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Hotel Strange volume 4
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Mr. Snarf has been a bad ghost. He hasn't scared people. In fact, he's even made friends! Now some grumpy ghosts are taking him away from Hotel Strange. Can the hotel's other residents rescue him?
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Rugrats volume 11
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The Rugrats get confused when they see fog outside for the first time. They are convinced that the house is up in the clouds and try to stop anyone from leaving the house. / When Stu and Drew take the Rugrats fishing. Angelica is heartbroken when she sees her new Cynthia doll has been eaten by a marlin. The Rugrats inadvertently help the adults catch that very fish and get Cynthia back.
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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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"Images in the Clouds" takes place over generation and in the minds of its characters. It is a story of the search for "freedom of mind," which over generations people have forgotten and societies have suppressed. It explores how the social/political technologies, (Religion, flags, country's…), which past eras constructed take control of the minds of "individuals" in our populations. The concepts of countries, of religion… are so ingrained in...
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Mia volume 7
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To help the frog babies go to sleep, Mia and Touki put on a play of the Three Little Pigs. Mia tricks Touki into believing she can read the future in the clouds. Touki actually believes her and starts reading the clouds himself.
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Walking in the Clouds is a true story about events experienced by an American writer who lived and worked in Colombia in the 1980s, a painful period of political upheaval, violent cocaine wars, and leftist guerrilla uprisings.
As a freelancer, Michael Kastre's livelihood depended on finding relevant stories; on a personal level, he integrated himself deeply into his new environment. Becoming a local meant that he was no longer an outsider looking...
67) A voyage in the clouds: the (mostly) true story of the first international flight by balloon in 1785
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"A picture book inspired by the true story of how the first international flight was an Englishman and a French man who rode in a balloon across the English Channel"--
Dr. John Jeffries and his pilot, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, each want to be the first man to fly from one country to another, across the English Channel. There's only one problem: they can't stand each other! Inspired by the true story of the first international flight.
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Nearly 10 years after its first publication, Aurum are re-issuing this classic running book which has defined a genre. It includes an introduction from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane and an epilogue from Richard Askwith.
The concept of fell-running is simple: it's a sport that involves running over mountains—sometimes one, sometimes many. It's also immensely demanding. While running uphill is a stamina-sapping slog, running pell-mell down...
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Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom.
Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Yazidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Yazidi ethnicity, a much-persecuted minority culture of Iraq. Badeeah's story takes her to Syria where she...
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Mister C is just two weeks away from turning the big six and has nearly finished his kindy year at the big school on the hill. This fourth book in the Mister C series, follows Mister C and his family who encounter some deep ideas talked about in the new class Mister C attended at school, of which has greatly interested him. Mister C comes home with many questions relating to the class and together with his family, are able to chat about these new...
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Head in the Clouds is the debut poetry collection by Doncaster-based writer and humorist John Fedorenko. A fun, quirky compendium of thoughts and musings on various topics, ranging from the frustration felt by having a low phone battery to the utter delight of experiencing gut-busting laughter.
John shares childhood memories of his bizarrely behaved first pet and of growing up with an ancient TV. He reveals his unlikely idea for a remarkable invention...
72) Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground: A Survival Guide for Creatives, Visionaries, and Dreamers
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Co-founder of the Outcry Worship Tour, Ryan Romeo, empowers you to live well in the present as you dream well about the future in this practical guide to doing the impossible.
When it comes to pursuing our dreams, Ryan Romeo is convinced of two things. First, God knows where you come from. He knows about your past. He knows about the seemingly impossible situation you may find yourself in. And yet, he is even more committed to seeing your dream come...
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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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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX volume 7
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Furious that he's no longer the richest kid in school, Chazz challenges billionaire Adrian Gecko to a duel in the sky!
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX volume 8
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With his powerful deck of cloud monsters, Adrian Gecko takes Chazz by storm!
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This is the story of how an uneducated Oxford pastry cook became the first Englishman to fly, in a self-built balloon powered by primitive, and potentially lethal, hydrogen. Despite taking off in force 8 gales, crashing into hills and plopping into the Irish Sea, James Sadler became a rare pioneering aeronaut to survive such perilous ascents. Good luck was not hereditary; his son's balloon fatally collided with a chimney. Sadler advanced the scientific...
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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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One Piece volume 49
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Nami's quick thinking gets Luffy closer to god, and the Straw Hat captain launches himself into the center of a sinister storm! Can he find a way to destroy Eneru's looming cloud of death?
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HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT,
'THERE MUST BE MORE THAN THIS'?
THEN YOU'RE HOLDING THE RIGHT BOOK!
It's time to rise and be who God has called you to be. Your weekdays will be, filled with easy-to-read Bible studies that will unlock your identity in Christ. And, on your weekends, enjoy wonderful testimonies of God's goodness that will fuel your faith!
This 40-day guide will show you:
WHO you are,
Whose you are, and
WHERE you are, seated.
And, God raised us...
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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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