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There's a great deal of commotion in the castle above the clouds: King Catnap has lost his crown! The little wizard Wobbletooth wants to help, and so tries to cast a spell to get King Catnap's crown back for him. But instead, he conjures up a chamber pot on the king's head! The little wizard's spells usually go wrong, because his first wobbly tooth hasn't fallen out yet. And so the little wizard and his best friend Princess Pustilla set off in search...
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A suspenseful whodunit, where not all the suspects are human.
Recently graduated Ruger-Phillips employee, Dr. Sam "Doc" Price, is looking forward to his new project-evaluating training for a team. But it's a team like no other because only one of the team members is human. The other is one of the most intelligent and lethal machines ever built by man - the Joint Aerial Combat Capability (JACC). Loaded with the latest in detection and threat assessment...
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Those who dream do so in defiance of a practical world. In beautifully painted verse, author and poet Erin Walker describes the longing and determination of those with vision. These encouraging, and sometimes harrowing, poems speak to the soul of every dreamer.
The pain of dreams delayed or lost. The hope that ambitions will soon be reached. The heart-wrenching tug-of-war between a distracting imagination and the suffocating grind that holds us...
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Truth is stranger than fiction in this epic fantasy drama that will leave you hanging on the edge of your seat.
Windy Breeze is your ordinary Fairy. She has brown skin and blue hair and loves to spend time in the Junkyard with her pet Dragon, Puff-Puff. She enjoys crafting unique inventions and testing her creations on her father, Edward.
Unexpectedly, Windy is whisked away from her Junkyard haven by Matriarch Xenobia to be presented to Prince Nigel...
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"Daddy, where does lightning come from?"
An epic adventure that takes place during a time period when Dragons were alive and freely roamed the land. The people during this time were getting eaten by a vicious species of Dragons. The ruling King finally orders the total annihilation of all living dragons. A powerful wizard, named Merlinius, who is a friend to the king, does not agree with the King's order, for Merlinius knows that all Dragons are not...
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CAN ANNA OUTRUN HER PAST?
Reinventing herself as a nurse in the tropical frontier of Australia, healing her soldier-lover, raising her unruly daughter - these are just a few of the challenges Anna Sinclair, a young suffragette, faces while on the run from the law back in Scotland.
As she struggles to establish her own hospital, her past draws closer and risks exposure of her shameful secret, along with the loss of everything she holds dearest.
Will...
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"Dick Hamilton's Airship; Or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds" by Howard Roger Garis. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers...
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Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world.
In Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds, Andrea Nye raises a question: In a time of climate change and environmental crisis, where should we look for inspiration? Is it to Alexander von Humboldt, the "inventor of nature"...
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In Washing Our Hands in the Clouds, Bo Petersen masterfully crafts a reflection on the Civil War, emancipation, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement in the personal story of how it affected one man's life in a specific South Carolina locale. Petersen's accomplishment is that, in studying the Pee Dee region of Dillon and Marion Counties, he illuminates those issues throughout the Deep South. Through conversations with Joe Williams, his family, and...
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Get as close as you'll get to a World War II–era P-51 Mustang without flying one yourself with this spellbinding collection of tales from the men who actually flew the planes into war.The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang first started appearing in real numbers in 1943, at the climax of the Allied campaign in World War II. Able to fly long ranges, it was the perfect escort, keeping bombers protected all the way from Allied bases in Europe, the...
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Leaving a promising career in academic philosophy to embark on a career in film, American director Terrence Malick has created cinematic works of art that are also deeply philosophical. His contribution to philosophy through a half century of filmmaking has become the focus of increasing scholarly attention. Inviting the reader along a journey of reflections at the intersection of film, art, and philosophy, Life Above the Clouds brings together an...
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"The Rover Boys in the Air; Or, From College Campus to the Clouds" by Edward Stratemeyer. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers...
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Wearing the remnants of a WWI uniform and pulling a water-cooled 30-caliber machine-gun, Spencer Wurst marched through his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1940 as a member of the National Guard. He was 15 years old. Five years later he was a hardened platoon sergeant leading his troopers through the frozen killing fields of "Death Valley" in Germany's Heurtgen Forest. A squad leader in Company F, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne, for...
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Diary of an ice princess volume 1
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Lina, a Windtamer who controls the wind and lives in a palace in the clouds, wants to go to a regular, non-magical school with her best friend Claudia, but first her grandfather must teach her to control her powers.
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Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 3
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IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau, facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.
19) Jampires
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When Sam catches the Jampires who have been sucking his jelly doughnuts dry, they invite him to fly with them to their faraway land that is filled with desserts.
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Waterfront Cities of the World volume 2
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Feet in the water, head in the clouds. A little paradise on earth is blossoming here, slowly eclipsing the pain of recent history.
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