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"Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of Venice. From family meals to vaporetti rides, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of this beloved series. But so are the never-ending influx of tourists and the suffocating corruption. Through it all, Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti, a good man who loves his family and his city, has been an enduring figure, but in Earthly...
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Dr. Craig was sent by the United States to this remote place in the Andes Mountains to solve a mystery. There had been a nuclear explosion. Who or what was responsible? And what about those five tunnels opening onto the smooth plateau formed by the blast? Dientes told of the Fire Devils - legendary demons who killed with fire balls and lived under the snow. Brulieres, the priest who was the leader of the new totalitarian state was looking for a political...
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In a time when humans owned other humans and a nation was torn by war, doing what was right sometimes meant being on the wrong side of the law.
In tumultuous 1860, South Carolina farmer Polly Burgiss struggles to protect both her land and the slaves who plant and tend her valuable cotton, while still reeling from the murder of her young brothers years before. This horrific crime has gone unsolved and unpunished-until now. When details of the brutal...
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Writing especially for people who've tuned out the environmental debate, Rob Jackson persuasively argues that we're at a crucial turning point in environmental history, where choices we make now will determine the quality of life into the unforeseeable future. Laying out the scientific facts in plain language and with flashes of humor, he shows how the escalation of population growth and resource consumption in the twentieth century caused problems...
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Book 6 of the Saga of Sir Bryan.
Sir Bryan spends more and more time exploring the past as he sees events that happened not only when he was younger and just setting out on the path of the knight, but also the events that his father, the Marquis of Erdenwald, experienced as a younger man. In the present, Sir Bryan must make the treacherous journey back to the Statlight Monastery, where he hopes to lay the earthly remains of an old friend to rest....
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After establishing her reputation as one of London's most highly regarded undertakers, Violet Harper decided to take her practice to the wilds of the American West. But when her mother falls ill, Violet and her husband Samuel are summoned back to England, where her skills are as sought-after as ever. She's honored to undertake the funeral of Anthony Fairmont, the Viscount Raybourn, a close friend of Queen Victoria's who died in suspicious circumstances--but...
9) The Earth is a Changing Planet Earthquakes, Glaciers, Volcanoes and Forces that Affect Surface Chan
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Nothing on Earth remains constant. Even its geologic features change over time. Some of the factors that affect surface changes are glaciers, earthquakes and volcanoes. This book will discuss these factors and their effects on the Earth's surface. Have a better understanding of geology. Start reading this book today.
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Bill Direen's fifth novel takes place in a world where the earth's resources are almost exhausted, the water supplies are contaminated and parts of the landmasses have imploded. A life and death struggle occurs between two irreconciliable forces: one in possession of the earth's remaining wealth and power, the other carrying the genetic key to the survival of mankind. Vibrant language and a fast-paced narrative define this Ballardesque journey through...
11) Cooper's Ridge
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Earth is overpopulated, and resources are quickly dwindling. Lines are drawn between those who want to efficiently use earth's remaining resources and those who want to colonize another planet. Cooper's Ridge, a lush and fertile planet some thirty light-years away, seems like the perfect place to establish a colony.
Our genius heroine, Cassie Wells, stumbles upon a massive government cover-up that puts her life--and the lives of those around her--in...
12) The Tree
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the Tree is a story of a tiny seed that grew to be a great tree. This wonderful tree became a very sad tree, as it was fashioned into a symbol of suffering and shame. Still it again became a wonderful emblem, an icon to remind all men of our freedom purchased on this tree. For over two thousand years it remains. Today, anywhere you travel you may see a symbol of that tree, a tree that will live forever in our hearts as long as earth remains.
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Ecclesiastes 1:2-5, "Vapor of vapors and futility of futilities, says the Preacher, vapor of vapors and futility of futilities, all is vanity - emptiness, falsity and vainglory. What profit has man left of all his toil at which he toils under the sun? (Is life worth living?) One generation goes, and another generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun also rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises."
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"From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet. More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working today--and one of the very few women in her field--Into the Planet blends...
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"Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community. You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance....
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All her life, Katherine Keith has hungered for remote, wild places that fill her soul with freedom and peace. Her travels take her across America, but it is in the vast and rugged landscape of Alaska that she finds her true home. Alaska is known as a place where people disappear-at least a couple thousand go missing each year. But the same vast and rugged landscape that contributed to so many people being lost is precisely what has gotten her found....
17) Infinity Breach
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The oligarchy of Overlords battling to resurrect alien rule on Earth remains ever threatened by a group of rebels determined to meet the ancient Sumerian enemies with a show of force. While glimmers of containment, if not victory, have appeared, humanity still inhabits a world where buried secrets and impossible truths lie coiled in the shadows An Annunaki artifact of staggering multidimensional power is discovered, presaging an attack of a magnitude...
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As long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest shall not cease. However, between planting and harvest, from the expectation to manifestation, time and processes are involved. When one is dealing with the challenges of any chronic illness, the miracle you pray for may not be instantaneous.
How do you keep faith alive even when all your senses are seemingly contrary to your hope and expectation?
How do your loved ones, especially latency age kids...
19) Reality Echo
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Earth remains the volatile prize of aeons of war and domination by two panterrestrial races. Returning the fight to these inhuman overlords, the Cerberus rebels are the champions of the planet's postapocalyptic dark ages. They spark a uniquely human resilience and courage to stand down the forces of infinitely powerful, perhaps unstoppable entities in the ongoing war to retake Earth for humanity. The Bluegrass range, ripe with secrets and magic, hides...
20) Sun Lord
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Two centuries after Skydark, Earth remains chained to a sinister destiny spawned by hybrids and human traitors manipulating humankind from deep inside the chaos of forgotten worlds. Once a stone-cold protector of the ruling order, Kane and his compatriots strike back against the tide of extinction threatening to engulf the human race in a conflict with no boundaries in time, space or reality... In a fabled city of the ancient world, the neo-gods of...
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