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3) The retreat
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From the author of The Battle: A novel that brings French history to life as Napoleon moves in on Russia-where the ultimate test awaits. The French army stands at the gates of Moscow. Exhausted and demoralized, Napoleon's men are a mere fraction of the four-hundred-thousand-strong force that crossed the river Niemen in the summer, just three months earlier. Still, the sight of this famous city feels like a triumph and a chance, at last, to enjoy a...
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How are crayons made? Clear wax is melted in a factory. Once it's melted, color is added to it, it is poured into crayon-shaped molds, cooled, and wrapped in a paper label. Sorted into sets, the brightly colored crayons are boxed and sent in trucks to stores to be sold to you.
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How is a book made? A writer thinks of a story and writes it down. After a publishing company edits it, an artist will illustrate the story and a designer will put the two together on a computer. Then, the computer pages are turned into film that is sent to a printer to be turned into printed pages. The pages are cut and sewn together to make finished books that are shipped on trucks to stores for people to buy and read.
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It is 1814, and Napoleon Bonaparte retreats to Paris following the debacle of his Russian invasion. Once there, the leader is met with more resistance-a plot to restore a royal to the throne of France succeeds and a humiliated Napoleon is forced to abdicate and go into exile. Octave Senecal, Napoleon's loyal aide and savior, tells the tale of their journey south through the angry, mob-filled countryside to Elba, a tiny island off the coast of Tuscany....
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"Joshua Jordan, un héroe ya retirado de los aviones espías de los Estados Unidos y ahora diseñador de armas, crea el sistema de defensa contra misiles más sofisticado del mundo. Sin embargo, las fuerzas globales conspiran para robar el arma de defensa, de modo que los líderes gubernamentales harán cualquier cosa para evitar la inmiente catástrofe económica nacional, incluso traicionar a Jordan y su sistema de armas. A medida que los sucesos...
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Fins volume 1
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Seventeen-year-old Lily, half-mermaid and half-human, has been living on land and attending high school, where she develops a crush on a boy but is afraid to tell him of her true destiny as the ruler of the undersea kingdom of Thalassinia.
16) Fins are forever
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Fins volume 2
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Mermaid princess Lily is about to renounce her place in the royal succession of the undersea kingdom of Thalassina and spend her life on land with the boy she loves, until her annoying cousin appears and throws her decision into doubt.
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On his eleventh birthday, schoolboy Magnus Fin found out that he was half selkie - part human, part seal. Although he looks like a boy and lives on land, he can breathe underwater. When Magnus Fin discovers his initials scratched into the rocks by the shore and finds dead seals washed up on the beach, he knows his selkie family needs his help, and he dives down beneath the waves to find out more. The great seal sickness has struck and his grandmother...
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There has always been something unusual about Magnus Fin, a school misfit. On his eleventh birthday Magnus throws a message in a bottle out to sea, wishing for a best friend and to be more brave -- and he gets a lot more than he bargained for. Magnus discovers that he is half selkie -- part seal, part human -- and his selkie family urgently need his help. Can Magnus save his new-found family from the evil force threatening all the ocean's creatures?...
19) Trueno del cielo
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Esta épica historia de los titulares de los eventos mundiales que se filtra a través de la profecía bíblica viene de Tim LaHaye, creador y coautor de la serie Dejadas atrás (Left Behind), la serie de ficción para adultos más exitosa que jamás se haya escrito, y de Craig Parshall, Trueno del cielo, situado en un futuro muy cercano, narra los acontecimientos destrozadores de la Tierra que nos
...20) Just for fins
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Fins volume 3
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"As the mermaid Crown Princess of Thalassinia, Lily must dive deep into findng a solution when she discovers the ocean's warming is causing big waves for both mermaids and humans"--
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