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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"An essential guide to tackling what students, families, and educators can do now to cut through stress and performance pressure, and find a path to purpose. Today's college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation. They're performance machines, hitting the benchmarks they're "supposed" to in order to reach the next tier of a relentless ladder. Then, their mental and physical exhaustion...
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Pub. Date
2006
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Information for students studying nuclear physics, health physics, and nuclear engineering on the basic principles of atomic structure, types of radiation, terminology and units, radiation biology, exposure and controls, background radiation, personnel monitoring, and radiation instrumentation.
79725) Writing AI prompts
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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"Learn the art of writing effective AI prompts and break into an exciting new career field. Unlock the full power of generative AI with Writing AI Prompts For Dummies, a comprehensive guide that will teach you how to confidentially write effective AI prompts. Whether it's text, images, or even videos and music you're aiming to create, this book provides the foundational knowledge and practical strategies needed to produce impressive results"--
79727) The Furniture Handbook: A Guide to Choosing, Arranging, and Caring for the Objects in Your Home
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20240521
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"At age 37, Harvard neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a massive left-hemisphere stroke that took away her ability to speak, walk, read, write, or remember any of her life--and gave her an unprecedented, profound experience of dwelling in the right hemisphere and the sense of oneness and peace to be found there. Her recovery led to her writing the New York Times bestseller My Stroke of Insight, being named one of Time Magazine's Most Influential...
79731) World war II history for teens: understanding the Major battles, military strategy, and arc of war
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile Measure
1170L
Summary
"Have you ever wondered how World War II was won? This book helps you find the answer as you dive deep into the major battles. From the lead-up to the war through the conquest of Europe all the way to the end in the Pacific Theater and the aftermath, World War II History for Teens will give you an up-close look at the course of the war and teach you how these events helped create the world you live in today." --back of cover.
79732) Sniffing out murder
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"When a murder unleashes a widespread investigation through Crosbyville, children's book author Pris and her trusty bloodhound, Bailey, must sniff out the truth before the whole town goes to the dogs. After deciding that life as a teacher wasn't right for her, Priscilla found inspiration for her first children's book in her three-year-old bloodhound's nose for truth, and so The Adventures of Bailey the Bloodhound was born. After the book's massively...
79733) Confessions of the dead
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Pub. Date
2024
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"Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate - zero - is a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett. The day the stranger shows up is when the trouble starts. The sheriff and her deputy investigate the mysterious teenage girl. None of the locals can place her. She can't - or won't answer any questions. She won't even tell...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Summary
"Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful authenticity, and smart, steadfast support of authors started in childhood, a precedent set by the profound effect books and libraries had on her own family. But after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood, Zibby was forgetting what made her her. She turned to books and writing...
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Series
Bobiverse volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Summary
"More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender's fate - whatever the cost. But nothing is ever simple in the Bobiverse. Bob's descendants are out to the 24th generation now, and replicative drift has produced individuals who can barely be considered Bobs anymore....
79739) Caring for her Amish family
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
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"When Anke Bachman agrees to care for her Englisch nephew despite disapproval from her community, moving in to a derelict old house is her only option. With newcomer Josiah Mast's help, she might just be able to make the place livable. But Josiah's past has him wary of any hint of scandal. As their feelings blossom, can Josiah and Anke find acceptance in the community...and a future together? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
"The seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza has long been known - and vilified - for his heretical view of God and for the radical determinism he sees governing the cosmos and human freedom. Only recently, however, has he begun to be considered seriously as a moral philosopher. In his philosophical masterpiece, the Ethics, after establishing some metaphysical and epistemological foundations, he turns to the "big questions" that...