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Dutton
Pub. Date:
[2021]
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English
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5 stars
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"Veteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on climbing Mount Everest, but a hundred-year mystery lured him into an expedition--and an awesome history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded"--
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Kate MacLeod
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Vic Harper and her gang retired wealthy from their life of thievery and heists. Whether in a luxury condo overlooking the river in Minneapolis or in a modernist mansion built into the side of a mountain in Colorado, life comes easy now.Perhaps too easy.When an old friend asks for a favor his niece, Vic and her mentor Chase Woodward leap at the chance to relieve a little of the boredom. But a quick bit of B&E in a wealthy suburb of Chicago leads to...
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In this third installment of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Barsoom" series, "The Warlord of Mars", we follow the extraterrestrial adventures of John Carter, an American Civil War veteran transplanted to Mars. The "Barsoom" series began as a four-part serial in "All-Story Magazine" between December 1913 through March 1914. That first story, "A Princess of Mars", was wildly popular and resulted in numerous sequels. In the series John Carter's encounters with...
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English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world. As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration--set at the world's frozen extremes--lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called Third Pole, the "pole of altitude," located in unexplored heights of the Himalayas. Before the calendar turned,...
6. Magnetism
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Pub. Date:
2019
Lexile measure:
590L
Language:
English
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to magnetism. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
7. South!
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English
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Experience the epic survival adventure of Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, brought to life with photos from the journey as well as modern color photography of the fauna, seascapes, and landscapes! In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition - the first trek across Antarctica from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the South Pole. Shackleton's third expedition...
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Ranger in time volume 4
Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
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Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
9. Arctic Ocean
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Pub. Date:
2016
Lexile measure:
620L
Language:
English
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the Arctic Ocean. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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Baltimore Gun Club volume 3
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English
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The gun club of "From the Earth to the Moon" and "Around the Moon" returns after a long retirement. "The Purchase of the North Pole" brings back the three explorers who have come up with a new engineering project. If they fire a huge enough cannon, they can achieve displacement of the Earth's rotation axis. They seem to have a secret motive and we are left to wonder what they expect to achieve. Why are they not willing to give up on their plan? Have...
14. Emperor penguins
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Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
540L
Language:
English
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to emperor penguins. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
16. PEP
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Publisher:
Archie
Language:
English
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Pep Comic Issue 381 features the story "Archie and the Gang in Scoop Dupe". Left alone at the school paper, Reggie takes the opportunity to swap his interview assignment with Archie so he can interview a new all girl rock band, while Archie is stuck covering the opening of Miss Beazly's new salad bar. Did Reggie pick the better assignment? Other stories in this issue include "Mr. Weatherbee in Coach Reproach", "Charley and Li'l Jinx in Way to Go!",...
17. Pole Pole III
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Publisher:
Sungyull Koo
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Pole Pole III" is Sungyull's third poetry collection. He has also authored three other books: "Pole Pole Boong Boong," a chronicle of his coast-to-coast road trip with his wife Changwha; "Pole Pole 50 Short Stories," a collection of concise narratives; and "Pole Pole My Travels," which documents his personal journeys. The term "Pole Pole" is Swahili for "slow slow" or "take plenty of time," a phrase Sungyull learned from his guide Augustine during...
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Publisher:
Speedy Publishing LLC
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
If Santa lives in the North Pole then does that mean he exists? This geography book will take third graders on a tour of the North Pole. It will include details and facts about what it's like to live in the thick ice. What animals survive the harsh weather conditions there? What can you expect the moment you arrive? Will you really find Santa up in the North?
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A biography of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist includes an account of the discovery of his last artworks--murals painted on the walls of a villa occuppied by a Nazi officer--sixty years after his death and the complicated political dispute over the ownership of the murals.
"A fresh portrait of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist, and a gripping account of the secret operation to rescue his last artworks. The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz...
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Publisher:
Skyhorse
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans-Frederick Cook and Robert Peary-each claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him. Devastated, Amundsen famously went south. For years Cook and Peary tried to convince the world of their claims. Finally the National Geographic Society endorsed Peary, and the matter seemed settled. In May 1926 an American airman, Richard Byrd, flew north in a three-engine...