Ingrid.
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Ravensburger
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2020
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Assemble the easy to see and grip pieces to complete this colorful collection of bird-houses and birds enjoying the fresh spring weather. 300-piece Large Format Puzzles from Ravensburger feature larger pieces with solutions for puzzlers both young and old in mind.
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For the first-time horse owner, My First Book of Horses guides young equestrians through this very important-and fun-commitment. Beginning with a history of horses and what roles they've played throughout history, readers will get a full-color glimpse of horses with knights in full armor, as companions to the Native Americans, in formal dressage competitions, racing, and as a mode of early transportation.
This book then delves into all the need-to-know...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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2010
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"Betancourt's riveting account...is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance." -Los Angeles Times
In the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region, where she was abducted by the FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organization in conflict with the government. She would spend the next six and a half years captive in the depths
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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2018
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018
A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding—who we are and how we should act—in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance
"Know thyself"—this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient Greece, specifically in Delphi, the temple of the god Apollo, who represented...
A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding—who we are and how we should act—in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance
"Know thyself"—this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient Greece, specifically in Delphi, the temple of the god Apollo, who represented...
7) Maybe Later
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Long, long ago, Johnny's grandpa found a bottle on the beach. When Johnny roots it out of the back of Grandpa's closet, he can see a mysterious shadow through the green glass. "We should break it," Johnny says. "Maybe later," says his grandpa. And so the story begins.
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Brooklyn-based florist Ingrid Carozzi reveals her secrets for creating flower arrangements that are modern, original, and organic in style. Organized by season, the book presents simple step-by-step instruction (how to measure, cut, and place each bloom) for making more than 35 arrangements. Whether you want to learn how to work with chicken wire and tape to create a simple framework or try your hand at arranging delicate and oversize blooms, Carozzi...
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On December 1, 2007, during the arrest of several guerillas in Bogotá, the Colombian police confiscated a short video clip of political hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Accompanying the video was a twelve-page letter, dated October 24, 2007, written by Betancourt to her mother and family. Kidnapped on February 23, 2002, Betancourt has become an international symbol in the struggle for liberty and the fight against barbarity. Before being captured by the...
10) White Pawn
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Bianca is a Trove. Her blood is so powerful it allows vampires to stroll in the sunlight. She lives a life of masquerade parties, governesses, and flirting with eligible men like the handsome thief, Nyro Stonehelm, who openly defies the vampire King and Queen.
Soon a visit from the King brings Bianca face to face with a terrible reality-her father has gambled away everything, and still owes the King's Court more. To set an example, the King executes...
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England, 1811. When John Merrick, the Earl of Corbeau, is caught in a locked storeroom with Lady Grace, he has but one choice-marry her. He cannot bear to tarnish any woman's reputation, least of all Lady Grace's.
Lady Grace Landon will do anything to help her mother and sisters, crushed and impoverished by her father's disgrace. But throwing herself into the arms of her dearest friend's older brother to trap him in marriage? Never.
12) The New Girl
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You've only just met.
But she already knows you so well. When Rachel moves into the spare room in Mary's flat, everyone is quick to jump to the conclusion that there's something strange about her. Everyone apart from Mary. And when Rachel starts sleepwalking, the flatmates' fears grow. But there's something about the new girl that Mary can't help but trust, and having recently escaped a toxic relationship, she needs the support. Rachel becomes a...
13) White Bishop
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Bianca's prison has a way out, but the price of freedom is high.There is more to Bianca's struggles than meets the eye and even she ignores the depth of the trail she must follow to get her revenge against the Black King.Through the machinations of fate, she discovers her life is more intertwined to Nyro's than she ever imagined. They share a purpose, but is she willing to accept the consequences to attain what she set out to do when she joined the...
14) Blazing Magic
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He's forged from fire, and his lies burn. I'm taking a break from college to help Grandpa run his nursery business. I'm all he's got, and he desperately needs my help. But when he unexpectedly dies, leaving behind an ancient relic as my inheritance, I'm not ready to accept that all the stories he once told me are real. Creatures forged from fire don't exist, and the irresistible man that just appeared out of nowhere at my doorstep is not here to grant...
15) Keeper
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For them, free will is a luxury....
Greg Papilio both wants and dreads his impending metamorphosis. He's tired of being an ugly runt - always picked last on the basketball court - when he could be strong and what girls call "drop dead gorgeous". But as much as he looks forward to the transformation, he also fears the caste it will inevitably assign to him. He doesn't want a common caste. He wants a powerful one, a cool one.
Samantha Gibson is average....
16) Black Rook
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The Black King has set his sights on Nyro, and it's not for the better.Nyro's ambitious plan to rescue his brother has failed and now every member of the Board sees him as a traitor.But, against all odds, he's still alive and while there is breath left in him there is hope. Now, his goal is to find his brother again and make another plan for escape. He must learn all he can about the Black Court, its weaknesses and secrets. And while he prowls, he...
17) Black Pawn
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Nyro lives in Acedrex, a city ruled by two vampires: the White Queen and the Black King.
No one can leave or enter Acedrex and, for the majority of people, that is fine. It's a safe place, far better than the outside world.
Unless you're a Trove.
The curse runs in Nyro's family. His father was a Trove and his willful 8-year-old brother, Timotei, is one too. Their blood can make a vampire powerful enough to walk in sunlight.
Nyro works hard to...
18) Focus
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From the Author of the New York Times bestseller Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story
At the age of 37, Ingrid Ricks walked into an eye doctor's office expecting to walk out with a cute pair of red cat-eye frames - only to learn she suffered from Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare, incurable eye disease that was stealing her eyesight and would eventually leave her completely blind.
Gripped with the terrifying fear that she wouldn't be able to see her two young...
19) Scumble
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Mibs's cousin Ledge is disappointed to discover that his "savvy"--the magical power unique to each member of their family--is to make things fall apart, which endangers his uncle Autry's ranch and reveals the family secret to future reporter Sarah.
20) Senior Witch
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The Academy has been taken over by a mass murderer and no one knows but me.
Last year, I fought Regent Nyquist and the forces that sought to destroy everything we hold dear...
...And lost.
This year, I've agreed to be a spy, a double agent who alines herself with the very person who killed people I care about and banished others.
And it sucks worse than the domestic grout cleaning spells we're now forced to learn.
How long can I pretend to be a good...