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(0)Paul Joseph
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At the end of the 19th century, Mark Twain, wife, Livy, and Clara, one of his daughters, traveled around the world for a year. Twain was on a lecture tour, and his experiences were later captured in Following the Equator. One hundred years later, Paul Joseph spent an academic sabbatical in New Zealand while also traveling in Fiji, Australia, and Indonesia with his wife, Linda, and three children, Ian, Sara, and Danny. Drawing upon Twain's notebooks...
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Have you been hurt by the church? Do you feel the word of God is being misrepresented? In Back to the Basics: Its Gods Way or the Highway, author Joseph Paul Henry seeks to provide hope to those who have been hurt by the church and show there is a side of the church that still loves your soul. By addressing thirty key topics affecting the church today, Henry suggests solutions to the problems facing contemporary Christianity. Through this discussion,...
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Many Christians struggle to live the way they believe they should live as followers of Jesus Christ. As a Christian, are you living in line with what you claim to believe? Scripture tells us that apart from Christ, we cannot accomplish anything worthwhile. If you have ever struggled with living how you claim you should live as a follower of Jesus Christ, then this book is for you.
Get Focused: How to Abide in Jesus Christ provides a practical biblical...
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Railas finds himself powered up on a world distant from Earth. And he has an unusual job. He is to be the official justice of Shangri-La, the first human presence on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn.
But his first case turns up more than his employers anticipate. A rogue outsider accused of stealing a methane substation appears to be trafficking in more than just methane and illegal gambling. Otherwise how could he have acquired more wealth than...
5) Homesick
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The mission to New Ontario, isn't going as planned. Scott Anderson walked ten paces onto the new world and disappeared from radio contact. Not knowing Scott's fate but fearing the worst, Captain Sally Buds embarks on a rescue mission that risks her life and that of her pilot, Ian Merryfield. There Sally and Ian uncover a chilling reality. Something terrible has happened on New Ontario. The evil regime of the Masters have consumed an entire civilization...
6) Marker Stone
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There's trouble on CMC-6 and it's been brewing for a long time. The golden age of space travel and asteroid mining has ended almost before it began and the bean counters have taken over. Sally Buds' patients are all suffering from low-gravity syndrome because the Canadian Mining Consortium won't spring for gravity generators and the miners won't exercise. On top of this the station might be facing hard times. An expensive mining robot disappeared...
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Can a robot be afraid? Ask Romo. In this futuristic page-turner an astronaut robot becomes something more. Romo awakens on the Mars colony ship to find it in trouble. He doesn't know what makes him different from the other Robo-Nauts, but he knows that his new life is in danger. PACE, an authoritarian Earth-based organization will stop at nothing to prevent the colonists from reaching Mars alive, and his presence may be their only hope of survival....
8) Romo's World
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The colonists get a cold welcome upon arrival in Mariner Valley and soon discover that the many organizations that planned their mission hadn't communicated well on specifics. Worse, the ground crew waiting for them are a collection of angry, tired survivors of ill planning, and their new home is a dirty cave.
Romo, while eager to get on with his own mission, sees fit to try to make Mars more livable for his friends first. But their enemies are still...
9) Dog Valley
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English
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A gay college student in rural Utah is abducted, tortured, raped, and killed by two ex-convicts who each try to pin the crime on the other.
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Subway Music is about finding things Reynold Junker thought he had lost forever: his subway music and his name. Subway Music begins in a Manhattan hotel room the day after he and his wife celebrated their Christmas anniversary. She coaxes him into taking her to Brooklyn to see where "all those stories you tell all of the time about growing up" took place. As a certified Californian, that's the last thing he wants to do. Subways were then. Freeways...
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For four decades the friendship of Thomas Jefferson and Lafayette spanned some of the most tumultuous upheavals in Western History, the revolutions in American and France and the birth of two great republics.
It was 1781 that Jefferson met, the wealthy, aristocratic and idealistic French general who had volunteered to assist the nascent American revolution. When Jefferson was appointed to the court of France (1792) his acquaintance with the Marquis...
12) Baseball
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Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Explains how to play baseball, with a discussion of the equipment, rules, pitching, catching, and the strategy involved in offense and defense.
14) Ronald Reagan
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Publisher
Abdo Publishing Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A biography of the fortieth president of the United States, including his childhood, education, employment, and political career.
15) Basketball
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Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Explains how to play basketball, with guidelines for shooting, dribbling, and passing, with a discussion of offense and defense.
16) Tiger Woods
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Publisher
Abdo & Daughters Pub
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Examines the life and accomplishments of the young, racially mixed golfer who destroyed his competition in his first major pro tournament, The Masters, and broke records that had stood for many years.
17) Richard Nixon
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Publisher
Abdo Publishing Co
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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Highlights the life of the thirty-seventh president of the United States, from his childhood in California through his tenure in Congress and his terms as president to his historic resignation in 1974.
18) Jimmy Carter
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Publisher
ABDO Publishing Co
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simple biography of the thirty-ninth president of the United States, who was recognized for his work toward a Middle East peace treaty.