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In this episode, explore geminates: roots where radicals two and three are the same. Along the way, you'll learn how to spot these common two-letter combinations, consider a fascinating example from Ezekiel's vision of the messianic future Temple, and begin reading Numbers 22 from start to finish.
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, a highly complex novel which brings together a wide range of characters and seemingly random, jumbled episodes in a non-linear timeline. However, the plot is anchored in the character of Yossarian, a bombardier in the Air Forces who spends the novel constantly searching for a way to be dismissed from the military, usually on grounds of insanity, only to be perpetually rebuffed...
3) The sea wolf
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Jack London's 1904 novel "The Sea Wolf" is the story of Humphrey van Weyden, an effete gentleman, who finds himself shipwrecked when the San Francisco ferry his is aboard collides with another ship in the fog. Adrift in the bay, Humphrey is rescued by Wolf Larsen, the brutish captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the "Ghost". However, his relief in being saved is short-lived, for he is soon put to work, essentially enslaved as a cabin boy forced to...
4) Nightjohn
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
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Houghton Mifflin
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1975, c1974
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English
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A schoolmistress's summer vacation is ruined-or is it?-in this delightful English village tale perfect for fans of the Mitford Years Series. Open the gate to Fairacre, America's favorite English village. The end of a school year often brings unmitigated rapture for schoolteachers, and so it should for Miss Read, schoolmistress in the charming English village of Fairacre. But on the very first day of the long summer holiday, she falls and breaks her...
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An unplanned pregnancy. An absent father. Can love really endure all things?
Danielle Kent is anything but Amish. But as destiny would have it, she has fallen in love with an Amish man.
Now she’s 18, pregnant, and hopeful that the child’s Amish father—Matthew Lapp—will do the right thing and marry her. She knows Matthew plans to leave his Colorado settlement for a life in the Englisch world. But that plan
...10) My Words Will Not Pass Away: Reflections on the weekday readings for the liturgical year 2021/22
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'Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away' (Luke 21:33)
At the weekday Eucharist we, read from sections of all four gospels in the course of the liturgical year. The reflections in this book are, based predominantly on the gospel readings for the weekdays of the coming liturgical year, 2021/22, with occasional references to the first reading. They follow the sequence of the weeks of the calendar year, beginning on the 29th...
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This edition of The Merchant of Venice is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes allows students to master Shakespeare's work.
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Full of exquisite moonlit scenes that play out like dreams and underground escapades descending into nightmare, this is a must-read for all fantasy aficionados and fans of Tolkien, Lewis, and RowlingEight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid Lootie for company. She is protected from the outside world and oblivious to the existence of goblins, hideous creatures that live underground...
18) Earthquakes
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
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IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Read and find out about one of nature's most mysterious forces-the earthquake. Some earthquakes are so small that you don't even feel them, while others can make even big buildings shake! Learn why earthquakes happen, where they are most likely to oc
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Welcome to the construction site! Look, there's a jackhammer. What does a jackhammer do? Read on to find out! Books in the At the Construction Site series use the Whole Language approach to literacy, a combination of sight words and repetition that builds recognition and confidence. The simple text makes it easy for children to engage in reading. Included are bold, colorful photographs that correlate directly to the text to aid readers through the...
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