Qiuqi's In the Garden: A Magic Flaps Book is an interactive first introduction to bees, butterflies, and other garden life features double-layer lift-the-flaps for fun and surprises.
Explore life in a garden with five interactive nature stories. Each simple "story" is set across a double-page spread and is revealed through double-layer lift-the-flaps. Watch a butterfly drink nectar from a flower, a...
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"I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals." - President Abraham Lincoln, when confronted about General Ulysses Grant's excessive drinking. Blood, gunfire, and whiskey: they are the three things that defined Civil War battlefields. In this fascinating, booze-drenched history of the war that almost tore America apart, historian Mark Will-Weber (author of Mint...
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Jamies Leben wird nie wieder dasselbe sein. Sein Vater tot, seine Mutter vermisst und er selbst von einem Hünen namens Frankenstein entführt - an einen Ort wie aus einem Science-Fiction-Film. Hier residiert die geheimste Organisation der britischen Regierung: das Department 19. Verantwortlich für die Bekämpfung des Übernatürlichen. Gegründet vor über einem Jahrhundert von niemand Geringerem als Abraham van Helsing, dem Erzfeind des Grafen...
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"As America transformed from fledgling nation to world power, one element remained constant: alcohol. The eighteenth century saw the Father of His Country distilling whiskey in his backyard. The nineteenth century witnessed the lavish expenses on wine by the Sage of Monticello, Honest Abe's inclination toward temperance, and the slurred speech of the first president to be impeached. Fast forward to the twentieth century and acquaint yourself with...
11) Dreadgod
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Cradle volume 11
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[2023]
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"The battle in the heavens has left a target on Lindon's back. His most reliable ally is gone, the Monarchs see him as a threat, and he has inherited one of the most valuable facilities in the world. At any moment, his enemies could band together to kill him."--Amazon.com.
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Will Patching's Short Shots: Killer Thriller Quick ReadsThree dark, twisted crime tales:JUSTICE A convict is tormented by his wife's memory - and his lack of one…OLD FLAME A twisted tale of lust, obsession and revenge.THE BUTCHER Meet Antony Harding, psychopath. He'll make your skin crawl...PLUS Bonus introductory notes from the author. Featuring exclusive insights into how these short-form tales relate to the psychopathic characters in 'The Remorseless...
13) The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama
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In The Backlash, Liberal columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning political reporter Will Bunch goes behind the scenes of America's new extreme right-wing minority to explore how their campaign of misinformation, their distortion of President Obama, and their collective fear of the future combine to pose a very real threat to our democratic system. From health care reform to immigration policies, The Backlash is a gripping investigation into the emerging...
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Following WWII Joe Neely returns to his home in Tampa\St. Pete Florida and begins a career as a Private Eye. His experience as a Shore Patrolman in the U.S. Navy provides the right kind of training for his new gig.The book is broken down into Joe's first 10 cases as the newly licensed Private Detective and includes his run-ins with several dolls, thugs, and the occasional old buddy with something special to find. Always there to assist is Smiley Waters,...
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Based on a true story, Gentle with Gertie follows the heartwarming tale of a new baby entering a household with an older dog. Ash, age 4, narrates his journey from a "beginner dog-petter" to an expert dog-lover. Along the way, Ash learns important lessons through kindness, patience, and practice.
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"An admirably balanced assessment of an enormously complicated man who, wrongly but not ignobly, stood athwart history." - Kirkus Reviews, starred
"Elegantly written, delicately nuanced, this compelling account brings Joe Kennedy and his family to life." - Bob Self, author of Neville Chamberlain: A Biography
"A thoroughly revisionist but remarkably persuasive history of Joseph P. Kennedy's years in London" - David Nasaw , author of Pulitzer Prize–nominee...
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A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall is an exuberant literary debut--a novel of real ideas and a playful examination of our in-between world, one that explores the nature of family, identity, art, and belief while also marking the introduction of an original new voice in contemporary fiction.
Owen Burr is the six-foot-eight, Olympics-bound senior captain of the Stanford University water polo team. In his final collegiate match, however, he suffers a catastrophic...
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The official tie-in to the popular Discovery reality series that follows a Louisiana-based custom firearms business.
With his characteristic down-home wit and wisdom, Will Hayden tells the stories behind some of the best episodes of the hit Discovery series Sons of Guns. He'll let you in on his all-time favorite weapons and what it takes to modify a run-of-the-mill rifle into a world-class work of art. Hear his take on guns in America, from their...
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The Waffen SS were considered the elite of the German armed forces in the Second World War and were involved in almost continuous combat. From the sweeping tank battle of Kursk on the Russian front to the bitter fighting among the hedgerows of Normandy and the last great offensive in the Ardennes, forever immortalized in history as the Battle of the Bulge, these men and their tanks made history.
The Waffen SS were considered the elite of the German...
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Amos GettingA Life on the American FrontierBorn in 1819 at Fort Union in Dakota Territory to a Cree Mother and French Trapper Father, Amos is sent to live with the Brule Sioux at his Mother's death. When he is thirteen, he leaves his Brule Family to begin a Spirit Quest journey that leads him to a life among White men. As he grows to adulthood, Amos is befriended by a White Rancher who raises the boy as his own, and he witnesses the early days on...