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"You are all different and all perfect, just as you are. Lately, you have become more than that. Now, you reach beyond yourselves, using your differences to help your friends. That is the magic of belonging."
A tiny blue butterfly is, chased out of a yellow garden because she does not blend in.
She flees to the nearby forest glen, where she encounters a colorful band of woodland creatures-all of them expelled from the garden for the same reason being...
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Come along on this fun journey as Black Bear meets new friends on his way to preschool! Learn colors and experience Color Friends County like no one has ever done before. Excite your child about the wonderful opportunities of learning just as Black Bear does with friends Pink Butterfly, Yellow Cat, Green Frog, Purple Cow, Red Rooster, and Blue Bird.
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God made so many colors! Look inside to find buzzing yellow bumblebees, bright orange pumpkins, big blue butterflies, and more!
Help your toddler explore God's colorful creation! Guide them in learning to identify colors, animals, plants, and much more with eye-catching illustrations. Walk alongside them as they learn to see the colors all around for what they truly are: the wonderful works of our majestic Creator!
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As you overcome, you are as unique and rare as the Emperor Butterfly. You may have started out as an ugly caterpillar and have been, reduced to mush, but through your struggle you are being transformed into a beautiful purple butterfly! A unique creation for all to see and enjoy! A Purple Emperor butterfly is native to Europe. It's a rather rare butterfly and hard to find.
When caterpillar turn into butterflies, their old bodies are literally broken...
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30 songs from this iconic country singer-songwriter, including: Coat of Many Colors * Do I Ever Cross Your Mind * Heartbreaker * Here You Come Again * I Will Always Love You * Islands in the Stream * Jolene * Joshua * Love Is like a Butterfly * Nine to Five * Please Don't Stop Loving Me * Tennessee Homesick Blues * Tomorrow Is Forever * Two Doors Down * Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' like That * Yellow Roses * and more.
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There is a young small worm with no parents. Her name is Wormie. She has black, brown, white, yellow, and green stripes. Wormie sees birds and wants to fly. The other animals around where Wormie lives make fun of her for wanting to fly. They talk mean to her and pick on her. This story is about how Wormie Never Gave Up on her dream to fly and how she turned into a beautiful butterfly named Cutie-Fly!
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A mass ritual suicide, the notorious puputan took place on Bali in 1906. In 1942 the Japanese invaded. In 1965 there were terrible disturbances. Before each of these disastrous sets of events clouds of yellow butterflies were seen in the skies over the island. A coincidence? A terrible omen? Or is there another explanation? Victor Mason's cultural thriller delves into a secretive civilization where a roll call of strange characters including a witch,...
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Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy named Gabito, who could. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is perhaps one of the most brilliant writers of our time. He is a tremendous figure, enormously talented, and unabashedly admired. This is his story, lovingly told, for children to enjoy. Using the imagery from...
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Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy named Gabito who could. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is perhaps one of the most brilliant writers of our time. He is a tremendous figure, enormously talented, and unabashedly admired. This is his story, lovingly told, for children to enjoy. Using the imagery from...
10) Where E.T. Lives
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Elon! You were up there, in the sky above Rome. It captured Bambi, pure, systematic, free essence.
His dust became celestial, from the yellow flower , to the water, to the air, with night lights above Ostia Antica. The net to catch butterflies or fish, to save E.T.
And that red sky over the Vatican, that fond me a home from Mars.
Elon! You also came for Potter, the big dog of the square. He now walks under the light of Sirius in the...
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Introduction to Insects in North America
Insects in North America are incredibly diverse, with over 77,000 species that are either native or introduced to the continent. They can be found in every type of habitat, from the highest mountain peaks to the deepest ocean depths. Insects are the most abundant creatures on the planet and play an incredibly important role in the functioning of many ecosystems. They provide a food source for many other species,...
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Find out why leaves turn orange, yellow, red, and purple in the autumn before falling to the ground. Additional features to aid comprehension include colorful images, informational diagrams, hands-on activities, detailed captions and callouts, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, and an introduction to the author.|Activities for further learning|Author/Illustrator biography|Index|Sources for further research|Suggested...
13) Chinglish
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Acclaimed playwright David Henry Hwang's hilarious comedy Chinglish has been described as "a sly, funny, multi-tiered joke with a laugh-out-loud surface that conceals a movingly somber aftertaste" (Village Voice) and "a triumph in any language" (New York Magazine).Springing from the author's personal experiences in China, Chinglish follows a Midwestern American businessman desperately seeking to score a lucrative contact for his family's firm as he...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 We had to find a four-wheel-drive truck and a study area and accomplish enough solid research to attract a grant before our money ran out. We were exhausted from traveling, and before anything else, we needed sleep.
#2 We were determined to find a place that was far from human settlements where the predators had not been affected by them. We ended up in Maun,...
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There is a sprite in our story, a blue butterfly pooka from the once, long ago forests of Ireland. And, there is the Irish Tom Quinn, an old field trialer, who would pin his dream of a national championship upon the likes of sprites and leprechauns. There is the teenaged Michael, a novice who, with Tom's niece Amy, shares Tom's dreams in a sport where the competition can be conspiratorial and snarling. And, then, there is Rooster, the flop eared,...
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Have you ever wondered if there's a bigger purpose for you, a more meaningful journey, that keeps playing in the back of your mind, but you can't quite put your finger on it? You're stuck in the jungle of life, unable to see your yellow brick road. You know it's there, but it's just not clear, as life here on Earth as we've created it just gets in the way, preoccupying us to lose sight of our passions, or doubt ourselves from ever following that path,...
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The Third Mystery MEGAPACK® collects 26 modern and classic mysteries. Here are:
THE AFRICAN FISH MYSTERY, by James Holding
THE EBONY STICK, by Earl Derr Biggers
CHICKENS FOR CHARLIE, by Arlette Lees
DOUBLE DOUBLE-CROSS, by Jack London Berkebile
THE DOOMDORF MYSTERY, by Melville Davisson Post
CAPTAIN ROGERS, by W.W. Jacobs
A BORDERLINE CASE, by Rufus King
JUDGE BARCLAY'S WIFE, by William Hope Hodgson
THE ARCHDUKE'S TEA, by H.C. Bailey
THE...
18) Monarch Manor
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Erin Marinelli has her work cut out for her when she arrives at her late grandmother's Wisconsin home to prepare for an estate sale. But sifting through the overwhelming collection of figurines, outdated appliances and dusty books, she finds something that captures her attention: a yellowed envelope of old photographs. In one, taken almost a century ago, a beautiful woman is seated with a young boy who looks uncannily like Erin's five-year-old autistic...
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Bobby Lee Darrow has always been consumed with self and finding the easy way out in life. Now, fresh off a court hearing in which he's sentenced to community service, he reluctantly reports to an assisted living facility in his hometown of Talladega, Alabama.He spends the next several months serving as an orderly, and uncharacteristically befriends a resident, a lonely World War II vet battling dementia, who's concealing a wartime secret and claims...
20) Monarch Manor
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Erin Marinelli has her work cut out for her when she arrives at her late grandmother's Wisconsin home to prepare for an estate sale. But sifting through the overwhelming collection of figurines, outdated appliances, and dusty books, she finds something that captures her attention: a yellowed envelope of old photographs. In one, taken almost a century ago, a beautiful woman is seated with a young boy who looks uncannily like Erin's five-year-old autistic...
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