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After plans were announced for multiple dams in Mongolia's Selenge River watershed, award-winning author and veteran flyfishing guide Peter W. Fong was spurred to learn more about this remarkable ecosystem. On a first-ever scientific expedition from the headwaters of the Selenge to Russia's Lake Baikal, he and an international team traveled more than 1,500 kilometers by horse, camel, kayak, and rowboat through one of the world's most rugged regions...
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SynopsisDuring the age when the transition from the horse and the buggy to the automobile took place, Brady Mayfield joined his friend, Jesse, in an adventure that would change the direction of his life forever. They faced an old enemy on the way to the horizon, camped at a lake thought to be haunted and spent nights in valleys frequented only by wild animals. There Brady faced a bank robber.Bravely fulfilling his duty turning the robber in to the...
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The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways-and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia. By focusing on the wife of a middling backcountry farmer, esteemed historian...
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Mars 2004, Camargue. Alors qu'il couvre le conflit provoqué par la fermeture annoncée de l'usine Lustucru d'Arles, Pierre Daum, journaliste, découvre que cette usine ne fabrique pas seulement des pâtes : elle conditionne également le riz cultivé par des producteurs locaux. Il décide alors de se renseigner sur les conséquences de cette fermeture pour ces petits producteurs.
A l'occasion de ses recherches, il visite un Musée du riz o certaines...
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Set over a 24-hour period, meet poisonous tree frogs, see-through glass frogs, and frogs that can freeze their own blood in this kids' nonfiction book about the coolest amphibians in the world.
Journey into the rainforest to follow the lives of these nocturnal animals as they dance, hunt, and fight their way through their day. Frog scientist and conservationist Dr. Itzue W. Caviedes-Solis tells the story of the world's most amazing frogs and toads...
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A charming domestic comedy for readers of 8+, with a dash of magic, and the occasional moment of mayhem! These are the continued memoirs Holly Hopkinson, aged ten, except without any of the rubbish adults usually put in, thank you very much.
Earlier this year, me and the rest of my family had to move to the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE after my dad lost his job. Now my mum has just lost HER job as well, and I must once again save my family from FINANCIAL RUIN...
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A study of religion through the lens of Peter Shaffer's play Equus.
In Unbridled, William Robert uses Equus, Peter Shaffer's enigmatic play about a boy passionately devoted to horses, to think differently about religion. For several years, Robert has used Equus to introduce students to the study of religion, provoking them to conceive of religion in unfamiliar, even uncomfortable ways. In Unbridled, he is inviting readers to do the same.
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Hauteville
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2023
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Je voudrais faire quelque chose d'extraordinaire...
Un acte héroïque ou hors du commun qui ne sera jamais oublié après ma mort. Je ne sais pas quoi, mais je saisirai l'occasion au vol, et je vous étonnerai tous, un de ces quatre. Sinon, il ne me restera plus qu' à écrire pour devenir célèbre. Au fond, c'est cela, mon rêve préféré.
Replongez dans l'histoire des quatre soeurs les plus célèbres de la littérature américaine avec
69) The Best of Sherlock Holmes - Volume II - The Hound of the Baskervilles - The Memoirs of Sherlock
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Presented here are the third, fourth and fifth books of the Sherlock Holmes canon: the novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and short story collections "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Return of Sherlock Holmes," all written by Holmes' legendary creator, the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Collected here are some of the most beloved and revered of Doyle's Holmes stories. This volume includes the classic tale of the deadly and mysterious "hound"...
70) Time Will Tell
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Romance and adventure...and a trip to where an American tradition began...Libby Edwards, a gifted horsewoman, unwittingly wishes herself back in time to Louisville, Kentucky just before Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby become a reality. During Libby's journey in the past, she stumbles upon her destiny. Unfortunately, he's in the wrong century. In 1874, there's no electricity, no internet, no modern medicine, no antibiotics-no Starbucks! And...
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« Déjà, je me suis mis au monde tout seul. Ils étaient trois ou quatre à assister à l'événement, et ils m'ont toujours accordé une chose : c'est moi qui ai dû me taper le plus dur, vu que ma mère était, disons, hors du coup. »
Né à même le sol d'un mobil-home au fin fond des Appalaches d'une jeune toxicomane et d'un père trop...
Né à même le sol d'un mobil-home au fin fond des Appalaches d'une jeune toxicomane et d'un père trop...
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In the library of books we call The Bible, some things are strange.
Did a donkey really speak?
Did the sun really stand still at the command of a warrior-leader?
Did the heat of a furnace really not touch three men thrown into it?
Did a fish really swallow a man?
Did a professional soldier really come to know Jesus as the Son of God?
Did Jesus really walk through walls after his resurrection?
Did Jesus really stand to see the first Christian...
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A Cold War biography based on Friedrich Nietzsche's fable of self-realisation - his story of the self.
A TRANSCENDENT CAREER
It is the journey to enlightenment of a thinking man's spirit. He wants passionately to end the Cold War, in which arsenals of ICBMs threaten and civilians are shot escaping border barbed wire.
Self is a self-determined man whose spirit parallels a fable by philosopher Nietzsche in his book Thus Spake Zarathustra, about...
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A case for sex education that puts it in historical and philosophical context.
In the United States, sex education is more than just an uncomfortable rite of passage: it's a political hobby horse that is increasingly out of touch with young people's needs. In Touchy Subject, philosopher Lauren Bialystok and historian Lisa M. F. Andersen unpack debates over sex education, explaining why it's worth fighting for, what points of consensus we can build...
75) The Race to the Future: 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century
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The racers battle over steep inclines, through narrow mountain passages, and across the arid Gobi Desert. Competitors endure torrential rain and choking dust. There are barely any roads, and petrol is almost impossible to find.
More than its many adventures, the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge took place on the precipice of a new world. As the twentieth century dawned, imperial regimes in China and Russia were crumbling, paving the way for the rise...
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Through a simple conversation between a boy and a tree, country-music star Granger Smith shares an incredibly powerful and deeply moving story filled with life lessons on loss, grief, and the strength gained in finding the light and the will to move forward with joy and purpose.
In this wonder-filled and inspiring story of surprising loss but found strength, a boy encounters a red oak who shares forest wisdom about the rich soil and the nourishing...
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Kate has always been a city girl. The city is all she knows, and she's fine with that until an ex-boyfriend knocks on her door and destroys all her carefully made plans. Now, she has no choice but to run and get as far away from the city as possible. Head west. Move fast. She doesn't stop until she finds herself in the mountains of Wyoming. Answering an ad looking for help on a ranch should have been a silly idea, but Kate's never been afraid of hard...
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Every bride is nervous on her wedding night…isn't she?Elizabeth and Darcy are married at last! But the young bride can't help but wonder what, exactly, is in store for her in the marriage bed.According to her mother and Jane, not anything good. The more experienced women order Lizzy to close her eyes, count to 100 (or 50, in Bingley's case) and it will be over.Mr. Darcy is horrified when he discovers this advice. He vows to teach Elizabeth a new...
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Margarito Montoya is a musician, farmer, and above all else, a teller of stories. His world is populated with the stuff of history and legend; the unexplained, the magical, the musical, the exceptional, and cultural tradition. His friend Ricardo is a willing listener and participant. After all, what is the value of a story if it is not shared?
When Ricardo doesn't know the answers hidden in a dream that seems to be more than a dream, Margarito knows...
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They thought he was a runaway Indian or a criminal, but it was the only chance he had. If he succeeded, the world was his; if not, no one would ever look for his body.
Talon had one round of ammunition, two good horses, and little else. He was nineteen years old and life as he knew it had come to a close. A thousand miles away lay the only thing that looked like a future to him.
If he survived the trip, the land and cabin he had inherited were famous...
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