Meredith MacRae
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Lexile Measure
990L
Summary
Travel back to the earliest days of Pernese history in this first-ever Dragonriders of Pern short-story collection!
Join the original survey team as they explore Pern and decide to recommend it for colonization. Share the terror of the evacuation from the Southern Continent as a flotilla of ships, aided by intelligent, talking dolphins, braves the dreadful currents of the Pernest ocean. Learn how the famous Ruatha Hold was founded, and thrill...
Join the original survey team as they explore Pern and decide to recommend it for colonization. Share the terror of the evacuation from the Southern Continent as a flotilla of ships, aided by intelligent, talking dolphins, braves the dreadful currents of the Pernest ocean. Learn how the famous Ruatha Hold was founded, and thrill...
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For more than twenty-five years, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a column called "The View of Life" for Natural History magazine. More than thirty entries from that column comprise this collection, which covers topics from dinosaurs to baseball and nearly everything in between related to natural history and evolution. Among the essays included here are "A Humongous Fungus among Us," "The Late Birth of a Flat Earth," "Poe's Greatest Hit," "The...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Summary
They're kings of the road, but Officers Jon Baker and Frank "Ponch" Poncherello also swoop out of the skies via parachute, hang-glider and junkyard crane. In between high-speed pursuits and road (and off-road) rescues, the two California Highway Patrol motor officers also cut loose on the roller disco floor and the race-car circuit.