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What does Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer of all time, have in common with Megan Rapinoe, the badass pink-haired female soccer player? They achieved perfection, won medals, and lived the glory. But it is above all their raised fists, when, at a time of their envied existence, they dared to sacrifice their privileges to defend a cause greater than their status of adulated champion. Rich in authentic anecdotes, this book tells the fate of those who...
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You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or someone you love will almost certainly appear in a criminal courtroom. You might be a juror, a victim, a witness or - perhaps through no fault of your own - a defendant. Whatever your role, you'd expect a fair trial.
I'm a barrister. I work in the criminal justice system, and every day I see how fairness is not guaranteed. Too often the system fails those it is meant to protect. The innocent...
3) Philosophy
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This illustrated primer on philosophy is a great way to be introduced to a complex topic. In her easily accessible style, Margreet de Heer visualizes the history of Western philosophy and makes it approachable for those with little knowledge of the subject. The book explains the thoughts of philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Nietzsche, and ponders questions such as What is thinking? What is reality? Is there free...
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A psychologist's journey to understand one of the most unusual experiences known to humankind: the universal, disturbing feeling that someone is there when we are alone.
These experiences of sensing a "presence" when no one else is there have been given many names-the Third Man, guardian angels, shadow figures, "social" hallucinations-and they have inspired, unsettled, and confounded in equal measure.
While the contexts in which they occur are diverse,...
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The World's Greatest Stories are an award winning series of Bible stories combining the excitement of a story, the accuracy of a Bible narration, and the highest quality production values. The texts for all the stories are taken directly, word for word, from the Bible. They are told using the art of a dramatic storyteller and incorporate carefully chosen music and sound effects. The result is a very exciting story that comes straight from the words...
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A graphic memoir of eating disorders, abuse, and recovery. Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she'd have to eat it for breakfast. But in any life, a set of circumstances can collide, and normal behavior can soon shade into something sinister, something deadly. Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip...
8) Dewdrop
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From the author of The Tea Dragon Society comes Dewdrop, the delightful children's tale of an adorable axolotl who cheers on his underwater friends as they each bring their talents to the pond's sports fair!
Dewdrop is an easygoing, gentle axolotl who enjoys naps, worm pie, and cheerleading. When the yearly sports fair nears, he and his friends-Mia the weightlifting turtle, Newman the musical newt, and three minnows who love to cook-get ready to...
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"No Ivy League gracefully delivers a messy truth behind the essential process of questioning and reckoning. Newlevant respects young people's awareness of how class, race, gender, and history impact our experiences, and takes readers seriously enough to give space for personal reflection and growth. Fantastic brushwork, and a great sense of natural light. Highly recommended. --Nate Powell, artist of the March trilogy "Lushly rendered and thoughtfully...
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In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family...
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With my book, Young and Free, I try to help the younger generations first, but it is not set in stone that forbidden to read for olders, or that it contains no new knowledge for them, and that they cannot learn anything from it. This book, which is unique both in its themes and in its style, is recommended to everyone who still has the youthful drive, the desire to evolve and to learn and the hope for a better and fuller life.In the book, freedom...
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This is a book meant for children to help them understand what makes Spain so special by highlighting some of its most interesting cities through words and color photos. Adults can use the book to help them plan a trip to Spain as well. The tour of Spain is designed so visitors to the country can travel via car or public transportation in a clockwise direction to see the most important sights in nine unique cities of the country. Generally, the cities...
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This book is designed to fully prepare and equip the student with the necessary learning tools in the English language required for his/her secondary education journey. Special emphasis is placed on vocabulary, grammar, memory, tenses, and punctuation with a view of moulding and shaping students with the perfect understanding of the Queen's language from the British perspective. In this regard each topic in this interesting book is purposefully laid...
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Vampire Slayer volume 13
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Buffy's relationship with Giles remains strained, but they work together to repair things, as Buffy is determined to take back her identity as The Slayer! Meanwhile Xander, Faith, and Spike contend with their identities, and what roles the Scooby Gang will play in their futures.
The pain of the past weights on Willow, but she's determined to use her magic for the good of those she loves. But with Giles being occupied with Buffy, Willow will have...
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Angel Season 11 volume 1
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Angel, the vampire with a soul, is tormented by a vision linking his dark, complicated past to something very big-and very bad-that is coming. But Angel soon learns that there may be one way to change the future: by changing the past!
Writer Corinna Bechko (from the Eisner Award-nominated Green Lantern: Earth One), along with artists Geraldo Borges and Zé Carlos, present the next chapter in the official continuation Joss Whedon's critically-acclaimed...
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A groundbreaking look at how a predominantly white faith-based group reset the terms of the fight to integrate US cities.
The bitterly tangled webs of race and housing in the postwar United States hardly suffer from a lack of scholarly attention. But Tracy K'Meyer's To Live Peaceably Together delivers something truly new to the field: a lively examination of a predominantly white faith-based group-the Quaker-aligned American Friends Service Committee...
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Celebrate the most thrilling adventures of your favorite ponies and storylines, curated from the popular IDW comics in this accessibly priced all-ages compilation graphic novel. These collections gather short stories perfect for readers wanting more fun tales from Ponyville: up first, four stories featuring Twilight Sparkle! From Twilight's first day at Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns to showing her own students the power of friendship,...
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In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine, and the control room of a particle collider; she's presented news on the color of dinosaur eggs, ice worms that live on mountaintop glaciers, and signs of life on Venus. In this, her debut book, she delivers a wholly original collection of powerful, emotionally raw, and unforgettable personal essays that probe the places where...
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This short book is designed to introduce people to the evidence from Church history and the teaching of the Bible showing that God will one day restore all of His creation to the perfection He intended. Hell is real, but it is temporary in its duration and remedial in its nature. At the end of time, all those God created in His image will experience the peace and joy of being in His presence. The booklet can be read in about a half-hour, and its small...
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ABLAZE is spotlighting some of the incredible creatives under our banner with specially priced collections of their extraordinary works! With our MARIA LLOVET collection, receive two hardcover volumes that speak to the artist's mastery of romance, fraught storytelling, and the eerie.
In EROS/PSYCHE: La Rosa's female boarding school is paradise for young girls...but only if you follow the rules. Because, if you disobey them, you can end up expelled,...
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