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202) Melting point
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The Endangereds--Nukilik, a polar bear, Wan, a pangolin, Murdock, a narwhal, and Arief, an orangutan--put all their special skills into action when they hear of one of the last of nearly-extinct sloths in trouble.
203) Level Up
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Having lost the Trial, Hagen didn't just lose his interface and his memory of it, but also everything he'd achieved. His UFC career was ruined before it even began. Stripped of all his skills and abilities, Mike is once again a useless weakling. The last straw is the loss of all the money that he'd bet on his own victory.
But you do remember, don't you, that Phil Panfilov promised to take care of his old comrade from Pibellau?
What can Mike achieve...
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Most people don't understand what it takes to get ahead. They don't understand what leadership means or how their organizations make leadership decisions. As a result, they feel lost. A sense of frustration creeps into their careers, communities and personal ambitions. This new book from two of the top names in leadership and succession planning will help those who struggle with understanding "leadership." Through Cohn courage, and vision. While many...
205) Back to before
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What would you do if you had the opportunity to change your life? Not just where you live or who you hang out with, but your past, present, and future? Sounds like it might be pretty cool, right? Well, that's what Jake thought. He thought it might be easier if the Animorphs had never existed. If they'd never met Elfangor. If they all had the chance to be "normal" kids.
Jake gets his wish.
But things aren't quite as simple as they seem. Just because...
206) Elfangor's secret
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Visser Four has found the Time Matrix, the machine Elfangor had hidden, and he plans to use it to become Visser One.
207) Storm the Earth
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Let them burn. Maren’s world was shattered when her girlfriend, Kaia, was abducted by the Aurati. After a daring rescue, they’ve finally been reunited, but Maren's life is still in pieces: Kaia seems more like a stranger than the lover Maren knew back home; Naava, the mother of all dragons, has retreated into seclusion to recover from her wounds, leaving Maren at a loss on how to set the rest of the dragons free; and worst of all, her friend Sev...
208) The beginning
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No one ever thought it would come to this. Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, Marco, and Ax know that even if they could have warned people in the beginning, no one would have believed their story. A story about an invasion of parasitic aliens. So for all this time, Jake and the other Animorphs have secretly fought a desperate battle. Secretly held the Yeerks at bay.
But those days are over.
It's come down to the final battle between the Yeerks and...
209) The Andalite's Gift
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We never should have done it. But we needed a break. Some time off from the superhero stuff. A chance to act like normal kids. Well - as normal as four kids who can morph into animals, a boy trapped in a hawk's body, and a bright blue alien can be. Everything should have been cool.
Now Rachel is missing. And there's this... this thing that's after us. But it's not up to me to tell the whole story. Tobias, Cassie, Marco, and Ax were there, too....
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An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit, climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.
Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, defeatist, or unsure about climate change and seeking answers. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present-and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil...
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The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos. Readers will go deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force that resulted in an intensive 18-month operation that tracked Escobar.
212) The ODDlympics
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Odd gods volume 3
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It's Greeks versus Romans in a middle school sports competition! Oddonis isn't thrilled but when Zeus and Jupiter get involved, the stakes are raised: Winner gets Mount Olympus.
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"Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece The Color Purple--as well as the acclaimed 1985 film from Steven Spielberg, the Tony-winning Broadway musical, and the all-new film adaptation with this gorgeously designed exploration of the novel’s enduring legacy, featuring contributions from Alice Walker, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Colman Domingo, Fantasia Barrino, Danny Glover, and more. Since its publication in...
214) Restart
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Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
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Riverdale volume 5
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Archie, Betty, Jughead, Veronica, and the rest of the gang are getting ready for life after high school. At least, they're trying to. They begin receiving letters from someone calling themselves the Poison Pen. Letters about their deepest, darkest secrets, directing them to do exactly what their told: at first things like post an embarrassing video online. As the stakes get higher with each letter, the group may not have a future to protect. -- adapted...
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What happens when a room full of kids find themselves without a junior-church teacher? They choose one of their own crowd to take her place, of course! Twelve-year-old Kirby McCook, mentored by his grandfather, leads his rambunctious friends through the Bible in this creative and fun Bible storybook. Bible stories laced with middle-grade humor help teach kids that Jesus has been part of the story from the beginning and can be found throughout the...
217) Edge of Infinity
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Those were Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound. Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System. From the eerie transformations in Pat Cadigan's Hugo-award-winning "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" to...
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Jordan Kassalow shares his own inspiring story and a nuts-and-bolts plan to help readers who what to make a difference right now, no matter what their job, no matter what their circumstances, on their own terms, in their own time, in concert with their commitments and responsibilities. The desire to make a difference in the world, to leave the world a better place, and to enjoy life at the same time, is something we all share. But most of us struggle...
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"We could blame everything that happened on Marco. He was the one who heard about the downed submarine. He was the onewho thought we should check it out. And everyone knows that if Marco's up to a challenge, I'm definitely there.Everything was going fine. Until the explosion. An explosion that blew us millions of years back in time, to the age of dinosaurs.Now Tobias, Cassie, Marco, Ax, Jake and I are fighting for our lives with every step we take....
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Every Moment Holy, Volume III: The Work of the People is a book of over 100 new liturgies for daily life, drawing on a range of writers, artists, poets, songwriters, pastors, and illustrators (with Douglas Kaine McKelvey both writing and editing). With prayers by Malcolm Guite, Ellie Holcomb, Philip Yancey, Ruth Chou Simons, Sho Baraka, Andrew Peterson and more, this collection represents a community of believers engaged in the work of reminding all...