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1) Powwow Day
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River wants so badly to dance at the powwow as she does every year. But she's recovering from illness and can't this time. Will she ever dance again? Follow River's journey from feeling isolated after an illness to learning the healing power of community. Additional information explains the history and functions of powwows, which are commonplace across the United States and Canada and are open to both Native Americans and non-Native visitors. Author...
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Tucked right next to the famous Kruger National Park is one of the largest private game reserves in South Africa-Mala Mala. It is home to a bounty of wildlife, including the Big Five. They're the most ferocious animals to hunt on foot, and the buffalo is the most aggressive. And yet, all that these otherwise placid bovines want is to be left alone so they can graze in safety, celebrate their new life, and live in peace. But there is no peace. They...
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There's a gang war happening in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia, a battle among hippos for territory, dominance, mating rights, and survival. The reason? Dry season-a seven-month drought that forces over 30,000 hippos to the deepest part of the river to stay wet and cool. Follow these three-ton beasts as they fight lions, crocodiles, and other hippo gangs, struggling to stay alive until the next rainfall. Only then can they return to the lush paradise...
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Hyenas are opportunists. If they need to steal, they will. If caution is the better part of valor, then they're cautious. They never say no to a free meal-even if it's the scraps left behind by other predators. When they're finished with a carcass, all that's left on the ground is a wet spot. A large enough gang can completely consume a wildebeest in fifteen minutes-skin, flesh, and bones. Unlike some other predators, hyenas are dominated by females....
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During the dry season in the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, there isn't enough water. There isn't enough food. The fifty thousand elephants that live there need to migrate. We follow one gang of fifteen elephants on their journey to the Chobe River in Botswana. Led by its matriarch, the gang is completely made up of her offspring, and it's her responsibility to get her family safely to the river. Despite all the dangers, she doesn't give up. She...
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It's science time! Highlights Explore & Learn! videos combine educational segments with entertaining storytelling that will encourage young children's curiosity around science topics. In How Our Bodies Work, viewers will explore the human body and all of the amazing things that it can do! Highlights is an essential part of childhood, inspiring memorable experiences for generations of families. Highlights' Fun with a Purpose! philosophy has helped...
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It's science time! Highlights Explore & Learn! videos combine educational segments with entertaining storytelling that will encourage young children's curiosity around science topics. In Engineering is Everywhere, viewers will explore how force affects us every day and how technology has helped lead us to new discoveries! Highlights is an essential part of childhood, inspiring memorable experiences for generations of families. Highlights' Fun with...
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It's science time! Highlights Explore & Learn! videos combine educational segments with entertaining storytelling that will encourage young children's curiosity around science topics. In A Year Around the Sun, viewers will explore the seasons and how the earth is constantly changing. Highlights is an essential part of childhood, inspiring memorable experiences for generations of families. Highlights' Fun with a Purpose! philosophy has helped children...
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They're not called wild dogs for nothing, but they're also loving, caring, and protective. They look after their young, injured, and elderly. More than anything else, they're a team. They live together, hunt together, and are completely dependent on each other. There are no outsiders. The gang is one big family. They are led by an alpha male and an alpha female. We follow a gang in the Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana as they are forced to migrate...
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The Okavango Delta in Botswana is so large it's visible from space. This is home to an alphabet of wild animals, from aardvarks to zebras, and some of the smallest mammals live here. Meet the mongoose gang. They may look cute and cuddly, but they'll do whatever it takes to protect themselves, which is a never-ending battle. Snakes, birds of prey, and other predators are always lurking, dive-bombing, or attacking. Survival is tenuous-especially being...
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The scientific community is convinced that within the next decades, we will unveil one of the greatest mysteries of the universe, and find life beyond Earth. We can't know yet if the discovery of life will happen in our solar system, or in another remote place in the universe, but it's clear that the next generation will witness a finding that challenges our understanding of the universe. Life forms in the most extreme conditions on Earth. Organisms...
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2004
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The New International Version—today's most read, most trusted translation. The multiple-voice dramatization brings the Bible to life with world-class narration and colorful, true-to-the-text character renderings. Fully orchestrated background with sound effects that provide maximum enhancement. Digital engineering from start to finish, it delivers the ultimate clarity and listening enjoyment.
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Dirk Gently volume 2
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When a check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the event is said to be an act of God. But which god? wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently. And how is this connected to Dirk's battle with his cleaning lady over his filthy refrigerator ... or to the murder of his latest client? Or are these events just another stretch of coincidences in the life of the world's most off-kilter private investigator?
14) Redwall
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Redwall volume 1
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When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.
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From Newbery Honor winner Cece Bell comes an offbeat, pitch-perfect storybook for beginning readers that will have them in fits of giggles.
"Maybe your foot smells good.
Maybe your foot smells great.
But I will not smell your foot until you say PLEASE."
Meet Chick and Brain. And their friend Spot. Chick likes to follow the rules. Brain might not be as smart as he looks. And Spot just wants to eat lunch.
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Dirk Gently volume 1
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Quirky and bumbling private investigator Dirk Gently stumbles upon a ghost, millions of years old, wandering the earth and disturbing its people. Dirk soon discovers this phantom yearns for more than a good haunting: it is desperately trying to go back in time to prevent its own death. But this ghost was no ordinary person, and helping it save itself just might change the modern world as we know it. And not in a good way!
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Newbery Honoree Cece Bell follows her offbeat Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot with an even wackier story for beginning readers, sure to elicit eye-rolling squeals of delight.
Oh! Oh, oh, oh! Look what Brain found. Chick and Spot say it is an egg. Brain says it is an eyeball. Is it an egg or an eyeball? The inimitable Cece Bell is back with a second hilarious primer on good manners gone awry and arguments run amok. Perfectly pitched
18) Monster
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
19) Willa the wisp
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Fabled Stables volume 1
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2020.
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One day eight-year-old Auggie Pound, the caretaker of the rare animals in the Fabled Stables, ventures into the swamp to save a new rare creature, the wisp.
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From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of nonfiction -- funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient -- which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we get rid of the immense amount of plastic that's littering our seas and lands? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? Is science fiction now writing us? So what...