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1) Advanced English Dialogues, Stories, Vocabulary & More: A Self-Study Course for Higher-Level ESL/EFL
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Improve your English vocabulary with this book of dialogues, stories, phrases, expressions, idioms, and more. These lessons are designed for advanced English learners. Jackie Bolen has 20 years of experience teaching ESL/EFL to students in South Korea and Canada. With her help, you'll improve your English vocabulary in no time at all! Advanced English Dialogues, Stories, Vocabulary & More will help you:Have thousands of important English expressions...
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Reader Alert: This book could be offensive to some select readership. It also contains something for most everyone. It references many Christian Biblical scriptures and Godly language. It contains both fiction and nonfiction interesting family oriented short stories. Many of these are heart felt, some with humorous exchanges, others that tell directions to find an individual's faith and hope. It also contains some poems, some One Liners and much more....
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In THE UNLIKELY TWINS AND MORE STORIES, you'll meet a cast of most intriguing individuals, including: LUCKY - He had been lucky all of his life, at least so he thought…until he got hit with something so devastating that he simply could not grasp it. THE UNLIKELY TWINS - The fraternal twins had nothing in common… except for one disturbing and dangerous vice in which they were destructively in sync. THE DAMAGED PROFESSOR - He was a strange character...
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This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are six stories by Robert F. Young: "Jupiter Found", "The Blonde From Barsoom, "Boy Meets Dyevitza", "Boarding Party", "The Deep Space Rolls", and "Redemption".
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This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five stories by Walter J. Sheldon: "This Is Klon Calling", "Two Plus Two Makes Crazy", "Houlihan's Equation", "Jimsy And The Monsters, and "Brink Of Madness".
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They're back!
Naan and Pa Bailey are exactly where we left them – at the end of Leymor Road in the house with a purple door and a huge fig tree in the front garden.
They are still trying to cope with looking after their cat MimiCleo and her best friends: three toys who have come to life – Pedro the parrot, Purple Ted, and Fraser Bear.
At three and a half, the little tortoiseshell cat thinks she is an independent adult. The teddy bears are both...
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New Englanders are always cursing. But a colorful profanity uttered by some stero-typically taciturn old Yankee is usually more humorous than menacing. Yet, true maledictions (the opposite of benedictions) have frequently been spoken on New England soil, curses intended to invoke evil, injury, or total destruction against other people.
Stories about preternatural revenge are numerous in Yankee lore, with each New England state providing its favorites....
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An omnibus edition of his collections None So Blind and Dealing in Futures, this volume features the best of Joe Haldeman's short speculative fiction, including such gems as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "The Hemingway Hoax," in which a forged Hemingway manuscript takes the reader on a journey through time and multiple universes; the Hugo and Locus Award-winning "None So Blind;" the World Fantasy and Nebula Award-winning "Graves;" and the Rhysling...
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This time too, King Vikramaditya brought down the betel tree hanging from a big tree and started moving forward with it. To save himself, Betal again told a story to the king. Betal says…
Once upon a time, there was a city named Kanakpur, whose king's name was Yashodhan. That king took great care of his subjects. There was also a Seth in the same city, whose daughter's name was Unmadini. She was very beautiful and talented, whoever saw her kept...
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The year is 1999 and the world is on edge as it waits to find out if a simple computer programming oversite could cause the collapse of modern civilization.
But first: it's the mid-90s and Gordon Hamilton is a college freshman with big dreams, eager to soar well beyond the confines of life in Lincoln, Nebraska. A pivotal conversation with his new college friends around the bonfire one night sparks a new venture: Sagan Software, with Gordon as...
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What if bedtime didn't have to be a nightmare? 9 relaxing bedtime tales to help you drift off into a deep, relaxing, natural sleep. A selection of soothing words which act as a drug-free sleep aid. For ultimate relaxation and peaceful vibes.
Use the stories as part of a breathing exercise, as nighttime meditation or just to help you unwind at the end of a long day. More interesting than white noise. More engaging than nature sounds. A perfect de-stressor....
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Legends and lore from Canada's rugged Maritime provinces, shrouded in the mists of the Atlantic Ocean ...
From the host of TV's Maritime Mysteries, this book includes forty of the best stories collected from around the Maritimes. Using his journalist's skills, Bill Jessome weaves incredible stories that both charm us and chill us.
The region including Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick has an extensive storytelling tradition and...
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National Science Teachers Association 2017 Top Science Trade Books for K-12 Students Nerdy Book Club Nerdies 2016 Longform Nonfiction Nonfiction Detectives: Best of 2016 Northland College Young Adult Notable Book Green Earth Book Award – YA Nonfiction 2017 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Notable book * "A terrific, engrossing resource." -Booklist, STARRED review "This eye-opening book on the science and politics of agriculture...
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