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Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, the air and naval forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) recorded the day as 'a date which will live in infamy' in his speech to a joint session of Congress. Subsequent investigations and histories judged U.S. intelligence as unprepared in its failure to predict the attack at Pearl Harbor. Yet FDR also listed the...
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Helps teens discover the goodness of the Bible's teaching on sexuality.
What does the Bible really say about identity and gender, dating and sex? Are its teachings out of date and repressive? Or are they the way to joy and contentment?
Long-time youth worker Jennifer Kvamme knows teens are grappling with these questions. In this book she helps readers cut through the cultural confusion and find answers to questions like:
• why does God care what...
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Freedom To Read!
Frequently banned or challenged books from 1990-1999
Frequently banned or challenged books from 2000-2009
Frequently banned or challenged books from 2010-2019
Frequently banned or challenged books from 1990-1999
Frequently banned or challenged books from 2000-2009
Frequently banned or challenged books from 2010-2019
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More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.
Presents a selection of tales about haunted houses, ghastly deeds, wailing specters, and other terrifying phenomena.
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Experience the joys and heartaches of the Easter season as shared by forty talented authors from across Canada. Enjoy Easter stories, poems, dramas, reflections, recipes, and images with themes like forgiveness, salvation, grace, and more. We invite you to sit and savor these fictional and real-life treasures. You will be encouraged to reflect on the hope available to each of us during this holy season. May you be as blessed in reading this book as...
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"B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new...
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Eight stories from master American writers of the 19th century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. There is even an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans.
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This guide will help you to learn about video game jokes. That is why this guide focuses on all natural remedies and methods in order to give you the best results with no side effects.
This book will teach you following:
- video game jokes
- video game memes
- crack funny games jokes
17) The story of more: how we got to climate change and where to go from here : adapted for young adults
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"A young adult adaptation of Hope Jahren's nonfiction work, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here"--
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Tubb the pirate: Tubb whishes he was a pirate so he could be brave. Terence of Arabia: Terence doesn't like to be splashed - if only he were someplace dry like the desert. Sploshy of the Arctic: Cooling off in the bathroom on a hot day sounds great to everyone but Sploshy! Super Amelia: Wishing for superpowers Amelia finds herself training to be a superhero. Deep sea Reg: Reg wants to play underwater games with his friends.
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