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1) eBooks Collection - Artwork finalization and conversion to electronic books in ePub, Mobi and PDF
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This collection of books was designed in order to provide the knowledge to help diagramming professionals of many different segments.
This allows them to produce eBooks in the ePub, Mobi and PDF formats, to be read and displayed by applications installed on desktop computers, notebooks, netbooks, smart phones, as well as eReaders and tablets such as iPad, Sony Reader, Nooks, Kindle etc.
Using the InDesign CS5 and CS5.5 as main tools, as well as...
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"When Grace Emerson's ex-fiance starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for. To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she's seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up. Who is this Mr. Right? Someone, exactly unlike her renegade neighbor Callahan O'Shea. Well, someone with his looks maybe. His hot body. His knife-sharp sense of humor. His smarts and big heart....
3) Bigfoot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about Bigfoot."--Provided by publisher.
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Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Discover the beauty of emeralds, rubies, lapis lazuli, jade, silver, and gold in this gliterring collection of precious stones and metals. Learn where crystals can be found, how they form, and what they are used for - from dazzling jewelry to diamond-cutting tools and the silicon chip in your phone!"
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 21
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The story of Robin of Locksley, outlaw of Sherwood Forest, telling how he gathered such loyal followers as Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and Allan a Dale, and relating their adventures in the service of Richard the Lion-Hearted.
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One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature
A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining.
When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between...
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature
A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining.
When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between...
10) There there
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
11) Braiding hair
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Offers step-by-step instructions for braiding hair in a variety of styles.
12) Dune
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
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Hugo Award Winners for Best Novel
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Hugo Award Winners for Best Novel
Nebula Winners Best Novel
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This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
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A mere two decades after the conclusion of World War I, another large-scale military conflict entrenched most of Europe and many other countries in warfare for a second time. Many of the causes of World War II can be found in the effects of World War I. This book examines some of those causes and effects, providing sidebars, timelines, detailed period photographs and well-researched information.
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2024
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-- Who are these detectives with famous names and mysterious, untraceable pasts Brendan Holmes Margaret Marple Auguste Poe The agency’s daring methodology and headline-making solves attract the attention of NYPD Detective Helene Grey. Her solo investigation into her three unknowable competitors will delight mystery fans.
16) I, annie moore
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Annie Moore is an icon for every immigrant that has ever entered America through Ellis Island. At seventeen years of age, Annie Moore started out on the greatest adventure of her life. Born and raised in Cork, Ireland, she crossed an ocean, and on New Year's Day, 1892, became the first of 12 million immigrants to pass through Ellis Island. "I don't ever remember being warm on the ship," Annie says of her trip to America. In this book you'll meet the...
17) All about matter
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Simple text and full-color photographs provide a brief introduction to matter and its properties.
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This book demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations. At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 16
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IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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No girls allowed at the Olympic games! That's the rule when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to ancient Greece. But when Annie tells Jack to go to the games without her, he knows she's up to something. Will Annie find a way to see the games? Or will she get herself - and Jack - into Olympic-size trouble?
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" At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. "When Breath Becomes Air" chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the...