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1) Shark teeth
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Sharkita 'Kita' Hayes is always waiting. Waiting for her mama to mess up. Waiting for social services to be called again. Waiting for her and her siblings to be separated. Waiting for her worst fear to come true. But Mama promises things are different now. She's got a good job, she's stopped drinking, stopped going out every night--it's almost enough to make Kita believe her this time. But even as Kita's life is going good, she can't shake the feeling...
2) Shark Teeth
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From his ocean home, Mikey the Shark brushed his many teeth conscientiously and wished daily for a visit from the tooth fairy. This imaginative story describes the results of the young shark's star-gazing, as well as the challenges presented to a tooth fairy unprepared for cold sea visits. A happy ending is the reward for good teeth-brushing habits and well-placed wishes. Shark Teeth was inspired by a real first-grader with an extraordinary imagination....
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[2017]
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ix, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes. Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two...
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The history of the Cobra helicopter is a long and varied one, characterised by extensive deployment in some of the most dynamic theatres of war. Designed in 1965, we are fast approaching the 50th Anniversary of the craft's inception into the world of combat flight, so it seems timely that we should be presented with this, a comprehensive historical account of the various landmarks of the Cobra's service history. This heavily illustrated volume relays...
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Walter had spent all summer counting down the days until the first day of school. He couldn't wait to make new shark friends and finally swim into his classroom for the first time. But the first class picture of the year changes everything. Walter realizes there is one BIG difference between him and his shark classmates. After his discovery, Walter spends his day trying anything he can think of to blend in with the other sharks, only to learn that...
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Walter had spent all summer counting down the days until the first day of school. He couldn't wait to make new shark friends and finally swim into his classroom for the first time. But the first class picture of the year changes everything. Walter realizes there is one BIG difference between him and his shark classmates. After his discovery, Walter spends his day trying anything he can think of to blend in with the other sharks, only to learn that...
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Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes.
Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two...
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Whatever can the Water Fairies do when storms in the Gulf of Mexico destroy their shark tooth storage buildings? What can they do with all the teeth littering the seafloor and more coming every day? Can this problem ever be solved? And who will help?
Escape to the Gulf and follow their story.
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"Rows of razor-sharp teeth, strong, stiff fins, and the ability to smell a single drop of blood in a million drops of ocean water-sharks are built to survive! Dynamic photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read and a useful resource for report writing"-- Provided by publisher.
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If you think dinosaurs are cool, wait till you learn what covered Earth 430 million years ago. That's long before dinos even existed. There wasn't much on land-some really tiny plants and even smaller animals like millipedes and mites. But offshore life was another story. Six-foot-long relatives of modern scorpions roamed the open water, gobbling up smaller creatures. Fish were out there, too. There just weren't many of them, and they were much different...
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The New York Times–bestselling author "has created the tales here with experimental glee, yielding an astonishing assortment of mutated manuscripts" (Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of The Loop).
Take a deep dive into the delightfully twisted mind of bestselling horror author Stephen Graham Jones with the more than twenty short stories in Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth. Experience a day in the life of superhero Vigilante Man and his alter ego,...
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Did you know that some sharks are older than dinosaurs? That most sharks are smaller than you? Discover for yourself amazing facts about sharks such as how big the whale shark is, how tiny the dwarf shark is, who their enemies are, what they eat, and more in this fascinating fact book about sharks. Parents and educators will love how engaged students are in these books, while kids will be too involved in the amazing facts and photographs to realize...
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Salon compared the poems in Kay Ryan's last collection to "Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious devices that inevitably conceal some hidden wonder." The Niagara River contains similarly hidden gems. Intense and relaxed, buoyant and rueful, the singular music of this poetry appeals to many people. Her poems, products of an immaculately off-kilter mind, have appeared everywhere from the Sunday funnies to New York subways to the pages of The New Yorker to...
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Coral keepers volume 1
Pub. Date
2025.
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85 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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When the evil mermaid Rozaro casts a spell putting all the Coral Keepers of Anjeea, protectors of the kingdom, to sleep it is up to Princess Finn (who has so far failed her Keeper test) and her two friends to fight back--but first she must master her shark magic by overcoming her fear of sharks.
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Making full use of significant new sources in Chinese-language materials, U.S. Naval Academy professor Maochun Yu provides Western readers with the first detailed account of military and intelligence operations conducted inside China by foreign powers between 1937 and 1945. He also addresses the profound impact of these operations upon China's nationalism, wartime politics, and overall military campaigns. Arguing that operations by the USSR, the United...






