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Have you ever wondered how birds know when to fly south for the winter? This introduction to bird behavior explores how and why woodpeckers peck, how pelicans fly without flapping their wings, why birds sing, and more. The How Do series is a great introduction to various STEM topics, each written in a format that encourages audiences to ask questions and guess the answers before exploring the science behind them.
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Growing up as a slave girl, Miriam learned how to be brave‚ and smart. When her baby brother, Moses, was in grave danger, Miriam and her mom saved his life. As Miriam matured, she became a gifted musician and discovered other God-given talents. And when God called Miriam‚ along with her siblings to guide the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, she was ready to lead. With God's help, you can be just like Miriam called and courageous!
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Growing up as a slave girl, Miriam learned how to be brave‚ and smart. When her baby brother, Moses, was in grave danger, Miriam and her mom saved his life. As Miriam matured, she became a gifted musician and discovered other God-given talents. And when God called Miriam‚ along with her siblings to guide the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, she was ready to lead. With God's help, you can be just like Miriam called and courageous!
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Independent-minded Leah Gingerich has always been outspoken. And even though she is now a progressive Mennonite, she's rediscovering the joys of family traditions back in her Amish hometown. Yet she can't help but clash with her handsome new Amish neighbor, Jamie Stoltzfus. He's too hard-headed and old-line to see that his traumatized young nephew, Peter, needs faith and help--or that a woman who stands up to him may be what he needs to heal. After...
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When Arthur Livingston seeks out the agency to find a missing heiress, Eunice Holbrooke realizes her past has finally caught up with her. In order to avoid Arthur and conceal her real identity, Eunice goes undercover on another case. But will the truth she uncovers set her free or place her-and her heart-in peril's way?
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Daphne Beekman is a mystery writer by day, inquiry agent by night. She happily works behind the scenes, staying away from danger. But when Herman Henderson arrives on the doorstep, desperate for someone to investigate numerous attempts on his life, Daphne finds herself in the thick of a case she's determined to solve, and her heart put in jeopardy.
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Gabriella Goodhue had put her past as a thief behind her, until a woman in her boardinghouse is unjustly accused and she is caught gathering evidence by Nicholas Quinn, a fellow street urchin against whom she holds a grudge. Nicholas refuses to lose her twice and insists they join forces--but their feelings are tested when danger follows their every step.
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When abrasive Hollywood director Robert Reeves is accused of murdering a stuntman, lawyer Sandy Moss reluctantly accepts the case. Robert might be an egotistical liar, but something tells Sandy he's innocent. At least this time, her charismatic, adorable and oh so annoying movie star boyfriend Patrick McNabb isn't involved. He isn't, right?
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For the Amish of Pontotoc, Mississippi, all roads lead to faith, family, and tradition, even when the path is unconventional-especially at Christmas ...
Tillie Gingerich is so in love with Melvin Yoder that she agrees to leave her conservative Amish home to live with him in the English world. But when the struggle to make ends meet leads to conflict, and reveals troubling weaknesses in their relationship, Tillie returns to Pontotoc-pregnant and...
11) A Complete Game
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I, Addison Blakely, know my own love life will never be like the ones in the Regency romances I devour.But I never expected a celebrity photo shoot for work to lead to a new story for myself-with a sexy pro baseball player with a crooked smile as my own romantic hero … As soon as Brady Jensen asked to pose with my ferrets for the Soaring Eagles charity pet calendar, I was in over my head. The gorgeous pitcher with a soft spot for the underdog won...
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To save her family from financial ruin, Miss Poppy Garrison accepts an unusual proposition to participate in the New York social season in exchange for her grandmother settling a family loan that has unexpectedly come due. Ill equipped to handle the intricacies of mingling within the New York Four Hundred, Poppy becomes embroiled in one hilarious fiasco after another, doomed to suffer a grand societal failure instead of being deemed the diamond of...
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Darby Quinn has a bone to pick with Cinderella. Burned one too many times by ex-boyfriends, Darby has lost all belief in the happily-ever-after that the fairy-tale princess promised her. She's sworn off love, Prince Charmings, and happy endings and she's happy about it. Really. Or at least she was...until she met Jake, her gorgeous neighbor and the manager of her favorite restaurant. But Darby has rules about dating, ones she's culled from her years...
14) Squeeze Play
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✓Grab iced coffee for first day of brand-new non-profit job.✓Decide plain coffee is hideous and toss it in trash.✓Miss trash can and accidentally nail a super-hot baseball superstar in a mortifying place… Throwing a cup of iced coffee at the new catcher for the Washington DC Soaring Eagles was not on my to-do list for the day. But not only was the hot ballplayer extremely understanding, he seemed interested in me-Haley Carter. How is this...
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For the Amish of Pontotoc, Mississippi, faith and family are everything-even when they pose the greatest challenge . . .
Gracie Glick is known for being the helpful one, always available for a relative in need. But now that she's longing for a home and family of her own, it's time to help herself. With few eligible men in Pontotoc, Gracie's choices, and her time, are limited. So she takes a bold leap of faith: she proposes to Matthew Byler, a handsome,...
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In Pontotoc, Mississippi, the Amish way means a chance to rebuild, renew, and rekindle a love from long ago . . .
Fifteen years. That's how long it's been since Hannah McLean set foot in the Amish community where she was raised. Through it all her heart has never forgotten Pontotoc-or Aaron Zook, her first love. Now widowed, and left with little more than her hurting teenager and her prayers, she returns home, even knowing she and her son may be...
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A classic story of intrigue and danger from bestselling author Lynette Eason
Guarding witnesses? All in a day's work for deputy U.S. marshal Carly Masterson. Protecting the judge who was indirectly responsible for her mentor's death? That's another story. Still, she won't let harm come to Judge Nicholas Floyd, or the niece and nephew in his care. She's determined to do the job right, and not let her emotions take over-no matter how wonderful it feels...
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When Miss Beatrix Waterbury's Chicago-bound train ride is interrupted by a heist, Mr. Norman Nesbit, a man of science who believes his research was the target of the heist, comes to her aid. Despite the fact that they immediately butt heads, they join forces to make a quick escape.
Upon her arrival in Chicago, Beatrix is surprised to discover her supposedly querulous Aunt Gladys shares her own suffragette passions. Encouraged by Gladys to leave her...
19) The Third Wish
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The things you wish for sometimes need a little push.
When she was eight years old, Jessica Graham made three wishes: that she wouldn't always be the tallest kid in the class, that she would find a big conch shell on the beach, and that she would finally meet her father someday. Jessica's first two wishes never did come true, but twenty years later, when she finds her mother's old love letters, she has a chance to make the third wish a reality.
Jessica...
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Moms are invited to see the physical seasons and tasks of motherhood as inherently spiritual-not busywork that keeps them from a spiritual life. If God used birth, life, and death to redeem his Creation, who has a front-row seat to his work if not mothers? For moms of young children, it's hard to find time to shower, much less sharpen spiritual practices. Surrounded by crackers, laundry, and crayon-smeared bills, it's been months since moms have sat...