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Violet Rose is a self-proclaimed sixth grader super-sleuth, a foster child who discovers that many of the people in her normal suburban town are actually supernatural beings hiding in seemingly ordinary lives. With best friends, Lindsey and Ciara, a spirit from a Renoir painting, Violet is a little detective that never gives up. Solving cases after her homework is done while learning about the magical gift her grandfather gave her before he pa...

Introducing Political Power, a spin-off series from the popular Female Force line. Political Power is a new title that focuses on past and present American politicians. This new graphic novel features the Presidents of the United States, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan.As featured on CNN, FOX News, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, LA Times, OK Magazine, and MSNBC! Political Power is a comic book series that fea...

The main objective of this book is to discuss parts of the later life histories of burial mounds by studying local interests in them through folklore, but also disturbances and reuses of them. To this end, this study discusses folklore about burial mounds in the two Norwegian southern counties of Agder. These mounds were constructed as the burial places for the dead, in Norway built with a changing frequency during the Bronze Age and the Iron ...

In Perimeter, 25 year old Kyle Wilson and his beautiful neighbor, Angel McClure, are suddenly, and without warning, stranded in a dark and very different world after having witnessed a brilliant flash of light in the December evening sky. Automobiles, cell phones, computers, and simple flashlights have been rendered totally inoperable by a mysterious phenomenon. In the days following the extraordinary event, Kyle and Angel slowly discover that...

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Here's to the land of the longleaf pine" holds an amazing power to inspire North Carolinians. Words are fine for inspiration, and for recording the achievements of those who once heard or spoke such words. However, a single photograph offers a window into the past, which is difficult to capture in words alone. With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book Historic Photos of North Carolina, Wade G. Dudley provides a valuab...

The Poets' Corner is a serialized drama involving four Yale freshmen. They are iconic and archetypal and embody much of the human experience in their actions. Each episode finds three seeming godfathers tending to the frailty of their vulnerable roommate. And they often counteract and undo each other's plans. It is notable both for the momentum of its stories and its lovely language. Like the stirring melodrama it is it earns its title both in...

A landmark gathering of the first three decades of work by America's preeminent living poet.

A stalwart spider leads a bevy of bewitching beauties on a desperate quest to rescue the magical land of Xanth, in this 33rd thrilling escapade in Anthony's rousing series.

True stories are more bizarre than any fiction, and Dr. Gary Small knows this best. After thirty distinguished years of psychiatry and groundbreaking research on the human brain, Dr. Small has seen it all—now he is ready to open his office doors for the first time and tell all about the most mysterious, intriguing, and bizarre patients of his career. The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head is a spellbinding record of the doctor's most bewildering...

Offers a vision of Christ as 'the Shaken One', rooted in community with others.

In the twenty-five centuries since the Buddha's death, his profound teachings and path have guided and enlightened millions of lives. The Buddha also has inspired some of the most beautiful and magnificent artistic creations ever produced by humanity. Jon Ortner's photographs of over 150 of these extraordinary works of art grace this volume. From the hundreds of rare Laotian Buddhas filling the Pak Ou Caves to the colossal gold and gem-encrust...

Then, in August 2009, a registered sex offender named Phillip Garrido appeared on the University of California, Berkeley campus alongside two young women whose unusual behavior sparked concern among campus officials and law enforcement. That visit would pave the way for shocking discovery: that Garrido was Jaycee Lee Dugard's kidnapper...Jaycee's story was revealed: For eighteen years, she had lived in an outbuilding on the Garrido property in...

Amid a flurry of national standards and high-stakes assessments, it's easy to overlook the curiosity and invention that is inherent to science and that should be central to any science lesson plan. Similarly, the connections between what students learn in the classroom and the issues facing our society are often lost in the race to cover the content. The National Science Education Standards goals that are emphasized in this volume focus on how...

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Serious books inevitably start with an instigating question, and the question that Explaining Unhappiness answers is this: What are you afraid would happen if you weren't unhappy? Why? Because this is the question that everybody asks all their lives, without ever fully realizing it. We are deeply engaged in the assumptions contained within it. What are we assuming when we ask that question? First, we're suggesting that it is possible to be hap...

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