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1) Dishonorable
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In this gritty novelization, a young woman's plans for revenge take a backseat when her past resurfaces, and an unknown threat enters the mix. Perfect for diehard fans of urban street literature in the vein of Ashley Antoinette and Wahida Clark.
Markita "Kita" Jones is a young woman with the world at her fingertips. A high-school student with beauty and brains to match, she's well on her way to Howard University. However, on her 18th birthday,...
2) Baseball
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Learn about the world of baseball and how science is helping the game. You'll read about baseballs, bats, statistics, and training, and get a better understanding of how baseball is improving with science and technology. Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
3) Tennis
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Learn about the world of tennis and how science is helping the game. You'll read about balls, courts, rackets, statistics, and training, and get a better understanding of how tennis is improving with science and technology. Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
4) Hockey
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Learn about the world of hockey and how science is helping the game. You'll read about hockey skates, hockey sticks, and goalie equipment, and get a better understanding of how hockey is improving with science and technology. Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
5) Formula One
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Learn about the world of Formula One and how science is helping the sport. You'll read about racecars, tires, racetracks, and driver safety, and get a better understanding of how Formula One is improving with science and technology. Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
6) Golf
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Learn about the world of golf and how science is helping the game. You'll read about golf clubs, balls, courses, carts, and statistics, and get a better understanding of how golf is improving with science and technology. Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
7) Football
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Learn about the world of football and how science is helping the game. You'll read about helmets, shoulder pads, cleats, statistics, and training, and get a better understanding of how football is improving with science and technology. Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
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Can a retired military man finally claim his childhood friend as his lover when they've both changed, and a world of experience and problems lies between them? JarrodI've retired from the military and moved home with two goals: 1-to go into business with my best friend.2-to stake a claim on Chrissie, the gorgeous woman who haunts my dreams. Number two bothers me because, while she's currently single, I know nothing about her private life or marriage....
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Scars-a badge of honor denoting strength. MillyMy hellish month is looking up!I've scored a private nursing job.No more sleeping in my car, stressing about my debts.My patient is a military man. Gorgeous. Tattooed. Built. He's also temporarily blind and tries to sack me during my first hour on the job.I'm way past desperate, so let him try to banish me. ConnorAll I want is to recover and return to my men in Afghanistan.The problem is without my sight,...
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A Clare Instalove romance featuring a hot military man returning to the small town where he grew up and a curvy single mother. Oh, and a magical Christmas wishing tree that has all the people talking… RobI enjoy my single life and army career. And love-bah humbug. My best friends might've found love in this small town, but I'm not so easily convinced until I see her-confident, curvy, and charming. My world turns topsy-turvy, and I can't help thinking...
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Fast cars, glamorous socialites-;everyday components of devastatingly handsome billionaire Orlando Winterton's thrilling, decadent lifestyle...;.
When Rachel arrives at Orlando's remote country estate in desperate need, Orlando cannot deny the pull of her fragile beauty, and takes her passionately. Then a baby is found abandoned on Orlando's doorstep-;allegedly his son!
Now Orlando will hire Rachel to take care of the child-;and as long as she's...
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Don't let the past dominate your future.VictoriaI've been a single mom since my marriage imploded. My husband went to work and never returned, leaving me to raise our son. A surprise visit leaves me reeling-the truth is a terrible shock that changes everything. Now money problems are forcing me outside my comfort zone-to take a risk and pray I don't lose everything.NikoWhen I was younger, I trusted the wrong people-a stupid mistake since it landed...
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By 1850, Japan had been closed to the outside world for centuries. It was a secret, hidden world. And deep within Edo (now Tokyo) was Yoshiwara − "The Floating World." The center of pleasure. And within Yoshiwara was the Hidden House. The place that only the very wealthiest could afford. The place where the geisha were…special.And in the Hidden House lived Midori No Me. Half Japanese, half foreign Barbarian, born to captivity. She was trained...
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Out of all the geisha, only Mineko's strangeness was hidden from the world.Mineko was the geisha who could not feel pain. She was the geisha that no man could hurt, no matter how hard they tried. And not only was Mineko unable to feel physical pain, she was also unable to feel the emotions of love and longing and need. Until she met the Samurai who became her lover; the man who-just as she was-was owned body and soul by Mineko´s master, the terrible...
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"An outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school in this suspenseful debut novel for readers of My Dark Vanessa and Dare Me Louise Manson is the newest student at Highfield Manor, Dublin's most exclusive private school. It seems nearly perfect: the high arched window alcoves and tall granite pillars, the overspill of lilac at the front gate and the immaculate playing fields, the giggling students, the dusty, oak-lined library,...
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From the dizzying heights of Angels Landing to the mysterious depths of The Narrows, this fourth book in the bestselling series follows Jake, Amber, and Wes on a perilous quest in Zion National Park.
Ages 7 to 14 - Illustrated by the Author - An Edge-of-Your-Seat Page-Turner
While camping in Zion National Park, Jake Evans and his friends uncover a new set of cryptic clues hidden in his grandfather's scrapbook. Battling unpredictable weather,...
18) Spy Cat: Safari
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When talented and special animals start going missing across Britain, the Cook family know it's another job for their resident spy pets. Lara might be sure that the dogs can handle the case alone, but not everything goes according to the Spy Pups' plan. Can Spy Cat Shakespeare prove his worth and save the Spy Pups' tails? And maybe even answer the age-old question, which is better, cats or dogs?
19) The Valkyrie
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From SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Kate Heartfield comes a glorious, lyrical retelling of one of Norse mythology's greatest epics Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the Allfather, chooser of the slain. But now she too has fallen, flightless in her exile. Gudrun is a princess of Burgundy, a daughter of the Rhine, a prize for an invading king – a king whose brother Attila has other plans, and a dragon to call upon. And in the songs to be sung,...