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Join the Dragon Protector on her quest to find the rarest dragon in the world
With dragon numbers in rapid decline, time is running out to ensure the survival of the species. Curatoria Draconis, also known as the Dragon Protector, is on a mission to find the rarest dragon on Earth: the Chinese Celestial Dragon. Aboard the Dragon Ark, you'll travel all over the globe and see some of the most incredible dragons-care for Deep-Sea Dragons off the coast...
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Mountains have long inspired the wit and daring of the world's most fascinating explorers. In this definitive collection of mountain lore, Alan Weber exhibits forty-three essays by artists and adventurers to whom climbing was more a mission than a sport. Beginning with the fabled tale of Hannibal's Roman invasion-men, horses, and elephants in tow-through the hitherto impassable Alps, the accounts progress to recent descriptions of high-peaks mountain...
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'At 16,000 miles, it was the world's longest road: a road on which travelers faced being kidnapped and murdered by Colombian drug barons, buried under Peruvian avalanches, drowned by the Guatemalan rainy season, fleeced by eight-year-old Ecuadorian border touts, driven mad by blackflies in the Yukon, eaten by Alaskan grizzlies and, worst of all, limited to a glass of Chardonnay a day in California. The Pan-American Highway. It sounded brilliant. The...
12104) Honey Let's Go Boating!
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From inland waterways to the world-renown rugged coastline, rich in history, Honey, let's go BOATING! is the definitive book on Victorian boating destinations - The 101 destinations you must visit.
Chock full of history and information for skippers (boat ramps and re-fuelling docks) photographs, maps, and even coffee destinations and culinary experiences for the entire family, Darren ensures that every boating trip is a memory to be treasured.
12105) A Long Reign
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What if Queen Victoria lived to be 100? What if neither the North or the South won the Civil War and England had stepping in to rule the Americas?
The sun never sets on a brutal British Empire despite the efforts of the reformed Underground. Lavinia James, a young girl from the cornfields of Missouri, is chosen to help overthrow the tyrannical Kingdom, its feared Redcoat soldiers, and a madman that skins humans alive.
Will Lavinia be able to live...
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Carol Merchasin first visited San Miguel de Allende in 2005, fell in love with its language, people, and culture, and moved there full-time with her husband shortly thereafter. A lawyer by training, Merchasin is curious about how everything around her in Mexico works-the health care system, religious rituals, loaning money, small change at the market, narcotrafficantes, telenovelas, and the subtleties between the verbs ser and estar. An intrepid researcher,...
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In this book, we enjoy a triple feature: excellent writing, fascinating stories, and learning the rich first-hand experience of an American contract helicopter pilot. Sobotta provides a humorous autobiography of his time working and flying on government missions in India, and it documents his first year there when culture shock was at its strongest.
The bureaucratic process that pervades Indian society, shooting incidents, the trials of an ancient...
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The most detailed collection of craft beer breweries is now more comprehensive than ever! Since the first edition of Craft Beer Revolution was published, fifteen new BC breweries have opened and another eighteen are scheduled to open by the end of 2014. Joe Wiebe, the Thirsty Writer, revisits the established and explores the province's freshest new hoppy IPA's and strong stouts in this completely revised and updated guide. Microbrewing has exploded...
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For every fan of K-Pop music, Korean Wave dramas and Kimchi-or anyone intrigued by Korea and Korean culture-A Geek in Korea is a hip, new guide to the land of the Samsung smartphone and Gangnam Style. Author Dan Tudor first arrived in Korea on the eve of the 2002 World Cup when South Korea played Italy in the finals. What he saw inspired him to return and work in Korea. He served as The Economist magazine's Korea correspondent for three years, and...
12110) L'illusion
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Le temps est-il juste une... illusion ?
Ce soir-là, Lola, pétillante jeune femme de 28 ans, a rendez-vous dans une taverne avec un ami. Sur la route, elle est victime d'un accident de voiture. Heureusement, elle n'a rien de cassé et tout va bien. Enfin... c'est ce qu'elle croit.
À sa sortie de l'hpital, elle se découvre une étrange faculté : celle de pouvoir arrêter le temps. Son destin prend alors une tournure particulière. Un braquage...
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¿Estás pensando en hacer el Camino de Santiago y quieres inspiración? ¿Lo has hecho y quieres compartir lo que otras personas sintieron al hacerlo?
"El Camino cambió mi vida, cambió nuestra vida. Tanto es así que aún ahora, después de tanto tiempo, cinco años de haber llegado a Fisterra, diez años de haberlo empezado, recordamos casi todos los nombres de los pueblos que recorrimos, las anécdotas de lo que aconteció y también algunas...
12112) Journey Through the Rift
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Horace Bascom was born a hundred years too late. He simply did not fit in the modern world. A recluse, a billionaire, highly educated as a physician and a physicist, he accomplished the greatest scientific achievement of the 21st century-crossing the rift of time into an earlier century. Travelling to Ft. Worth, Texas, circa 1878, he meets a young woman suffering from advanced tuberculosis. This chance meeting changes his life. He races across the...
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This book is about Ukraine and the influence it had on European civilization starting from the times when it was the largest Kingdom of Medieval Europe known as Rus with capital in Kiev. It is also about Cossacks and the Father of American Navy Admiral John Paul Jones. It is about the nation defending and the nation creative. Fighters, planes, helicopters, rockets and much more. The names of the chapters will probably give much better insight into...
12114) Cursed Cogs
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Broken hearts and broken parts.
That's all anyone is left with after Ezra Huxley's time machine shatters reality in 1916, Boston. The mechanical abomination plagues the city with an hourly time warp signaled by the bells of the new Custom House Tower Clock. Isla Huxley's wedding ended in disaster after the Break, and now her husband is in a coma. She's spent the last three months in the Post Boston Infirmary, waiting for her rich uncle to fix her...
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This is a compact and convenient guide to learning the Kansai dialect of the Japanese language. Maido, maido and welcome to the Kansai region of western Japan. Whether visiting or living in this area, you will quickly notice the locals aren't speaking standard Japanese taught in textbooks and classrooms. The language on the streets is Kansai-ben: a dialect said to be earthier and more direct, but with its own polite language. With clear explanations...
12116) Christmas Market Innsbruck
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Europe has many wonderful old traditions, and one of them is the Christmas market.
The December market in Vienna is recorded since 1298, but Innsbruck was actually founded as a market in a field already in 1133 and it could be argued that the December market here would be even older.
The wonderful Tyrolian atmosphere makes this a must for anyone enjoying the Christmas markets.
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The Silk Road, a historical network of trade routes that connected the East and West, stands as a testament to the ingenuity, enterprise, and cultural exchange that defined ancient civilizations. Its origins can be traced back to the dawn of organized trade, where a labyrinth of routes crisscrossed the vast landscapes, fostering connections between China and the Mediterranean. Exploring the origins of the Silk Road unveils a narrative that spans centuries,...
12119) Alien War 5 - Galaxy At War
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Things are spinning out of control on Earth in 2039. History is changing before her very eyes, and teenage super girl Dazzle Shelton is the only one who realizes it. She alone stands against the aliens, in a desperate attempt to restore the timeline. But it will mean she must leave Earth forever, and embark on a one-way journey across the galaxy, to the origin planet of the human race.What about the Girl Army -- Janelle, Sandy, Mischa, Aylee? They...
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Situées dans l'océan Pacifique au sud-ouest de la Chine, les Philippines, constituées de 7 000 îles et îlots, forment un archipel montagneux et volcanique au climat chaud et humide d'une superficie de 300 000 kilomètres carrés, peuplé de 92,3 millions d'habitants au recensement de 2010...
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