John Moore
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When a seemingly crazy, poorly dressed soothsayer tells you not to let a magical talisman fall into the wrong hands, take him or her seriously. DO NOT laugh it off and leave said talisman simply lying around on a side table; you might as well just end the world yourself.
-The Handbook of Practical Heroics, p. 134
The kingdom of Deserae is in the most direly perilous of dire perils. The realm's precious magical talisman-Ancient Artifact Model Seven-is...
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McGraw-Hill Education
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2010
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English
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A Perfect Plan for the Perfect Score We want you to succeed on your AP
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When he accidentally defeats the dragon in a neighboring kingdom, Sir Terry, a middle-class knight, wins the hand of Princess "Crazy Jane," who talks to dead animals, but instead fights for the love of the beautiful Princess Gloria to whom he is wrongly devoted
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There's always trouble in Illyria: dragons to slay, villains to fight, and one beautiful princess after another demanding to be rescued from a fate worse than death. It's a full-time job for Charming, noble prince and professional hero. In fact, young Charming thinks he's just about ready for a leave of absence.
But you're always on call in the Slay and Rescue business, and soon Charming is working overtime when he becomes embroiled in a plot involving...
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When he gave up smoking in the 'fifties, John Moore was able to buy a camera with the money he saved. This book, with its 56 monochrome photographs of the Yorkshire dales and dales life, is the result! The book is more than a colorful survey of the dales it is a potted history, for many anecdotes, picaresque characters and old customs are captured here through the lens of the camera and the sensitive mind of the author. The reader will be taken back...
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We set our scene in Damask: A kingdom that couldn't get ransacked if it tried…
But now that the king is dead, that's exactly what his brothers have in mind. All they need is a bad king to take his place. The population will rebel, the neighboring kingdom will be "invited" to restore order, and they'll be in business…
Bad Prince Charlie will do. His reputation for "badness" precedes him, and everyone knows he wouldn't spit on Damask to save it...
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And they lived happily ever after…
Caroline's plan to live happily ever after has hit a snag. She's spent months mapping the swamp, building tadpole nets, and kissing every wriggling frog she could get her hands on, and one has finally turned into a prince. Unfortunately, Prince Hal is not, as promised in the fairy tales, particularly handsome. In fact, he's kind of dorky-looking.
Hal himself isn't very eager to marry a girl so obsessed with appearances,...
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A matter-of-fact guide to mastering the basics of chemistry. We're all natural born chemists. Every time we cook, clean, take a shower, drive a car, use a solvent (such as nail polish remover), or perform any of the countless everyday activities that involve complex chemical reactions we're doing chemistry! So why do so many of us desperately resist learning chemistry when we're young?
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Are you baffled by biochemistry? You’re not the first, and you won’t be the last. Here’s the good news — you don’t have to stay baffled! Biochemistry For Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to get a handle on biochemistry, apply the science, raise your grades, and prepare yourself to ace any standardized test.
This friendly, unintimidating guide presents an overview of the material covered in a typical college-level
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Dreamspinner Press
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2016
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English
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Jackson "Jacko" Smith is dyslexic, but like many people affected by the learning disability, he is highly intelligent. His best friend Sammy Collins helps him get through school and unlocks his potential. Jacko progresses through the ranks of local government until Mother Nature intervenes and the straight boy and the gay boy become a couple. As Jacko and Sammy start a family and challenge social mores, Jacko enters politics, horrified at the direction...
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You know that moment when you feel as though a lightning bolt has hit you because you finally get something? That's how this book will make you react. (We hope!) Each chapter makes sure that what you really need to know is clear right off the bat and sees to it that you build on this knowledge. Where other books ask you to memorize stuff, we're going to show you the must-know ideas that will guide you toward success in chemistry. You will start each...
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This is a book about growing up in church, having to live with the church religiosity. Then becoming a teenager, not being able to live a normal teenage life. Due to the church not GOD believing a person should live a certain way. The churches I grew up in, were more about outer appearance and not the inner person. Then to grow up in this one church and meeting a girl. I believe I had no chance with at all. It turns out, I did have a chance. So we...
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Apart from his drug addiction, his homophobic father, and his denial of his sexuality, Ben O'Connor lives a charmed life. He has a wonderful son, a lucrative job as a Realtor, and a supportive mother and siblings. Then his boss promotes someone else over him and his life disintegrates. In his anger, he breaks the eleventh commandment-thou shalt not get caught.
Kicking his ice habit while incarcerated, Ben realizes he has lost his ability to enjoy...
19) A Gentle Man
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As a young gay man growing up in southwest Victoria, Nick Williams leads a charmed life. Life on the family farm gives him a sense of purpose. His supportive parents are loving and affectionate. And his best friend Aaron is always around to help him get out of trouble. But when his father dies a few days before Nick's eighteenth birthday, it changes the course of Nick's life.
From rural Australia to India, Nick builds a life as a successful businessman...
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This is the story (told in nearly two hundred short recollections) of a surgeon from a family of surgeons, raised in the Arkansas oil country of the Jim Crow South. A churchgoer from his childhood, he came to a saving knowledge of Christ (along with his wife Cathy) only in the late 1970s. And from that turning point, they proved themselves to be choice servants of the Lord in countless ways-in John's case, as a deacon, a surgeon in the Amazon region,...