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"When Harper moves in with her sister Pam, she's surprised to find Pam doing so well financially after her messy divorce. After all, Pam's ex-husband wiped their bank accounts, even stole from their kids. But Pam managed to find her way back. Thanks to the Wheel. Twice a month, the women of the Wheel meet. New members bring cash to the party that is pooled together and then gifted to one lucky member. It's all about giving back. Lifting each other...
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From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history's greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon-river of darkness, pathway to gold. In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from...
3. Gold Cure
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Coffee House Press
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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Lustrous, tender, and expansive, Gold Cure moves from boomtown gold mines and the mythical city of El Dorado to the fracking wells of the American interior, excavating buried histories, legacies of conquest, and the pursuit of shimmering ideals. Ted Mathys skewers police brutality on the ribs of a nursery rhyme and drives Petrarchan sonnets into shale fields deep under the prairies. In crystalline language rich with allegory and wordplay, Mathys has...
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Troglodyte Press
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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A promise made to a dying grandfather drives Sandra's life.Dan's passion for the past will destroy her dreams for the future.Hopes for the past and future collide under the blazing desert sun.Geologist Sandra knows it is out therethe El Dorado find that will save the future of the desert mining town of Broken Hill. Nothing will stand in her way to keep her promise to her grandfather, who died trying to find it.Archaeologist Dan knows how fragile the...
5. Kintsugi
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Atlantic
Pub. Date:
[2015]
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English
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After three years, Death Cab for Cutie returns with the follow-up to Codes and Keys. This marks the first time they have released an album since the departure of guitarist Chris Walla. Includes the single Black Sun.
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Muriwai Books
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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A challenge came to the Spanish Kings with the discovery of the New World . . . a challenge to the conquest of empire for Spain, of souls for "the Holy Mother Roman Catholic Church." And like the conquistadores, the Spanish padres received the challenge eagerly. Armed with breviary and crucifix, inspired by an undying faith, they went forth to conquer the legions of Satan beyond the Ocean Sea. In South America the padres found no El Dorado, no fabled...
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Simon & Schuster
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2015
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English
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"In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy in his twenties helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. This American had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, movies, video games, and TV. And yet, with the help of an initially reluctant FBI duo, he ended up at the center of a highly successful counterintelligence...
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100% Educational Videos
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[2007]
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English
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"Students take a tour of our solar system. Visit each of the nine planets to learn about their special features, sizes, and orbits. Learn about the planets' moons and rings, and how gravity keeps them in orbit. Stop at the sun, discover its immense size, and see sunspots and solar flares. Find out what scientists have learned about the planets through telescopes, space missions, and satellites"--Container.