John Green
42) Bright Spots
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Why Bright Spots?
In writing this book, my purpose is to identify the presence of light within those who have given thought to giving up. There have been many who have given up when faced with hardships. There are many who, as of this moment, are having thoughts of giving up. This book may inspire you (and them) to consider a different perspective and make a decision to live.
There are moments in our lives when we experience situations that leave...
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In “The Making of England”, esteemed historian John Richard Green examines British history from the year 449 up to the union of England under Ecgberht, a distinct period in England's history, the age during which the soil was conquered and settled and ending with an England united under one ruler.
45) Rod of Moses
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1923. When RAF airman Jack Toulson finds a wooden box buried in the desert, he hopes to uncover a cache of jewels or even an antique sword, but all it contains is a worthless old stick with Arabic writing on it. Disappointed, he shoves it into his bag and thinks no more of it. The next day, he decides to take a picture of the empty horizon with his new Kodak Hawk-Eye, but when the picture is developed, it shows a camel-train that had not been there....
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This 1874 history, a surprise bestseller, brought Green fame and fortune. The secret of his success was a radically new approach to history, one that, for the first time, gave substantial weight to the contributions and ambitions of the common people, rather than focusing exclusively on aristocratic elites.
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In “The Making of England”, esteemed historian John Richard Green examines British history from the year 449 up to the union of England under Ecgberht, a distinct period in England's history, the age during which the soil was conquered and settled and ending with an England united under one ruler.
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John Green's family moved to Lee-on-the-Solent just in time for the outbreak of war in 1939. For a seven-year-old, war sounded like an exciting adventure, but as he sheltered with his mother and sister under the stairs during an air-raid, someone said they thought they heard machine-gun fire. They all held their breath and listened, but the noise turned out to be the rhythmic rat-a-tat of his mother's trembling knee knocking against the panelling....
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Madison was a virgin. She wasn't particularly pretty though she was not un-pretty. She was not tall nor short, dark nor light, heavy nor slight, blonde nor brown. She was mired in middle-class suburban existence, and had attended neither the right nor the wrong school. She was as talented as the next girl. If average was an absolute instead of being right smack in the middle, she would be extravagantly, dizzily, exorbitantly average. Zachary was a...
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"That's right, Bongo and Marsha, the super-spy Badgers, are on the case...and way over-budget. When S.U.I.T. realizes just how much money the Badgers waste with their gadgets and spy vehicles and custom plush toys, they're sent to Bora Bora to investigate a case ... the old-fashioned way. The bees-that's "bee-ee-ee," like the insect-that run the resort are hiding something under the tropical sands, and Marsha and Bongo are just the bumbling agents...
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Walking around Lee-on-the-Solent provides tantalising glimpses into its past - whether it's the balconied Victorian buildings in Pier Street, the Art Deco frontages above the shops in Marine Parade West, the airfield with its gliders soaring peacefully overhead, the hovercraft museum, the sight of yachts on the sparkling waters of the Solent, or the lengthy list of names on the War Memorial. And perhaps you remember, or have heard talk of, the Tower...
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Buckeye Battleground is the result of a decade's worth of research at the Bliss Institute on elections in Ohio, with special emphasis on the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, and the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. This book seeks to explain why Ohio is, and has been, at the center of American elections. Using historical analysis, demographic data, and public opinion surveys, the authors demonstrate Ohio's role as the quintessential "battleground"...
53) Double Deal
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You can run from a killer - unless the killer is you... In top-secret talks in Barcelona, ex-spy Dr. Tori Swyft seals a landmark Arctic deal with Beijing that sends Washington DC and Moscow reeling. The next morning, she wakes beside two dead bodies... A nameless voice phones her, taunting her and revealing a shocking video that shows Tori as the murderer. Yet she has no memory of what happened. With Spanish police converging at her door, Tori flees,...
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World leaders are being assassinated by toxic gas. An obscure group of Chinese terrorists claims responsibility, but are the Ten Brothers - a secret circle of China's political, military and business elite - using terrorists as a cover to justify the assassination of China's President and the overthrow of Beijing? Once again, ex-CIA operative, Tori Swyft, finds herself embroiled in the middle of an explosive conspiracy. Can she survive long enough...
55) The Trusted
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A secret band of radical environmentalists, under the name 9S have spent years secretly infiltrating industry and government, working themselves into the most trusted jobs... sleepers ready to act. As a series of global catastrophes erupt, Australian ex-CIA agent Dr Tori Swyft, finds herself at the centre of it all. Having once been briefly recruited as a 9S member at university, she may be the world's only chance of stopping the threat before it's...
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Emotiva, irónica y afilada. Una novela teñida de humor y de tragedia que habla de nuestra capacidad para soñar incluso en las circunstancias más difíciles. A Hazel y a Gus les gustaría tener vidas más corrientes. Algunos dirían que no han nacido con estrella, que su mundo es injusto. Hazel y Gus son solo adolescentes, pero si algo les ha enseñado el cáncer que ambos padecen es que no hay tiempo para lamentaciones, porque, nos guste o...
59) All Tide Up
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InvestiGators volume 1
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Unsinkable detectives Mango and Brash are back in InvestiGators: All Tide Up, a high seas adventure that takes the hit series by John Patrick Green to uncharted waters! Three million readers can't be wrong – don't miss the boat!
When a cruise captain is found drifting at sea and delirious, the search begins for his missing ship and passengers! Did it sink? Was it boat-napped? Are supernatural forces at play? And can the InvestiGators
60) Hippopotamister
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"The zoo isn't what it used to be. It's run down, and Hippo hardly ever gets any visitors. So he decides to set off for the outside with his friend Red Panda. To make it in the human world, Hippo will have to become a Hippopotamister: he'll have to act like a human, get a job, and wear a hat as a disguise. He's a good employee, whether he's a construction worker, a hair stylist, or a sous chef. But what he really needs is a job where he can be himself"--Amazon.com....