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When Logan Kemp hurls himself into a rugby scrum one morning, he has no idea that by afternoon he'll be fighting for his life. Worse, the only other patient on his ward is a troubled girl named Cleo who may not be hospitalized just for a broken wrist. When all he wants is his regular life back, the thought of Cleo throwing away her own leaves Logan determined to change her mind. Cleopatra Jones wants to design the perfect life; a teenage boy and a...
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The author demonstrates to the layperson how he uses various means to advance his own spiritual growth. The means are available to everyone. It is not exhaustive and includes: systematic Bible study, recording quotes from gifted Christian authors' works, exploring contemporary and theological topics with Christian ministries, and keeping a spiritual journal. The author makes the point that although he had been an ardent churchgoer for years and involved...
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Nikola Tesla has at least 278 patents in 26 countries and is generally acknowledged as the world's greatest inventor. Max Berglin, former Lockheed scientist, finds the long lost personal notebook of the genius inventor. During the latter part of his life Tesla perfected devices for the wireless transmission of power, beam weaponry, and the harnessing of cosmic energy from the quantum vacuum. These technologies have been suppressed because of their...
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Riley Green is certain her lie detector pen will improve her status in a school full of kids from the most powerful families of Washington, D.C. But her plan collapses when her invention idea is stolen, her favorite teacher goes missing, and mysterious threats begin to appear around capital. Before vanishing, Riley's teacher entrusts her with her most prized possession, the lost notebook of Nikola Tesla, legendary inventor and scientist. Now Riley...
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Seventeen-year-old Kate writes all of her dreams and thoughts in a set of three secret notebooks. In each of these journals, she records her daily life, from caring for her baby niece and making friends to dealing with the loss of parents and yearning for the future. Through reading, writing, and experiencing teenage life, Kate discovers love, friendship, and her own ambitions. This beautifully written portrait of a girl in her last year of school...
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From Old Notebooks begins as simply a writer's list of ideas-ideas for stories, films, novels, essays-but soon the writer's attention turns toward meditations on family, fear of death, literary fame, drug use, teaching, terrorism, pornography, and the weather. The book's seemingly disparate concerns coalesce to depict a writer writing his way through life and his first book at one and the same time.
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This newest Carcanet Classic collects the oldest poetry yet discovered, as written down or runed in the Ice Age in Lascaux and other caves in the Dordogne, and now translated, tentatively, into English for the first time. The translation is at two removes, from French versions by the mysterious linguistic genius Jean-Luc Champerret, and then from the striking originals that retain such a sense of early human presence. Philip Terry mediates between...
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Thinking of adding notebooking in Homeschooling?
Notebooking is one of the simplest ways to track your child's home education milestones. This is more important as your child progresses in age, he or she will start to track this progress in their own way, thus taking ownership and being proactive in their education.
notebooking refers to keeping a record of activities, ideas, thoughts and plans. When we talk of notebooking in homeschooling terms...
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A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third-the picture of the Last Supper at Milan-has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations...
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A book of meditations, reflections and observations, one author's attempt to make sense of a chaotic and frequently terrifying universe. Personal, intimate, spare, arcane--short snippets and carefully worded takes on subjects relating to theology, philosophy, history, life, death, fate and redemption.
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390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Unable to shake off disturbing images that keep appearing in his nightmares, NYPD sketch artist Nate Rodriguez struggles to settle his mind by sketching his dreams and is shocked to discover that he has been having visions about actual murders.
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xii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"François Truffaut (1932-1984) ranks among the greatest film directors and has had a worldwide impact on filmmaking as a screenwriter, producer, film critic, and founding member of the French New Wave. His most celebrated films include The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim, Day for Night and The Last Metro. A Truffaut Notebook is a lively and eclectic introduction to the life and work of this major cinematic figure. In entries as brief...
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30 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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Intended by Mohieddine Ellabbad as a way to explore different ways of seeing things through illustration, learn about how Arabic writing is an integral part of the image in the Arabic pictorial tradition. Reads right-to-left as the original Egyptian version, and includes all of the original Arabic calligraphy, with English translations in the margins.
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xvi, 235 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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"Katie Roiphe, culture writer and author of The Morning After, shares a timely blend of memoir, feminist investigation, and exploration in famous female writers' lives, in a bold, essential discussion of how strong women experience their power"--
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Focuses on issues of identity -- how individuals see and define themselves based on clothes, where they live, how they see their place in the world. Profiles/interviews fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto as he and his staff prepare for presentation of a seasonal collection. Director/writer Wim Wenders compares the film and fashion industries, illustrating how they parallel one another.
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