Jasper
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English
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Have you ever wondered what life is all about?
ONE starts you on a honest, open and personal journey to examine your true life, what you believe in, what you value and how to live life more abundantly.
ONE helps you strengthen your faith, family and focus on life. Start your journey Now!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Jasper Fforde's time-traveling, book-jumping detective Thursday Next is a hit with fans and critics. Each book in this humorous and intelligent series has hit nationwide best-seller lists. Here, Thursday must save the world from Yorrick Kaine and the evil Goliath Corporation while trying to recover her lost husband from the timestream and raise their son, Friday. Emily Gray's spirited narration perfectly captures the zany humor and charm of this delightful...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Meet Thursday Next. She’s “part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part Dirty Harry"
(Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant...
(Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant...
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English
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Jamison "Kango" Watts was once known as an invisible man, a quiet "fixer" who always got the job done with clean hands and cash in his pocket. Now he's living the quiet life in DC, running a soul food restaurant and doing the occasional job to scratch his old itch. All that changes when Jelly, his old yoga teacher, blows into town with the ultimate score, one that will take Kango first to London and then back to Brooklyn to face old enemies and ghosts...
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Series
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Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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With Goliath attempting to replace Thursday at every opportunity with synthetic Thursdays, and a call from the Bookworld to hunt down Pagerunners who have jumped into the Realworld, Thursday's convalescence is going to be anything but restful as the week ahead promises to be one of the Next family's oddest.
7) Blockchain
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English
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Unleash Blockchain's Potential and Embrace the Digital Revolution. Are you interested in technology revolutionizing industries and altering how we communicate and conduct business? Look nowhere else! The best resource for comprehending and utilizing the potential of blockchain is "Blockchain: Unlocking the Power of Blockchain- Your Essential Handbook for the Digital Revolution."
As you set out on a journey through the fundamental ideas, uses, and...
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English
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What did Mozart and Bach, Oscar Wilde and Anthony Trollope, George Washington and Frederick the Great, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt have in common? They were all freemasons. The Freemasons are a subject of endless fascination. To the layman, they are a mysterious brotherhood of profound if uncertain influence, a secret society purported, in some popular histories, to have its roots in the fabled order of the Knights Templar or in the...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division of the Reading police force, teams up with his new partner Mary Mary to investigate the suspicious death of Humpty Dumpty, an ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist who was found shattered to death in a bad part of town.
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
Written as a sketching artist's companion, this guide by a noted author of art instruction manuals attests to the value of sketching as a distinct art form rather than merely a vehicle to achieve more polished works. Artist and author Jasper Salwey details advantages of many drawing media, from pencil to watercolor, and their application to depictions of interior studies, figures, landscapes, seascapes, and architecture. Suitable for artists and students...
15) The Chinese
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Jasper Becker uses his personal experiences to describe various aspects of the Chinese culture.
16) Jake
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English
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For the first time in a century, blood soaks the cobblestones of Madeira. The ruler of the glittering European kingdom has been brutally assassinated, and many believe the new king's sister, Princess Annabelle, will be next in the crosshairs. Nobody worries more for Annabelle's safety than Marquise Genova, the princess's beautiful, aristocratic cousin. Genova won't let her cousin out of her sight no matter what - even if that means enduring forced...
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Deutsch
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Am 7. Mai 1915 torpedierte ein deutsches U-boot den Passagierdampfer "Lusitania", der von New York nach Liverpool unterwegs war. Binnen weniger Minuten versank das Schiff in den eisigen Fluten des Atlantiks und riss fast 1.200 Menschen in den Tod, darunter viele Kinder und Frauen.
Mit dieser kaltblütig herbeigeführten Schiffskatastrophe bestätigten die Deutschen ihren Ruf als "Barbaren" und provozierten die USA zum Eintritt in den Ersten Weltkrieg....
18) Run to Ground
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English
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Jim Mcleod is on the run… …from his responsibilities as a father, hiding out from his pregnant girlfriend, and working as a groundskeeper in a rural graveyard. He's running from a lifetime of guilt and bad decisions, but principally he's running from the murderous entities that have possessed the very ground at his feet. Jim has no idea what these entities are, but they've done unspeakable things to everyone in the graveyard and now they're hunting...
19) The Blood Moon
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Series
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English
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Can mankind be saved?
That is the question haunting the people that are suffering in The Blood Moon.
An unusual and frightening array of deadly creatures, from zombies to vampires, have begun to attack humans with a terrifying connection to an unusual blood-red moon that has appeared over the dark night sky. Little do they know that the actions of mankind has precipitated the horror. The monsters of the Blood Moon threaten to destroy all of humanity....
20) Splinter
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English
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This Is The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Reborn… In a small town hidden behind the hills of New York, things are far from ordinary. As Sleepy Hollow's youngest Medical Examiner, the pressure intensifies for Dr. Drusilla Van Tassel when the headless bodies of her sister Katrina's friends start surfacing. Meanwhile, Drusilla's ex-lover Ichabod Crane returns to town, dredging up feelings better left buried. Things take a turn for the worst when Drusilla...