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Two wildly different women - one a grifter, the other an heiress - are brought together by the scam of a lifetime. Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in LA alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan. Nina learned from the best: Her mother was the original con artist, hustling to give her daughter a decent childhood despite...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2016.
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Lions... Tigers... Bears... Oh My! We find out how people who really care about wildlife are raising awareness about why our urban growth is literally making dangerous encounters with wild animals is becoming an everyday occurrence. We visit an exotic animal rescue to see lions, tigers and other wild animals are being cared for the best way possible. We also talk to experts about one of the most allusive animals, the wolf, is now making a comeback....
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"The shrill howl of a coyote in the night might send shivers down the spine, but often it is part of a song to simply communicate with other coyotes. This fact is just one that readers will take away from this engaging book about this fascinating New World member of the canine family. The explanatory text is carefully crafted to be accessible to early readers and it covers key ideas about coyotes, including their adaptations and habitats. Additionally,...
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Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the seventy-five greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature has become a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with nature. With chapter ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn and a dispatch from one man's war with a woodchuck to reflections on the sexual politics of roses, Pollan captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its...
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"Although a wolf's mournful howl is often associated with a full moon, they don't wait for this lunar phase to make their recognizable vocalization-Wolves howl whenever they want to communicate with other wolves. Young readers will learn more about the key ideas of wolf behavior and adaptations with this intriguing title. The explanatory text is thoughtfully written with early readers in mind and also covers wolf habitats, their ecological importance,...
86) Robot salvaje
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Wild robot volume 1
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2018.
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Español
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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
"Cuando Roz abre los ojos por primera vez, descubre que está sola en una isla remota y salvaje. No tiene idea de cómo llegó ahí pero sabe que necesita sobrevivir. Después de enfrentarse a una feroz tormenta...
87) Bliss montage
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A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages --
What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the...
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Learn to paint cute animals and wildlife in this free-and-easy approach to watercolor. Artist Natalia Skatula has a beautiful, whimsical style that will charm you through 12 simple step-by-step projects and over 100 worked examples. Beginning with an overview on materials and equipment, Natalia then covers the general techniques needed to achieve the paintings, along with her top-10 personal tips for success. Projects include a majestic whale, an...
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I survived volume 21
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Relates the story of a boy who survives the deadliest disaster in American history--the hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, killing eight thousand people--and heads back into the treacherous waters to help save his neighbors.
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Maddie and Mabel volume 4
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Kind World Publishing
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2023.
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"Best sisters and big thinkers Maddie and Mabel have a new idea. A really wild idea. But can their idea become a reality? With their sweet charm and innocent curiosity, the sisters make lists, ask questions, and learn when to turn something broken into something new. Together they learn that every idea has opportunities and obstacles and that an imperfect solution might be just the right plan."--
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Marked men novels volume 2
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Longing to escape her wild life with bad boys, Southern belle Ayden Cross falls for a man whose dangerous tattooed looks embody her most passionate rock-and-roll fantasies and who holds very different ideas about relationships.
92) Music is history
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"Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapestry, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach to Black genius. And these critical inquiries are complemented by his own memories as a music fan, and the way his appetite for pop culture taught him about America. A history of the last half-century and an intimate...
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"Opportunistic dingoes wait for the perfect moment to pounce on small prey such as rabbits, rodents, and lizards. Early readers will learn more about dingo adaptations and behavior with this intriguing title. It features text that is carefully crafted to be engaging and accessible to early readers. It also explains other key ideas about dingoes including their vocalizations, habitat, and decreasing population due to breeding with domestic dogs. Thought-provoking...
94) Putin
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"Vladimir Putin is the world's most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbors, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections, and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. His regime is autocratic and deeply corrupt. But that is only half the story. Unflinching, hard-hitting, and objective, Philip...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2016.
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Be thankful for those individuals who care enough to make a difference. From across our globe, these special people are taking on unique environmental challenges and in the process protecting our world. Each person, each effort, brings hope to us all, whether it's re-wilding, rebuilding, preserving, enlightening, surmounting or conserving.
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Romancing the Clarksons volume 1
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The road trip was definitely a bad idea. Having already flambéed her culinary career beyond recognition, Rita Clarkson is now stranded in God-Knows-Where, New Mexico, with a busted-ass car and her three temperamental siblings, who she hasn't seen in years. When rescue shows up-- six-feet-plus of hot, charming sex on a motorcycle-- Rita's pretty certain she's gone from the frying pan right into the fire... Jasper Ellis has a bad boy reputation...
98) Man on the Bus
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Journeyman Pictures
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2022.
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Man on the Bus is a moving story about love, lies and loss. Eve always thought there was something not quite right about her family. She had wild ideas about being an Australian implant into her holocaust family. Over a decade of searching for the truth, she makes a remarkable discovery that changes her life forever.
99) Loonshots: how to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries
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"'Loonshots is a brilliant and wonderfully entertaining book, an unstoppable read, full of surprises and rich with insight into how people create and nurture things that change the world. It's also an important book. Bahcall, a physicist and biotech entrepreneur, is unfolding the secrets behind successes everywhere.' --Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees What do James Bond and Lipitor have in common? Why do traffic jams appear...
100) When we went wild
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"Nancy and Jake are farmers. They raise their cows and pigs, and grow their crops. They use a lot of big machines to help them, and spray a lot of chemicals to get rid of the weeds and the pests. That's what all good farmers do, isn't it? And yet, there is no wildlife living on their farm. The animals look sad. Even the trees look sad! One day, Nancy has an idea... what if they stopped using all the machines, and all the chemicals, and instead they...
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