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1) Two degrees
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"Fire. Ice. Flood. Three climate disasters. Four kids fighting for their lives. Akira is riding her horse in the California woods when a wildfire sparks--and grows scarily fast. How can she make it to safety when there are flames everywhere? Owen and his best friend, George, are used to seeing polar bears on the snowy Canadian tundra. But when one bear gets way too close for comfort, do the boys have any chance of surviving? Natalie hunkers down at...
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What happens to an oil industry lobbyist when climate change gets personal?
In a world where the devastating effects of climate change can seem inconsequential to the lives of the wealthy, Daniel Lazaro thrives as a powerful Washington lobbyist for the fossil fuel industry. With a dream life on the Guadalupe River, a loving wife and a young daughter, Daniel is blind to the repercussions of his work. But when a flash flood in the Texas Hill Country...
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Speculative fiction writer David Fingerman is back with a series of short stories guaranteed to curl your toes and raise your hair. Fans of the "Twilight Zone" series will love Fingerman's creepy imagination. If you're looking for some quick thrills, let these stories take you on a ride that will bring you two degrees closer to Hell.
PRAISE FOR TWO DEGREES CLOSER TO HELL
"If you like stories that make you grimace and shudder, David Fingerman...
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Two graduate students have the responsibility of rennovating a forty-year-old CCC bunkhouse on top of Mt. Lemmon in the Catalina Mts. to become a guest lodge. Ayasha is an enthusiastic business major. Kennith is an introverted astronomer assigned to improve his social skills. Friction errupts from Day One.
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In accessible journalistic prose, author Lynas distills what environmental scientists predict about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years, degree by degree. At 1 degree Celsius, most coral reefs and many mountain glaciers will be lost. A 3-degree rise would spell the collapse of the Amazon rainforest, disappearance of Greenland's ice sheet, and the creation of deserts across the Midwestern United States and southern Africa....
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"When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny's been avoiding since the day she left for college -- her northern Michigan hometown. Sonny grudgingly returns to the long, cold, snowy winters of her childhood ......
7) Heroes
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"December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain...
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One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.
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Sometimes home is best understood from the other side of the world. It's Chicago in 2012, and Matthew has three jobs, two degrees, and one relentless itch to return home to Ohio. Rather than drive 317 miles east to Columbus, he and his wife travel 6600 miles west to teach English in South Korea. Follow Matthew as he navigates living, working and traveling in the Land of the Morning Calm. Whether he's plucking gray hairs for a co-teacher, visiting...
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Have you ever mislaid or dropped something, and then stooped down, to realize it has "Vanished into thin air?" In search of his lost coin, Finn journeys two degrees sideways in time and space, to a place called, Thin Air, of The In-Between World. Finn is faced with challenges and obstacles, all hexed with magical spells cast by Brolin, a sorcerer of the dark arts. Each challenge, from the River Bed of Bamboo, to Rocky Fortunes, to the Waterfall of...
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Inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging are hot topics in 2020, especially in media and Hollywood. Written by a South Asian woman with three Masters degrees, two degrees focusing on anti-oppression and anti-racism issues and the third a MBA, this short yet informative e-book written explores why inclusion is important for the arts, media, entertainment, and publishing areas. Any writer in the world will benefit from the analysis that centers around...
12) EMA
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Year 2084. The Earth has warmed by more than two degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial times. Governments have tried, in vain, to take measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and our impact on the environment.Damien Minsky, a genius inventor, has created EMA: an artificial intelligence designed to monitor and control the ecological consequences of our consumer society. Thanks to its integrated economic system, "the cryptonomy," it ensures...
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We spend a great deal of time in life wondering what is going on in various situations. Sometimes we are misled by people who have an agenda, other times by people who have the wrong impression, and other times by situations involving subtle realities that intertwine in confusing ways. Having gotten two degrees in engineering and applied them in industry as an analyst, the author long ago came to regard the provable truth to be something breathtakingly...
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Jim Rearden is Alaska's most popular outdoors journalist. He holds two degrees in wildlife management and was Professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 1950-54. As a member of the Alaska Board of Game 75-82, he helped develop the Tanana Flats wolf control program. He details with historical accuracy the controversy that erupted when the 1975 program was announced. Counterpointing the modern controversy, Rearden includes...
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Clifford Ubani is a man who came from humble beginnings in Nigeria and has had to fight every inch of the way towards his own personal slice of the American dream. Along the way he has encountered serious injustices and rampant discrimination, has overcome difficulties with the law and has had his fair share of ups and downs.
But in the end, he has emerged from the tribulations he faced, stronger and with more faith than ever before, to forge a flourishing...
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First published in 1941, this is the Fifth Edition of Loraine Boettner's 1932 publication The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination and is widely considered to be one of the 20th-century's most reasoned explanations of the sovereignty of God and the Reformed interpretation of salvation.
17) I Made It
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Have you ever asked yourself, why me? I asked myself that same question millions of times. I stopped asking that question because we will never get the answers. I decided to survive rape, physical abuse, verbal abuse, abandonment, rejection, unworthiness, and my childhood being taken away from me. I decided I am not going to be another statistic to society by fighting the big giant! In spite of all the turmoil I had to endure, I fought even harder...
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#1 On January 23, 1974, it was a Wednesday under the astrological sign of Aquarius. Richard Nixon was president, and he enhanced oil production in the United States by giving tax breaks to American oil companies. The national headlines were full of news about Watergate, the energy crisis, and space exploration.
#2 On January 23, 1974, in St. Augustine, Florida, the barometric...
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#1 The Lamsons' house was located on Stanford University's prestigious Faculty Row in Palo Alto. The city had attracted many wealthy and educated people since the 1920s.
#2 Allene Thorpe Lamson was a graduate student at Stanford University. She had been married just a few years when she met David Lamson, the charismatic editor in chief for a popular humor magazine, the...
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Book Preview: #1 Monica Padman, who left college with two degrees in hand, moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actor and comedian. She eventually became a trusted employee of actress Kristen Bell, and when Bell and her husband, actor Dax Shepard, asked her to work for them full-time, she was understandably reluctant.
#2 There are three different categories of contributors...
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