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81) Turtles
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What's your favorite animal? In My Favorite Animal: Turtles, students will learn amazing facts about turtles. Each My Favorite Animal book features interesting non-fiction at a 2nd-grade reading level paired with questions throughout the text to check the reader's comprehension.
82) Seals
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What's your favorite animal? In My Favorite Animal: Seals, students will learn amazing facts about seals. Each My Favorite Animal book features interesting non-fiction at a 2nd-grade reading level paired with questions throughout the text to check the reader's comprehension. Sample Text: Seals are carnivores. They hunt fish but they will also eat squid, octopus, and crustaceans like shrimp and lobster. Leopard seals will eat penguins and sometimes...
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La disneylización de las relaciones, el fanatismo religioso, el nacionalismo y otras ideas de relevancia multitudinaria han sido los detonantes que dieron origen a esta obra. Su fin, además de entretener, es hacer pensar a los lectores sobre estas costumbres arraigadas en la sociedad que, según el autor estima, son nocivas para las personas.
Para no caer en estas ideas que atrasan la evolución social, es necesario pensar fuera de la norma, rebelarse...
84) Wolverines
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What's your favorite animal? In My Favorite Animal: Wolverines, students will learn amazing facts about wolverines. Each My Favorite Animal book features interesting non-fiction at a 2nd-grade reading level paired with questions throughout the text to check the reader's comprehension. Sample Text: Like skunks, wolverines have a strong-smelling fluid called "musk" that sprays from their musk glands to warn others to stay away. They sometimes spray...
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Desde los horrores que oculta el mar hasta los oscuros secretos incas.
Dentro del fuelle de un bandoneón hasta la mente retorcida de un poeta.
En el inconsciente de los sueños y en el consciente de la locura.
Incluso dentro de las cloacas de Córdoba y en las entrañas metálicas de la tierra.
La marca del triángulo despierta los secretos que yacen en lo profundo.
Once cuentos que tejen una red de horrores en diversas épocas y lugares de nuestro...
86) Snakes
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What is your favorite pet? My favorite pets are snakes. Would you like to learn about them? In My Favorite Pet: Snakes, students will learn about having a snake for a pet. Each My Favorite Pet book includes information on where pets live, how they play, and what they eat. Sample Text: Snakes shed their skin. When the snake becomes too big for its skin, it slides out of it. Most snakes eat insects, rats, and mice. They almost never drink water.
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¿Y si la salvación se tratara de muchas más aristas, como una piedra preciosa con muchos ángulos?
¿Y si en realidad el desafío es llenar nuestra caja de herramientas?
Pensemos en una caja de herramientas: martillo, serrucho, destornillador, llave, pinzas, destornillador Philips, cosas muy útiles. Es bueno tener una caja llena de varias herramientas para estar listo por cualquier situación. Imaginamos otra caja de herramientas, pero esa caja...
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La Iglesia Adventista surgió como un movimiento escatológico, con un énfasis claro en la Segunda Venida. Sin embargo, a más de ciento cincuenta años de haber proclamado la inminente venida de Jesús, este evento todavía no se ha concretado. Esta "espera" ha suscitado varios interrogantes entre los adventistas: ¿Hay una "demora"? ¿Podemos adelantar la Segunda Venida? Para hacer frente a estas preguntas, se han dado básicamente dos respuestas....
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Durante décadas, la versión Reina-Valera de 1960 fue la favorita de millares de cristianos hispanohablantes. Aprendimos a respetarla y amarla, y hasta memorizamos porciones de ella. Sin embargo, en las últimas décadas el panorama comenzó a cambiar. Apareció todo un espectro de nuevas versiones que, si bien ofrecían un lenguaje fresco y actual, se apartaban en varios aspectos de la Reina-Valera de 1960. Esta obra ilustra el proceso de formación...
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Que nadie te ausente relata una historia intrigante que narra múltiples situaciones desde la perspectiva de los cambios emocionales y psicológicos de quien reviste el papel protagonista. Quizás es la historia de la pervivencia del sufrimiento, de quien ha experimentado un abandono, o es la ausencia persistente de un ser querido con el que añora reencontrarse, o tal vez es el encuentro recurrente de quienes se aman o de quienes aún no se han conocido...
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In 1995, the Internet's popular "Alien Anatomy Video" caught the attention of civil society, a civil society that specializes in collecting "strange" events, during which his friend Joe told me that the man who hid Zahidorji's name had sold him a flying saucer, and invited me to look for the wrecked alien spacecraft.
92) Victim Mentality
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"If you love psychological thrillers, you must buy this book!" – Amazon US Top Reviewer
A criminal genius. A comedian on the edge. A secret that should have stayed buried…
Nick's life is about to change, and not for the better.
After his comedy and acting agent lands him a film role, Nick meets with a prisoner to help get into character.
Enter Gideon Matthias, who explodes into Nick's life like a nuclear bomb.
Gideon is a criminal genius...
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Three enigmatic words uttered by a dying elderly man, in Berkeley, California, lead to the search for a mysterious old play. In the course of events, a mugger snatches the small camera with which the text was photographed (most probably in a murky archive in England). Trem, the main character of the book, manages to retrieve the camera and, thanks to his girlfriend, is poised to create a sensation in the literary world with his bombshell discovery...
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Discover Reading Level 3 Nonfiction Reader. Learn all about turtles and tortoises in this nonfiction reader. Students will develop vocabulary and understanding of the life cycle of turtles and tortoises and learn the difference between the two types of animals. Sample Text: Tortoises use their claws to dig burrows that can be up to 30 feet long. Since they are cold-blooded and take on the temperature of their environment, they are hot when it's hot...
95) La vida en obras
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La vida en obras desgrana catorce relatos escritos desde las entrañas con una cadencia que nunca deja de crecer. Como sus protagonistas: adolescentes y jóvenes cuyos privilegios son en realidad un obstáculo para ese crecimiento. El miedo y la capacidad de superarlo, nuestra identidad y nuestras decisiones. ¿Cómo afrontar la melancolía del cambio? ¿Cómo abrazamos nuestros deseos? ¿Cuál es el precio a pagar para hacerse un hombre o una mujer?
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Thrust into indentured servitude as a child, Shona Slayter is counting the days until her twenty-first birthday, when she gains her precious freedom. Unfortunately, the new laird of the estate has other plans-and he's determined to keep her bound to him. The only way for Shona to be free of her bonds is to marry the man who holds the key. But, seducing a handsome laird is not what she was trained for, and the more she tries to win his heart, the more...
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Discover Reading Early Reader Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way! Learn all about how to prepare for Christmas from buying and decorating a tree, decorating the house and even whispering your wishes into Santa's ear. In this level three reader from author Marcos, Victoria you will learn about some Christmas traditions that Americans have enjoyed for years. Each page features 2-3 sentences and a full-color photo. Kids can improve their...
100) The Last Scenario
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I'm just a high school biology teacher in southern California. I wrote a paper on bio-toxins in college. Nine months ago the government asked me to be the 'ordinary citizen' on a seven-member panel. For three days we brainstormed potential homegrown terrorist scenarios. That was all. I thought. "We're the only two left," John Ryder said, no emotion in his voice. "The others have been assassinated. If you want to live, you'll have to come with me."...