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#1 We had a puppy, and I was not attracted to the idea of raising one. But we did, and it was wonderful.
#2 I wanted to know what it was like to have a puppy, and I got one. It was wonderful.
#3 Following a puppy's point of view can help you understand their behavior better. The life course of animals from beginning to end is woven into human lives, but we typically...
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People love cute and cuddly puppies, but have you ever wondered why so many are abandoned, often within a day of purchase? The answer is because the new owner never realized just how much is actually involved in looking after a young puppy. The aim of this book is to give the prospective owner an honest idea of what is involved in rearing a young puppy into adulthood and to get an idea if the experience is for them.
3) The Golden Rules of Positive Puppy Training: Everything You Need to Know for Your Puppy's First Year
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Whether you've had a puppy before, it's been awhile, or you're totally new to having a furry friend, A Puppy's First Year will be your go-to guide that's fun to read, visually adorable, and full of must-have information. Providing easy step-by-step instructions on training methods and how to best care for a puppy, this is an enjoyable read with tons of helpful tips and charming drawings and photographs to prepare you and your new puppy for a wonderful...
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Pacy Lin books volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson is proving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make a difference in America and for Shirley...
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Fifteen-year-old Tessa tries to be happy when her crush, Charlie, falls for her younger sister, Lulu, and it becomes easier after she begins a secret relationship with Jasper, a social outcast who lives next door to Tessa's best friend.
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He was chasing a career-making story. But this disturbing mystery has already gone viral... Freelance journalist Nathan Troy is a global citizen looking for eye-opening news. Living in Beijing, he stumbles upon a ward full of patients afflicted with an unknown deadly disease. Facing closed doors and open hostility, he won't rest until he exposes the dark conspiracy.
But as he digs deeper for answers, mysterious figures try to scare him off the trail...
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"Do you know what it took for Socrates' enemies to make him stop pursuing the truth?"
"Hemlock."
The fiercely competitive Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code; its reputation has been unsullied for decades. But now, a long-dormant secret society called Prisom's Party seems to have reemerged, threatening the school's placid halls with vigilante justice, exposing students and teachers alike for even the most minor infraction.
Iris...
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Have you ever been considered the "black sheep" in your family, or in a group, just because your thoughts and ideals differ from those around you? Have you ever felt like the "other" because of your inability to accept or live according to the status quo? The label of "black sheep" is often met with judgment and negativity, but what if we redefined the role of the "black sheep" as one whose unique, stand-alone qualities inform success? Author Keith...
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A statistician attempts to make sense of a world gone mad in an apocalyptic sci-fi scenario from the Hugo Award–winning author of Starship Troopers. Potiphar Breen puts his trust in numbers to make sense of the world. An unassuming, middle-aged bachelor, he has been carefully noting a rise in odd behaviors all around him in order to determine some pattern or meaning in these bizarre recent events. Then one day, he comes upon a beautiful young woman...
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Could a dark agenda be woven into the architecture of China's most sacred ancient temple? An agenda that only Julian Mancer is seeing? Or is Julian off his meds again? If the structure were in fact a doomsday device awaiting an astronomical tripwire-could Julian stop it? Julian is determined to discover the answer, as soon as he concludes a far more pressing matter involving a sixteen-year-old girl with a MOST intriguing mutation.
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Tales from the Chinese zodiac volume 3
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This new edition is revised with a new bilingual translation in simplified Chinese.
Ralph the rat explores the world with the boy Bing. But when Bing's birthday party goes awry, can Ralph rescue him using traits that others frowned upon?
The third in the popular series introduces the twelve charismatic animals from the Chinese calendar. 2008 is the Year of the Rat.
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The Jacobite Uprising of 1745 is one of those parts of British history that we all think we know a little bit about. The romantic story of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" and his gallant Highlanders invading England, only to turn back at Derby and subsequently be defeated at Culloden is part of the cultural glue that holds 'Great Britain' together.
But what if things had turned out differently?
Could the Prince and his Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English...
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The inspirational true story of a family, told by Catie. Her son Bryant falls from a 180-foot cliff in the isolated back woods of the Gorge, forcing his younger brother, a friend, and a lost boy-scout troop to find and rescue him. Catie had not been content with her life and had been praying for change, but not like this. The stress of the accident changes her views about herself, family, God and her marriage. Catie is depleted by her career, distant...
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The year is 1960. Bill Pengallen, a young college student, has taken on a summer job working on a fire suppression crew for the U.S. Forest Service in the California mountain town of Truckee, where he meets and becomes friends with Mike Cameron, a pre-Med student. It is the third dries summer in the area's history, the forest is a tinderbox. An Interstate highway is being thrust through the area, fire danger threatens the livelihood of ranchers and...
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The legend of the Lunar New Year Race tells of how the first
twelve animals that finished would be honored in the zodiac. But one very important animal is missing...
What happened to the Cat?
Follow the clever Cat on a magical journey through the ancient land of Vietnam to finally win its rightful place among the chosen twelve.
Vietnamese summary:
Sự tích về Cuộc Đua Tết Nguyên Đán kể về lần đầu tiên
mười...
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Tales from the Chinese zodiac volume 10
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2015 is the Year of the Sheep, the tenth adventure in the popular annual series Tales from the Chinese Zodiac.
The lamb Sydney befriends the shepherd girl Zhi and other animals. But after a storm strikes, can Sydney show them how valuable a sheep's qualities can be? Empowering themes of self-discovery and cultural exchange, plus charismatic characters, have proven appeal with children, parents, and elementary educators
Oliver Chin has written fifteen...
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